Parsec Systems Ltd was founded to help businesses achieve competitive edge through innovative use of technology. Easy to say…

However, conventional wisdom suggests 80% of a problem is often solved with 20% of the technology and it’s better to apply more effort to simpler technology. Simplicity is always good, if it’s possible. It’s also been said conventional wisdom isn’t always right.

Parsec proposes a variation: make a solution as simple as it can be, but no simpler, effectively select and use technology, plan better and achieve more maintainable results with less effort.

Parsec deploys specific methodology, combined with expert use of technologies and frameworks, by thought-leaders.

Parsec’s challenge to IT conventional wisdom is distilled into key principles which drive the approach to designing/developing and implementing solutions:

Make cars not wheels.

There are always better frameworks. Let other people develop them. Parsec’s aim is to spend 80% of project budget on logic and 20% on plumbing.

Go beyond the 20% rule.

Stretch the team further and use the technology better. Build on and design around what already exists, which could be multiple enterprise components and services, or a range of bespoke capabilities.

Support revenue should be justified.

Create self sufficiency and move on to deliver more business benefit rather than reap support revenues. Parsec subscribes to the view that a good solution is one that stands alone.

Don’t compromise on team composition.

Success always results from carefully assembled, effective teams.

Spend longer understanding the requirements.

Then deliver long-term mutual benefit rather than turn a short-term vendor profit. Put another way, Parsec believes that services businesses can burn short and bright with benefit skewed to them rather than the customer OR can aim for longer term relation­ships which fundamentally work better for both customer and supplier. Parsec subscribe to the long-term model.

Share risk.

Parsec delivers excellent solutions with top class people. The company will, where appropriate, back that up with a share of the risk.