It's good to be different

Apple uses slogan "Think different". There something in it.

Recently I talked to one of our customers and asked why did you choose our solution (AMODIT). And the answer was: "Because it is different". I really like it. In fact the more you are different the less competitors you have.

So I enjoy being different. And it is great AMODIT is different :)

Limiting risk

Today I have made a good decision. There was a need to make some improvements in a system before showing it to users. We had pressure to do it. But doing it one day before presentation could result in some new bugs, because there is no time to test everything. So I decided that it is better to show something known, than to show something a little better but with unknown bugs.

It is good to be an early adopter

One of our customers decided to deploy AMODIT when it was in early stage, meaning version 1.0.
Being an early adopter seems risky. There not many deployments nor satisfied customers. You are in fact "guinea pig". But it can have many advantages too. Our customer have seen this as a main argument to choose our product. And if you this about it you will see it makes sense.
So what are advantages:

1. You can influence roadmap of a product, so it is more suitable for your needs.
2. You have direct contact with product manager and support team.
3. You can get a special price.
4. You don't have to pay for everything, because part of work is treated as product development, and not as services.
5. You become referential customer, so you have to be satisfied.

Have it in mind when you choose a product :)

New blog

I like blogger.com so much that I decided to create new blog :) This time about AMODIT workflow system.
This is want I do for the last 2 years. Till now I just published information on www.amodit.com. But this is regular web page and it takes more time to publish news. Mainly because it has some structure.

So please visit http://blog.amodit.com.

New Tableau blog in Polish

Yesterday I was stubborn enough to push my friend to finally create Tableau blog in Polish. We are both quite busy, so we had to do it in the evening.

We succeeded and we've done it in one evening. This proves to things:

1. Blogger.com is a nice platform
2. We are smart :)

You can see this blog here: http://blog.tableau-software.pl

Azure applications contest

AMODIT (our intelligent workflow product) got to second stage of Microsoft's contest for best Azure application. Last year we were also qualified but we didn't win (just 4th place). I hope this year we will win :)

Good ideas come from needs

It is interesting how good ideas usually come when you have a real business problem.
Today I was working on a project for a customer. This is about AMODIT workflow system. One of the features it has is receiving and sending emails. This functionality was working for some time for some clients without a problem.
Today we realised that when you send an email it is useful to send the whole case in email with form, attachments etc. It is quite simple and now seems to be obvious but we didn't think about it before and none of customers needed it...