Get to know Myco
MYCO Systems Pty Ltd is a private company based in Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory. It supplies software mainly to the livestock agency and auctioning sector of the agri-business industry. The software is an integrated accounting and sale-processing package. It processes in excess of $900 million of commodities each year across a client base of 121 agents and their 300+ staff in Australia and New Zealand.
MYCO supports its clients with a team of technical and client services staff plus part time consultants and an administrative team. The team of dedicated and expert Client Services staff provide a very fast and efficient Help Desk as well as installing software and training clients and offering business consulting advice.
A team of Software Engineers are employed fulltime to develop and enhance the MYCO software. This ensures clients always have access to assistance when needed and software is continually being improved. Myco encourages clients to participate in the software’s development and clients can submit and vote on software enhancements that are added to the software in regular upgrades which can be downloaded from the internet.
MYCO introduced the first Windows based Livestock Management software to the industry in 1992 and continues to lead the way with the first browser based software saleG8.
MYCO provides software for livestock, bloodstock and art auctioning, livestock agencies, grain merchants, horse transport (air and road) and leasing, even credit card and finance management systems.
Clients have realised the benefits of utilising MYCO’s own accounting system which gives them cost-effective flexibility when it comes to developing a system for specific needs.
Financial Experience
MYCO Technical Director Andrew Lombe has been involved in writing software for the Bloodstock and Livestock Industries since 1982. The company has also consulted to the banking industry, giving it a depth of accounting and financial systems understanding.
MYCO software caters for businesses like Elders New Zealand and Rodwells in Victoria right through to smaller independent companies. More than 121 agencies and their 300 + staff now use MYCO software in two countries.
Steady Growth
MYCO completed ACT Government sponsored and endorsed Business, Market and Export planning processes, as part of its Quality Management strategy. The company’s growth has been steady and managed conservatively, resulting in a financially stable and positive outlook.
Behind the Applications
We searched the world and took three years before we chose a variety of software products to produce our software. We use Cache from Intersystems as our underlying technology. We chose Crystal Reports as our reporting technology. We chose @Net Manager for our web based user Interface.
Practical and Robust technology
Sale G8 is web enabled, so it can run anywhere without Terminal Services, or Citrix Licenses. However the practical requirements of running real time point-of-sale and auctioning sometimes require it can run as a system locally. So while the technology offers flexibility, the design of the system has not ignored the practicalities of getting on with the job, internet connection or not.
InterSystems Corporation is an established technology company with twenty-five years of experience providing reliable, high-performance software products that power over 100,000 systems, used by more than four million people around the world.
In 1997 it introduced Caché — a high-performance data management and rapid application development environment. Optimized for the quick creation of Web-based transaction processing applications, Caché is used by independent software vendors (ISVs) and organizations in healthcare, finance, government, and many other areas. Its adoption by application developers has made Cach?the leading embedded database in the United States.
Caché is a post-relational database that uniquely offers three integrated data access options: a robust object database, high performance SQL, and rich multidimensional access. Caché enables rapid Web application development, extraordinary transaction processing speed, massive scalability, and real-time queries against transactional data — with minimal maintenance requirements.
Caché is available for Windows, OpenVMS, Linux and major UNIX platforms and it is deployed on systems ranging from two to over 10,000 simultaneous users. Caché enables rapid Web application development, extraordinary transaction processing speed, massive scalability, and real-time queries against transactional data — with minimal maintenance requirements.
MYCO has also utilized a product called @Net (using Caché) and written by Intraprend in Germany. It allows MYCO to write browser based Rapid Application Development (RAD) systems in a fraction of the time normally required, resulting in huge savings for our clients.
Company Goal
The company’s aim is to provide software systems for livestock agents that are practical and innovative with friendly support services so that those agents can be efficient and profitable. We want to master “The science of practical software, combined with the art of business integration” and deliver this mastery to our clients in software that will significantly add value to their businesses. We combine this software with outstanding practical, personal support (24hr Help Desk). At MYCO we believe it’s a real science and an art. Other company policies include ‘have fun’ and ‘panic early’.
Passion
MYCO’s aim, something they are very passionate about, is the art of integration. Integrating all business units within a company to produce one system where all components of the system can talk. The company’s financial success has been based on a goal that puts quality software and great support first and foremost.
Plans for the future
We plan to deliver software and services to our clients that will keep them growing their businesses and their personal wealth for the next 20 years. By doing this we know we will stay the number one choice to supply software to livestock agents in Australia and New Zealand.