June Meeting: End-to-End Software Integration and Implementation

Justin Couto was the presenter at last night's softec meeting. He had a record 3 projectors for his presentation. He walked through how a business would go about deciding whether to hire a custom solution provider. One of the key decision points was if a business had very repetitive tasks that could be programmed. He suggested that businesses should think of a custom software solution as a "Software Employee".

He also gave a great demo of an on going project his company created for Spalding Labs, a Beneficial Insect provider. The application was very impressive in the scope of the overall system systems (online orders, fullfilment, billing, VOIP CSR, shipping systems, weather systems, CRM,...etc) and depth of custom features (marketing code tied to call numbers, call logs tied to customer records, google maps integration). My favorite feature was the weather systems integration to help dynamically predict when customers would need to purchase more or less insects. The UI and usability of the system showed the love that Couto Solutions puts into their work.

If you missed the presentation check it out video here: