Company

History

Bill Wolfe and Rick Hopper founded Software Sciences Group Inc. in early 1993. Both founders had worked for Cincom for many years in various client services roles prior to forming SSG. Bill remains managing partner today.

SSG's primary work in its first few years was to act as a contractor to Cincom's CONTROL: development group. In this capacity, SSG people participated in or led several important projects, including development of extensive functional enhancements in the Order Management System (OMS) module, development of the Power User GUI, and testing/QA for many other enhancements.

Although SSG has continued to work with Cincom development, in the mid-1990's SSG started to do more work for Cincom customers, helping to implement, use, and extend CONTROL: applications as well as other applications developed with Supra and Mantis.

Over the past few years, SSG activity has grown steadily with both Cincom and customers. With Cincom, SSG has worked on projects to develop:

  • The Oracle version of CONTROL:
  • The Y2K features in release 7.5.1
  • The upcoming web-based version of CONTROL:

With Cincom customers, efforts have included numerous projects to:

  • Retrofit Y2K capabilities to earlier versions of CONTROL:
  • Implement CONTROL:, including conversion from other packages
  • Implement new capabilities such as the Product Configurator
  • Upgrade from older versions of CONTROL: to newer releases
  • Act as contracted DBA and system administrators
  • Develop custom extensions, enhancements, and integrations

Today, SSG continues to assist Cincom in various development activities while helping a growing number of Cincom customers better utilize the CONTROL: applications. Our combination of end-user and product development activity gives us a unique perspective that has proven to be valuable to the full range of our clients.