About Us
Systemik Solutions works with research organisations and cultural institutions to design and deliver researcher workbenches and data-driven publishing systems.
Systemik Solutions is a platform development and digital content consulting group. Founded in 1995, the company specialises in the design of research workbenches and digital publishing platforms. Over more than three decades, Systemik has delivered more than 480 projects across finance, government, and academia, engaging over 250 specialist contractors. This experience has produced disciplined consulting and project-management practices and a strong record of delivering complex systems on time and on budget.
Our Team
Systemik is led by founder and director Ian McCrabb with chief technologist Yang Li. Isobel Andrews leads design and implementation consulting. The company operates with a core team of full-stack developers, supported by a long-standing network of contract designers and developers, and specialist collaborators contributing research domain expertise.
Our Clients
Systemik was originally established to support content publishing and process digitisation in the finance and manufacturing sectors. As public-sector digital transformation accelerated, our services expanded to include large-scale content migration and analysis of content corpora. Since 2020 our primary focus has been the development of open-source research platforms and web publishing environments for humanities research. Selected clients include:
Australian National University
Australian Research Data Commons
Power Institute, University of Sydney
Sydney Informatics Hub, University of Sydney
University of Melbourne
University of Newcastle
University of NSW
University of Sydney
University of Washington, Seattle
Wilfrid Laurier University
Research
Systemik maintains a sustained dialogue between digital humanities research and emerging computational technologies. Since its founding, the company has emphasised experimentation with new technologies while integrating stable mainstream tools capable of supporting sustainable scholarly infrastructure. Our platforms are developed in collaboration with researchers and grounded in scholarly research workflows integrated with generative AI methods. Areas of collaboration include philology, linguistics, cultural and historical studies, art practice, mapping, and image analysis.
Technology
Systemik develops using an open-source technology stack and delivers platforms as software-as-a-service with API access. The PerformX® suite of publishing products has long served clients in finance, manufacturing, and government. Its current form, PerformX® Content Workbench, provides structured content transformation and migration to the Drupal open-source content management environment. In 2022 Systemik launched Codifynd, a platform integrating AI cognitive services and data visualisation for the analysis of large document collections. In 2024 Systemik launched Glycerine, a IIIF-based annotation framework supporting collaborative scholarly image analysis and publication of non-traditional research outputs.
Consulting
Systemik applies established corporate IT consulting methodologies to research infrastructure and digital platform development. Since 1995 the company has delivered more than 480 consulting projects, engaging over 250 specialist contractors to date across finance, manufacturing, government, and the humanities research sector. Projects have ranged from targeted advisory work to large development teams. Our corporate Performance Mapping methodology for structured content systems has been adapted for digital humanities as Research Platform Mapping, providing a systematic framework for designing robust platforms that support scholarly workflows and contemporary research outputs.
