The NCD Vision for Information Technology

• There is perhaps no area of business more filled with lunacy and ill-advised projects and ventures than information technology. Important decisions are made often based on little more than hype, buzz-words and vaporous promises.
• New Century Data's vision and promise is the creation of common-sense systems that are useful and that actually work.

Business Needs First

• It is crucial to clearly define business needs first, then let them dictate your technology needs, and not vice versa.
• Often the usefulness of a piece of software is the simplicity and elegance with which it accomplishes the business's goals. This is the ingenuity which New Century Data seeks in its projects.
• New Century Data is firmly committed to putting business needs ahead of technology. We spend the time it takes to help the client discover and declare their business needs and user requirements as a matter of principle.

The Purpose of IT

Simplicity

Software should be as simple and intuitive to use as possible. The goal is a system that requires minimal training and non-tech-savvy employees to run. Software should help you, not confuse you.

Stability

Your software should do what it was designed to do consistently, so that your users trust it.

New Century is committed to creating conservative working solutions using proven technologies, and adopts new technologies when they prove useful and necessary.

Cost/Benefit

Your IT system should bring flexibility, efficiency, and better decision making to your business.

NCD designs systems in which the financial and efficiency benefits are obvious and quantifiable.

Maintain One Copy of Your Data

• Many organizations are burdened with double or triple entry work processes, entangling their employees in great webs of unnecessary tasks.
• Further, data is stored in several applications and servers, creating the problem of managing which copy is the current or real version.
• Every business should strive for one entry of the data and that one entry should immediately publish to all the applications involved.
• There should never be a question of which copy of your invaluable client and financial data is the real copy.

Two Windows on Your Data

• Software can be designed so that data is stored separately from the graphic display by which users view the data. In this way many "windows" into the data can be established. There are two main categories of such windows:

  Transactional

  This is the day to day creation, editing, and searching of information that anyone using the system must do. This would include tasks like corresponding with customers, creating invoices, entering records of payment, etc.

  Reporting

  This is the kind of use in which management and executives summarize large chunks of data in order to evaluate the effectiveness and profitability of their business.

• NCD is skilled at producing systems which facilitate both transactional and reporting interfaces into your data.