Clients could also visit the head or branch offices to submit their jobs personally or have them accepted and supervised by the production department.
They covered a range of disciplines: electronics, management science, integrated survey and statistical, integrated cluster analysis, segmentation analysis, simulation, financial planning, production planning and control systems, civil and structural engineering, finite element stress analysis, box girder bridge design, highway engineering, business systems, business data processing, database management and many others.
Applications covered included invoicing, sales ledger, sales analysis, stock control, bill of material processing, library information retrieval and a wide range of database implementations characterised by the need to store quantities of data and to retrieve from it in a number of differing ways.
Production scheduling, warehouse siting, cash flow modelling and survey analysis are typical applications.
Developed and maintained the TFA suite of programs for transportation planning studies and provided consultancy services.
Many of the ground-breaking ideas[peacock prose] developed at SIA were incorporated in Control Data's later systems.