Graduated in Sri Lanka in
1963, emigrated to UK in 1965
and completed Accountancy
qualifications whilst working in
the profession and in service and
manufacturing industries.
by 1977 had achieved the
highest possible position in industry related
to the profession, as the finance director
of a construction company.
I say:
"In the 1960's and 70s Managing Data was a very manual process. The only machinery available in those days was a Typewriter
and a Comptometer. The latter being the calculator used by a trained operator to key in numbers handwritten in a
spread sheet type of format. Communication was mainly by post. The telephone became the technology evolution with a telex machine being used for long distance.
the photo copier and the fax machine arrived in the late 80."
"Yet even with all of this, everything... more or less... required manual effort.
Factory production lines and clerical work in the offices required loads and loads of staff.
There was a hunger for labour saving mechanisation and automation of every conceivable process in the late 70s and 80s.
However, new Equipment was expensive, and only the larger companies could afford the huge costs of mechanisation."
"In 1977 I saw a gap in the market for the automation of management processes for the small to medium sized businesses
and that was the birth of
The Data Management Group Ltd ".
In amongst many mainframe and mini computer systems we programmed in Cobol Pascal and even Fortran.. producing elaborate systems specs using "waterfall" methodology.
Then by chance we saw Reality and Prime Information .
Pick was a god sent and we were into "AGILE" development in the late 1980's using MV and data basic.
We are still using the MV data base for our applications but we do use all other flavours of two dimentional models and big data models..
The word "AGILE" was not coined in the 80's but we can use our experiences of prototyping systems in MV and walk the talk on agile development.
Look us up:
www.datam.co.uk