App Development

Technology is part of the fabric of modern business. It puts information at our fingertips. Unfortunately it tends to put too much information at our fingertips. Businesses are drowning in the stuff.

Prism, led by Chief Technology Officer Andrew Tait of Decision Mechanics Limited, uses technology to tame technology. With expertise in decision science, we can divine insights from formless oceans of data.

This is not mere data-mining. We design systems that analyze your data from the perspective of the decisions you need to make and then present the results in a form that’s directly relevant to your needs as the decision-maker.

We specialize in the design of web and mobile platforms, based on proven decision science concepts — such as, multi-criteria analysis, game theory, graph theory — to do the heavy lifting for you and to allow you to focus on the creative aspects of leading you organization into the future.

Prism is a certified Apple® developer.

Sample applications

• CohortTracker™ provides school district personnel with the information necessary to identify and intervene with students who are lagging or seriously at-risk and to ensure their successful graduation.
• Budget Playground is an iPad® app that allows school districts to create multi-year budget scenarios. They can then modify those scenarios in real-time to help boards of education agree to budgets that will be acceptable to district stakeholders.
• schoolbenchmarking.com uses a mathematical approach to pair schools with their best-in-class peers and provides tools and resources to help draw insights from these high performers.

Agile development

Our agile development approach that allows us to deliver focused, actionable, real-time information to educational decision-makers at all levels—and to do so in a in a matter of weeks, not months or years. Before you contract with a software development house, please call or email us for a free consultation. We just might save you a fortune.