Volano Solutions
April 24, 2014
If you haven’t noticed, it seems as though software code schools and boot camps have been opening up across the country faster than you can say JavaScript. There are some important distinctions to be made regarding this movement and the reason people are filling these classes up. Angela Chen with the Wall Street Journal wrote a […]
April 14, 2014
Head in the Cloud Cloud-based software is blowing up these days. Recently Cisco, Google, Amazon and Microsoft made the headlines after announcing their investment in cloud technology. According to Eric Knorr with InfoWorld, the latest news helps us better understand the utility of cloud software and its role in user experience and b2b technical relationships. […]
March 21, 2014
Last week’s New York Times Magazine featured a thoughtful article by Yiren Lu examining the ongoing rise of technologies new guard (software apps for consumers) versus the old guard (hardware and B2B enterprise software). Lu’s father was a Bay Area immigrant and engineer who worked for Cisco for most of his career. Lu himself is a […]
March 12, 2014
This year Volano Solutions had the honor of serving on the Technology Committee for the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s Young Professionals Organization, or YP Omaha. The Omaha YP’s mission is to retain and attract young professionals to Omaha through engagement, opportunity and advocacy. This year’s YP Summit was the 10th and featured an impressive […]
March 3, 2014
Volano has and will always be a custom software consultant. But like many project-based businesses, we want to diversify our revenue stream to ensure long term, bottom line growth and sustainability. Developing software that customers can lease on a monthly basis or software as a service (SaaS) is an area where we have invested a […]
February 24, 2014
Ripely’s Entertainment, one of Action Card’s early adopters, was featured recently in PR Web. We’re proud of our partnership with Ripley’s Believe it or Not and look forward to a long-term relationship. They understand that consistency drives customer satisfaction and customer promotion. Volano Solutions launched Action Card at the beginning of 2014 after months of beta testing. Ripley’s […]
February 10, 2014
Several weeks ago a friend of mine told me about a friend of hers who was struggling to pay for steep medical bills that resulted from a brutal case of domestic violence. She was rallying support for Jacey Gengenbach, set up a Facebook page and started getting the word out to people that they could […]
January 29, 2014
Last week my cousin Laura, a senior software developer in Chicago posted a thought provoking blog on her Facebook page excoriating the oft quoted, chirpy mantra “Do What You Love.” Laura posts interesting content so I read the blog and have been banging it around in my head for the last couple of weeks. Down […]
January 23, 2014
Volano Solutions is proud to welcome Brian Vaughan, another exceptional software developer to our team. Brian brings technical prowess and all of the hard to find intangibles to a group already loaded with talent. We are very fortunate and look forward to his client engagements and the sense of humor and personality he brings to the […]
January 20, 2014
The Model A couple of years ago I got to hear a killer talk by best-selling author and consultant John DiJulius on customer service. John is the founder of a successful, upscale Cleveland-based salon chain and consults with a prestigious group of clients such as Ritz-Carlton, Lexus, Starbucks, Nordstrom, Nestle and Mariott to name a […]
January 14, 2014
This week Google announced the acquisition of Nest for $3.2 billion. Nest is a young but quickly growing tech company founded by Apple veterans Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. Nest creates “smart thermostats and smoke detectors” that learn your behaviors and adjust usage accordingly. Operated in the cloud, Nest smoke detectors can send your phone […]
December 23, 2013
So we’re coming to another year end at Volano Solutions and I wanted our team to think back on 2013 and their big takeaways for the year. This is the blogging equivalent of a sit-com playing footage of past episodes in absence of creative plot ideas. But Volano has had a strong year and it’s […]