PROVIDING CUTTING EDGE CUSTOM SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
Issue Number: 14  |  Date: October, 2008
In this issue…
 
DSS Testimonials: what clients are sayings about us
DSS Accomplishments and Undertakings: New software application just released – Supply Order, Inventory Control, and Billing.
DSS Digital Sabre and the Current Economy
DSS Demystifying the Technology: Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas Release)
DSS Employee Spotlight: Sr. Accountant and Controller Jenny Yaudes
DSS About Digital Sabre Solutions
 
Testimonials: What Other Clients Are Saying About Us
 
“I think of Digital Sabre as our technology partner. As our company continues to grow and employee new technology, we continue to look to Digital Sabre for necessary guidance and realistic recommendations. We would not be where we are today without them! They are intelligent, thoughtful, and patient beyond all patience.”

Missy Weld,
Speakers Network Worldwide

With 26 years in the business and an online database of over 10,000 professional presenters, the Speakers Network Worldwide provides a wealth of resources to assist in choosing a speaker for a particular engagement. Find out more at www.speakersnetworkworldwide.com.
 
Accomplishments and Undertakings:
 
New software application just released – Supply Order, Inventory Control, and Billing.

DSS has just completed the final release of a custom software application for a building-supply business.  Originally, this company came to Digital Sabre with a request for a custom solution to accommodate its growing business.  Several conversations and an onsite visit to identify necessary requirements yielded a competitive proposal to create a custom application.  The cost for the custom application was the same as an “off-the-shelf” application once you included 3 years of license fees with the purchase price.  Furthermore, the “off-the-shelf” application didn’t have everything our customer needed.  Three years down the road, they would have spent the same amount and still not had it all.  The decision was obvious!

Some of the more important features of this custom application include:
  • Customer / vendor / operator management
  • Item catalogue upload / edit
  • Order/ PO (Purchase Order) management
  • Back order management
  • Invoicing and invoice management
  • Reporting
A recent analysis of the completed application’s features, from start to finish, confirms that this application will successfully and efficiently advance their business. In fact, it’s proving to be so profitable, the client is already asking for more features. They are ecstatic, and more than impressed with our ability to capture their vision by creating a custom application that runs every aspect of their business. Once they are comfortable with the new order-entry program, we will plan a version 2 release that incorporates several fine-tuned details that further automates their business.
 
Digital Sabre and the Current Economy
 
With the economy more challenging than usual, now is the perfect time for businesses to use technology to their advantage. DSS can review your company’s daily processes, and find ways to automate them with an inexpensive custom-built application. Contact DSS for a FREE consultation. We’ll gladly meet with you, capture your ideas and then transform them into a practical proposal for your review. Please call Will Leger at 704-944-3580 to schedule your appointment today!
 
Demystifying the Technology: Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas Release)
 
Microsoft has come out with yet another upgrade to its enterprise application development toolkit. This latest version is an improvement to their standard development tool, Visual Studio. What exactly is Visual Studio? In laymen’s terms, Visual Studio is a commonly used application tool to use when developing .Net projects. It is a powerful, robust application considered by many to be the standard choice when creating IT applications.

This new “Orcas” release is an advancement over older versions mainly because of its increased flexibility and efficiency. Visual Studio 2008 was created with three major goals in mind:
  • To provide programmers with an unprecedented level of productivity.
  • To support all major platform advances from Microsoft, specifically Windows Vista, SQL Server, Office 2007, and Windows “Longhorn” Server.
  • To help teams collaborate more effectively.
In addition to all of Orcas superior, newly-added frameworks and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) related features, developers are excited about the new language’s syntax improvements; an excellent and needed addition when interacting with both Visual Basic and C# languages.

LINQ is another new feature that is extremely important to enterprise application developers. Throughout the enterprise, the core function revolves around data, both the analyzing and connecting of data. With the addition of LINQ, the data collection is more intuitive and is conducted in a more programmer-centric manner, meaning the process is logical and efficient.

These changes will definitely improve the development experience in both subtle and dramatic ways. More importantly, these upgrades will improve productivity by reducing the amount of code needed to write and execute.

What does this mean for you? It’s often difficult to know just when to embrace new technologies and upgrades as there may be something better on the horizon. However, in our experience, using Microsoft tools is the best, most prudent option because these tools are widely supported and easiest to integrate with existing systems. Visual Studio 2008 is no exception. At Digital Sabre Solutions, we take pride in learning and using the latest technologies so that you can remain competitive and more readily enjoy the tangible benefits. By using this advanced framework, we are able to dramatically shorten development time, effectively passing the cost-savings on to you, the client. DSS is dedicated to finding new and improved ways to employ technology so that you realize the greatest amount of flexibility and growth possible as we partner to find the most appropriate IT solutions available.
 
Employee Spotlight: Sr. Accountant and Controller Jenny Yaudes
 
Sr. Accountant and Controller Jenny Yaudes, has been with Digital Sabre Solutions for close to a year now. Her eleven-year experience in the accounting industry includes: external auditing with one of the largest Accounting firms in the world, Arthur Andersen and Senior Accountant at RF Micro Devices, a one billion dollar semiconductor company. Jenny has holds both a Bachelors’ and Masters’ degree in Accounting and is also an active Certified Public Accountant, CPA. Her experience in both public and industry accounting has provided her the knowledge and expertise necessary to guide DSS into making successful financial decisions as well as develop lucrative business processes.

Jenny enjoys the many benefits offered by DSS. To help balance out her family life, she is able to conduct about 50% of her job responsibilities remotely. “The flexibility that Sabre has given me is amazing! I am so excited about the prospective opportunities that the company has to offer. Digital Sabre Solutions has tremendous growth potential and it is an honor to be a part of it. Our team is working hard to give our customers an exceptional product as well as first-rate customer service,” says Yaudes.
 
About Digital Sabre Solutions
 
Delivering affordable, timely technology solutions, Digital Sabre Solutions LLC provides the convenience and stability of skilled onshore project management at the cost advantages and scalability only an offshore development team can offer. A subsidiary of the MAS Group, a leading provider of design-to-delivery solutions, Digital Sabre Solutions is securely backed by over 20 years of industry experience and a surplus of skilled resources.

MAS Groups customers include such international brands as Victoria’s Secret, Banana Republic, The Gap, Speedo, and Nike among others. Digital Sabre is located in Charlotte, NC. For more information call 704-944-5525 or visit them on the Web at www.digitalsabre.net.
We invite you to contact DSS for aFREE consultation. We’ll gladly meet with you, capture your ideas and then transform them into a practical proposal for your review.

Please contact Will Leger at 704-944-3580 for more information.
 

Contact Digital Sabre Solutions for a FREE CONSULTATION and find out how you can use technology to help improve your business!

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