Ground Control Challenge: Product distribution points require manual product and inventory management. There is no system to integrate scale indicators with an application to manage those scales, printers, product inventories, locations, sales orders, etc.

IIS SaaS Application Challenge: Our client came to us with an idea and a prototype for a new business service, targeted at government municipalities. The prototype was built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. Our client wanted an Enterprise application that was capable of tracking and reporting on impounded vehicles within a municipalities system. In most municipalities it’s very cumbersome to track impounded vehicles and typically requires a manual process and multiple disparate systems for tracking and reporting. Our client also wanted the system to be web-based and that could be utilized by multiple municipalities, impound yards, tow truck companies and impounded vehicle owners alike.

GWEN Challenge: Our client wanted to overcome the limitation that all transactions performed had to be handled during normal business hours due to personnel requirements. Also, the entire business process for transactions required a manual approach in order to complete. Orders were taken over the phone, transactions were hand written and later logged into Excel spreadsheets and QuickBooks and inventories were manually loaded and unloaded.

D-A-D Challenge: Our customer had a development group build a sales configurator tool in Flash. This tool served its purpose but lacked many of the features new data rich applications offer. The tool was distributed via CD, was static and could not be updated without major development work and distribution expenses. With new product lines, design elements and capabilities the original application quickly became out dated. The tool also had basic image manipulation and reporting tools, but the client wanted more advanced features for product configuration, image manipulation and reporting.

QQ+ Application Challenge: The sales team had a cumbersome task of creating proposals and quotes for potential customers. A sales person would meet with a client, get a perspective on particular requirements then head back to the office with the particular requirements for review with a product engineer. The Engineer would then prepare a list of items that would meet the requirements the customer had requested. The sales person would then negotiate with the client on price, additional products for support, etc. Often the sales person would have to go back and prepare a new quote based on changes in product requirements. This back and forth could take weeks and many hours of work from sales persons, engineers and other support personnel.

NACD Challenge: Our client was looking to upgrade their static html website into a full-fledged web application. The client had a very complicated parts distribution and manufacturing process with a complex knowledge base and all relative information was stored in Excel spreadsheets. Our client continually incurred costs, due to changing product lines, for updating and printing parts catalogs. Another concern was the time being spent to create quotes for customers.