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When it comes to customer relationship management platforms (CRMs), there aren’t many popular industry-specific options for manufacturing companies.  When selecting a CRM, Manufacturers have a [...]

I’ve heard a lot about Low-Code over the past couple years. I actually wrote the post below about 10 years ago but never published it. Much of it still applies. My first project at [...]

Is DevOps Worth the Investment for Manufacturing Companies?   A little background. As a custom software development team, we often have (and prefer) long-term partnerships with our [...]

Custom-developed software is not always the best option. Seriously. And there are plenty of instances that we have turned down work that we didn’t believe would be a good fit for the customer. [...]

Do either of these situations sound familiar?   1) There’s one developer that’s been with the company for years. They’re not versatile or hardworking, but you can’t get rid of them, because [...]

The most successful inside sales managers are experts at tracking and assessing the performance of their sales team. They go beyond simply measuring a salesperson’s total sales volume. Top inside [...]

Predictive analytics is a term that refers to using machine learning to analyze business data and make predictions about future events. This is a powerful technique that is currently on the rise, [...]

Manufacturing is in the midst of its fourth industrial revolution. Experts are calling it Industry 4.0. This means that emerging technologies are helping to streamline business practices, which [...]

The number one priority for businesses large and small is meeting their sales targets.  For many of those companies, the problem is a disconnect between marketing and sales teams, one driven by [...]

Combining data and real-world locations through GIS technologies is a powerful way to gain customer and user insight. It tells businesses where to apply their resources, lets researchers discover [...]

Good software is reliable software. It rarely crashes or does strange things to the user. Making sure it’s reliable takes more than running the finished product through its paces. There are [...]

Software is useless without the customers that must use it. And if a customer can’t figure out how to interact with their new business application, say goodbye to repeat business. [...]

When selecting a software stack for a project we are about to engage in (i.e. a “stack”), we look at several main factors: Cost of Development Ease of Maintenance Quality of Platform [...]