This is an old cartoon and I’m sure many have seen it before but how can you not love it? This is so typical of the experience small business owners have with technology projects. I like to think that we build tire swings, repeatedly and predictably because of a new approach to business technology… but […]

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As we build our business, I feel that as a leader in setting the course for the future of that business, I am at a crossroads that demands an important decision. The decision I am concerned about […]

Have you heard of a company that has been fully in business and fully operational for just a couple of months getting acquired? Actually, I take that back. In today’s super crazy business world, it wouldn’t even surprise me to hear about Google buying a three month old startup… but I digress.
So as of […]

So I have been sitting here taking screenshot after screenshot, trying to determine how I will write clearly enough to come up with a nice technical document for a customer that explains how to close a pay period in a time tracking application, export the time into the payroll system, and process payroll. I want […]

I realize Oracle is a “big” company. I also realize their objective is to sell “big” software to other “big” companies, which generally means their target customer is the IT Department. But I still can’t help but wonder what the hell they (and all the other “big” tech companies) are doing sometimes.
This is all […]

A lot of the questions I face from potential or early stage customers as the owner of Trimtab Business Technology around our core business technology, managed services approach to doing business is basically something to the effect of the following:
$80,000 per year technology budget?! We currently spend a small fraction of this on technology. What […]