We Build SaaS Software, Companies and People With Our Engagement Journey

A relationship between an organization and a software vendor is akin to a partnership. The more complex the company, the more sophisticated the software requirements are and the more complex the software needs to be. However, at the same time, the software needs to maintain simplicity for end-users to manage day to day operations. This leaves every executive wondering: how does an organization beat the odds of winding up with a half-baked software that becomes obsolete or is outgrown before its time?

Having built enterprise software systems since 2001, we see strong justification to choose a software system slowly and with patience. The selection process is far more effective when approaching decisions from the perspective of understanding that there are two main groups of stakeholders in the process of software selection and implementation:

• Customer stakeholders
• Software provider stakeholders

Everyone involved is a stakeholder at some level. The software vendor’s reputation, as well as those involved, are always at stake when taking on a software implementation. Conversely, the customer stakeholders credibility is on the line along with their managers, and countless users downstream who will use the software. Additionally, board of directors, shareholders, and ultimately executive managers, count on company processes and data to drive the company.

The quality of data also drives both quality of life and value within any organization. Data quality also dictates the scalability and efficiency of the organization. Underneath data quality, there is data architecture, which is the structure of data and how it all fits together. (Read The Ugly Truth About Data - by Chris Day ).

When summing up the players involved, the key decision makers on both sides (the organization and the software provider) must put their heads together to understand and diagnose problems, conceptualize solutions, then implement the solution. The more effective both parties are at mutually anticipating needs and changes in the business, the more effective and the longer life expectancy the software will have. This creates a highly dynamic engagement between people with tremendous opportunity for professional growth, as well as growth for the organization.

This engagement approach creates a strong foundation for a partnership with a software provider that benefits everyone involved at multiple levels:

• Those involved invest their business knowledge, creativity, and expertise into the solution.
• The solution that inherits the characteristics of those who contribute – the more dynamic and competent those involved, the more the solution will reflect those characteristics.
• Those who contribute to the solution, grow into deeper knowledge of their organizational needs and business dynamics.
• The entire organization that comes to better understand their data and data integrity.
• Those involved grow professionally, and enhance skills in technology, business, and in making decisions.

The Team at A1 Enterprise enjoys building and supporting A1 Tracker as an Enterprise Risk Management Software. Also, we equally enjoy building companies and those involved in the problem-solving process. This is a true win-win all around for the people and organizations involved.

One of the greatest rewards of doing what we do is to alter, for the better, the careers and opportunities of those we work with to produce a solid solution.

Chris Day

CEO, A1 Enterprise, Inc.