IsAware From InterSoft Associates
Episodes
41 episodes
From Discovery to Deployment: The Importance of a Design Process in Custom Software Development
Often when we think custom software development, our minds go to code, data, and delivery. In today's episode we're exploring the importance of a design process in custom software development. The design process starts with br...
Having a Plan for Your CRM
Your CRM, or Customer Resource Manager, helps you manage marketing, pre-sales, and sales activities. But are you using the right CRM? Are you using the right CRM in the right ways? Is yours outdated or dysfunctional? Today we explore the value ...
Business Process Breakdowns: Symptoms You Need Improving
Business processes are the coordinated systems and practices that help your business operate, and help your people understand how their roles are related to the roles of others. What happens when those processes aren't working? How do you even ...
Understanding CRM Integrations: Using The Right Tool For The Job
The CRM, or Customer Relationship Manager, is an application that helps manage many marketing, pre-sales and sales functions. Its potential expands, however, when it can be integrated into other parts of your company, like your ERP (Enterprise ...
Enhancing the Engine: Unleashing Your ERP
The ERP ( Enterprise Resource Planning) application often acts as the brains of an organization, connecting different and disparate business units, priorities, initiatives and objectives through technology and data. In today's episode we're exp...
Business Process Improvement: Creating Opportunities You Don't Foresee
When business processes have grown inefficient or ineffective, they often present obvious pain points. Redundancies, duplicate efforts, tasks taking too long to complete, multiple data points - these are all symptoms of business processes that ...
Understanding the API: A Bridge Between Your Data
API, or Application Programming Interface, is standardized technology that allows different applications to "talk" to each other. In today's episode we try and de-mystify the API and share real-world scenarios and situations on how an API can m...
QuickBooks Integrations: The Power of Quick Connections
QuickBooks is incredibly popular for business bookkeeping, from small Mom & Pop Shops to large enterprise organizations. One reason is their promise that "smart, simple tools that make your whole ...
Custom Problem Solving: Rethinking Custom Software Development
It's easy to focus on the technical aspects of software development when considering custom software solutions, but it's important to remember that before software development there has to be relationship development. In...
Data Integration: Real World Impact and Outcomes for Business Transformation
Data Integration is, simply, how different pieces of disparate or unconnected information are brought together to create deeper layers of insight. When we share and combine data from different sources we make “1+1=3”: the outcomes produce...
Data Integration: Putting Insights into Action
Data is Information, and Information is Insight. Data Integration is, simply, how different pieces of disparate or unconnected information are brought together to create deeper layers of insight. Data Integration can help simplify and ...
Finding The Right Database Consultant For Your Business
In today's information-driven business, if data is the fuel in your engine then the database is your rocket. The right Database Consultant is your highly skilled pilot. Responsible for designing, architecting and maintaining the database or dat...
Putting Big Data To Work For You
"Big Data" is something of a misnomer, a phrase that implies only big companies might benefit. Instead, think of "Big Data" as just....data, or information. You might be used to managing information in a spreadsheet or through multiple sophisti...
Keep The Engine Running: Legacy Software Maintenance and Modernization
Legacy Application Software is a software program that was written more than 5 to 7 years ago and seems to continue to work as intended. An important concept to note is that the software seems to continue to work as intended, which in ...
Understanding Legacy Software: What Got You Here Won't Get You There
As technology continues to evolve, business practices must accompany the shift. When a business is thriving and expanding or hopes to gain that competitive advantage over others, it is essential to bridge the gap between the growth of your orga...
Achieving Business Goals With Process Improvement Software
In today's episode Hy Goldstoff and Abe Ungar of InterSoft Associates explore what process improvement software is and what it does, particularly in helping businesses overcome inefficient, outdated processes that can save significant money, ti...