About The NSC Group

The NSC Group has witnessed major changes during the past 40 years. Keeping current and adapting to the needs of today's businesses has ensured our continuing success.

A Brief History of NSC

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  • 1970
    NSC is formed to develop and market financial systems on a wide variety of hardware platforms.
  • 1978
    NSC open the first computer shop in Manchester (second in the UK).
  • 1979
    NSC is the first to develop a single source development platform, using a mini-computer to deliver to mainframes.
  • 1986
    NSC is the first to use 286 PC's to develop multi-client, multi-currency ledger systems for mainframes.
  • 1994
    Legacy Software Downsizing is formed to take advantage of the wealth of cross-platform expertise already within NSC and becomes the first to migrate legacy mainframe COBOL systems to a Unix environment, leaving the application unchanged.
  • 1995
    Legacy win an award for their unique migration service at the x/Open Software Industry Awards.
  • 1996
    Legacy begin a programme of recuiting university graduates and win again at the x/Open awards for the second consecutive year.
  • 2003
    NSC create a new Software Services division to deal with the increasing amount of bespoke development and consultancy work. The first contract is with Co-op Property to support and maintain their business-critical invoicing systems.
  • 2004
    Developed by NSC in partnership with Manchester City Council, The Manchester Landlord Information System (MLIS) is launched. Originally part of the multi-million pound East Manchester regeneration project, the system soon extends to cover all of Manchester. Work begins on a web-enabled version of MLIS.
  • 2005
    The web-enabled MLIS project transforms into a more generic and customisable product so it can also be used for Overseer, a contract cleaning management system.
  • 2006
    NSC Software Services launch ClubFace, a new website content management system for sports and social clubs.
  • 2006
    A new 'Foundation' project officially splits from the MLIS/Overseer project. The aim is produce a system that will generate a web-enabled user interface for any relational database.
  • 2007
    The Foundation project is renamed to 'BelleVue'. Northampton Borough Council are the first organisation to sign up for the system.
  • 2008
    DataNovata becomes the official name for the 'BelleVue' project. SSL International Plc are the second company to sign up.
  • 2009
    Yell sign a three year contract with NSC to support their Business File System, the driving force behind Yellow Pages, yell.com and 118 247.
 
 

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