For more than 30 years, Sii has been providing solutions to complex software problems to businesses in the US, Europe, and Japan. Our clients range from small companies to some of the world's largest.

If you've purchased a car, shopped in major retail stores, or used a bank, chances are that you've used some of our software.

If you are an insurance company, bank, government agency, or data-entry shop in Japan, chances are our software is a part of your operations, with full Romanji, Hirigana, Katakana, and Kanji support.

Our specialties include sophisticated backend software for your Web presence, high security interfaces for the Web and Internet, automated software migration from one platform to another and from legacy systems to modern environments, and computer-aided reengineering of legacy systems.

Web Backends

We create sophisticated custom backends to interface your Internet Web presence with your own internal data. Your Web pages can present specialized information, advertising, and feedback to attract more visitors and to better service your customers. We help make your web page a valuable part of your customer support, promotion, education, and sales efforts.

Standard Web pages written in regular HTML, the basic language of Web design, cannot do this. We add Java, Javascript, XML, Perl, server side includes, client side imagemaps, and other new technologies to fit your needs.

Along with this, we develop high security packages to control access to the information behind your web page. It's great to present up to the minute information via the Web but not at the cost of allowing random and unauthorized access to your internal database by outside parties. Our backends guard against this.

Software Migration

Sii produced the first major commercial project on a Unix system not from ATT, back in 1981. We've been migrating software to Unix longer than anyone else.

We use automated software translation tools that we develop. The goal of all of our translators is 100% conversion of the application sources with no "fixup" or other manual intervention needed. We rarely fail to meet that goal. Why is that important? Most of the conversions we do consist of thousands of programs and millions of lines of code. If even 1% of that required editing, that would make many conversions impractical.

Why convert? Why not just throw all the old stuff out and use a CASE system to redo the application the right way? That's certainly an option, but that takes a long time, and market pressures might demand a quick migration. We typically turn around a multi-million line conversion in a matter of a couple of months, from start to final acceptance. That's a whole lot faster than any reengineering effort can match. But all's not lost! Part of our translation collects metadata about all aspects of the application, and the metadata can be exported to a CASE system to ease the eventual reengineering effort.

During the conversion, new features can be added to the application, such as use of a Relational Database, or providing web access to the applications or data.