Aug 30th, 2010 by Russell Thackston
The 2011 pain point survey took in 58 responses. A portion of the respondents volunteered their personal and/or business’ information to be listed on this page, allowing microISV Research Alliance visitors the opportunity to browse a sample cross-section of the types of people, products, and services that make up the global microISV community.
2BrightSparks Pte Ltd (http://www.2BrightSparks.com/)
2BrightSparks Pte Ltd has established a reputation in developing high quality, easy to use utility software. With over five million downloads, a vast user base, & industry recognition from the biggest players around, you know you’re in safe hands.
Appeos (http://www.appeos.com)
Appeos allows anyone to create full-featured, complex web applications, without the traditional need for IT Developers, expensive and long-lasting projects, and the normal disruption associated with IT developments.
Simple applications that would normally take weeks to build, can be built in days, while complex systems that might traditionally take months or even years to complete, can be built in just a few weeks.
Real-world experience shows that after minimal training, any business person can build what they need with Appeos quicker than they can document their requirements, in the traditional way. This means that the business gets what they want, when they want it, with vastly reduced costs and much less valuable time expired, yielding faster time to market, increased business agility and much better user buy-in for new applications.
Bitsmith Software (http://www.bitsmithsoft.com)
Creators of Personal Knowbase, free-form keyword-based information management software.
ClueTrust (http://www.macgis.com)
ClueTrust creates mapping solutions for Macintosh an iOS that incorporate sophisticated GIS technologies with ease of use to help you visualize, explore, analyze and present your data with a sense of place.
Core Technologies Consulting, LLC (http://www.CoreTechnologies.com)
Core Technologies Consulting, LLC is a small craftsman company taking pride in delivering professional, robust, high-quality software solutions. We are experts in Windows Services and our easy-to-use, time-saving products are trusted and used every day by many of the world’s best known companies.
Crispy Fried Software (http://www.changedrivingtest.co.uk)
We help find learner drivers find driving test cancellations and earlier driving tests
DAIR Computer Systems (http://telephonemessagepad.com/)
Offer a managed service for taking and following up on phone messages.
Dataland Software (http://www.datalandsoftware.com/)
Dataland Software’s product line include Web Log Storming (an interactive web log analyzer), Agenda At Once (powerful personal information manager), CD Label Designer (CD/DVD label and cover creator software) and few other free and soon to be released utilities.
Deep Cognition Ltd. (http://www.DeepTrawl.com)
Deep Cognition Ltd. develops software for Windows, Mac & IOS.
Deep Cognitions first product was DeepTrawl. This allows web masters to automatically scan their sites for errors. It is used by many corporations and individuals around the world.
The company has recently been pursuing other ventures in the areas of web and mobile applications. This culminated in June 2011 with the release of the LeapDoc IOS app.
Design Master Software (http://www.designmaster.biz)
HVAC, electrical, and plumbing design software for engineers.
devZing (http://devZing.com)
devZing provides hosting for Bugzilla, MantisBT and Subversion. We manage the servers, keep the software up-to-date and backup the data. We also help you use the software effectively. We’ve been using these tools for years and are happy to help you change configuration or just answer a question.
Dextronet (http://www.dextronet.com)
Dextronet provides productivity software for Windows. Their flagship product is Swift To-Do List, the number one task & notes organizer for Windows.
DidiSoft Lt. (http://www.didisoft.com)
OpenPGP Library for Java and .NET
Digital Gamecraft (http://blog.gamecraft.org)
Digital Gamecraft, a division of SophSoft, Incorporated, is an independent software company specializing in the development of quality computer games and entertainment products for personal computers.
DJSoft.net (http://www.djsoft.net)
Radio automation software
elsten software (http://www.elstensoftware.com)
elsten software is a tiny one-person software company based in London, UK.
elsten software’s one and only product is bliss, a fully automatic digital music organiser aimed at people with ginormous music collections, stored on home servers.
ESWC (http://www.isv-industry.eu)
The ESWC is a not for profit association devoted to providing educational opportunities to software developers and the (Micro-) ISV-Industry – concentrating on those, that actually employ the fair way of distribution, called Shareware, Trialware, Demo or differently. The ESWC organizes the European Software Conference. The purpose of the conference is to provide a gateway to facilitate sharing information to and for software developers and companies and organizations who provide products and services to software developers.
This educational conference serves as a springboard to develop the relationships between developers, companies that distribute software products, and companies that provide services to software developers.
The ESWC is not affiliated with any other organization.
Five O’clock Software (http://www.custodytoolbox.com)
Makers of Custody Toolbox 2. Custody Toolbox is a Windows program designed to help you get organized in your custody situation. Organizing everything can be overwhelming. Custody Toolbox takes that pain away.
GBGames (http://www.gbgames.com)
Creator of cross-platform games and entertainment.
Greentram Software (http://www.greentram.com)
Greentram Software produces structural engineering software for construction professionals in the UK and USA
Gridmetric (http://www.gridmetric.com/)
An ISV focused on building enhancements to existing virtualization solutions, mainly Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), and providing intelligent application software solutions.
Helpinator (http://www.helpinator.com)
We develop Helpinator – a single source help authoring tool that allows tech writers to create CHM help files, manuals in PDF, RTF files and Ajax-powered Web Help.
iMagicsoft (http://www.imagicsoft.com)
Business and reservation software.
John Messingham Development Services (http://www.jmds.co.uk)
As well as developing my software applications \”The Sports Organiser\” and \”The Ship System\” I provide custom software development services to clients around the world.
K Software (http://www.ksoftware.net)
KennelCoach (http://kennelcoach.com)
KennelCoach is a web app for dog breeders. It helps you track your dogs health info (weight, vaccinations, heat cycles, …), pedigree and more!
Kupima (http://kupima.com)
Affordable remote user testing service, offering video reviews from either our hand-picked user panel or your own users, with powerful test task management and comprehensive summaries of user responses (in chart form).
Medlin Accounting Shareware (http://medlin.com)
MTG Studio (http://www.mtgstudio.com)
Our company is specialized in building Magic: the Gathering software – deck building, collection management and online play.
myPractice Software (Http://www.myPractice.net.au)
Practice Management Software for the Allied Health Professional
NANObrook (http://nanobrook.com)
NANObrook creates small applications synchronized across Mac OS, iPhone, IPad and webapps.
OBDAutoDoctor (http://www.obdautodoctor.com)
OBDAutoDoctor is a On-Board Diagnostics scan tool software. With the scan tool you can communicate with your vehicle’s diagnostic system and turn you computer into a highly capable automotive scanner.
With OBDAutoDoctor you are able to monitor the sensors and monitors of your vehicle, and scan the diagnostic trouble codes. After repairing the possible problems with your vehicle, you can reset the Check Engine Light or Malfunction Indicator Light. You can also save money by avoiding the expensive dealer visits and making sure your vehicle is ready for emission testing.
PaleMountain Labs (http://www.palemountain.eu)
We are developing SaaS applications after many years of contracts for software development.
Panopta (http://www.panopta.com)
Panopta is a complete server monitoring service and outage management system that gives our customers the tools they need to minimize the impact of outages to their online business.
Pencil Hill Studios (http://www.kleio.info)
This microISV is very very new, and doesn’t even have its own website yet. The provided website is for the one product so far created by the company.
Plantality (http://plantality.com)
Gardening wiki and plant database. Unique plant search engine with over 200 categories to search on.
Pointstone Software, LLC (http://www.pointstone.com/)
Since 1996, Pointstone Software has been a leading provider of privacy protection, computer cleaning and performance increasing software for home and business computer users. Our goal is to deliver the best and most innovative software for Windows users.
Programming Sunrise (http://www.sdiary.com)
At Programming Sunrise we believe that intelligent software must be simple, small, intuitive and give user the freedom to adapt it to his or her needs.
Project 6 Research (https://www.p6r.com)
Project 6 Research is a privately held, self-funded and self-sustaining software company founded in 2004. Specializing in providing innovative component based development tools and libraries as well as professional services that help our customers get to market sooner, delivering more features with higher quality.
Project 6 Research sets itself apart from the competition by providing consistent, well engineered, and extensively tested APIs, tools and services that solve real problems for our customers. We have a wide range of expertise in areas including email, ad serving, networking, and scalable, highly-available server design and implementation and computer security.
Rob Latour (http://www.callclerk.com)
Offering a variety of freeware and shareware products.
Saturday Morning Productions (http://www.saturdaymp.com)
Basement-based software product and consulting business that gets stuff done.
SeedProd (http://seedprod.com)
I build WordPress Plugins, Themes & Apps.
Starglider Systems (http://www.stgsys.com)
Windows Software Developer, Print Folders, HTML Album and HTML Slide Show software.
StarreSoft (http://www.starresoft.com)
StockMarketEye (http://www.stockmarketeye.com)
StockMarketEye is a portfolio tracking and stock watching application that helps investors keep an eye on the markets and their investments. It makes it easy for average investors to monitor their investments and position themselves to make the right investing decisions at the right time. StockMarketEye is produced by TransparenTech LLC.
The Utility Factory (http://www.TheUtilityFactory.com )
File management utilities. FileBoss for enterprise and expert computer users. Alickey (not released yet) a personal file assistant for everyone.
Total Synergy (http://www.totalsynergy.com.au)
TreePlan Software (http://www.TreePlan.com)
TreePlan Software is a San Francisco based software company providing decision analysis add-ins for Excel: TreePlan for decision trees, SensIt for sensitivity analysis, and SimVoi for Monte Carlo simulation.
Ubercode Software (http://www.ubercode.com)
Ubercode is an easy-to-use language for developing apps for Microsoft Windows. You can use Ubercode to create new apps in a matter of minutes! The Trial Pack is available for immediate download and has over 60 tested sample programs.
WinAbility Software (http://www.winability.com/)
Encryption, security, and file management tools for Windows.
ZippyMeetings (http://www.zippymeetings.com)
ZippyMeetings is a meeting management tool to let you easily plan a meeting agenda, run your meeting to achieve your desired outcomes, manage your actions to closure, and then generate professional meeting minutes in just 1-click. All with an intuitive interface right inside Microsoft Outlook.
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