Yearly Archives: 2014

Technology vendors sometimes focus too much on the technology they are selling and not enough on the problems that they’ve been hired to solve. It isn’t always intentional - when your day-to-day business is technology, it’s easy to get off track. When you have a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail.

Some technology providers try to be all things to all people. They say “whatever you need, we can help.” We’re not one of those providers. We understand what we're good at and the problems we can help with. We also hate wasting other people’s time (and our own too). So if someone comes to us with a problem that we're not the best company to help with, we'll say so, so you can quickly move on to someone who can help. We aren't right provider for everyone. Here are three reasons we might not be the right fit for your organization.

It takes a lot of time and money to build great technology infrastructure. That’s one of the reason many businesses struggle with infrastructure issues. They often can't afford to invest the appropriate amount of money and staff to get themselves on solid footing. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) can be a life saver for companies struggling to make their in-house technology dependable and secure. If you've been stressing out over failed servers and business downtime, IaaS may be a good fit for your business.

If you talk to your development team, you may be surprised to find how little time they actually get to commit to writing code. Meetings and other non-technical tasks are a big part of your developers’ work day. Some of that can’t be fixed. But thing you can do to help your developers be more productive is take some of the technical burden off them and let them focus on what their best at - writing software.