Mr. Burgwin,

Thanks for reaching out to us.   I would like to have a meeting with you if
you are available.

I purchased Pelican Software last year and am the sole licensee for their
suite of products, and also hired the remaining staff.   We are called
Northwestern Support Professionals INC now, however the name is mostly
transparent as our clients know us as the "Tallys" guys or the "Yearbook"
guys.

Can I ask which website you were looking at (in your second paragraph) ?

Off the top of my head, I don't know how exactly this could benefit our
customers, and I don't quite understand what I'm looking at yet, but I am
definitely interested in learning more.  Are you in Nanaimo?  Perhaps you
could come to our new offices, one day, and tell us more about it.

Thanks,

Simon Smith   President
Northwestern Support Professionals Inc. |  1.877.661.9990  |  www.nwsp.ca
[email protected]   |   549 Haliburton Street,  Nanaimo  BC  Canada  V9R 4W4



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2012 3:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Proposal

Greetings.

First, I do apologize; this E-mail address was not easy to find, and
presumably there was a good reason for that. However I was unable to find
one that wasn't explicitly for sales inquiries; in my experience proposals
and stuff such as this ends up being ignored that way, since that is not
what it is for. I imagine your time is valuable, and you are very busy, so
any time you take to read this message is appreciated.

As far as I can tell via your website, you have two products; Tallys! and
Books!; the first is rather niche tool used in a rather specific area, and
the second is a sub-niche tool that tries to corner a specific segment of a
market being served by more general purpose tools. Both of these approaches
are ingenious.

On that note, however, I have a product that I've written over the last
several months for a Freelance client. I've made something on it's creation,
but being that the IP for the product is still mine, I feel it has a use
with establishments similar to that for whom I created it for.
Attempting to sell my other products has not gone well; but I have no
intention of letting the time spent designing, writing, and developing it
become a waste.

For your perusal, here are some images of the application:

General Tab of the Administration applet:

http://www.bc-programming.com/jclock/General_Tab.png

Orders tab of the Administration applet:

http://www.bc-programming.com/jclock/Orders_Tab.png

Users tab of the Administration applet:

http://www.bc-programming.com/jclock/Users_Tab.png

The touchscreen client application:

http://www.bc-programming.com/jclock/clienttool.png


The Application in question is a managed-code application written in C#
designed for managing work in a setting such as a repair shop. It consists
of three parts; an Administration applet which can be used for adding and
removing users, add new orders, and generating reports on which users worked
on which orders in a specified time frame. It also has a "client"
program, using WPF, designed to allow users to clock into and out of orders,
designed for use on a touch-screen system. Additionally, there is a
"mid-level" application, the monitoring applet, which is designed to allow a
supervisor or foreman see when techs clock out of orders and/or are
available to take on more work- this small program displays notifications in
the windows notification area and (if memory serves) can be configured to
play sounds as well. The system itself is driven by a back-end database-
currently, MySQL; which can reside on a separate machine. (The admin,
touchscreen client, etc. can all connect remotely).

Basically. I have a product, but no good way to distribute it, and no ties
in the industry niche for which it would be most useful, both of which you
posess. Pelican Software, on the other hand, would in no way be at a loss if
it were to offer a third product that meets other needs used by customers;
Tallys, specifically, is designed for managing inventory and sales; my
product is designed for managing the asset of employees and how they work on
that inventory and create those sales, two goals that while different are
inextricably related and could mutually benefit from one another.

My proposal is basically- I have a product- does it sound like something you
might like to license, or even buy outright? Without actually seeing it,
coming to such a decision would of course be tricky, so if there is any
interest at all, I would be happy to consider some arrangement to show my
product in action; static images cannot really do software justice.


Thank you for any reply and.or consideration in this regard.


-Michael Burgwin

   http://bc-programming.com



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