Volano Solutions
January 6, 2015
This month Volano Solutions was recognized by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce for Small Business of the Month. Check out the write-up! The Chamber recognized Volano as an Omaha based custom software developer dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses by creating transparency, accountability and clarity in their workflow processes. The award validates our approach […]
January 2, 2015
The Omaha World Herald did a great piece on the relevance of local code schools Interface and Omaha Code School using Volano as an example.
January 2, 2015
“It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.” – Oscar Wilde As Volano closes out 2014 and looks ahead to the new year, we wanted to look back on some of the year’s highlights. 2014 was a big year for us on […]
December 5, 2014
Today Volano finishes our first week in the Mastercraft building. The space is starting to look like home but needs a few finishing touches yet. We should have running water next week but made sure that the kegerator was in full working order with a fresh 5 gallons of Alestorm from Nebraska Brewing Company. To […]
November 26, 2014
I used to teach 6th grade and learned very quickly that the only way to be effective in the classroom was to have control of the class. The way to maintain control was by having clear standards and the discipline to enforce them consistently and equitably. Kids will test your boundaries, like adults, and tend […]
August 15, 2014
On Wednesday August 20, Volano Solutions’ Action Card will host a conference call with Sprint Wireless dealers, discussing how to maximize store visits and field management. The group will consist of owners, c-level operational executives and regional field managers. The response to the discussion was overwhelmingly positive and there was a genuine desire among wireless retailers […]
July 30, 2014
Watching the Workflow “Oh, this ol’ river keeps on rollin’, thoughNo matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blowAnd as long as it does I’ll just sit hereAnd watch the river flow” – Bob Dylan Ideal Environments Breed Ideal Employees Maybe it’s just me but it’s hard not to think […]
July 23, 2014
Volano Solutions welcomed another new hire to a team already stacked with talent. Brandon Norris started what we hope will be a long tenure with us yesterday and we initiated him to the group with a five star lunch at Taco John’s (it was taco Tuesday). A little bit about this guy and why we’re […]
July 8, 2014
A CIO recently asked me what guidelines I use when consulting on a build vs buy decision. This is a fair question considering Volano Solutions is a premier custom software developer in Omaha. My answer: only build custom software when it makes sense. By this I mean if you can purchase good software to satisfy […]
July 2, 2014
Monday was the first day at Volano for the newest member of our team, Matt Kyriss. To honor the beginning of his tenure, we went to Sam and Louis’s Pizza, a company favorite and one of our first clients to use our mobile compliance review app Action Card. Matt fits the mold of many of […]
June 30, 2014
Software Developers for Straight Shot Last Friday Volano participated in the second “pitch day” at Straight Shot, an Omaha-based accelerator for e-commerce and software as a service start-ups. Volano partners Don Stavneak and Rod Smith attended while Jordan Pascale of Silicon Prairie News, e-Creamery founder Abby Jordan and I sat on a panel to provide […]
June 26, 2014
Software Developers Tackle Product Development and Sales Like many businesses, Volano Solutions has worked hard to build our brand around helping clients solve problems with software. We’re historically a project-based software developer and our comfort zone is building custom software for organizations whose systems are failing their business process and thus, their customers and employees. […]