Holistic Software

Custom Software Solutions Division

Holistic Software is the sub division of the Holistic IT Group which is responsible for the research of the latest software techniques as well as the development of custom and off the shelf software solutions. Formerly known as Holistic Research & Development (HRD), it was set up to meet the increase in demand of IT Outsourcing, whereby several companies started to recognise the need to outsource their IT systems to third party software houses - a trend that has always been on the increase eversince.

In fact, most of the middle market firms and even smaller companies, are outsourcing their IT needs. With high productivity levels, a skilled workforce , excellent pricing and an robust infrastructure backed by a tradition of stability, Malta is a low risk option an international business centre and an excellent outsourcing location.

Reasons to Outsource to Holistic Software

Focus Staff: Focus on your core business and let us do the IT job for you. New Systems have to be developed while existing ones need to be maintained or enhanced. Staffing up and training together with the time for an newly recruited employee to fit in and start achieving is a long process that not only takes a lot of time but also consumes a lot of your company's resources - including financial.
Reduce Operational Costs: The IT system that you are using still needs to be maintained and enhanced in order for you to continue reaping its benefits. Through outsourcing, you will reduce your operational costs and consequently increase your profit margins.
Get to Market Quickly: By outsourcing your IT system, you can dedicate more time on product development, market research and setting up your marketing strategy for your products / services. This translates into having better and more robust products and services being developed and launched in less time.
Leverage our Expertise: At Holistic Software we are on the constant lookout of accessing and developing software based on new technologies. Through our constant commitment, you can rest assured that we will provide you with a custom developed, state of the art system that is scalable and thus can be tweaked and upgraded based on your specific needs in the future. The fact that you are dealing with a company and which has been in operation in the software development business for so long means that we are accessible, we are always evolving and we are here to stay !

Our Core Competence

Developing software requires an experienced team that understands how your business works. We can proudly say that Holistic is a leader in the software development process and we specialize in end-to-end software development. We use industry best practices to ensure a state of the art, easy to use, custom developed software solution that enhances your core business. Through our vast experience, expertise and proven success track record, we can assist you in solving your software development challenges by turning your vision into a tangible solution. At Holistic we have Marketing professionals, technical personnel as well as customer care representatives all of which will assist you in all stages of the software solution development. In fact, we offer project outsourcing, project training as well as project support (both on a fixed, yearly maintentance agreement as well as on demand support which is charged on an hourly basis).

Technologies Used

Microsoft Visual Studio.Net - C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, CF (Compact Framework)
Microsoft Access
VBA
SQL
Transforming of Legacy Systems (e.g. FoxPro or VB6.0) to .NET, MS Access or SQL
Microsoft Project and UML design tools

Development Environments

We develop solutions for the following platforms:

Microsoft Windows Applications
Web Applications
Pocket PC (PDA)