The company's initial goal was to provide decent, inexpensive, and easy to use computer software for antiques dealers. We also committed to providing upgrades and technical assistance at a reasonable cost. Our initial product, the Small Business Inventory System (SBIS), was released in late 1992. It was designed for the single antique dealer with a small shop. During our marketing efforts for SBIS, we met an antique mall owner who encouraged us to develop a program for malls. That program, Data Management System (DMS), was released in early 1993.

Since then, CCS has expanded it's software products and other computer services to include:

• Consulting:
  • Experience with...
    • A wide range of computer hardware (IBM and CDC mainframes, HP mini-computers, Harris and Sun Microsystems Unix boxes, and various PC and laptop micro-computers).
    • Numerous programming languages such as: FORTRAN, WATFIV, PL1, COBOL, BAL (IBM assembler), Zilog Z-80 assembler (I once dis-assembled, and documented, the binary code of the Zilog dis-assembly program), Visual dBASE, LISP, Snobol, PHP, Perl, and MySQL.
    • A variety of special purpose applications: IMSL (I once converted the FORTRAN IV source code of the IMSL that was written for IBM mainframes (8 bit byte, 32 bit word, and the 256 character EBCDIC character set) to work on a CDC 730 (6 bit byte, 36 bit word and a 64 character character set), SAS, SPSS, BMDP, SIR, Famulus, AHPL, and LogoWriter.
  • We are the "extra pair of eyes" and the "out-of-the-box" viewpoint that are often needed.
  • We can provide advice and guidance on a variety of hardware and software issues and will always provide candid answers to your questions.
    
    
• Programming:
  • We develop, and support, vertical market software applications for businesses such as:
    • Antique and craft malls (point-of-sale).
    • Attorneys and small-medium size law firms (client, project, and time management).
  • Custom applications written for your specific needs.
  
  
• Custom Reporting and Data Analysis:
  • If you have existing software and need reports that the developers can't, or won't, provide, give us a call.
  
  
• Web Sites:
  • We work with you to determine your needs and design the site.
  • Register domain name and setup the account.
  • Special Features.
  • On-Going support that is quick and reliable.
  
  
• Technical Writing:
  • On-line HTML help files.
  • PDF documents.
  • Windows help files.
  • Articles for publications.
  
  
• Training:
  • Personal 1 on 1 attention.
  • Learn Windows (move/copy files, the mouse, shortcuts, finding files, starting applications, etc.).
  • Learn the internet and how to use e-mail.
  • Learn basic word processing, mail merge, etc.
  
  
• On-Line Research -- if it's out there, we can probably find it!
  
  
• Data Recovery and Backups.

Our flagship product, Data Management System (DMS) is a point of sale (POS) computer program designed for antique and craft malls -- but can be used by almost any business needing to track sales, customers, and inventory. Data Management System (DMS) has been in use across the USA since 1993 and contains the features requested by our customers. It tracks sales, layaways, split sales, credit card charges, commissions, dealers, customers, inventory (only if you want), business expenses, business assets, and much, much more!

Data Management System (DMS) contains a lot of special features that antique and craft malls need such as layaways, split sales, inventory control (only if you want), print regular price tickets as well as barcode and special size price tickets, process credit cards, use receipt printers, cash drawers and, barcode and CCD scanners, magnetic stripe readers, record business expenses, and business assets, handle taxable and non taxable sales, analyze sales by zip code, process special dealer charges, booth rent and much, much more!!!

Data Management System (DMS), a robust and powerful business application, is the ultimate point of sale (POS) software program for antique and craft malls. Data Management System (DMS) is easy to learn and use, and streamlines the operation of antique and craft malls by reducing human error, the drudgery of paperwork, and time consuming calculations!