Brown Paper Bag is a boutique solutions provider, creating innovative and effective web sites, applications and print media for valued long term clients.
Community Link is proud to be a partner of Brown Paper Bag. The partnership has been forged in the development of CSnet®, a web based case management system for community service organisations. The benefits, reliability and flexibility of CSnet® owe a great deal to the creativity and commitment of Rob Breuer, Glen Foley and Mark at Brown Paper Bag. These people are serious about binary intervention – what they can’t do with noughts and ones is not worth doing.
Incorporated as iWeb Solutions Pty Ltd, Brown Paper Bag has been operating for x years. The company offers a broad range of technical competencies and related applications and tools, as set out below.
| Competency | Related applications and tools |
| Issue identification and work systems analysis | Nil. This relies on use of serious human brain power |
| Database development | SQL Server, Access, Oracle, MySQL |
| Project management & documentation | Microsoft Project, Visio, Microsoft Office |
| Platform management and neutralisation | Windows XP/NT/2000, Linux, Apple Mac, Unix |
| Programming | ASP .Net, VB .Net, HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Jscript, ASP, Perl, PHP, COM and COM+, Visual Basic, XML |
| Graphic design | Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign CS, Macromedia Fireworks MX, Macromedia Flash MX, Macromedia Freehand MX, Macromedia Director MX, QuarkXPress 5.0 |
| Web development | Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Microsoft Visual Studio, Source Safe, Ultra Edit |
| Report generation and writing | MS Reporting Services, Crystal Reports, Adobe PDF |
| Web server maintenance | IIS 4.0 & 5.0, Index Server, SSL, Apache Web Server |
The technical skills outlined above are underpinned by fast and effective research skills, that enables Brown Paper Bag to deal with unexpected issues and questions that inevitably arise in complex development processes.
Finally, and importantly, there is a strong alignment of personal and business values between Community Link and Brown Paper Bag, that makes us ideal partners. Set out in a formal partnership agreement, Brown Paper Bag has a direct financial and professional interest in the success of Community Link’s software applications.
As a tribute to the strength of the partnership, we have taken the brown paper bag off, so you can see the faces of the men behind the masks.
For a more detailed profile of the company and its clients, visit the Brown Paper Bag website.