Sharesight is a SaaS application that helps DIY investors to manage their shares. Sharesight is simple and intuitive to use. It is designed to provide maximum output for minimum input. It always gives an up to date view of a portfolio and takes away accounting and taxation hassles.

Abletech took responsibility for the technical aspects of Sharesight. Building Sharesight was a challenge, but Abletech's depth of technical and business experience has helped lead to the success of this great company. Abletech continues to work with Sharesight as it expands into Australia.

Streets Alive is a walking challenge where workplace teams compete in a six week walk off. This was one of the initiatives from Greater Wellington encouraging sustainable transport. The challenge hub, where teams sign-up, record their walks and track their progress against the other teams, Streetsalive.org.nz, was developed by Abletech.

The building of the streetsalive.org.nz web application is a great example of agile development. In conjunction with Greater Wellington, Living Streets Aotearoa had successfully trialled a web-based walking challenge in 2010. Greater Wellington brought their learning from that programme to the design of Streets Alive and in one whiteboard session with Abletech the core functionality was mapped out. Abletech then rolled out the website functions in rapid iterative steps allowing the Greater Wellington team to experience the site and provide feedback very quickly. The final solution was delivered in a very short time-frame with each piece of functionality trialled and refined as it was built.

As the needs and demands of the Radio New Zealand website changed and grew, a number of issues were starting to emerge. These included the ever increasing costs the website was starting to generate in both financial terms and resources of time in order to maintain the site. As a media site in this day and age it was also under-performing in its responsiveness to new content with at least a thirty minute delay between reporters adding new content and that content going live. Scaling was also becoming a serious issue in that when the site was experiencing a heavy load of visitors it would often cause the system to crash.

Abletech had already developed a great relationship with Radio New Zealand having worked in the past on a number of different projects. With these growing issues in mind, Radio New Zealand turned to Abletech to help them resolve their website woes. The answer was a complete website overhaul where the entire site was rewritten in Ruby on Rails code replacing what had been an off-the-shelf content management system with a custom built business specific application.

Macaulay Metals is New Zealand’s largest, privately owned scrap metal recycling business. Their extensive operation covers a very large chunk of the North Island. From their network of yards they transport hundreds of skip bins to and from their suppliers collecting a variety of scrap metals.

Macaulay Metal’s CFO Phil Springford, had an innovative concept that would significantly improve the way they dispatch their drivers and track the turn-over of bins at their supplier’s sites. As Phil explains “there are real gains to be made if we can cost effectively track our bins, our trucks and our men in real time.”

As a result, Macaulay’s and Abletech worked together to bring the idea - a real time tracking and dispatch system - to life. For Abletech the development of this application was an exciting and challenging project which allowed us to leverage cost effective Android devices, mobile and web applications, agile development processes and “kiwi” ingenuity to make it all a reality.

Abletech was approached by a client who had a great idea for an iPhone app but needed both a technology partner and graphic designer to make it a reality. With our business partners we were able to take care of project managing both the software development and graphic design to deliver the product from initial concept right through to uploading the finished version to the iPhone App Store.

As its name suggests, iPoint2 points to places, any place you like and using an extremely accurate algorithm, produces both accurate range and bearing giving you a fantastic personal tool that knows where you are, where you've been and where you want to go; and points you to them. What use is this, you may ask? A part from being a whole heap of fun, you can find the direction to your house made even more fun if you are on the other side of the world! Maybe a religious site such as Mecca or historical sites such as the Pyramids in Egypt. More practical uses could include where your car is parked or your favourite fishing spot; the applications are endless.

AED's (Automatic External Defibrillators) are sophisticated devices that make it very easy to assist a person suffering the onset of a cardiac arrest. These devices are becoming more common and many public and private organisations are very generously making information about their locations available. The challenge then is to know where they are when they are most needed.

Gareth Jenkins of AEDlocations.co.nz has trained many AED owners who have contributed their locations to the AEDlocations New Zealand wide database with the hope of saving lives in their communities. Abletech has built an iPhone application for AEDlocations to help save lives by making it easy to locate these community shared AED's. The app allows a user to have these life saving locations available on their iPhone wherever they go. The app will quickly locate the nearest AED to your current iPhone location.

Xtreme Networks is a business focused company. They started by helping businesses to get a presence on the internet - setting up their customers with a domain name and website. Just over 10 years later Xtreme Networks are offering complete internet solutions for New Zealand business. They supply wired and wireless internet connections, networking hardware, they operate data centres and offer a wide range of managed network services.

The Xtreme Networks iPhone Application came out of a desire to keep their customers up to date with their Internet usage even when they are away from the office. Abletech were commissioned to build an iPhone App that would integrate with Xtreme Networks customer portal to provide up to date usage information. This project was a perfect opportunity for Abletech to demonstrate our capability to translate our deep understanding of web applications to the world of iPhone Apps.

Macaulay Metals is New Zealand’s largest, privately owned scrap metal recycling business. Their extensive operation covers a very large chunk of the North Island. From their network of yards they transport hundreds of skip bins to and from their suppliers collecting a variety of scrap metals.

Macaulay Metal’s CFO Phil Springford, had an innovative concept that would significantly improve the way they dispatch their drivers and track the turn-over of bins at their supplier’s sites. As Phil explains “there are real gains to be made if we can cost effectively track our bins, our trucks and our men are in real time”

As a result, Macaulay’s and Abletech worked together to make the idea - a real time tracking and dispatch system - to life. For Abletech the development of this application was an exciting and challenging project which allowed us to leverage cost effective Android devices, mobile and web applications, agile development processes and “kiwi” ingenuity to make it all a reality.

LoadStorm is a SaaS application that provides load testing for web sites and web apps with their customers including such companies as Dell, General Electric, Microsoft, Oracle and Nokia. This on-demand load and performance testing tool utilises Amazon Web Services for massive scalability. This web application allows developers and testers to generate large volumes of virtual user HTTP traffic against a target server application. The design goal of LoadStorm is to make load testing as scalable and cost-effective as possible.

Sharesight is a SaaS application that helps DIY investors to manage their shares. Sharesight is simple and intuitive to use. It is designed to provide maximum output for minimum input. It always gives an up to date view of a portfolio and takes away accounting and taxation hassles.

Abletech took responsibility for the technical aspects of Sharesight. Building Sharesight was a challenge, but Abletech's depth of technical and business experience led to the success of this great company. Abletech continues to work with Sharesight as it expands into Australia.

Walking and cycling is not only good for our health, they are truly sustainable forms of transport. The challenge for the Sustainable Transport Team at the Greater Wellington Regional Council is to encourage participation in these alternative forms of transport.

The tool they have created, in conjunction with Abletech, is the Cycling and Walking Journey Planner which plans optimum trips utilising the many facilities and natural features of the region, while also considering the often challenging terrain. The Journey Planner also uses Abletech’s AddressFinder service to provide auto-complete address search, including points of interest, for speedy entry of journey start and end points.

Land & Water New Zealand visualises water quality measurements for the whole country, which drill down to individual catchments.

Our experience in building map applications and specialised tools for addressing comes from our implicit knowledge and understanding of geo-data. Your data tells a story and your Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data contains location information that can be crucial to how you look at your business.