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Custom Software: Achieving Solutions that Meet Your Needs
Meeting Business Needs with Custom Software The following case demonstrates the importance of understanding business needs in achieving a great final result for custom software. The accounting...
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Great Custom Software: The Five W’s
Improving Custom Software This quarter, Entrance is making quality a focus for improvement, both for custom software development and our software consulting efforts. Although we always strive to...
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Business Intelligence Implementations and the Importance of Collaboration
Business Intelligence and Collaboration If your business intelligence implementation project has not been as successful as you hoped it would be, then you’re not alone: a 2012 survey from the research...
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Data Management: Information Security for Oil and Gas
Threats to Data Management and Information Security According to a recent report by Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the big data management concerns for the oil and gas industry is information security....
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Custom Software Scoping: Avoid Preconceived Notions and Expectations
Custom Software Planning Requires an Open Mind A few weeks ago, Entrance software consultants started a conversation on what quality looks like when developing the requirements for great custom...
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Software Selection: Assessing Business Drivers
Software Selection and Your Business Making good choices during the software selection process is critical to your business. Whether you go with an off-the-shelf product, a custom application, or...
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Four Reasons to Consider Software Consulting
Software Consulting and the Right Team During our ongoing discussion on quality and custom software, Entrance’s software consulting team recently covered what we bring to the table for our clients. As...
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Data Management Problems: Data Cleansing
Data Management and Quality Many processes in data management affect the quality of data in a database. These processes may be classified into three categories, such as processes that add new data to...
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Bad Software Consulting: Offshore Voicemails Part 1
Software Consulting that Works for Your Business There are a lot of bad software consulting vendors out there. Let’s face it, lots of people can write code. But the ability to understand your business...
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SharePoint Consulting: Gamification and ROI
The Return on Investment for SharePoint Consulting In our SharePoint consulting engagements, we often come across interesting problems that can be solved by some amount of customization. This was...
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Software Selection: Assessing Your Options on the Market
Software Selection and Available Product Offerings In this software selection series, I have covered how to assess the need for custom software in addition to business drivers. In this third post, I’d...
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Custom Software: Four Moments of Truth
Moments of Truth for Custom Software During a recent leadership conference the Entrance team began brainstorming how to make our custom software consulting even better. The leadership team has since...
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Custom Software: DIY Advantages and Disadvantages
Good Planning a Key Differentiator for Custom Software Custom software can be a great tool to match processes to your business. The recent proliferation of do-it-yourself tools makes this even easier...
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SharePoint Consulting: Workflow Strategy
SharePoint Consulting and Automation SharePoint consulting can be the the time saver that your team has been looking for. Automation, what a wonderful thing! We have become very accustomed to the most...
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Business Intelligence: What is Hadoop?
Hadoop: The New Face of Business Intelligence Big data has changed the way businesses handle their business intelligence initiatives, requiring them to capture, process, and analyze exponentially...
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Enterprise Content Management: Azure Blob Storage
Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management Enterprise content management can be a big pain point for organizations that do not properly plan ahead for file sharing. One Entrance client had an...
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InfoPath Retirement: The Doctor is In
SharePoint Consulting Prescribes Solutions to Fit Your Business SharePoint consulting is often not unlike being a doctor. When a patient visits their doctor, she doesn’t assume that penicillin is the...
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SharePoint is an application platform that allows you to take control of the content and documents that you put on the Internet. Though the capabilities are present in SharePoint for use with external...
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