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Competence
In the twenty years of its existence SFR has been active in the field of relational data base systems. This means above all the creation of data structures as well as data administration and visualization. Normally we use different Windows-systems as environments. Back ends are SQL-Servers (Oracle, Microsoft, MySQL) as well as common relational formats (Access, Xbase, ...). By agreement the projects may be realized in different languages, e.g. in C/C++, Basic, Delphi (Pascal), or Java. Just a few examples of our projects:

User interface and control software for ticket vending machines with touch screen technology (C++, Visual Basic, Access).
Module for the configuration and operation of a protection and control device for high voltage DC feed-in as well as visualization and statistical analysis of all incoming data (Delphi, Visual Basic, proprietary data formats).
Different security solutions for Windows, Windows Mobile 2003 and PalmOS based on SFR's visual Key technology: and the encryption system Twofish (embedded C++, Delphi, Java, proprietary data formats).
Web solution for dynamic generation of a multiple language online product catalog with easy navigation functionality based on our cat4 technology (PHP, MySQL).
Production optimization solution with inferface to ERP and PPS using encrypted data transfer (SSL) and TCP communication based on our software framework SFR Building Blocks (Delphi, PHP, Oracle).

Customers
The majority of our customers are system manufacturers who combine software with proprietary hardware. SFR offers these customers the possibility to supplement their own know-how and the option to disburden their own team through outsourcing. The number of classical end customers for whom individual solutions are realized is slightly smaller.

Capacity
The typical project size is between 50 and 150 man-days. Bigger projects (up to 500 man-days) have been realized in the framework of an existing partner structure.

Please visit the pages of our partners:

MA&T Sell & Partner GmbH, Aachen
TIKTO Informationstechnologie GmbH, Schwerin

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History
SFR GmbH was incorporated in 1988. One of the founders and today's CEO is Winfried Schöttler. The formation was basically due to a product idea: dBü. dBü (DatenBank-Übersetzer = Data Base Translator) became a marketable product within two years. It is a tool which can translate programmes written in different Xbase dialects into the computer language C. Apart from the translator an expansive library with access routines for Xbase data tables and functions for display and input of data was developed.

Due to SFR's profound data base know-how there were from the beginning project inquiries and orders for individual programmes in addition to the product business. During the last years the project business was continually expanded. Today, the major part of SFR's turnover is earned in this segment.

Since February, 1997 SFR resides in a restored and adapted kiln house in the Hospeltstraße in Cologne, Germany. Here our team of developers works in different projects at individual solutions for our customers.

History

Publications
Several titles by Winfried Schöttler, co-founder and CEO of SFR, concerning data bases and object oriented programming have been published by Addison-Wesley / Econ and MITP.