the sephone blog

TechMaine hosts a technology awards gala every year to award various Maine technology companies.  This year, Sephone is a finalist in three categories.

• wabi.tv in Arts and Entertainment
• dempseychallenge.org in Non-Profit
• themainemarketplace.com in E-Commerce

We wish the best to all of the other finalists.

Although we spend a lot of our time on our site management applications (datAvenger lite, datAvenger, Hula, etc.), we also do quite a bit of custom application work – projects for a specific client that allow them to do a specific task for their company. The web apps we build often replace a process that’s been used by a business for years: maybe a complicated paper trail, a messy bulletin board in someone’s office, or a manual transcription from paper forms into Excel.

We often hear from our clients that these applications save a lot of time in their daily routine, but sometimes there’s a learning curve as the business transitions to a new system. We completely understand this; after all, we’re used to providing businesses and organizations with improved ways to do a core part of their work.

When we develop an application for a company, we’ll often provide a version of the product for the company to use prior to its actual launch. These versions might not have every feature that’s planned for the final release, but they’re usually used by one or two people to help understand how the product works before it’s actually switched on and used by everyone. The product testing periods are a great time for you to give us your feedback about the application. If something doesn’t make sense to you, we can discuss what changes we could make before the product’s final launch.

As we often say here, nobody knows how your business works better than you do. We want to help your business succeed, and your feedback is valuable as you use your application. When the final version of your application launches, we want it to save your company time and money.

Photo by Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, released under Creative Commons.