The essence of field data capture is to provide the owners of the data, those who collect it, with the information they need to derive from the data through effective processing. Farm owners will want to pay workers based on hours spent on the job, weighments made in a day and the measure of such weighments, tasks completed etc. Researchers want the data collected analyzed through an application of their choice or in a customized format.

Whatever the case, the collection of the data is only the beginning of the valuable work. It would indeed be unnecessary to researchers if the data could be put in the desired format and theirs was left to be only querying and presenting the data, as their assignments may call for. Unfortunately there has not been a solution designed for that. Data processing requires well-designed applications which Octagon Data system specializes in doing. We also train developers who would like to develop a livelihood around our field data capture devices.

While our business provides other developers with the necessary tools to develop applications, those institutions that may need applications designed by the people who have spent enormous time designing and developing the devices for the field data capture in Africa will find Octagon a worthy partner.

We have developed a number of solutions to support the field data capture devices with the following features:
» MS Windows based
» High security multi-user client-server design
» Reliable data encryption algorithms for internet based communication
» Internet enabled to facilitate e-commerce
» Stored procedure concept
» Scaling among various operational platforms

We have developed a number of products with the features mentioned here. These include:
» The Greenleaf Harvester
» Microfinance management suite E-Finance
» Retail Outlet Management Information System (ROMIS) incorporating inventory    management
» Water Billing
» Productive Cooperative Management
» Data warehousing
» Production automati0on and factory processing