Recent News

Welcome to Contractiva

Contractiva is an online timesheet, expenses, invoicing, and financial management solution, tailored to suit the precise workflow requirements of every client and customised to evolving and complex business needs.

27 January 2010

Byng Systems launches Key Note

Following a comprehensive redevelopment of the Key Note online publishing & e-commerce systems, some 35,000 documents are now available via ByngControl complete with subscription and online procurement

07 October 2009

Camp Leaders 2010 goes live

Into their fifth year of using Byng Systems, Camp Leaders launch their new web site. This included a host of new features and web developments - keeping us away from the London pubs over the summer.

30 September 2009

Web Development in London

Something for everyone

Why London?

The programming business model has been moving in two, very separate, very different directions. On one hand, we have the outsourced coding, rafts of specifications are drawn up, meticulously detailed, printed on a forest's worth of dead tree, pored over and dispatched East. Months of silence follow, and, at the end of a communications winter, a product, in some form, is delivered. Perhaps it's correct, perhaps an assumption was made early on that skewed the resulting functionality, perhaps it's entirely wrong. Whichever way you slice it, and whatever the outcome, it is unlikely, unless all involved are beyond fluent in UML, that the system will be as precisely tailored as you might have hoped.

The other approach is a highly communicative, rapidly developed, easily prototyped development process, taking place near your place of business, in your time zone, and with people you can meet face to face. There is a simple reason this approach produces better results. Forays into new methods of doing business are always a process of change. You might know where you are, and where you want to be, but how you get there, as a collection of people, resources and processes, is very much an experimental area. So that is what we do. We let you experiment, play, toy with your new environment. We can do this because we can visit you and show our latest ideas, your latest features in action, talk you through them, talk to your staff, see your office, absorb your culture, and then translate that onto the web and into your Byng system.

Nestling in the creative corner of London that is Shoreditch, we have ready access to a rich vein of creative talent. From Flash designers, print artists, graphic agencies to the most creative problem-solving programmers around, this wealth of talent is at our - and your - fingertips.

Locating in London gives us the ability to easily visit and be visited, at home or away, our sites and tools go with us, so whether we're on site helping to hammer out your system, or toiling away in London, our communication lines are always open, our work nonstopping, shepherding you and your system towards it's happy arrival on the web.