Volano Solutions
May 2, 2014
Most sales organizations’ businesses have a standard workflow process. They also have systems to help them manage everything from prospective customers (CRM) all the way to payment reconciliation in accounting (Quickbooks). A contact becomes a lead, a lead becomes a sale, the sale requires that work be completed. Ideally you are able to see where […]
April 28, 2014
Successful businesses have commonalities; good product, a strong team to support your customer base and systems that allow for efficient, scalable operations. Volano Solutions consults with businesses who recognize that they need a better system to support their business but are not totally clear on the way forward. As an experienced custom software developer, we’ve […]
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 22, 2014
In the early 1990s Gallup started to collection data and analyze the correlation between employee performance and various aspects of work life. They discovered that employees who knew what was expected of them at work were the most likely to be in productive teams. When employees answered negatively or even ambivalently, the lack of job […]
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 26, 2014
Omaha’s technology darling Silicon Prairie News featured Volano’s mobile compliance inspection app Action Card in a recent publication. Read about the role Action Card is playing in and franchise companies. Our combined expertise in the franchise brand space and our second-to-none technology team created the perfect synergy. Some pretty iconic brands realized efficiency and revenue opportunities through […]
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 19, 2014
Action Card Franchise Industry Survey Reveals Massive Gap Between Customer Experience Expectation and Execution A recent Action Card franchise industry survey revealed that nearly 40 percent of franchisees were not delivering consistent customer experiences across locations and touch points, yet 100 percent of franchisors consider consistency across their organization important or extremely important. Omaha, Neb. […]
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 […]