Its principal product development and consultancy activity is based in Aberdeen. It has a specialised IT support service, Pisys.net based in Swansea. Its Houston office serves the needs of its US and S. American clients. Pisys Digital are based in Oldmeldrum developing digital pen & paper solutions for a worldwide client base. It also has a successful Educational products division - Pisys Education, which provides performance management solutions to schools and colleges.

From its origins in the North Sea oil industry Pisys has developed extensive experience of creating mission critical software capable of operating reliably in harsh environments - our software is robust, user friendly and leading edge.

Lured into reading a Financial Times piece written in 2005, on life and death decisions on an oil rig, one will stumble onto the "one reason Peter Henderson (right) and Ray Allen, co-founders of Pisys, are quietly optimistic their small Scottish software company will receive more orders for the simulator it helped invent."

In a variant of the back-of-a-menu startup, "The idea that Transocean needed the big white box first came from a “bunch of marine and drilling guys” who scribbled it on the back of a pack of cigarettes in the cafe on board the Transocean Explorer rig in the North Sea. Pisys won the bid to build the simulator and this year (2005) received their first order to recreate it."

But Pisys has come a long way in its last five years. Web browsing will find you Pisys Ltd, Pisys.net, PiSys Digital Ltd and the intriguing PiDO or dropped object oriented risk prevention which has its own website (another neat little PiSys trademark)

Dropped objects oriented project:
Helps prevent dropped objects anywhere a risk exists. Presents large volumes of data in an easily understood format Tracks inspections, stores photos/documentation and raises and manages actions relating to potential hazards.

Location maps specific to your asset allow overview of high risk areas.
Visibility of risks by centralising data in an easy to understand format
Web based system - removes IT support and data management issues. 

Any of this sound familiar?
'Inspections have revealed the frequent presence at height of equipment that is not in use... this involves a considerable risk potential'
 
'Securing hanging hoses, in particular jet water hoses, presents a safety problem'

'..there have been several serious incidents where rollers have worked loose and fallen onto the deck'
  
'Many instances have been discovered of loose nuts and bolts in the joints and fastenings of cable ducts' 

[ComputeScotland even offers that a Glasgow restaurant with a large two story high atrium which has been known to occasionally to drop cutlery from on high onto lunchtime customers, might find this useful too!]

In February this year, software and services firm, Intelliscan, spun off its marine division into a new company called Pisys Marine Ltd, acquired by the Aberdeen-based Pisys Group. The two directors of Intelliscan  Jonathan Shapiro and Andrew Kings agreed on a ‘share swap’ deal which has seen the company separated into two focused organisations, independently run by each director, allowing them to concentrate on their primary interests. 

Jonathan Shapiro became majority shareholder of Pisys Marine in partnership with the Pisys Group. Pisys Marine will retain all the existing business of the former Intelliscan marine division serving over 300 customers in 25 countries. The original marine team will remain intact in the new business that is headquartered in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire.

Pisys Marine continues to develop and sell licences of its software which enables electronic versions of Admiralty Charts and other maritime data to be used inside standard desktop geographic information systems.

Their main supplier, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO), which produces the worldwide Admiralty Charts has transferred the contracts of supply and development from Intelliscan to Pisys Marine.

 The deal came almost a year after Pisys acquired Intelliscan’s digital pen division to create Pisys Digital Ltd. Pisys has 22 years experience of developing and delivering software for a diverse range of commercial sectors, including the energy, education and health industries.

Interested in training simulators, from laptop based portable systems to fully immersive motion platform based systems; or if you want to track management actions or if you merely want to be safe from dropped objects PiSys system oriented webs could provide your answers.

Oops, nearly missed one!

PiSys sophisticated and complex catenary analysis WynCAT, developed with Petrofac, mentioned in MarineTalk  and also at Synetica.