Coherent Software, Cheltenham, VIC

Coherent Software started business in 1989, creating software to help small businesses compete more effectively. Our first product helped building estimators quickly and easily generate accurate estimates of materials requirements and costs. Since 1989 we have helped many small and medium businesses move parts of their workload away from busy people and on to the computer. Our software is customised to the needs of the client: we create different programs to solve different problems. Tasks our custom software applications now manage include automatically generating quotes and planning drawings from a set of requirements managing the tracking of orders booking freight companies and producing matching shipping documentation case and document management data validation and correction data analysis determining the cheapest shipping option managing tasks related to share trading simulations expert systems automatically generating a specification from requirements We are the developers of Bonsia ERP, an affordable Enterprise Resource Planning system for Australian small and medium business. Some of the software we created has been released under an open source licence. See our software projects list We also supply instructors for technical short courses . Coherent Software is currently based in Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia, a suburb in the south-east of Melbourne.