Custom web application development, web design and open source implementation
The ExcelSystems Professional Services Group, located in Victoria BC on Vancouver Island, offers you professional, enterprise level web application development and design. We can also implement popular open source CMS solutions for you such as Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. You will benefit from our experience of creating web applications for many industries and small to large clients including Fortune 500 organizations and many IBM i clients.
Our clients include

When you hire us you get
- Professional Web Applications: You get Rich Internet Applications that are cross browser compliant. We also provide testing, documentation and training.
- Experience: You benefit from our experience creating web applications for many different industries, and from the variety of apps we've delivered.
- Fast Results: Your ROI and our productivity are maximized because our team uses its own rapid web application development tools and its experience to deliver web applications very quickly. Your web apps are delivered on time and we can meet your tight deadlines.
- Accurate and Affordable Costs: With our project estimates you know your costs before you commit. You also save money with our affordable rates and lower costs because we can perform all services from our offices.
- Short or Long Term Commitments: With our short term contracts you have no long term financial commitments and it won't impact your staffing levels or current projects. There is also an option to mentor your staff so they can maintain the apps themselves. Our team of Web development experts can do complete projects for you, jump start projects or even work in tandem with your IT staff.
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Steve McEneany, Steelnet - Richmond, BC
Use our team to do complete projects for you, jump start projects or work in tandem with your IT staff. We have many years experience designing and developing business web applications in a wide range of industries including Manufacturing, Transportation, Retail, Healthcare and most levels of government.
Services Offered
- Custom Enterprise Web Applications and Web Design
- Database Driven
- Your apps can include all the latest web 2.0 technologies such as Web Services, Ajax, SSL, ExtJS, jQuery and Google maps.
- Open source PHP for any platform
- RPG CGI for IBM i
- Open
Souce Solutions
- Drupal, WordPress, Joomla
- PHP, MySQL
- Web-enable entire legacy business applications
- Leverage your existing green screen applications
by letting us web enable them for you:
- Fastest solution to get existing apps to the web
- Less investment and less risk since all your back end code is left intact
- Screens are enhanced for a professional look with improved UI components such as links, drop downs, images, charts and much more.
- Portals for secure and organized access
- Merge information from across your entire enterprise in a secure, single point of entry web portal. All portals include:
- Web menuing system that is maintained without changing any HTML.
- Group and user management to control all levels of security so users only see what they are authorized to.
- Content and document management for storing and uploading PC files.
- Dashboards and Web Reports and Queries
- Provide real-time visual snapshots of
your organization with dashboards and web reports and queries
- Flash charts with drill downs into the lowest level of detail
- Interactive dashboards that show data from multiple reports on the same page
- Download information to spreadsheets
- Web based or onsite training
- Attend training courses to get the most out of BCD products or to learn PHP development. We offer training on all BCD products and PHP, from 4 day onsite or public seminars to web based sessions broken down into 2 hour sessions. Anyone can attend the courses and they are a great help if you want to take over the maintenance or extension of the applications provided by our services.
McGrath, UniPharm
View our customer gallery video and success stories below to see how we can help you. We have a proven track record and have worked with small organizations with 1 person IT shops to large organizations like Universal Music. This gallery highlights examples from various industries and a wide range of applications.
Our clients include

Retail - eCommerce
- Kelly's Kids
- Children's apparel eCommerce site for customers and home party reps. The site is driven by SQL and includes administrative facilities to manage the menus and items. View Live Website »
- Wenger
- B2B and B2C eCommerce site for music, theatre and athletic equipment. A unique site with Flash
and HTML and XML is
interpreted dynamically to render the site links and product pages.
- "The design of the site maximizes visibility to Wenger products by providing access by market or product line."
Joe Lutterman View Live Website »
- "The design of the site maximizes visibility to Wenger products by providing access by market or product line."
- Hans Johnsen Bikes
- B2B site originally hosted by ISP and now moved to their System i that provides real time access to data and is integrated directly into their order fulfillment system.
Manufacturing – Distributors and Sales
Hornady
- Hornady
- Sales reps spread across the country now get real time sales data in the form of web reports, graphical drill downs and order inquiries, much of which replaced Query 400. View Screen Shots »
- EGS
- Global manufacturer of industrial electrical products now delivers online
information to their distributors, sales reps and managers including on-line order entry.
- Formica
- Improved distributor relations, communications and reduced administrative costs with online rebate system. Since then, Formica’s IT group have implemented other projects on their own highlighting that many BCD Services clients manage and build on the applications independently.
Transportation
- Mitsubishi Fuso
- Dealer Extranet for sales inquiry, vehicle tracking and warranty claims. View Screen Shots »
- Fleetpride
- Developed FleetPride online, a full featured B2B web application that serves numerous clients and locations across the US and Canada.
- Nippon Express
- Delivery Order Management System to facilitate shipping and tracking orders for Mazda Corporation.
Healthcare – Web Orders, Requisitions
- UniPharm
- "Real time availability was something
every pharmacy wanted and we gave it to them. For the first time in
20 years they could go on the web and find out what is available right
now." Steve McEneany, President, Steelnet Solutions.
Read PDF Case Study »
Government and Utilities – Billing
- City of Murray
- On-line utility system with secure login and payment processing including viewing payments, consumption, billing and service history. Read Case Study (PDF icon) Read PDF Case Study »
- Anglec
- Sole supplier of electrical energy in Anguilla who now provides online utility billing.
Web Development Experts and Award winning Products
Our team comprises a group of highly trained individuals with a combined total of over 80 years of programming. We use our suite of IBM i and multi-platform rapid development products (sold by our partner BCD) that have won over 35 awards as well as open source solutions. You can count on us to be a complete solution provider and a strategic part of your IT environment.
The ExcelSystems Professional Services team has experience designing and developing many mission-critical business web applications in a wide range of industry segments in addition to doing commercial product design. We are an IBM business partner and a recognized leader with over 30 years in the IBM marketplace.
Award Winning Rapid Development Products
Your ROI and our productivity are maximized because we use solutions we built. These are BCD's award winning suite of rapid development products, including: WebSmart ILE, WebSmart PHP, Presto, Clover Query and Nexus Portal.
WebSmart ILE and WebSmart PHP: Rapid System i or multi-platform web app development
- Use WebSmart PHP for all platform & open source Web application development. Use WebSmart ILE for System i centric web application development.
- Both PHP & ILE editions can reuse existing back end RPG or Cobol code.
- WebSmart is used by 1,000’s of organizations.
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Presto – Instant Web Enablement of Green Screen Applications
Presto extends the life of your green screen applications by instantly web enabling them with no RPG or DDS code changes required.
- Give your users browser based access to existing apps in a modern look that is easier for users to navigate.
- You have full access to the HTML code to customize screens: Add pop-up calendars, drop down lists,images, Google Maps and Graphs.
- All web enabled screens run in batch processing.
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Nexus Portal – Secure, Single point of Web access
Nexus Portal gives employees, vendors and customers secure and organized access to Enterprise information through web browsers.
- Secure login and menuing system with user management. Users see only what they are authorized to.
- Framework for accessing web applications, documents and Executive Dashboards.
- Includes the ECM, a secure System i -centric store for uploading, managing, storing and searching for documents (PDF, Word, Excel, etc).
- Nexus is license free*. You pay annual maintenance only.
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Clover Query – Real-Time System i Web Reports and Queries
End users and programmers design real-time System i web reports and queries in minutes.
- Write reports in minutes using templates that include totals, subtotals, level breaks, drill downs and summaries.
- Create flash charts (bar, pie, line, gauges…), KPIs and Executive Dashboards with the free SmartCharts feature.
- Export to Excel
- Unlimited user licensing
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