Company information - About phdcc

phdcc consultancy and e-media publishing tools and services

• Based in Cumbria, England UK, phdcc specialises in e-media publishing tools and services for CD, DVD and web developers.
• The company has a strong consultancy and custom programming background in software, hardware and system design for PCs and other hardware.
• phdcc's tools support a range of platforms using Windows and Java technology.
• Recent consultancy work has included Access and ASP ports to ASP.NET 2

phdcc history and ethos

• phdcc was formed as a partnership of consultants in the late 1980s and was established as a limited company in 1994, bringing together expertise from the software, telecommunications and medical fields.

• In addition to custom project services, phdcc has developed a range of e-media publishing products for CD/DVD authoring and web navigation.  Corporate clients have funded enhancements to these tools and typically find that phdcc solutions are more cost-effective than in-house development.  phdcc's close liaison with international clients has also ensured strong support for many Western and Asian languages.

• phdcc's products have a broad market appeal across all industry sectors, and have been used effectively by a wide range of utility, government, banking, advertising and new technology companies.

• phdcc is particularly proud of its quick response times for support requests, and have often produced new versions of software in a matter of hours.

• phdcc has an ethical preference to avoid harmful organisations such as the military, and actively encourages those with social and environmental benefits by offering price discounts.

Clients

• phdcc clients for its software and services include:
  • Accufix SA, France
  • ANSYS, Inc., USA
  • Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
  • BBC Technology, UK
  • Central Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust, a UK hospital
  • Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer,France
  • Cisco Systems, USA
  • Continental Airlines, USA
  • Cybernet Systems Co.,Ltd., Japan
  • Daimler Chrysler, Germany
  • Ecological Society of America, USA
  • Education Queensland, Australia
  • Employment Security Department, State of Washington, USA
  • E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., USA
  • European Patent Office, Austria
  • European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
  • Hewlett Packard, USA
  • Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa, Mexico
  • Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
  • Kongsberg AS, Norway
  • Lucent Technologies, USA
  • Merten Gibbon Associates Ltd, a UK advertising agency
  • Ministry of Transportation, Canada
  • Motorola, USA
  • Network Services Agency, a subsidiary of British Telecom, UK
  • Omega Engineering, Inc, USA
  • Oxfam, UK
  • Schlumberger, UK
  • Software AG, Germany
  • STMicroelectronics S.A., France
  • Telectronics Pacing Systems, Australia, USA, France and UK
  • The Patent Office, UK
  • United Nations, Office of Legal Affairs, USA
  • Universität Hamburg, Germany
  • Western Gas Resources, Inc., USA

Directors

• phdcc directors Chris Cant and John Cant hail from Edinburgh, Scotland.

• Chris studied at Cambridge University and has worked in the UK software industry since 1982.  He wrote the book Writing Windows WDM Device Drivers in 1999 - a best-seller for the publisher, translated into 3 languages.  Chris' photos and cards can be seen at farcloser.com. He also volunteers for conservation work with the RSPB, helps to moderate the Penrith and Eden Freecycle group, runs the Bampton and District Local History Society web site, and is a member of Penrith ACT transition town movement.

  Here's a random Space Browse virtual tour, one of Chris' other projects:
  
  Run your organisation's membership online at yourorg.org
  Identify Nature is a community that will help identify your finds in the natural world

  Chris' developer blog - he may twitter.

  
  

• John studied theoretical physics at St. Andrews University and UCLA. John claims to have written the first mouse driver for Unix, has worked as a consultant for Telectronics Pacing Systems in Australia, Europe and the USA and was instrumental in implementing British Telecom's electronic mail and conferencing system for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

Contact us

• Ask for a Temporary evaluation licence for dynamic-cd or findinsite
• Ask for a demonstration CD
• Ask about reseller terms and conditions
• If you like our software, please write a user review at independent web sites

If something's not right or could be improved, let us know. Many of the best ideas come from customer suggestions.