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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 [...]

Microsoft’s new perspective on open-source has been beneficial because they now include jQuery (an open-source JavaScript library) and Bootstrap (a CSS and Javascript based theme framework) out [...]

Through the years, there have been a variety of different approaches to software development. One of the most popular has been the waterfall model, which emphasized strict planning of all tasks. [...]

At Unstoppable Software, we try to stay current with software industry trends, but we are aware how easy it is to fall in love with the “new technology stack du jour.”  While many new frameworks, [...]

AngularJS makes it easy to migrate an existing Classic ASP to ASP.NET MVC without a total rewrite! There are so many technology options these days and multitudes of trendy Web Frameworks – [...]

Most people are aware that computers are getting even smarter, but they’re probably not familiar with how frequently artificial intelligence is used. Today, we will look at Machine Learning and [...]

We work on a wide variety of projects at Unstoppable Software. It’s great for us because it keeps us on our toes. And our clients are happy because they know we can handle almost anything they [...]

We all know the situation – you’re working on a technology project, and while it would be great to do something the “right way”, time and budget constraints force you to take a shortcut, [...]

A lot of people probably have heard the IT guy in their company mention a “data warehouse” before, but exactly what is a business data warehouse? The easiest way to put it is there are [...]

When a business looks at creating an information dashboard, there are two main options: either create a custom dashboard from scratch, or purchase a 3rd party tool and design your dashboard using [...]

As a student of human workflow systems, I was intrigued a while back to read about Chipotle’s investment of millions of dollars in new “burrito heaters” that heated the tortillas in half the time [...]

In the realm of rich internet applications, Adobe has been the leader for quite some time with their Flash platform. However, Flash has seen very little use inside of major corporations for [...]

Someone sent me a link to an interesting use of data for a hospital data visualization today – the Detroit Medical Center’s Emergency Room wait time dials. There are a few things that I [...]

In my last post, I spoke about the importance of actionable data to a business intelligence dashboard for your company.  In this post, I’ll address another key aspect that’s needed for a [...]

When your company has a great deal of paper that it needs to convert into electronic form, one problem that often rears its head is how to properly index the documents so they end up in the right [...]

When developing software, there are three main options you have when it comes to coding a feature. They are: Hard-coded, Parametric, or Soft-coded (this term was invented by the guy who runs the [...]

If you’ve worked around software engineers before, you probably have heard them talk about things such as “source control”, “object-oriented design”, or “Agile project management”.  If [...]

Over the last several years we have witnessed increasing corporate adoption of the Internet. Following that same time frame has been another interesting phenomenon – the expansion of Application [...]

Introducing Databases and Web Applications When Excel files store critical data or business process logic, they need to be treated with care. Likewise, the loss of a document, data corruption, or [...]

“In the past 25 years, many of you have discovered some truly inventive uses for Excel.” This quote is from an email I received from Microsoft celebrating 25 years of Excel use.  I have to admit, [...]