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New Version

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

We are in the process of rolling out a new version of the WMS, which includes, among other things, support for Foundations. Clients who have an immediate requirement to setup these new vehicles within their organisation should contact us to arrange for their upgrade to be undertaken. We plan to have a number of releases this year as we have increased our development capacity.

Offshore Announcements Launched

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:51:00 GMT

A new information service has been launched which makes it much easier for offshore finance professionals, or those with offshore clients, to stay right up to date with vital industry and regulatory announcements. Offshore Announcements regularly scans an unlimited number of trusted industry websites, and sends notification of any updates directly to each user’s desktop or PDA, accordingly to preset preferences.

Exchange Rates

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:16:00 GMT

Entering exchange rates manually into any system, can be time consuming, boring, and error prone.

We have developed a system that will automatically download rates from a reliable source each morning and add these rates to all of the TaskForce databases that you have configured on your system.

For a relatively modest daily fee, this system can be installed and working on your system. Please drop us a quick email if you would like to discuss the costs and benefits of this additional service.

Automation

Sat, 30 May 2009 07:14:00 GMT

As I have mentioned before, our current focus here at Taskforce is on finding ways to help our clients automate tasks that are routine and labour intensive.

The big hurdle that we find time and time again is the quality of the data that people enter into both our databases, and databases of third parties such as Banks, Brokers and other related organisations. We always seem to go back to the old phrase of “Garbage in Garbage out”. People still seem to think of databases as glorified card indexes, they fail to see that if the data within their organisations systems was kept in a sane state, then life would be easier for everyone.

Another issue that causes us grief is the lack of consistency and ability to follow standards. As programming as a profession becomes more popular, we, like many professions, get our fair share of cowboys. The trouble is that the people tasked with managing these programmers have never written a line of code in their lives. This is very frustrating, because specification by “Chinese Wispers” just never works. The quality of data that we get provided by 3rd Parties can be decidedly lacking in quality.

TaskForce Release New WebSite

Wed, 27 May 2009 14:39:27 GMT

We are pleased to announce that we have today released out new web site. For some time, our web presence has been limited to a single static holding page, as we searched for a content management system, that we were happy and confident with. In the end we settled on a system written in Ruby called Radiant CMS.

Using Radiant had proven to be a joy to setup and deploy. Using the same dynamic language that we use daily for data manipulation and reporting requirements of our clients. As time goes by we hope to add further Ruby on Rails and Sinatra solutions to our current portfolio of applications.