innovation
noun [C or U]
(the use of) a new idea or method:
e.g. the latest innovations in computer technology

 How does Add-Innovation.co.uk Add Innovation ? 

• By maximising Information integration through Office Tools collaboration.
• By clarifying functionality through simple yet powerful presentation.
• By using the latest possible techniques and up to date tools.
• By considering all possible resources to hand.
• By adopting a broad range of presentation techniques to use the most appropriate and simple presentation for the data.

Some of the techniques and projects undertaken which demonstrate these facets of work ; 

• Implimenting a system which enables multiple documents to be shared via multiple users, loaded and ran through mainframe based micro simulation models, and the results returned to the same document sharepoint site.
• Minimising on system maintenance requirements by using pre-built system tools.
• Building macros to automatically recognise specific data in new emails received, and save that data in a formatted Excel spreadsheet.
• Setting up a distribution tool which pattern matches file names to email addresses and sends the right document to the right person.
• Productivity tools for MS/Office products.
• Producing skeleton tools which work against any data for tasks such as ; distribution analysis, statistical and relationship analysis, integrity analysis, and automated printing / report splitting tools.

Welcome to Add-Innovation. This site is brought to you by Charles Watson Consultants. Principally SAS programming and IT collaboration specialists, we aim to integrate technologies across all platforms and  operating systems to maximise the productivity of the IT resources you have.

Specific areas of expertise lie in analysing your business requirements through 15 years of commercial business to IT integration experience. Integrating this with your current working practices and IT infrastructure, or working with you to determine the best infrastructure for your requirements. Maximising the potential of this infrastructure to create the optimum IT system.

Often this has involved harnessing the power of your mainframe, summarising huge data sources to a level you can handle on your desktop PCs. Empowering you to do this by extending you mainframe emulator with tools to simplify this task and transfer this data to your desktop. Finally, enabling this data in a tool you readily understand and already use such as Microsoft Excel, and extending this tool to provide the functionality you really need.

Many parts of CWC's objectives are common to the regular mainframe, systems architecture, and business user. Each element of these users are encouraged to delve into each are and exploit their own area of expertise. Indeed, the area of expanding your current office tools has proved so useful within past projects that I have widened CWC's objectives to accomplishing the part as much as the whole.

This has led to the birth of add-innovation, and hence the many Excel Add-ins made available on this site. Many are free, and as a starting introduction, while the product is evaluated by our partners, a major one is available in the Excel Add-In Area.