Completed Projects
Merlin Open Systems has worked on a wide variety of projects over the years. The majority of these projects have been in our specialist area of electronic publishing. We have also completed more general consultancy projects and IT projects covering both infrastructure and end user support.
The main areas of work are shown below to give you an idea of the types of projects that we could work on, followed by a list of some of our satisfied clients.
Software Development
- Creation of many custom Adobe Acrobat plug-ins including: Bates stamper; custom document information field editor; custom search and print; automated linking
- Stand-alone PDF processing applications (using Adobe and third party libraries including PDFBox) including a PDF comparison tool for a publishing workflow
- Custom PDF forms with JavaScript code to dynamically change according to user choices
- Custom PDF article search software for use on a web server
- Processing FDF data via an ActiveX control and FDF tool kit on a web server
Software Design
- Business requirements gathering and functional design for a compensation planning system using a web front end with Excel and web services
IT Support
- Set-up and management of a mixed architecture computer network including cabling, routers, Cisco firewalls, leased lines
- Set-up and configuration of World-Wide Web servers
- Setting up the IT infrastructure in new offices
- Initiating and rolling out a Help Desk-based approach to end user support
- Implementing a Europe-wide WSUS patching system
Satisfied Clients
Some of our many satisfied clients include:
- Associated Newspapers (now DMG Media)
- BBC Worldwide
- Blackwell Science
- CDC Solutions Ltd (now Liquent Inc.)
- Charles Schwab & Co.
- Deutsche Bank
- Eneclann
- Epitomy Solutions Limited
- Euromoney Publications plc
- FBD Insurance
- Financial Ombudsman Service
- GAMEX
- Golder Associates (UK) Ltd
- HeronHouse Ltd
- Incitec (now Incitec Pivot)
- Intereurope Regulations Ltd
- International Securities Market Association (ISMA) (now International Capital Market Association (ICMA))
- The Irish News
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Lockheed Martin
- Lucent Technologies
- National Westminster Bank Printing Division
- Northcliffe Newspapers Group (now part of Local World)
- Oxford University Press
- Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd
- PleaseTech
- Peterborough Software (now Rebus Software)
- Resource Dynamics Corporation
- Speciality Lubrication
- Technical Indexes Limited (now IHS UK)
- Toyota
- TransACT Communications, Inc.
- University of Nottingham, School of Computer Science
