Welcome to Bretanark
At Bretanark, we pride ourselves in having over 15 years experience in creating innovative, yet pragmatic solutions that are intuitive and comfortable to use.
We like to work closely with our clients around the world to understand their
requirements and likes and to reflect these in a prototype as quickly as possible to demonstrate the direction
a solution should take and find out what really works and what doesn’t.
We then refine the details keeping in close contact with the client to collaborate on the design as it is developed.
Saving time by eliminating monkey work
A primary goal in software is to reduce monkey work, which is wasting your
employee's time. One such project we worked on eliminated 3.5 hours of
mundane labour for one person every day:
Mary works in a credit card department of a large German bank. Each
morning, she would open an automatically generated text file containing credit
card transaction requests that had been entered by customers. These
requests contained a credit card number, an amount and a date. She would
then look up transactions in their department database and match each request
with its associated transaction.
Because these details had been entered by customers, sometimes the details would
not match up so these requests would require special action. But most of
the requests matched transactions in the bank's database.
We created an application that Mary runs each morning. It loads the
automatically generated file and matches up everything it can. It presents
the requests with their matching transactions for Mary to review. The
requests that don't match, are presented to Mary so she can pick the intended
transaction. Once all the requests are matched, Mary reviews them before
they are automatically entered into the department database.
This solution cost around $10,000. It freed up 3.5 hours of Mary's working
day and greatly improved her job satisfaction. It effectively saves the
bank $17,500 each year.
Improving reliability and reducing costs with automated testing
Through our pragmatic understanding of software-based testing, we can guide your
business in establishing a future-proof testing strategy that does not depend on
$10,000 per-machine licensing.
If you're just considering using unit testing or UI testing, we can help you
establish an inexpensive future-proof framework that consolodates both testing
strategies.
If you've already got millions of lines of existing tests, we can help you
reduce the turnover of these tests from weeks to less than a day, using existing
hardware. We can also migrate test scripts to .NET and eliminate the
$10,000-per-machine licensing and risk of abandonment from UI test tools such as
Rational Robot and Test Partner.
Enlarging the market of your product by internationalization
We have extensive experience in retrofitting internationalization into software
projects and can guide you in establishing an elegant and pragmatic solution for
internationalizing your product so that it can be sold in Europe, Asia or the
middle east.