Inc. DBS has designed database solutions for many of the Madison area companies. Client is in the business of selling software and services to the retail optical market. Wrote an application called ScriptWriter for sale to nation wide accounts. ScriptWriter is a Rx order entry program. A retail optical client will use ScriptWriter to enter a patient's prescription, transmit via modem or fax the prescription to their choice of laboratory for processing.
Client is in the business of manufacturing custom made plastic pallets.
Quotations to larger accounts can run several hundred pages and involve hundreds of calculations. The generation of just one quote could take several people a weeks time. Initial quotation parameters are entered. DBS programmers were the only programmers with any significant Powerbuilder experience. Initially the job was to provide mentoring.