Company History

Tailor Made Software was founded in 1988 by Neil and Martha Stainton. Currently we number five full time employees and partners, and we also have several associates that work for us on a contract basis. We believe that our staff are our most important asset, and thus consider education and training to be of vital importance. All staff are university graduates, having degrees in appropriate subjects - mostly Computer Science or Maths.

From the start, our business has been the production of bespoke software for small, medium and large local and national companies. After developing applications in Turbo Pascal and several dBASE dialects we moved to Paradox 2 in late 1988. From 1988 to 1993 all our programs were developed in Paradox.

In 1992 we were accredited by Borland International as an Audited System Developer for Paradox database development.

In late 1992 we responded to customer demand for Windows applications by providing solutions based on Microsoft's Access database. Subsequently we added Borland's Paradox for Windows and C++ to our programming repertoire.

At the start of 1994 we started to use Borland's Delphi for serious development work as soon as it became available.

In 1997 we setup our own server on the Internet and started selling web space and email services.

In 1998 we started writing applications using MS SQL Server as the back-end database.

In 1999 we started concentrating on Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology for creating Internet and Intranet applications and intelligent web sites.

In 2000 we installed a permanent Internet connection to our office, to allow us to better manage our Internet Servers and use the Internet to its potential.

In 2001 we added a qualified web designer to our staff, and renamed the company IT Partnership to better indicate the wide range of services we offer our customers.

In 2002 we added expertise in Microsoft's .net languages, and started developing online applications using ASP.net technology.