Searce invests a sizable amount of its profits in various non-revenue generating activities that are undertaken expressly to provide unprecedented value to our clients. We will keep raising the bar higher and higher.

The following services and products are offered to all our clients at no additional charge. If there are other services that you would like us to provide please feel free to contact us.

Searce identifies tasks and activities essential to the business continuity of each client. We then assign members of our staff to oversee these activities. We refer to them as "floaters". This transfers essential business and technical knowledge to our staff. When you experience attrition within your team such as a key member leaving, we use our floater staff to ensure continuity and to train replacement team members.

We have developed a culture of continuous improvement to bring about efficiencies in the software development process. Team members share their experiences to the benefit of others on the team.

These continuous improvement practices were loosely adopted from Kaizen principles. Kaizen is the Japanese philosophy of related to quality control and continuous improvement. The Toyota production system is known for implementing Kaizen.

We have established a technology lab consisting of various platforms such as Microsoft, Linux and Mac OS X (to be added soon). This lab is made available to all members of our staff. Staff members conduct research and evaluate new and emerging technologies. We continuously scan the industry for technologies that might be immediately useful to our clients.

When we determine that a particular technology might be valuable to our clients we communicate this to you. One such technology, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is currently being used by two of our clients for their web application projects after we brought it to their attention and demonstrated its capabilities. AJAX technology is used to build highly responsive, fat-client like, user interfaces for web based applications.

Searce has identified a handful of software products based on the requests that we have received from our clients. We are currently in the process of developing these products using new technology that we have been experimenting with in our lab. We expect to have initial releases of one or more applications available by mid-2006 and we will make these available to all our clients at no charge. If you would like to help us beta-test these applications please contact us.

If you have suggestions for applications or tools that you would like us to build, please let us know.