Geode was established in 2003 and offers software and database design and development as well as computing services for medium to large businesses. We take great pride in designing and building the best quality products for your application and we have extensive experience in design and development.

• I.T. Consultancy
• Software Development
• Database Design, Performance Tuning
• Web Application Development
• Lodestar Development

In March 2008 EDF Energy asked us to help with performance tuning their production database. We were able to identify where in the code the poor performing queries were defined, and to develop more efficient versions of them using the Oracle plan tables (explain plan) to reduce overall cost, physical I/O and ultimately time taken to execute.

During autumn 2007 we were involved in ASP training for the Lodestar framework. Many aspects of the ASP framework were covered, with best practices, including stored queries, dictionaries, custom screens, tabs, dropdown actions, XML data, XSLT transforms, debugging and more!

End clients are keen to make use of the Lodestar applications, and see the flexibility the software provides. Custom ASP work should "fit in" with the framework, and we have successfully trained staff in the best way to go about developing for Lodestar.

Harrier LLC provide mail-order photo processing and online digital printing. The company has recently begun supplying photo gifts such as mugs, calendars and photo books though the online Truprint site as well as fulfilling these gift orders for numerous partners. Their current I.T. system tracks orders as they progress through the production process, but it is increasingly difficult to maintain. The project requirement was to create a new system based on new technology to take over the process. Geode was asked to plan the project and in the initial part of the project, to design the database.

Geode Software has been working for Oracle Utilities on a number of projects in the UK and now supplies a number of ASP developers to work on site. We worked to extend their web application to provide a detailed breakdown of all the costs involved in a gas supply contract. The web pages were written in Javascript ASP, linked to an Oracle (10g) database and the Lodestar framework. XML technologies were used heavily to manipulate the data for display.