ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="favicon.gif"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Oak Focus Software About Page</title> <meta name="description" content="Information about Oak Focus Software and it's products" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Software Products QueryCell QuizNightChief CustomerCradle Download" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta name="Robots" content="noodp" /> <style media="all" type="text/css">@import "css/all.css";</style> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="js/PopupWindow.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT type="text/javascript" src="./highslide/highslide-with-gallery.packed.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./highslide/highslide.css" /> </head> <body> <!-- <div id="comic" class="comic"> <a href="./images/QueryCell_comic.gif" class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this)"> <img src="./images/QueryCell_comic_TN.jpg" style="border:none;width:220px;height:270px;" alt="Highslide JS" title="Click to enlarge" /> </a> </div> --> <div id="root-box"> <!-- root-box --> <div id="main-box"> <!-- main-box --> <div id="root"> <!-- root --> <div id="header"> <!-- header --> <a href="index.html" title="OakFocusSoftware">Oak Focus Software</a> </div> <!-- end header --> <div class="top-menu"> <!-- top-menu --> <ul> </ul> </div> <!-- end top-menu --> <h4> <div class="learn-main"> <!-- main --> <div class="learn-wide-box"> <br/> <h2 align="left"> <em style="color: #20688D;" class="QueryCell-text">Oak Focus Software Pty Ltd</em> is<br/> <table> <tr> <td align="center"> a Small Independent <br/><br/>Software Vendor (<A class="med-blue-href" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_ISV">MISV</a>)<br/><br/> based in <a class="med-blue-href" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra">Canberra, Australia</a>. </td> <td align="right"> <img style="width:240px;height:243px;float:right;" src="images/aus_canberra.jpg"/> </td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td colspan="2"> <p class="small-blue-text">A registered Australian Private Company. ABN 41 130 949 852</p> </td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td colspan="2"> <p class="small-blue-text">All enquiries to <a class="big-a-link" href="mailto:feedback@oakfocus.net">feedback@oakfocus.net</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td colspan="2"> <p class="small-blue-text" style="color: #20688D;">Based in Scullin Canberra 2614 email for mailing address<br/> PH : +61 415684234 (charges apply, email preferred)</p> </td> </tr> </table> </h2> <table style="border-top:1px solid #D27302;"> <tr><td><h2 align="left">Company</h2></td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> <tr><td><img style="float:right;width:278px; height:131px;" src="./images/Sam_And_Rach.jpg" alt="Sam and Rachael from Oak Focus Software"/></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" text-align="right">Sam and Rachael</td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #D27302;"> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> <tr><td><h2 align="left">Products</h2></td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> <tr><td>We have released a <a class="big-a-link" href="http://www.querycell.com">SQL in Excel</a> add-in called QueryCell, an application for organizing <a class="big-a-link" href="http://www.QuizNightChief.com">Quiz Nights</a>, <a class="big-a-link" href="http://www.customerCradle.com">CustomerCradle</a> and a <a class="big-a-link" href="http://www.HabitMix.com">daily checklist</a> tool called HabitMix.</td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> <tr><td><a class="big-a-link" href="http://www.querycell.com">QueryCell</a> is an Add-In for Microsoft Excel that allows the user to query using SQL within the Excel application itself.</td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> <tr><td><a class="big-a-link" href="http://www.QuizNightChief.com">QuizNightChief</a> is an all-in-one tool for the planning, playing, scoring and reporting of Quiz / Trivia nights.</td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> <tr><td><a class="big-a-link" href="http://www.CustomerCradle.com">CustomerCradle</a> is a software product that makes it a snap to record and report on how customers heard about the user's business. It gives them the facts they need in order to target their marketing time, effort and budget.</td></tr> <tr><td> <div class="learn-main"> <div class="highslide-gallery"> <a href="./images/Full/more_info.jpg" class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this)"> <img src="./images/thumbnails/QC.jpg" style="width:340px;height:270px;" alt="Highslide JS" title="Click to enlarge" /></a> <div class="highslide-caption"> QueryCell pane open in in Excel 2007 </div> <a href="./images/Full/Plan_Screen.jpg" class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this)"> <img src="./images/thumbnails/QNC.jpg" style="width:340px;height:270px;" alt="Highslide JS" title="Click to enlarge" /></a> <div class="highslide-caption"> Planning a Quiz in QuizNightChief </div> <a href="./images/Full/Screenshot1.gif" class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this)"> <img src="./images/thumbnails/CC.jpg" style="width:340px;height:270px;" alt="Highslide JS" title="Click to enlarge" /></a> <div class="highslide-caption"> Using CustomerCradle </div> <a href="./images/Full/HabitMix.jpg" class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this)"> <img src="./images/thumbnails/HabitMix.jpg" style="width:340px;height:270px;" alt="Highslide JS" title="Click to enlarge" /></a> <div class="highslide-caption"> Using CustomerCradle </div> </div> </div> </td></tr></table> </div> <!-- end full-box --> <br/><br/> <!-- <table class="about-table"> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr> <td><font class="orange-text">About Oak Focus Software</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Oak Focus Software released its first three software products <a class="big-a-link" href="http://www.querycell.com">QueryCell</a>,<a class="big-a-link" href="http://www.quiznightchief.com">QuizNightChief</a> and <a class="big-a-link" href="http://www.CustomerCradle.com">CustomerCradle</a> in 2009. </p> <p> <b>Founder: Sam Howley</b> </p> <div class="box-orange-block-border"> <p>"Some of out products grew out of frustrations I experienced firsthand.<br/><br/> <b>QueryCell</b> came about as it was frustrating not being able to use my SQL knowledge when dealing with data in Excel.<br/><br/> Something that I knew how to do very easily with a simple Select statement, Join or Group By in SQL would send me running for books and reference websites when using Excel.<br/><br/> I wanted the power of SQL in Excel.</p> <p><b>CustomerCradle</b> came about after I had a discussion with an advertising saleswoman who explained that the vast majority of small businesses she dealt with didn't record where their customers heard about the business. These business operators had no way of knowing what marketing strategies were paying off. We created CustomerCradle as a easy way for these businesses to measure their marketing results."</p> </div> <p> Sam has over 8 years professional experience developing software in addition to designing, administrating and using relational databases. In 2009 he took the plunge and started working full time on Oak Focus Software. </p> <p> <b>The Company</b> </p> <p> Oak Focus Software is, for the moment, a MISV, a Micro Independent Software Vendor. This term simply means it is a small start-up company. </p> <p> We are based in the capital City of Australia, Canberra. Naturally we try and not let all the political shenanigans and intrigue swirling around distract us from our mission of creating high quality software that makes your life easier. </p> <p> <b>Future Plans and New Features ?</b> </p> <p> All three products are under active development. </p> <p> New products are on their way. </p> <p> While we love <a class="big-a-link" href="Support.html">Feedback</a> and having a conversation with our users about how to improve our products we do not believe in "vaporware" and will not announce new features until they are near completion and almost ready to be released. </p> <p> At any given time customers are encouraged to make their purchasing decision based on current product features. We want happy customers and would not risk disappointing them by making promises we might not be able to deliver. </p> <p> <b>Interviews</b> </p> <p> Sam was lucky enough to be interviewed on the TechZingLive podcast on June 8th 2009. <a class="big-a-link" href="http://techzinglive.com/?p=36">TechZing Podcast</a> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <br/><br/> --> <table class="about-table-no-border-large-text"> <tr> <td> <div class="box-orange-block-border"> <p> " We are committed to creating high quality Software that makes your life easier " </p> <p> &nbsp;-&nbsp;Oak Focus Software </p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <br/> <img style="width:850px; height:1100px; margin-left:-60px;" src="./images/QueryCell_Comic.jpg"/> <div class="bottom"> <!-- bottom --> <ul> <li class="none"><a href="http://www.querycell.com">QueryCell</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.QuizNightChief.com">QuizNightChief</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.CustomerCradle.com">CustomerCradle</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="bottom"> <ul> <li>Copyright Oak Focus Software 20010 (All Rights Reserved).</li> </ul> </div> <!-- end bottom --> </div> <!-- end root --> </div> <!-- end main-box --></h4> </div> <!-- end root-box --> </body> </html>