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Software Engineering

smarter systems, full stack

Industrial software engineering that connects operations, equipment, data, and people. Prism designs and supports business-critical applications, integrations, data platforms, and intelligent workflows for complex operating environments.

Core competency in software engineering since Prism's founding

Proven experience with highly-integrated, complex solutions

35+ Years implementing full Software Development Lifecycle projects

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Development expertise backed by integration experience

Prism Systems brings together software development, industrial automation, controls engineering, systems integration, and operational experience. That combination allows us to solve problems involving more than a screen and a database.

We understand that software does not exist in isolation. Our clients benefit from a team that understands both the technology and the operating environment where that technology has to perform.

Unlike firms that treat software as an extension of controls integration, Prism began with a software-engineering foundation and applies disciplined architecture, design, testing, and lifecycle practices to operational systems. We use disciplined software engineering practices (UML, Agile teams, SDLC) to architect your systems the right way from the start, rather than just deploying one or two tools.

WHAT WE DO

Customized Solutions

Solve repeat problems unique to your business needs - from visualization to automation.

.NET • C# • C++ • SQL • Linux • Microsoft Azure • Modern Web Frameworks • Offline-Capable Applications

System Integrations

ERP / MRP / MES interfaces, lab-equipment integrations, custom dashboards, and more.

ERP • MRP • MES • Laboratory Systems • Process Historians • PLC Data

Apps, packages and platforms built for standardization.

Customer Toolkits

Web • Desktop • Mobile • Cloud • Portals • APIs

OT-IT Bridge

Extend SCADA and HMI packages with SDKs, middleware, and more.

SCADA • HMI • OPC UA • MQTT • Industrial Protocols

Emerging Systems

Cutting-edge work from IIoT and edge computing to agentic workflows and reinforcement learning.

IIoT • Edge Computing • Retrieval-Augmented AI • Agentic Workflows

Domain Coverage

Deep experience in computer vision, environmental reporting, logistics, and more.

Computer Vision • Data Engineering • Reporting • Analytics

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Since 1989, we've helped power the world's most ambitious systems - and the teams that run them.

Deep technical competency

We build applications that help organizations collect better information, reduce manual work, connect disconnected systems, and make day-to-day operations easier to manage. 

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Agentic AI and intelligent workflows with built-in accountability.

For document-heavy, data-heavy, and process-heavy work, emerging Artificial Intelligence tools can transform the way decisions are made. 

 

Prism applies AI where it provides practical value: searching internal documents, summarizing information, assisting with reporting, and guiding users through complex workflows. Agentic systems can streamline multi-step processes, interpreting production information, reviewing exceptions, and helping teams act on data faster. Our focus isn't AI for its own sake. Instead, we help clients see where AI fits, where traditional automation is the better answer, and how to keep people in control of the decisions that matter.

 

For business-critical environments, auditability and traceability is paramount. Prism designs AI systems with role-based access, source references, audit trails, approval workflows, and clear limits on what the system can do - especially when it's working with customer, production, quality, or financial data. 

 

The result is a governed business tool instead of an unmanaged experiment, assisting employees while judgment and final decisions stay where they belong.

A better foundation for reporting, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Before an organization can trust dashboards, analytics, automation, or AI, it has to trust the data. Prism helps clients collect, organize, clean, and connect data from production systems, ERP/MRP platforms, SQL databases, spreadsheets, business applications, IIoT devices, edge systems, and other operational sources.

 

We design data structures and data flows that make information easier to use. This may include database design, edge-to-cloud data pipelines, validation rules, reporting models, integration services, secure access controls, and data models that support both real-time visibility and historical analysis.

 

A strong data foundation helps reduce manual reconciliation, improves reporting accuracy, and makes future automation and AI projects more effective.

Bring industrial data closer to where decisions are made.

Industrial operations increasingly depend on data from machines, sensors, control systems, production lines, and remote assets. Prism helps organizations collect, process, and use that data through practical Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and edge computing solutions. Instead of sending every data point to a central system, edge solutions process information closer to the equipment, reducing latency, improving resilience, and supporting local decisions when connectivity is limited.

 

Before any of it can be trusted, the data itself has to be. Prism helps clients collect, organize, clean, and connect data from production systems, ERP/MRP platforms, SQL databases, IIoT devices, and edge systems — through database design, edge-to-cloud pipelines, validation rules, and reporting models that support both real-time visibility and historical analysis.

 

That foundation feeds dashboards, business and manufacturing intelligence, analytics, automation, and AI — helping teams monitor production, track quality, measure performance, and see where operations can improve.

Better records, powerful insights, and easier audits that evolve with your needs.

Manufacturing and business operations generate valuable data every day, but it's often scattered and hard to act on. Prism brings it together through dashboards, reports, data models, and analytics that help teams monitor production, track quality, measure performance, identify trends, review exceptions, and understand where operations can improve. The goal is to make important information easier to see, easier to trust, and easier to act on.

 

Where quality and traceability requirements apply, that same discipline produces better records and easier audits. Prism develops software that captures records, enforces workflows, and maintains visibility across production - inspections, lot and material tracking, nonconformance and corrective-action workflows, document control, approvals, and audit preparation. Replacing disconnected spreadsheets with structured software improves consistency, reduces errors, and makes critical information easy to find when it matters.

Secure cloud, web, mobile, and portal applications

Prism develops cloud and mobile software for internal teams, customers, vendors, and connected operations, with appropriate access control, dependable data storage, and clear integration paths to your other business systems.

 

Working within the ecosystem you already own often reduces complexity and strengthens security. We have deep experience in developing secure web applications, SharePoint-connected workflows, Azure-hosted systems, SQL-based reporting, identity-integrated portals, and edge-to-cloud data pipelines.

 

When the right people need secure access, Prism builds customer, vendor, and employee portals for document exchange, project status, order and quote information, service requests, and quality records — each giving users a clear place to go, a clear action to take, and access only to what they're authorized to see. And when work happens on the go, mobile applications bring those systems to the point of work with barcode and RFID/NFC scanning, mobile dashboards, role-based screens, and offline-capable data capture, integrated with existing databases, equipment sources, and ERP/MRP systems. 

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PWStats

Network analysis & visualization

PWStats is a cross-platform desktop application for analyzing wireless network performance.

Live telemetry, GPS and multi-path operations, industrial protocols, and network reachability - in real time, or from PCAP playback.

Windows · Linux · macOS

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Software built to last.

Software that runs your operation has to outlast the project that created it.

 

Prism builds it that way from the first step, starting with a Functional Design Specification (FDS) that documents how the current system works and exactly what the new one will do. Combined with an agile, collaborative approach and attention to security, maintainability, and documentation, the result is software clients can trust, operate, and improve for years rather than replace.


We engage on your terms. Prism can take a project from concept to commissioning as a full contract build, supplement your team with software developers and engineers for short- or long-term work, or provide ongoing support, maintenance, and enhancement once a system is live — including after-hours and emergency technical support when operations can't wait.

 

Business processes change, and software should grow with them. However you choose to work with us, the goal is the same: protecting your investment and keeping business-critical software useful well beyond launch.

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Handle multiple scopes at once

complementary strengths

Rather than piecing together off-the-shelf tools like many integrators, we architect holistic solutions across multiple scopes - a control panel built, software tying the system together, a network to support it all - and deliver it in one stop.

Get in Touch

Have a software, data, integration, or modernization challenge?

Tell us what process, system, or operational problem you are trying to improve. Our software engineering team will review your needs, discuss practical options, and help identify the right next step.

Whether you need to develop a new application, connect systems, modernize an existing platform, improve reporting and data access, or explore a responsible use of AI, we are ready to help.

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