We started Reliance Microsystems as general IT consulting company, focusing on Networking, including Internet connectivity, and custom web-site design. Comprised of all of two people, we set out tackling jobs that intimidated larger companies, including a complete state-wide upgrade of an entire banking network’s computers within 30-days. Another was assisting a company after a merger had upset the original IT staff, which sabotaged the network on their way out, and we were able to restructure and regain control of everything within 2-weeks.

General Motors

As we started to gain traction, a partner software developer brought us in on a project for General Motors known as the GM Truck Town. It was an internal web application, then referred to as an Intranet Application, which had several components, each named after something automotive related. We were tasked with “The Depot”, which involved designing and building a 100% web based secure and departmentalized document sharing solution. Many would refer to this concept now as a well known website whose name rhymes with “BropDox”, however, in 1994, this was monumental.

Mercy Health Services (aka The Sisters of Mercy)

After our success with the Depot project, we were brought into another consulting project with the Mercy Health Services (also known as “The Sisters of Mercy”, a healthcare group in Farmington Hills. They had a project to turn their paper-based medical records system into a computer database, known as a Clinical Data Repository, and more importantly, to use a purely web-based user interface, again written as an Intranet Application, to be named Clinical WorkStation. Once complete, and after verifying that they had no desire to use this concept commercially, we reformed as Reliance Software Systems (RelWare) and began writing our own commercial Web-Based Clinical Data Repository, known as CDR-Web.

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