We look before we leap. Experience shows that software development projects have the best outcome when our clients engage us to first do a strategic assessment of their current data systems, looking at how they work — or don't work — in expediting their week-to-week workflow.

We promote organization-wide buy-in to technology planning. We generally believe that program and administrative staff responsible for working with–and maintaining–new software should participate in key phases of the design process. Technology initiatives that are planned top-down without input from the actual end-users can lead to problems down the road. By understanding the roles of the people who will work with our software, we build interfaces and workflows that will maximize ease of use and efficiency.

We aim for solutions that address current needs while giving our clients room to grow. We look at your business or organization’s broad, long-term goals and then come up with technology solutions that mesh with current realities, including budget and staffing.

We remain vendor neutral and platform diverse to provide the best solutions to our clients. Software development has entered an era where it more practical than ever to choose the best Open Source or commercial software for each of your core needs and then programmatically connect and synchronize the systems. Our research explores all the options—including, but not restricted to—ones we can provide.

We have extensive experience with Microsoft web and database technologies as well as other Open Source environments including the Drupal Open Source Content Management System. But we also have extensive knowledge of CRM and CMS software solutions outside of our areas of expertise, and we will direct clients towards these solutions when it best serves their needs.

We are a consulting group interested in building long-term relationships. We do not see ourselves as contractors who deliver a specific product or service and then disappear. We stand behind the software we create and we don’t consider our job done until your organization is able to effectively utilize that software independently.

While we hope that our clients’ satisfaction with our work leads to a long-term relationship, we provide source code and use Open Source and industry standard approaches to the extent possible so that should you choose to do future engagements with another company, our work can stand on its own.