Kivco respects that our customers come largely in two flavours. Customers that need a marketing tool and customers that need technology -- some need both.

We accept that some websites need to accomplish a specific task, and it might be just as effective if it were spartan.

We also accept that some websites need to market ideas, information, or business, and adding full features might be unnecessary.

Frequently, fancy graphics, animations and movies achieve neither objective. It's really a question of what you want to purchase and how it affects the bottom line.

The most cost-effective website I have ever seen had on it only the following: a map and a phone number. It probably took minutes to create and it obviously served the intended purpose.

Whether or not a website is saturated with information should be secondary to whether or not the content on it has a business benefit.

The real art to a web site is attention to the marketing benefit of the final product, an often misrepresented fact.

Make money with your website and make us proud.

With all sincerity,
Bram Kivenko, CEO

Kivco Consulting Inc. has been serving industry with internet applications since 1996. Our team believes that top quality design, development, and research is key to successful deployment.

So what happens when a project is initiated at Kivco? Kivco makes the process seamless...

An entire process is set in motion that begins with us researching you. We assess your technical ability to determine how we present information, and to pass the appropriate level of knowledge to you.
We know as well as you do that internet marketing is a scary place. Hey, it involves two scary domains: high-technology and marketing -- and we understand that few industries can successfully implement projects in this area.

Kivco can guide you through the maze of difficult choices to consider during this development. For whatever reason, should you decide to select a competitor, Kivco, as a consulting company is also available for oversight and audit to ensure you receive the correct advice to maximize value for money and to help keep projects on schedule.

Kivco is ready to produce the internet application that meets your needs. The development life cycle involves market research and project analysis to correlate your requirements with a cost benefit analysis.

The development process can proceed with as little or as much documentation deemed appropriate for the task.

Process documents include business requirements, system design overviews (prototypical outlines), functional design overviews (UML and structured implementation design), deployment maps, QA schedules, and test plan documentation.

Documentation is necessary so a project may survive its original scope, and so any third party can assume control at any time.

Gone are the days when a software vendor becomes locked into a project because knowledge transfer becomes impossible.

Your software vendor can go bankrupt at any time. Do you have formal design documents to back up your project?

Pricing can be arranged fee-for-service or negotiated prior.

In either case prices are based on hourly rates ranging from $75 to $150 per hour depending on the type of task and its complexity.

However, we are so certain of our superior skills that if you receive a quote from any publicly traded company, we will take on the project at a 25% discount with the same time schedule.

As a basic guideline, it takes about 6 hours to architect, document, implement, and test a single web page and about 24 hours to create an overall design for the website.

Hosting services can be provided inhouse for smaller websites. Additionally, Kivco is partners with several ISP's which can accomodate medium to enterprise scale applications.

We can also deploy onto an existing third-party or inhouse platform.

Kivco not only develops at your pace, we also develop using your available technologies. We actively support a wide range of programming options for both Windows and UNIX platforms.

Implement under Windows NT/2000, or various UNIX OS's, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, HPUX.

Deploy to multiple webservers, platforms and environments: Apache, Tomcat, IIS, ColdFusion, Vignette V/5 (StoryServer), JRUN, BEA WebLogic, Websphere, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, etc..

Kivco will ensure your website is fully cross-browser compatible, from version 4 browsers to version 6 and even future browsers.

Develop dynamic content using the scripting language that best suits skills available in your MIS department: JavaScript, Java/J2EE, JSP, ASP, PHP, C/C++, VC++, VB, Perl, TCL, Flash, etc..

Kivco has a flexible team to meet your requirements as well as possible constraints imposed by third party hosting service providers.

Performance guidelines employed by Kivco can ensure browser compatibility, even with PDA's. Also, operational latency and load times can be minimized with a variety of techniques.

Standardized coding practices reduce security risks and increase reliability. Nearly a decade of experience in related fields ensure quality product.

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In addition to project development and implementation, Kivco also provides complementing services such as project oversite and auditing of a third party software vendor for security, completeness, accuracy, reliability, quality, documentation, and operational latency.

Kivco can operate as a guardian angel over your shoulder as a liason and auditor of your existing projects, or projects in development.

If you have a financial advisor for your financial endeavours, have an internet consultant for your internet projects.

5 years of experience in Internet development yields many advantages.

Quick load times -- pages can be efficiently packaged to load quicker. This page, for example loads all pages at once and allows for simple offline browsing of nearly the entire site.

Special attention is given to development to maximize web page caching by viewers' service providers -- thus greatly reducing load times.

This web page is cross-browser compatible. It is viewable by all Netscape and IE browsers version 4 or higher. The site is also viewable by PDA's and other text restricted browsers.

Let us optimize search engine placement using various techniques, including creating phantom pages that mirror existing pages but include specific keywords.

Kivco has significant experience with human-computer interaction and usability. Ever get frustrated using applications that require switching between the mouse and the keyboard?

Let Kivco's experience increase the real value of the final product.

An upscale oyster house and bar in a downtown club district specializes mainly in wide selection of fine import beers. This niche market largely goes unrecognized until discovered, when it is greatly appreciated.

The client has limited knowledge of the internet.

Our team developed a strategy that could complement the store's experience by continuing its cozy ambiance on the web.

Two main areas were quickly discovered. It was noticed that due to the setup of the store's exterior, passersby felt intimidated and had not entered despite spending a significant effort admiring the sandwich-board by the walkway.

The second concern was that customers would have to either phone or visit the store to discover when taps were changed or there were other new arrivals worth sampling.

Our team proposed ways that the website could be advertised on the sandwich-board to promote walk-aways to visit the site later to alleviate the intimidation factor.

We also described how the current menu could be maintained by the owner without requiring any technical abilities beyond surfing the web.

The owner was immediately impressed by our attention to real world applications of his website and signed on.

A downtown courier company wanted an online order and tracking system which could be updated by bike couriers real-time.

We implemented a simple online database which could be batch exported daily to correlate with the master accounting database.

Couriers could use PDA's to fill out a simple form through an HTML-WAP gateway when a package delivery was complete.

Knowing the courier's schedule, dispatch could determine timeliness of deliveries and act accordingly. Something they could not do in any practical way before their website.

A company approached us requesting information about our off-the-shelf public-key cryptosystem encryption software.
Kivco^RSA supports the RSA encryption algorithm (the one used to secure websites) and packages that technology in an extremely simple to use interface.

The package simplifies the encryption process to allow junior developers to use it despite a lack of any cryptography knowledge.

A demo version is available which allowed the customer to assess suitability and develop a useful product before ordering it.