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Michael Cocanower
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Welcome
This month we are launching a new service offering to take the risk out of Custom
Application Development. The Quick Start Engagement Package enables you to determine
if a Custom Application is what is needed to solve your business and data needs cost
effectively.
Historically, businesses have not had the opportunity to purchase this type of package
and have sometimes invested thousands of dollars only to find out the developer they
hired to produce their custom application or the application itself was not the right
solution for their organization -wasting valuable time, dollars, resources and sometimes jobs.
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Our Quick Start Engagement Package
delivers:
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► Your Vision for the Custom
Application
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► How it Will Solve Your
Business Needs
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► Your Goals & Requirements for
the Custom Application
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► The Strategy for Developing
the Custom Application
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► A Storyboard or Graphic
Organizer to Visualize Screen Design
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► An Estimated Budget to
Achieve Each of Your Requirements
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► An Estimated Timeline for
Development of Your Requirements
The cost of our Quick Start Engagement Package is
just $1500. When we launch your full custom
application project, the $1500 is applied to the
total cost of the project.
FNF Construction and SelectBuild are just two
examples of companies who have benefited greatly
from an itSynergy Custom Application.
With FNF Construction, we developed an
application that created insurance premium savings
of over $1.5 million and enabled them to plan and
estimate job requirements and costs prior to
construction launch.
We teamed with SelectBuild, a national subcontractor for large residential
developments, to develop StartPro. The StartPro Application allows
SelectBuild to manage all the details of pricing and project components
for every project - saving hundreds of hours, reducing the time to develop a
client quote and serving as a "crystal ball" to forecast various projected
scenarios and costs.
Please visit our website at
www.itsynergy.com
for the complete case studies for FNF Construction
and SelectBuild.
Please give us a call today, to discuss how our
Quick Start Engagement Package can benefit your
data-driven decision-making and business
intelligence.
Have a great month!
P.S. Last month I wrote about how we felt it was
time for customers to start considering the switch
to Windows Vista. For those that are hesitant about
making the switch because of what you've 'heard', I
thought I'd share this rather humorous little video.
Enjoy!
http://www.mojaveexperiment.com |
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Let Me Connect You
Jane Cage, COO, HTS
Not
too long ago, the phrase "Let me connect you" would have only come from
a telephone operator. Today, it's just as likely to come to my inbox as
I receive emails from colleagues, business partners, friends and
relatives who want to connect to me through one of today's electronic
social networking sites. At age 52, this is a new phenomenon for me. On
the other hand, teenagers are completely tuned in to this concept - they
all have a Myspace or Facebook account. So, does it make sense in the
business world? I decided to find out.
Read more
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System Engineering Corner
Notes
from the Network Engineering Department:
Note to readers: As our network engineers
work with all of you across our entire customer
base, they observe trends and issues that many
people have in common, or that many customers will
find helpful to know about.
This section is designed
to give them a mechanism to communicate those issues
to you, with the hope that YOU might benefit from.
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Is your Network Healthy?
OK - we admit it. The Engineering Corner is a little weak this month because
we're exhausted!
In case we haven't mentioned it to you yet, Microsoft is releasing a new
product this year called Windows Essential Business Server (EBS). The product's
sweet spot is companies with 50 to 250 PCs that are too big for a product like
Small Business Server, but want to enjoy the advantages of having a system where
the integration between multiple Microsoft server products is in the design from
the ground up. Additionally, EBS also brings some new features to larger
organizations such as Remote Web Workplace, which allows your users to directly
access their PC from anywhere in the world using only a web browser.
So what does that have to do with us being exhausted? We have been fortunate
to work directly with the Microsoft product/development team in Redmond on this
product. We have done two production implementations of the product at real
customers, and have a third planned for this weekend. The two we have done so
far currently hold the records for the most complex and the largest
implementation of this new product done to date.
We have certainly learned a lot from working with this new product, and can
pretty safely say we are among a handful of companies in the world that can
claim deep expertise in this product. One of the key things our experience has
brought us, however, is that Active Directory (the database that is central to
all of our customer's networks) is NOT in very good shape in companies this
size.
Turns out that EBS is pretty picky when being put into a new environment - it
really wants that environment to be in pristine shape before implementation. In
fact, a large part of our effort on these projects so far has simply been in
getting our customer's environments into this pristine shape so that they are
ready for EBS.
The good news is that many of the tools that the EBS team has given us to
check an environment's health can be used on ANY network, regardless of whether
you are planning on EBS now or in the future. We feel it would really be a
worthwhile investment for our customers to have us give their Active Directory
an ‘annual checkup' just to be sure that everything is in good shape. Solving
these problems now can REALLY help to save some headaches down the road.
Fear not! The doctor is IN. Give us a call today so we can schedule your
Active Directory check up, and head off future problems BEFORE they occur! |
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August 2008
In this issue
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Welcome
□ Let Me Connect You
□ Engineering Corner
□ Referral Program
□ Common PC Problems
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itSynergy Referral Program
 Can we
buy you dinner and send you to the movies? How about
make a donation to your favorite charity in your name?
Earn rewards for referring new customers to itSynergy.
For more details, please
visit here.
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4 Common PC Problems
You Can Fix Yoursel
By Kim Komando
Microsoft Small Business Center
Computer
problems may seem immensely complicated at first glance. But some are
relatively easy to fix.
That doesn't mean they will
be cheap if someone else does the job. Replacing a hard drive is
probably a minimum $250-$300 job at a computer shop.
However, some jobs can be
done by the average Joe or Jane. On a scale of 1 to 10 (where 10 should
only be performed by certified technicians who have no less than three
electronic gadgets on their belt), replacing memory is usually about a
4. Installing a new hard drive is tougher (about 6 or 7), but still
do-able. Replacing a video card or internal modem is no more than a 2.
A word of caution: Static
electricity can kill the circuitry inside your computer. Before you
reach for anything inside that box, ground yourself by touching the
metal computer frame.
Here are four common PC
problems you may be able to fix by yourself:
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Quote of the
month
If all the cars in the
United States were placed end to end, it would
probably be Labor Day
Weekend.
- Doug Larson
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Telephone: 602.297.2400
Fax: 602.297.8703
Email:
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www.itsynergy.com
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