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Tallgrass Software can develop custom SQL driven applications for almost any industry however most of our experience has been in manufacturing, wholesale distribution, publishing as well as wholesale and retail B2B and B2C.

If you have a need for an application in your company, talk to us. We'll quickly tell you whether we can do it or not, and how much it will cost; this is where our experience shows - you'd be surprised at how efficient we can be.

About Tallgrass Software

Tallgrass Software Pty. Ltd. is located in Sydney, Australia. Founded as a separate company in 1993 by our CEO, Tony McCormick, the company was set up as a stand alone after being a department of a large Australian manufacturing group, with an objective of developing, managing and operating software for the parent company's manufacturing, wholesale and retail commercial operations.

Right from the start Tallgrass developed commercial real world solid applications aimed at cutting operating costs and improving organizational efficiency in the areas of:

Consolidation by central computer of trading profit contributions from group companies at "end of day" for management analysis
Bill of Materials generation and dynamic updating software
Livestock management and marketing software
Stock control and inventory management software
Multi tier database costing and pricing software
Warranty management software

Tallgrass Software Pty. Ltd. employs only the best and most experienced software engineers and systems designers. Our senior engineering staff have been in the software business since 1976, the days of Cobol when mainframes and minis prevailed.

Since that period the company has developed in Assembler, C++, ASP, ColdFusion MX under J2EE and ASP.Net.

Tallgrass Software's CEO, Tony McCormick has been working with SQL since 1986 and was a Microsoft Beta Tester for MS SQL in 1995.

Milestones

1995 - The Tallgrass team connected an NT server to the Australian Internet backbone using a UNIX DNS in lieu of the clumsy offering then contained in NT - only the second to connect to the Australian backbone, but the first to work flawlessly, according to Telstra WAN engineers.

1996 - The Tallgrass team designed and managed an ASP based Internet E-Commerce B2C product for a large Australian wholesale IT wholesale and retail distributor.

1997 - Tallgrass designed and implemented the then first in Australia E-Commerce site to generate SQL database driven product images and on line brochures.

1999 - Tallgrass designed and managed a massive in size and superfast SQL based E-Commerce system for Computer Discounts OnLine that went on to be judged a finalist in the Telstra-Australian Financial Review best E-Commerce Internet Site. This development beat all computer industry offerings, all banks and financial institutions and was finally beaten by an online Wine Site.

2000 - Tallgrass commenced development on Project Zeppelin, the first thin client secure remote access product for Accpac Advantage Accounting MS SQL Edition. This product gave hundreds of authorized users access to the financials, stock control, order status and much more, on a five user Accpac installation.

2003 - Tallgrass developed stage II of the Zeppelin project to include sales and marketing analysis, supply chain management and carrier "track and trace" as well as remote Order Entry for the Accpac Advantage MS SQL Financial Suite. This system can accommodate up to 10 different customer pricing levels and role based security operating on J2EE.

2004 - Tallgrass has developed the most advanced SME (small to medium enterprise) B2B and B2C E-Commerce Front End and Back End Suite on the market at under US$30,000.00.

2004 - Tallgrass developed the Tallgrass Image Handling System that resizes uploaded images, checks for viruses and trojans, generates "thumbnails" and "feature" pictures and then publishes, all in the background.

Tallgrass has designed a unique server resident component that obviates the need to place Active X controls on the client's system. This system gets around Microsoft XP SP2's refusal to download Active X controls, which is a good security feature. Tallgrass has developed the technology that is trojan safe and much faster than other technologies and does not expose or use FTP and runs exclusively on Windows Server 2003. Unlike other systems, Tallgrass has devised a front end that looks simple and intuitive. Meanwhile the backend takes the image through several stages (transparent to the user) by exposing the raw image to a system of virus, trojan and worm assessment, resizing any image to a system nominated width, reducing its density to a system nominated standard, allocating to the image a SQL generated ID and then finally after several other security checks, moving it to a web server. This all happens in less than 10 seconds. This technology is unique to Tallgrass and is at the heart of a new pro duct we've developed for a major multinational photo processing organization.

2004 - Tallgrass is currently finalising development of a SQL based clustered server scaleable On Line Classified Advertising Suite for a major Australian publishing company. This suite includes a public front end and a Back End Management Suite that embraces total classifieds management, including billing and multi role level access. This huge package will run on Windows Server 2003, Solaris and HP UX, due to our recommendation to the client that development be in J2EE and Enterprise Java and has been designed to run on MS SQL and Oracle. Tallgrass worked closely with Microsoft on this project to ensure that this new software product will work flawlessly with clients using the about to be released Windows XP SP2, which will break many other software applications.