We can assist at any stage, from the conceptual planning, right through to the maintenance of a working system. Precious time and money can be wasted on poor system design or inappropriate analysis techniques. At Pacific ESI, we find that our advice has helped clients to maximize productivity whilst minimizing their cost.

As part of ESI's network of companies, with offices world-wide, we are able to obtain additional support for your project via access to state of the art technology from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

There are several departments within the company, each with their own speciality, but all intricately tied together to maximize the benefit of their particular field of expertise.

Software and Hardware Systems: Pacific ESI is there to help you, the technical computing professional, with our range of high performance and leading edge computing solutions. Our speciality is the upgrading of systems, whether this be to extract higher performance or enable greater capacity, to extend the life of a system, or simply to obtain more cost effective solutions.
Technical Consulting and Support: Good quality computer systems need quality support, either for day to day operation or for critical situations, and Pacific ESI is there to help. With support solutions for your system and the way it runs such as tailored system management utilities or custom device drivers, you get a robust system that does what you want! We also handle all aspects of hardware maintenance for the systems we sell to ensure a very high level of uptime.
Engineering and Technical Applications: In the fields of structural, geotechnical, mechanical, mechanical, naval and aeronautical engineering, our team of engineers consults in areas as diverse as the stress/strain behavior of materials or the dynamics of fluids. Projects range from the fracture of rocks, the crash behavior of modern modes of transportation, the forming of thin metal sheets, or even the the behavior of structures subject to cyclonic wind loads.
Database and Information Systems: Successful decision making and control depends on an organization's ability to efficiently and flexibly manipulate large messages of information. Pacific ESI has developed general purpose accounting systems, membership systems, professional services time costing, billing and receipting systems, as well as road pavement maintenance systems and a drawing archival system suitable for local councils. Pacific ESI has even designed and implemented special purpose languages and translators as the most effective solutions to certain tasks

With a wealth of both programming expertise and real world experience at using other's and our own software, and a capability in systems integration second to none, Pacific ESI has the knowledge and skills to help solve your technical computing problems. However, at Pacific ESI, we never lose sight of the people based input that needs to go into any computerised system for proper functionality.

Thought, Analysis, Design, and Final Product
While the four main areas of Pacific ESI's organization are very much in evidence to the client base, it is the horizontal integration of the component tasks that actually show up in day to day operations. This stems from the multidisciplinary approach used to solve problems within the company.

In many problems, if the hardware is not satisfactory, given software will simply not perform. Then again, if the information is not managed correctly, a technical problem becomes a nightmare to solve. An economic data system with incorrect mathematical modelling will simply not produce the correct results. Where information has comes from sources outside ones own domain and the communications aspect has been incorrectly handled, any results are probably worthless.

Pacific ESI has the expertise to overview the problem from its many perspectives and bring the right combinations of people and resources together to solve the problem at hand. If the pieces of a puzzle do not fit together, you have not solved it.

Relational Database Technology
Probably the most common thread these days through business and technology is the storage and retrieval of data. Pacific ESI has been heavily involved with this problem from its inception and has actively pursued the application of relational database technology to the solution of this problem.

Whether the data is a graphical or pictorial image, financial transactions and accounts, shape and behaviour pattern data from engineering analyses or CAD applications, more and more we are seeing RDBMS technology being used here and Pacific ESI has been at the forefront of this technology. It has produced several large applications using this technology. It carries the source for its two prime databases, UNIFY & DAMES, for highly responsive and detailed support and consulting activity in the use of these tools, has also been actively involved in consulting in several of the other more popular databases.

The People Interface - Menus & Graphics
With the emphasis of todays software moving to graphical and user oriented interfaces, Pacific ESI's expertise in graphical and visual representation of data is being called on more and more as people realize its benefits in terms of people productivity.

This applies from such areas as simple and effective screen and menu based interactive systems which lead non technical users through a task, business graphics for concise and precise display of masses of numbers, display of engineering and technical data for visual verification, through to CAD applications and multiwindowing applications which can simply not be done any other way due to the sheer volume of information that has to be presented and accessed concurrently to be comprehensible.

4 and 5 GLs and Artificial Intelligence
With users wanting more interaction and control over their data, Pacific ESI are being called on more and more for the use of fourth generation languages and rule-based logic and interpretation in software designs, something that will definitely start to expand over the next decade.

This spills over into artificial intelligence programming with languages such as Lisp and Prolog, the so called fifth generation languages, and an even more important reliance on effective database handling and accurate data modelling - again going back to some of the areas just referred to earlier.

Mathematical Modelling
In areas as diverse as economics, accounting, engineering analysis and high level technical problems such as geophysics and materials analysis, if the mathematics is not correct, the answers will be meaningless. A lot of effort at Pacific ESI goes into ensuring the correct mathematical modelling of a given problem.

This consideration arises in project scheduling and other operations research problems, statistical and probabilistic econometric and financial models, increasingly complex taxation and monetary return accounting calculations, complex engineering dynamics calculations, high technology and composite materials modelling, even the mathematics of rules for the visual representation of data, to name a few.

All the time never loosing sight of the practical end result!