Software Product Development – An Area Rich in Funding Opportunity
TSGI has extensive experience assisting companies with accessing SR&ED funding for software product development. Some of our clients are targeting application development software to the emerging field of Online Enterprise Information Systems. This software product development effort is built on the .NET platform, and access to the application development software by users is made through a standards compliant web browser. In the past, integration of new internet technologies into a marketplace channel management software system has been aimed particularly at the telecommunications industry, which is itself a highly technical and evolving environment. To succeed in their goals within this technical environment, companies undertaking software design and development frequently must use experimentation and analysis to continuously advance their own technology. Furthermore, application development software often is intended to be generalized in order for it to be used in industries beyond telecommunications. This initiative will also often require experimentation and analysis to determine how adaptable the algorithms, developed for the telecommunications industry, are to the generalized market channel picture.

Application Development Software –
How Does it Fit Into the Funding Program?
Application development software may have its core technological advances or intellectual property in software engineering or in the field of science that it is to be applied to, or in a combination of the two. In the second case, the software engineering may be simply the enabling technology and be included in the SR&ED project as a result of the necessity to achieve the core scientific or technological advances of the application development software.

TSGI Experience
TSGI, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada currently has clients engaged in, and has filed numerous IRAP and SR&ED claims in, software development.