Making a Smart Investment with Credit for Increasing Research Activities
The federal government established a program to help support innovation as well as research and development for all companies based in the U.S. that undertake an at-risk venture, specifically involving R&D (research and development). Enacted in 1981, the R&D credit-officially called the Credit for Increasing Research Activities was consistently extended (16 times) prior to becoming…
Reducing Custom Software Development Costs
Transaction-based pricing can help overcome cost challenges on custom software.
Custom and semi-custom software can solve problems off-the-shelf solutions just can’t do. The reason is obvious: off-the-shelf software is meant to appeal to broad audience while custom solutions are tailored for a specific set of solutions. The downside of custom software solutions is cost. While off-the-shelf software effectively spreads the cost over a large user…
Leveraging GPS Asset Tracking
Integrating GPS into exnterprise systems can have positive efficiency and security implications.
Most of us use GPS in some form or another every day. Whether it be navigating to your destination or tracking your rideshare, the Global Positioning System has enhanced our lives. However, many organizations are not utilizing GPS asset tracking to their maximum benefit. GPS powers vehicle location and in-vehicle navigation systems that are widely…
Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) Technology with Your Partners
Advance Shipping Notice for Elections Increases Efficiencies and Improves Physical Security
A critical aspect of managing your election infrastructure properly is an efficient and accurate process for receiving and recording new inventory and equipment. As such, a pre-shipment alert often referred to as an Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN), is essential to helping with speed and accuracy during the inbound process of election items. A pre-shipment alert…
Data Integrity & Security
Data security should be the most important concern in protecting your company and customers.
A company’s data is now considered one of its most valuable assets, so it should make sense to do everything possible to protect it. Data loss also includes losses in productivity and data restoration costs. Operating systems, software, and even hardware can be replaced, but data is not so easily recoverable or replaceable. Data integrity…
Beware of Bloated Custom Software and Its Inherent Problems
Most off-the-shelf software becomes weighed-down over time with bloated code and unused features.
Many software companies have come and gone trying to provide custom software and semi-custom software. A successful software provider that delivers custom software is typically staring with 80% of the solution in a base system, and then has a team of design engineers, system architects, project managers, and developers to tweak that base system into…