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Small Change - Big Impact |
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Written by Beth Leipold
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 02:53 |
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Not too long ago, we were able to help one of our customers with their order acknowledgment process. They were receiving orders via email, putting that information into one of their systems, running a batch file process at night, then going through some internal processing before they could finally generate an acknowledgment back to their customer. Phew! This was taking between 24 and 48 hours.
In very simple terms (because that's the way I think), we installed an interface (enterprise service bus) to pull details from the email directly and generate an acknowledgment in 7 seconds. We like to share this example as one of our success stories. It's pretty easy to understand what we did, and very easy to see how it impacted our customer's business. The company did not eliminate a position because of this change, but it does allow some very key people in their organization to spend their time doing more value-added activities instead of re-entering data from one system to another. We wouldn't say that what we do is rocket science, but we do help our customers discover little changes that can be made to a business process that can have a big impact. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 07 March 2009 00:58 |
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Written by Beth Leipold
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Thursday, 19 February 2009 09:40 |
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Last week, Erich attended the Cleveland Java Users Group Meeting in Independence. Last night, he attended the MySQL Users Group Meeting. He enjoyed both meetings immensely. He even shared some new developments in the MySQL world with Dan and I this afternoon regarding partitioning. This may come in handy for some of the web apps we've developed. I'm going to post links to both User Groups websites for future reference. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 07 March 2009 00:43 |
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The Little Nougaty Center |
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Written by Beth Leipold
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Friday, 13 February 2009 04:10 |
At evosolutions, our "products" are solutions. This morning, we were meeting to review the status of a web application that we are re-writing from PHP to a JAVA platform. Not only do we want to stabilize the application with JAVA because it's becoming a little monster of an app, but we are adding enhancements to make it more user-friendly for our customer to manage and we'd like to remarket it as a stand alone product.
During our meeting, one of the inner workings of the application we were discussing I thought was so cool, and currently functioning, that I thought it was something that needed to be shared with the world (or whoever is reading my blog).
Part of the new application is a common interface that can service payment processing with several merchant gateways from multiple clients or applications. What does this mean to the average Joe (or Jane)? Well, no matter how many merchant gateways (i.e. PayPal or Authorize.net) a proprieter uses, the transaction format on the client side is the same. This integration allows the proprietors to easily switch out payment gateways at any time by simply referencing the new account.
That's one thing that I think makes what we do so cool for businesses who need to adapt to the changing market place and conditions. This tool gives them flexibility, their clients flexibility. It's a good thing - like the little nougaty center of a great piece of candy. Very fitting for Valentine's Day! (look how I tied that together! Impressive!) |
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Last Updated on Monday, 09 March 2009 14:32 |
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Civic Innovation Fund Party |
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Thursday, October 16th, we had the pleasure of attending the Cleveland Civic Innovation Fund Party. The event was to commemorate the past recipients of the award. We were invited by our friends at Fresh Fork. They have a very cool business that connects local restaurants with growers of food. The event was held at Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park. Not only was there food and drink, but bikers riding around the multi-story park. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 09 March 2009 14:30 |
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Getting the Most Out of Your Current Business Applications |
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I'm reading that with today's current economic strife, more and more companies will need to maximize the investments they've made in their current business applications. Extending the life of applications and or getting them to integrate with other internal applications - or their customers - is going to become an even more meaningful way to get the most out of the money they've spent. When companies weigh the expense of new applications vs getting more out of what they already have, the pendulum may swing in favor of integration. Add to this, the mergers and acquisitions, integration service providers are poised and ready to work.
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?
There is a lot of mayhem ensuing on Wall Street right now while the market corrects itself, but this is good news for technology firms like ours that specialize in application integration, custom web applications, and SOA (among other services).
Erich Leipold, owner of evosolutions LLC, will be presenting a workshop entitled "Squeezing the Most Out of Your Current Software" at the following locations:
- COSE Small Business Conference - October 23rd, 1-2:15, Room 8 at the I-X Center in Cleveland, OH.
- Software Freedom Day - October 27th - 10 am-4pm, Gemini Center, Fairview Park, OH
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Last Updated on Monday, 09 March 2009 14:31 |
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