Beyond Web Design - Experts in Enterprise Web Applications

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.

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Our clients include

Order Entry B2B, Performance Charts, Utility Billing, online Payment Processing, Portals, Dashboards and Maps, eCommerce - B2C

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.

Reference quote

"They understood the specifications and started developing programs within hours. In just 43 days Web Orders, a comprehensive Web application that accesses an ERP backend had been designed, developed, modified, documented, tested, deployed, and users had been trained."

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
    "The initial Proof of Concept took only 6 hours to complete - this is another example of the rapid application development processes that ExcelSystems effectively employs, to the benefit of their customers."

    McGrath, UniPharm

  • 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.

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

Clover Query    Learn more | Download

Links to the BCD website

In close partnership with BCD, ExcelSystems is a leading software provider for the IBM i marketplace. Software we create includes IBM i tools for rapid web application development, report and document distribution, web portals, enterprise content management and business intelligence. Here are links to BCD’s website where you can learn more about our products and support.