‘Business Process Improvement’ Archive

Dearborn, Michigan — December 21, 2010 — Teraeon Consulting Corporation, a premier IT consulting firm dedicated to providing secure, scalable and reliable solutions for business needs, today announced it has finalized a joint development and marketing partnership with AIMS, Inc., the Louisiana-based leader in accounting & management software for the wholesale petroleum distribution industry.

The partnership will offer all petroleum marketers, especially AIMS clients, an industry specific Customer Information Portal for publishing customer information directly from their financial software systems – providing customers with 24×7 self-service access to their data and reducing customer calls.

”A truly successful customer information portal offers marketers a differentiating value for their customers – improving customer service while reducing costs, all with a focus on putting marketers ahead of their competition” said David Dorries, Director of Sales & Marketing for AIMS, Inc.

The Customer Information Portal, built on Microsoft .NET framework technology, will deliver highly scalable business process driven portals for petroleum marketers. “This is just the beginning. In the future we expect to offer our customers innovative portal solutions that far exceed their current experiences and deliver exclusive content, events and services wherever and whenever they want them,” Moe Yassine, President of Teraeon stated.

“AIMS, Inc. has been committed to enhancing Petroleum Marketers productivity and profitability for over 35 years.  We pride ourselves on developing innovative software and solutions that improve our customers’ businesses. The need for a customer information portal was obvious, as was the decision to select Teraeon as a strategic partner.  They understand our business and embrace AIMS’ desire to provide customer centric and profitable solutions for today’s Marketer,” said Robert Canterbury, President of AIMS Inc.

Founded in 2004, Teraeon Consulting Corporation has led the way in offering the latest in Internet consulting and development services, software development, and e-commerce services. Specializing in Enterprise Solutions through the use of web application development, Teraeon’s paramount focus is helping businesses of all sizes cut costs and run more efficiently through the utilization of their web-based technologies.

Note to editors: If you are interested in viewing additional information on Teraeon, please visit the Teraeon web page at: http://www.teraeon.com. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Teraeon’s marketing department at (877) 837-2366. If you are interested in viewing additional information on AIMS, please visit the AIMS web page at: http://www.aims1.com. Journalists and analysts may contact AIMS at (318) 807-9310.

Now that I caught your attention with the strange title of this post, I will explain to you what flannel programming means.  Any good developer and/or consultant should have some way of separating their applications into different layers.  This is usually called a “Pattern”. I usually apply the term “Flannel” to the pattern we use in our applications at Teraeon Consulting. (more…)

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.” Galls Law

The first step in creating a lean enterprise is to first assess all your systems. Find out where these systems overlap and then see if these can be integrated. You would be surprised how much functionality and data is duplicated across your enterprise environment. In some cases the duplication is needed, but in the vast majority of cases the processes can be streamlined through either automated processes or removing the duplicate areas altogether.

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Many companies are looking to weather the current economic downturn.  We’ve all heard the politicians talk about creating jobs, or giving stimulus.  We’ve heard about the countless number of reasons as to why we’re in this mess.  What we haven’t heard is what can companies and people do right now to help the economy get back on it’s feet.  (more…)