SimCentric offers two main optimisation related services:

• Consulting

• Software development

Consulting

Navigating the world of optimisation can be a daunting task. With myriad optimisation technologies and techniques it is all too easy to get lost in a maze of buzzwords and jargon. Figure 1 should give you an indication of what we mean. At SimCentric we pride ourselves on providing a service that helps any business considering employing an automatic optimisation system to understand what options are available and how effective those options are likely to be.

We work with our clients to fully understand their problem. Regardless of the technologies used, the greatest area where most optimisation systems fail is through a failure to fully understand and integrate with the existing operational practices. Mathematically, problems in the mining domain and the military domain may be very similar; however, the different business processes, organisational cultures and problem specifics result in a significantly different system in each case.

We like to work with our clients to:

a) understand all of the details of their problems.
b) ensure that they collect enough data about their operations to allow automatic optimisation techniques to work effectively.
c) understand the business processes involved so that automated optimisation systems integrate with existing practices without major changes to work-flow or human processes.

The end result of our consulting period should be that you understand what you should be asking and looking for in order to acquire an optimisation system that meets your business needs.

Software Development

As a follow-on from our consultancy services, we offer a bespoke software development service where we will design and build a system based on your business' specific requirements. This will be based on our proprietary library of algorithms and will be tailored specifically to integrate seamlessly with your existing practices. To this end, we like to work closely with the end users of our software to ensure that they are comfortable with the user-interface that we design, to ensure that we fully understand their business practices and rules, and to make sure that they, as stakeholders, have some ownership over the development process.

We have found this bespoke approach is superior to the purchase of off-the-shelf products. The latter approach usually involves a series of trade-offs in an attempt to make a generic software meet your specific requirements.

We stand by the quality of our software. Consequently, we offer this service at a low initial cost, and generally tie any licensing fees for the software to the improved performance resulting from its use. This greatly reduces your risk in developing an automated optimisation system. It also provides us with an incentive to provide you with the highest quality of service.

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