About Us
Our Vision
Most of the information held in an organization is inaccessible - it's there, but you can’t easily see it. It’s held in the heads, the e-mail accounts, the documents and spreadsheets of the people who work there (or used to work there). Our idea is to make this information accessible and exploitable, helping people to run their businesses more effectively and make better-informed decisions.
Most business software is more complicated than it needs to be. On the other hand, when you email 10 colleagues with an attachment called sales_target_2007_v12_final_my_comments.xls, you know that collaboration by e-mail doesn't really work either. We think there is a better way: concentrate on simple and effective sharing of information.The wiki model is a good solution to this problem: shared, versioned, hyperlinked online documents in the form of an editable website. But online text documents are not enough: you need to store and analyze structured information too. With Swirrl we aim to combine the power of a database and the flexibility of spreadsheets with the features potential of a wiki.
Who are we?
Bill
Likes: Complex behaviour arising from simple rules, bicycles, cheese.Dislikes: People using big words when small ones will do.
Ric
Likes: When a plan comes together, snowboarding, shiny gadgets.Dislikes: The dog chewing my toes when I'm trying to think, public speaking.
Mitsu
Likes: Biting Ric's feet, digging holes, recursive lambda functions.Dislikes: Having my claws trimmed, Apache configuration files.
You can drop us an email at hello@swirrl.com, chat with us, or leave a message on our forum.