Hammond Jobbing Development House
BACKGROUND
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Hammond Jobbing Development House, commonly referred to as 'Hammond JDH', is a registered business in New South Wales, Australia [ABN 62 754 585 336]. Originally founded as Belgelei Enterprises in 1973, later became Hammond and King, and in 1995 adopted the current name.
Initial activity was hardware related, designing and supplying special purpose equipment on Government contracts. In the early eighties logic based solutions became clearly more cost effective using software techniques, and the transition from hardware to software technology followed.
Activity for many years was focused on providing commercial organizations with effective methods to utilize new technology. A major example of this was the MANPLAN manufacturing planning system developed for organizations running mainframe MRP systems. Such systems provided masses of data detailing the problems resulting from the planned production, generally after it was too late to respond, and of no assistance to devising solutions for such problems.
MANPLAN provided macro analysis and planning of complex manufacturing systems, saving significant cost, and more importantly the ability to meet customer commitments, and this before the organization's resources were irrevocably committed.
The advent of CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) also saw a major gap between the system house offerings and the "real world" needs of users. This was particularly expensive for users in the translation of CAM output into effective capacity planning, and the handling of "exceptions" such as data loss, machine breakdowns, and so on. MANSIM was developed enabling real world manufacturing simulation to applied to CAM, an in particular alternate processing options analysis to circumvent unexpected problems.
In addition to manufacturing systems, activity also covered a wide variety of areas including activities such as effective property management for real estate. Most have been single user specific and are covered by non-disclosure agreements.
The JDHEncrypt encryption product was initially a customer driven requirement for a security solution that abided by the "rules" of good security practice, and could comply with company security policies. In particular the need to transfer large documents / data on a secure one to one basis, with distinctly different security requirements to general transaction processing. The administrative functions necessary in maintaining such security was often an additional service provided in this niche market.
In 1998 JDHEncrypt received an award from the German Government's "Bundesministerium für Bildung Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie".
Interest then evolved into adopting an alternative security approach, namely to completely conceal the existence of a document. This avoids it being found and the embarrassing questions over what is being hidden behind the encryption. This led to the release of JDHEmbed. A key strength of the product is its extreme simplicity of use without sacrificing functionality. The German computer magazine "PC Welt" gave it a 4 out of 5 points rating with its release on the German market.
Photime is the latest product release, addressing problems experienced by digital photographers. This as usual has been driven by the demand for solutions to "real world" problems in areas neglected by the major vendors.
Issue date: December 2007
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