| Pelican Computing designed Internet software for PMS that is used by companies to analyse and compare business data and practices. It is written in a generic way that can be used by Prospect Management's clients from multiple industries, currently Pig, Beef, Sheep, Cereal, Potato and Horticulture. Data may be come from a wide variety of sources: web forms on the Internet, locally in Excel or other software and sent over the Internet through Web Services. Results are viewable online. Tools are available to manage the large number of groups and users. |
| A Consortium comprising the Universities of Cambridge, Exeter, Nottingham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Reading, Imperial College and Askham Bryan College carry out the annual Farm Business Survey commissioned by the government. Pelican Computing designed the database for the online Government Office Regional Reports for the Farm Business Survey. Pelican Computing work with Cambridge University Rural Business Unit programming staff so that they now have the skills to update and add new features themselves. With Pelican Computing's help the Rural Business Unit also maintain web pages that use Dotnet and Sql Server that were written for the Farm Business Survey by Defra. The pages are available at http://www.farmbusinesssurvey.co.uk. |
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Cambridge Colleges' Administrative Software Consortium (CASC) |
| The consortium of colleges required a system that was web-based to pay their supervisors for all the supervisions that were carried out. They also wanted their own programmers to gain the necessary skills to maintain and write web-based systems. Pelican Computing designed and produced a working system and helped programming staff on web development using DotNet. The consortium now has an operational web-based system in use by their colleges which the consortium’s own in-house programmers can maintain and add to. |
| Pelican Computing also assist Cambridge Colleges with all types of database queries. |
| Pelican Computing wrote the Tissue Bank database that is in use at both Addenbrooke's and Papworth Hospitals. At Addenbrooke's Hospital the database has been upgraded from MS Access to Sql Server. |
| Also at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Pelican Computing worked for the Clinical Gerontology Unit to design and support databases for a 5 year Vitamin D clinical postal trial of 2700 people. The results are published in the British Medical Journal with acknowledgement for Pelican Computing. |
| Pelican Computing also designed and wrote the Addenbrooke's mortuary database. |
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Interlace Ltd |
| Interlace Ltd supply curtains and blinds to companies working on building developments around the country. Pelican Computing wrote a contact management system written in MS Access to maintain building contracts and client information. The system also tracks calls and creates reminders for call backs to clients. |
| Plasti-kote are a manufacturer of spray paints. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of The Valspar Corporation one of the largest global coatings manufacturers in the world. |
| Pelican Computing carried out updates to their existing Contacts database. |
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Other Pelican Computing projects are: Cambridge University Department of Education. An access database to maintain School Placements of students on their Teacher Training. Cambridge Circuit Company Ltd, manufacturer of printed circuit boards. An access database for their Purchase Ordering and Job Control databases. Quality Precision Engineering, a manufacturing company. An access database for their Job Control database. Cambridge University Judge Institute Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning. An access database for their Contact Management database. Cambridge University Centre for Jewish Christian Relations. An access database for their Fund Raising database. Cambridge University Safety Office. An access database to record and assist safe disposal of radioactive material within Cambridge University. Fitzwilliam Museum. A dBase database to create staff rosters for their many galleries and attendants. Propotec Ltd, provider of property preservation services in London, East Anglia and the Midlands, a dBase database to track their survey records. |