Archive for July, 2008

Grow in a slowdown and reduce your headcount.

Whether this is part of your cost reduction strategy or not Business Process Automation is an important component in creating a leaner meaner fighting machine to weather the Recession storm that is now upon us and forecast to deepen.

How understanding your business rules can improve your profitablity

Rules are everywhere. In fact a good business is valued or accessed on its systems, policies and procedures. These can also be known as business rules.

Behind the iHYPE : Could iPhone be the new iBerry?

So I asked them, what does the iPhone do that my windows mobile doesn’t do? No one could really answer this in a way that I could consider definitive. Then, over my morning coffee Ray, our lead architect handed me his and said ” see for your self.”

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Another successful implementation for us and this time the customer is…. US! You know the old adage about plumbers with leaky taps, well our own CRM was a long time coming but well and truely worth the wait. I have used a number of CRM’s in my Sales career including the usual suspects such as [...]

Knowing When to Outsource Your Development Project.

As a software development company, we are mostly asked to either ‘boldly go where no other pre - existing solution has gone before’ or to assist start up companies to develop their idea and convert dreams into functionality.
In the later case, its often true to say that the project sponsor has developed the platform in [...]

The Key Ingredient…

When I talk to people who have successfully started a business and made profit, the same key questions always come to mind.
What have you learned along the way that you didn’t see coming?
To what do you attribute your success?
Some common themes emerge and I will share them with you now.

Things always take longer than you [...]