As a growing business, you face some unique challenges.  Growth is good, but the stress it can put on your existing processes and technologies can quickly sour the victory.  You need to identify and implement smart improvements that fix your immediate problems and leave you room to continue to grow; and you need to do it with limited resources.

We partner with growing businesses to help them understand and address their growth problems.  Our team is vendor-neutral and familiar with a variety of technologies, including open source solutions, so we can provide your business with options to address growth, support, and cost concerns.

And if you do require custom development, we follow an agile, user-centric methodology designed to get it right the first time. 

Our Expertise

• Software troubleshooting
• Next step data management
• Architecture roadmaps and growth planning
• Vendor-neutral technology assessment or selection assistance
• Project management training for IT or business staff
• Open-source and off-the-shelf application integration

For more about this area, our team recommends

• Who wants to play Database Detective? (July 2010)
• To Access or Not to Access (February 2009)
• Disaster Recovery for Small Business (Main Line Association for Continuing Education,2005)

Sample Projects

• Implemented a Ross ERP system for a candy maker.  Integrated with ESHA’s Genesis Nutritional database, UPS’ Worldship, and Loftware software to print labels with nutritional information.  Implemented a web-based report viewer, which enabled their financial, manufacturing, and sales departments to access over fifty customized reports in a user-friendly and comprehensive fashion, streamlining their everyday office activities.
• Developed a custom software solution to support the processing of Professional Information Requests (PIR) for the skill center of a major pharmaceutical company. The application is used to route, track, and respond to PIRs, as well as compose, print, and store response letters that are sent to the requester. The application also serves as a document storage and retrieval system for reusable response letter content referred to as Standard Responses (SR).
• Provided an interim program director for a growing global medical affairs and research company.  Developed a program management framework, including appropriate job and role descriptions, templates, processes, and communications channels to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their delivery to their clients.