Company Profile

Destra Software Ltd is a small, independent software company registered in the UK since 1998. We offer a complete technical solution for customers requiring a web site built using Microsoft technologies. Complex web sites have been developed entirely in-house since 2003 and we specialise in development using the following technologies and products:

• Microsoft ® Technologies: Windows Web Server 2008, Windows 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Visual Studio 2008/2005/2003, C#, ASP.NET, .NET Framework 3.5/2.0/1.1, .NET User Controls, SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, T-SQL stored procedures, Microsoft Enterprise Library, Visio for web site maps, IIS, COM+, ASP and Access.

• Universal Web Technologies: XML, XSLT, XML-Schema, W3C XHTML1.1, CSS and Javascript.

• Other Technologies: Borland ® Delphi, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks.

• Complete software life-cycle: requirements analysis, design, implementation and system testing.

• Web sites are based on our own product, The Destra Platform. A Microsoft ® .NET Framework-based application which contains most of the technologies and generic routines which are required in a complex web site.

• A former customer Comada Ltd, described our 2005 product delivery as "outstanding software engineering" (see Project History).

Destra's managing director has the following professional background:

• M.Sc. Software Engineering (1992).

• Blue chip clients, IBM UK Ltd (1999).

• Eighteen years of software development experience, including ten years of Pascal/Delphi.

• Twelve years of web development experience, including eight years of C#/ASP.NET.

• Systems developed in a wide range of sectors - real estate, hedge funds, travel, defence and scientific.