Myco Systems - Company Profile

While the specialized software is important, it's the helpful and responsive support you get consistently over the years that makes 121+ livestock agents recommend MYCO.

All About Us

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 150+ in Australia and New Zealand.

MYCO supports its clients with a team of ten staff plus part time consultants. Four staff are dedicated to Client Services and software implementation and provide a very fast efficient Help Desk. Three staff 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 introduced the first Windows based Livestock Management software to the industry in 1992 and continues to lead the way, now developing the first web enabled software for Livestock Agents. Currently MYCO is providing software for livestock, bloodstock and art auctioning, livestock agencies, grain merchants, property management, 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 100 agencies now use MYCO software in two countries and five states.

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

MYCO uses a variety of database products to produce our software. In 2004 MYCO began the process of transferring to a new Rapid Application Development (RAD) data base called Cache, developed by Intersystems.

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 Cache - 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. It's adoption by application developers has made Caché 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 Cache) and written by Intraprend in Germany. It allows MYCO to write browser based RAD systems in a fraction of the time normally required, resulting in huge savings for our clients.

MYCO is now in transition, developing new products in Cache and @Net. Many of our original products were developed Superbase, a robust stable and flexible database development tool. Invented by Precision Software Ltd in UK. In 1989 a Window's version was released to make history as the world's first Window's database. In 1991 Superbase had 86% of the world market of Window's database's. Superbase Developers have more than two million users in more than 47 countries. Superbase itself has offices and partners in 18 countries outside the U.S. including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Turkey, Holland, Japan, Egypt , South Africa and Mexico.

Company Goal

The company's aim is 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 are developing new software applications on the internet that are fast to develop, deal with complicated business opertations and marry them with practical financial management systems. We are developing strategic business partners and new exciting software products especially aimed at livestock agents, auctioning and SME business organization markets.