Such A Shame There Is So Much Corn To Harvest Out There...
Have you ever heard an independent Notes
consultant complaining about the quality or lack of options for implementation,
configuration and training with the latest release of Notes or other Lotus
products? It's almost like hearing a farmer saying, "It's too
bad, there's a lot of corn out there that needs to be harvested this year."
This always strikes me as funny, because I'd think that would be cause for rejoicing. After all, it only means more work for them!
A consultant I've known for years has a different and more refreshing perspective on this situation: He says that the day IBM Lotus releases an absolutely perfect product that's easy to configure and understand is the day he is out of business. He's happy when Lotus releases a new version, and he's confident that they will continue to do so. In fact, he's counting on them to help fund his kids' college education - and they're currently in grade school!
This is not unusual in the IT world. There are bigger software companies out there that release products that do not meet customer expectations - but this is exactly why consultants are out there, making money.
Teamstudio has been in the Notes business for many years, and we've made our living by filling functionality gaps in the Lotus products and assisting customers with automating difficult development and administrative tasks. In recent years, we've seen the market shrink, mainly because of the centralization of development and administrative efforts by our clients - and of course, the changes in the overall global economic situation. We've come to see the consulting area as an opportunity to round out our portfolio of offerings in order to provide our customers with more complete solutions to their issues.
Using our unique tool set as the basis for providing technology enhanced services to automate mundane tasks, we've defined many service offerings on both the development and administrative side of the house, We've also opened up the opportunity to partner with some consultants in the Notes world, in order to help them automate tasks and make it easier for them to provide their customers with complete solutions.
In other words, we can help make harvesting all that corn faster and easier!
This always strikes me as funny, because I'd think that would be cause for rejoicing. After all, it only means more work for them!
A consultant I've known for years has a different and more refreshing perspective on this situation: He says that the day IBM Lotus releases an absolutely perfect product that's easy to configure and understand is the day he is out of business. He's happy when Lotus releases a new version, and he's confident that they will continue to do so. In fact, he's counting on them to help fund his kids' college education - and they're currently in grade school!
This is not unusual in the IT world. There are bigger software companies out there that release products that do not meet customer expectations - but this is exactly why consultants are out there, making money.
Teamstudio has been in the Notes business for many years, and we've made our living by filling functionality gaps in the Lotus products and assisting customers with automating difficult development and administrative tasks. In recent years, we've seen the market shrink, mainly because of the centralization of development and administrative efforts by our clients - and of course, the changes in the overall global economic situation. We've come to see the consulting area as an opportunity to round out our portfolio of offerings in order to provide our customers with more complete solutions to their issues.
Using our unique tool set as the basis for providing technology enhanced services to automate mundane tasks, we've defined many service offerings on both the development and administrative side of the house, We've also opened up the opportunity to partner with some consultants in the Notes world, in order to help them automate tasks and make it easier for them to provide their customers with complete solutions.
In other words, we can help make harvesting all that corn faster and easier!
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