In 1987, they entered the home/business market via software for the Amstrad PCW, a CP/M based computer badged as a wordprocessor (plus some). This included various home/small business accounts packages, a spreadsheet program, various financial analysis tools, programming utilitie, and more games!

From 1990 onwards, they have concentrated on the bespoke software market, and have produced a broad range of business applications including a microfiche print management system, a drag-racing database, a small business bookkeeping program, an accounting package for a local-authority own recording studio, and a shoe last specification management system - amongst others!

In 1995, Arctan Computer Ventures became a limited company.

In 1999, they re-entered the commercial software market again with two applications aimed at technical users

	Excel2Ingres gives a quick and easy method to import, export, and play with data from an Ingres database from the familiar Microsoft™ Excel interface.
	LogAnalyser takes a log file produced by the Microsoft™ SQL Server trace program and gives SQL and User filtering and export facilities to help analyse what is happening in SQL terms on a database.

In April 2000, Arctan released their first PC-specific application for the general market - WordPuzzle Pro - Designed for use by puzzle creator and solvers. The full version includes advanced facilities such as output to HTML.

A Telnet program designed for automating tasks performed on remote computers will be available by September.

Ideas include:-

Future projects will be announced on the Arctan Computer Ventures Web Site.

The timescale for future releases of this product is available in the Enhacements section