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Seed Edition: Finally, light at the end of the tunnel for subscription billing!
A recurring theme in our business practice has been a search for a viable subscription billing service.  At least several times a year we find ourselves diving into the minefield of payment gateways, processors and third party services to support a new product offering of our own or for a client project.  In our most [...]
Realities of Solution Change Management
Coming out of business school, somebody once told me, “If you design a solution correctly, everybody can be a winner.”  It was up to the solution designer to capture every user’s requests, wants, and needs and to piece them together into a solution that creates high value for all of them.  Soon after, I entered [...]
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Technology Service Integration
We are rolling out a project next week that is really one of our crowning achievements as a small company.  The project involves replacing an out-dated and cumbersome Access database that runs a sales and loan process for our medium sized client with an end-to-end solution based on QuickBase.  What is most exciting is that we [...]
Simple Data Entity Modeling
On yet another application review with a prospective client the issue of potentially troublesome data entity relationships came up.  A number of our clients are existing QuickBase users who have made an initial attempt to design their applications and find that some assistance is needed.  The first thing we look at to understand their application requirements are [...]
PaaS & ETL in the Application Ecosystem
Our conversation continues about the optimal mix of technology to support business process.  In our last TechWise blog,“Living IT, QuickBase Leads The Way”, we discussed the concept of Living IT and why organizations should plan for changing and dynamic technology.  To elaborate further on this topic we want to introduce some ideas around what we refer [...]