Author: karljeffery

How could lawyers use a ‘Software for Domain Experts’ type service? Lawyers have to search through large amounts of information to find something useful (such as how the last case like theirs went). They need to make difficult decisions. They need to publish and disseminate reports. For structured legal processes (like conveyancing) they might have…

AgilePoint – based on Microsoft technology – based in Mountain View, California, with some international offices. offers App Builder tool. Describes itself as “Responsive Application Development software”. Outsystems – headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with international offices – makes app builder tools which are used in Banking, insurance, retail, pharma, healthcare, financial services, energy, telecoms, transport / logistics, public sector,…

Here are some “Software for Domain Experts” in the deep sea shipping industry Ship operations Ulysses Systems – knowledge management related to operations Marine Software – maintenance and stores management SpecTec – all aspects of vessel operations Star Information Solutions – ship operations and safety Danaos – maintenance, purchasing management Maroz Maritime Software – quality management,…

The jobs of experts around the world are getting more complicated all  the time – with more data to work through, more complex demands, faster decision making required. As a nice illustration, consider the list of tasks which India Prime Minister Modi has set himself, shown midway through this Economist article.  Open 75m bank accounts,…

Your editor is also editor of a magazine about digital technology in the upstream oil and gas industry, and so has specialist knowledge of this sector, and the  domain expert software companies in it. Here are some of the companies active in this sector. Exploration / subsurface Ikon Science – managing rock physics data Lynx Information…

We think the Software for Domain Experts business model could also be very attractive to investors. In a world of 0.25 per cent interest rates, all the “commodity” investment opportunities have gone long ago – if you define a “commodity” investment as one where (as an investor) you have no relationship to the company you…

Here’s 7 reasons, 1) One of the most exciting is the recent growth of ‘low-code’ tools, which make the task of building a useful ‘app’ much easier – you can do it with 2 programmers rather than 50. A 2014 Forrester study cited 3 different sorts of ‘low -code’ platform vendors – business process management tools (AgilePoint,…

What kind of user would like a ‘Software for Domain Experts’ company and why? To some extent, generalising a user doesn’t make sense – everybody’s needs are different – and you need domain expertise to work out what they are. For example in the oil and gas industry, where your writer has some domain expertise,…

“Franchising” is basically about selling someone the rules for how to run a business which have been proven to work, along with a known brand name. That (I imagine) is what you get when you buy a franchise for McDonalds. As business gurus have pointed out, proven rules really help improve your odds with a…

We believe that there could be room for a new business model for developing software for specialist business users – and we invite you to explore it with us. As a big generalisation, the majority of software start-ups are tackling the consumer sector, where the chances of success for any particular company is very low,…