About Us

Scandura.com is engaged in advanced software research with a core mission of making it easier to develop and maintain software.  Particular emphasis is given to software integration, automating human activity in software reengineering and intelligent tutor development and delivery systems.  

Scandura is a member of the IBM-led EECOMS project, a large research consortium including IBM, Boeing, TRW, and supported by the NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP) program.  Scandura's role in EECOMS was to develop new and better ways of developing complex distributed systems, with special emphasis on automated supply chains.  The company's e-business integration tools were independently field-tested by IBM and recently deployed by IBM at Boeing and TRW.  

Scandura.com has been in operation for over a decade, and never entered the mad rush to get rich quick that characterized many now defunct DOT COMs.  The Company has always been and remains financially sound -- with no debt.  

Scandura.com was founded by Dr. Joseph M. Scandura.  Dr. Scandura is a highly accomplished research scientist who has made significant contributions in computer science, psychology, mathematics and education.  He is internationally known for his pioneering work in structural learning -- a field devoted to uncovering the inherent structure underlying given knowledge domains.   He is widely published in software engineering and the cognitive and instructional sciences, and has authored over 200 scientific books, articles and advanced software systems.  In recent years, he has focused on automating cognitive processes in software engineering and intelligent tutors.  

Scandura.com also has had extensive experience in a broad range of software reengineering and development activities.  Although newly released, the Company's systems have been used successfully on large projects with profit margins exceeding 75% (e.g.,  to create automated language translators and custom reengineering tools) for organizations like MacDonald Detwiler and the U.S. Army.   In addition, Scandura has developed intelligent tutorial systems for companies such as Borg Warner Educational Systems (now Josten's Learning Corporation) and Queue, Inc. which market the products to home, schools and industry.  

As currently developed, software rarely reflects real world concepts.  This makes on-going enhancement difficult and costly as well as unreliable.  SoftBuilder allows non-programmers to play a more direct role in designing systems while making programmers more productive.  Involving domain experts in software design ensures that solutions meet real world needs.  While other  tool vendors can cost-effectively develop automated solutions only for broad-based needs, Flexsys empowers users to cost-effectively create their own custom tools as needed.  

AutoBuilder represents a whole new (patented) category of development system, one that guarantees the software you build will perform as specified.  This system is currently in early beta-test.  

The Company's development systems also been used intensively and exclusively in their own development, making the systems far easier to enhance and maintain other development systems.  The only other tool required has been a C++ compiler.  Most recently, these systems have been used to develop a new, fully automated commercialization system.  In addition to the usual database and web pages, this commercialization system includes a fully automated licensing, marketing and sales assistants along with an prospector for automatically developing new leads.  This system makes it possible for the first time to cost-effectively make these advanced products broadly available. 

Also released is a revolutionary new Intelligent Tutor Development System.  This system dramatically reduces development time and costs while guaranteeing optimized learning.