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Capability

Since before the company's formation, Kappa's principal, Bill Smith, has helped roll out solutions for a number of clients in the businesses of international banking, oil, equities & derivatives trading, pensions & life assurance, electricity & gas supply, telecommunications, travel and logistics.

Design and development of large, multi-user systems featuring high volumes of transactions and operating over wide-area networks and the Internet is a speciality. Kappa Solutions has experience of all phases of the development life-cycle and is committed to best practices such as good design (particularly using OO-methods and n-tier concepts), configuration control and build/test/delivery procedures.

Kappa Solutions can provide the resources to lead, mentor or assist your development team either on a full or part-time basis and on or off-site. Please contact us to discuss.

Technologies

Languages/Standards:

• C# (WebForms/ASP.Net, Web Services, WinForms), Visual Basic, PowerBuilder,
• SQL, T-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, ADO, ADO.Net
• HTML/DHTML, XML/XSLT, RSS, Javascript (incl. AJAX), VBScript
• VBA, MS Office macro languages

Databases:

• MS SQL Server
• Sybase ASE & ASA
• Oracle
• MySQL

Tools:

• MS Visual Studio
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Photoshop
• Concurrent Versions System (CVS), MS Visual SourceSafe and Rational Clearcase configuration control systems
• Rational Rose

Design Methods/Techniques:

• Unified Modelling Language (UML), Object Modelling Technique (OMT)
• Agile
• Refactoring

 

Clients

Banking, Trading & Finance:

• Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division - London, Frankfurt, New York
• JP Morgan Chase - Bournemouth, London
• UBS Investment Bank - London
• UN (International Fund for Agricultural Development) - Rome
• Shell (STASCO) - London
• OMIRIS Networks - London

Pensions & Life Assurance:

• MGM Assurance - Worthing

Consultancy & Utilities:

• Accenture (neé Andersen Consulting) - London, Croydon
• Sybase Professional Services - Maidenhead

Telecoms:

• VIAG Interkom - Munich
• VebaComm - Dusseldorf

Travel & Logistics:

• BCP - Crawley
• GBE (now part of P&O Ferrymasters) - Bournemouth, Birmingham, Bordeaux