OERCA lets zoological institutions improve the lives of marine mammals

Richard Rabins

The Alpha development team: the secret sauce behind Alpha's success

If you ask the developers at Alpha Software what the most rewarding part their job is, they will invariably say one thing - seeing the desktop, web and mobile application development tool they created, Alpha Five, being used effectively to make companies and organizations more productive and competitive. Even more exciting is when they see Alpha Five used as the enabler for entrepreneurs to start new companies quickly and cost effectively!

An excellent example of this is OERCA, a full spectrum zoological management system that enables institutions to improve the lives of marine mammals. OERCA was built from scratch for one purpose: to meet the specialized information needs of the marine mammal community, from field operations to daily zoological management, all in a secure, complete and easy-to-use system. More information is available here and a brochure is available here.

OERCA is more that just an animal record keeping database. It is a full-spectrum, portable and fully customizable application. Taking advantage of the mobile application development capabilities in Alpha Five v11, OERCA is designed to be used by workers in the field with tablets, as well as personnel in the office using laptops and desktops to manage the daily operations of a zoological facility. See the many things OERCA can do!

A short video highlighting OERCA's capabilities:

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Richard Rabins

Co-founder of Alpha Software, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.

The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.