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From Scramble to Streamline: How Custom Software Unlocks Efficiency in Training Seminars

The world of training seminars can be a whirlwind. Imagine juggling a packed schedule of sessions, managing registration for hundreds of attendees, and ensuring everyone has the materials they need. Spreadsheets overflow, emails pile up ...

Taking Control: Dynamic Permissions for a Streamlined User Experience

In our ongoing series showcasing the power of custom software, this edition focuses on the success story of how our client worked with SunNet to implement dynamic permissions in their custom applications. This resolved the challenge of ...

Unlock Seamless Logins: How to have a frictionless Customer Onboarding: Unlocking the Power of Access Management

Creating accounts can feel like a chore. We've all been there, entering usernames and passwords for yet another system …and then keeping track of the password to log back in. This can be especially frustrating when dealing with systems ...

Streamlining Physician Profile Management: A Digital Transformation Success Story

Imagine this:A large healthcare organization, with over 1200 physicians, needs to maintain up-to-date physician contact information, practicing locations, and Board Certifications.To submit this information, Dr. Patel ...

Reimagine What's Possible for Your Business

At Sunnet Solutions, we believe software should work for you, not the other way around. For over 20 years, we've been revolutionizing how businesses operate through the transformative power of custom software solutions ...

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Maximizing Application ROI and Future-Proofing Your Existing Applications

In today's swiftly changing business landscape, organizations across diverse industries are faced with a pivotal decision: should they overhaul existing applications to enhance expandability or embark on the development of entirely new ones ...

Software Expansion and the Power of Project Plans

Remember FarmVille? The social farming game that had millions hooked, tending virtual crops and building pixelated barnyard empires. But its sequel, FarmVille 2, wasn't quite...

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Navigating Organizational Buy-In for Software Strategy Success

Implementing an expandable software application strategy that can adapt and expand is crucial for organizational growth. The ability to scale and evolve your software not only ensures current needs ...

Expandable Software Application Strategies

In our last post, we delved into the importance and driving forces of application expansion . Today, our focus shifts to a comprehensive guide for business leaders making strategic ...

Unleashing Business Potential and the Forefront IT Strategy of Application Expandability

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, businesses are constantly seeking ways to adapt and maintain a competitive edge. One crucial IT strategy is application expandability ...

The Importance of Application Expandability

In our recent web series, we discussed the pivotal factors that drive the success of a project. Now, we're slightly shifting focusing to application expandability. In today's dynamic digital landscape, an application's capacity to grow and incorporate ...

The Crucial Role of Analytics and Reporting in Application Success

The success of any application, whether it's a mobile app, a web platform, or a software tool, relies on more than just its functionality and user interface. To truly thrive in the competitive landscape, applications must ...

Safeguarding Your World: The Vital Role of Security and Privacy in Software Applications

Software applications have become an important part of our daily lives. From managing finances and communicating with friends to storing sensitive data, we rely on these applications to make our lives more efficient and convenient ...

Application Functionality, Fundamental Driver of Application Success

In our previous blogposts, we have highlighted specific key elements that contribute to the success of applications. But what can be considered the most important and fundamental factor? ...

How Quality Testing of Business Applications Influences Business Success

In today's digital landscape, where software applications form the core of almost every business operation, ensuring their functionality, security, and performance has become paramount. Effective application testing isn't just a technical requirement; ...

Ample room for innovation and growth for businesses and governments from Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT is no longer a new technology, but there is still ample room for innovation and growth in various areas. Today, IoT is pervasive across various industries, including healthcare ...

Is your application user-friendly?

In our last web series, we learned WHY developing user-friendly software is a crucial aspect of modern software development.By prioritizing user experience, businesses can enhance adoption rates, increase user satisfaction, and achieve long-term success. (insert link here). Today’s web series will focus on the HOW ...

Seamless Experiences, Thriving Businesses

In our previous web series, we delved into the management and development of successful software applications. Today, we shift our focus to the user's perspective. We'll explore how user-friendly design plays a vital role in achieving success...

Embrace Microservices: Empower Your Business for Success!

Are you ready to revolutionize your business and achieve new levels of scalability, flexibility, and agility? In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses need to adapt quickly to stay competitive. How to harness advanced technology for strategic business advantage is one of the top tasks for thought business leaders ...

The Agile Advantage: Why Businesses Are Embracing Agile Development

Our newsletter web series is dedicated to exploring the essential elements that contribute to the successful development of custom software. In our previous episode, we discussed the importance of creating an effective project team to ensure the success of custom software projects....

Structuring a Project Team for Successful Custom Software Application Development

In our previous web series, we emphasized the significance of establishing well-defined requirements when developing a custom software application and provided a few recommendations on how to approach this task...

Free Initial Consultation: Expert Advice for Your Software Solutions

Are you considering designing a new software system or seeking a reliable company to maintain and modernize your existing software? Look no further! We are here to provide you with ...

How to create good quality custom software requirements

In our previous web series (https://www.sunnet.us/custom_software_factors), we discussed the key factors to consider when developing a custom software application, including defining scope...

What is my business going to do with ChatGPT

How can ChatGPT help businesses?

How can businesses harness the power of ChatGPT and other similar AI platforms to improve their operations, while minimizing the potential risks of data leaks, security breaches...

Key Factors to Consider when Developing a Custom Software Application

Custom software applications are becoming increasingly popular as businesses look to streamline their operations, improve efficiency, and stay competitive in an ever-changing marketplace.

Are you tired of struggling to manage complex regulations and requirements?

SunNet is DIR qualified vendor. We focus on helping government agencies, education, and local government manage specific requirements and regulations. Custom software can help these organizations to manage data, automate processes, and improve efficiency

How can Online Assessment improve Education Quality

Digital Transformation, Reinventing Education Quality Management

We now live in an age where technology exists everywhere and our world has rapidly changed with it. New innovations are created every day to make our lives easier. The education industry is no exception. Technology is being used to enhance education, especially children’s education, to track their development and help progress their development. In this article, we will explore some of the digital transformation technologies, including intelligent online assessment and reporting, to demonstrate the potential impacts it can have when it complements their outlined processes. Furthermore, how it effectively increases the quality of education by monitoring, guiding, self-learning, and improving.

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Discover the Root Cause of High Failure Rate within Custom Software Development

On Oct. 1, 2013 Healthcare.gov first launched and promptly crashed two hours later. A mere 6 people nationwide enrolled in the health care plan that day. The final budget was an astounding $1.7B (initially estimated to cost $93.7M). Various media outlets and analysts attempted to provide reasons for the failure.
Simplify and Reinforce Your Learning Management System

Organizations that invest in a learning management system, or LMS, have a powerful tool at their disposal. These systems, like Moodle, are flexible and configurable. However, having a system that can be customized to meet a company’s needs comes with challenges. These systems require knowledgeable resources to maintain, secure, and enhance the application to get the most value from it.
The Importance of Site Accessibility Scans

The intent of the internet was to democratize information, making news, data, and vast amounts of knowledge available to everyone, everywhere.

Compliance Management and What it Means in IT

Companies face regulations and laws on all sides. External entities want companies to prove they are protecting customers and the world around them to a set of defined standards. Internal employees want the organization to show they take their employment and the working environment seriously. And still other businesses must adhere to strict regulations imposed because of the industries they work in.
How Businesses Benefit from Systems Integration

Today’s businesses, regardless of industry, are dependent on technology. From Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to back-office systems like accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), companies rely on technology to keep them up and running well.
The Centralization Tipping Point: When Should I Consider a Data Centralization Strategy?

When a company first starts up, early employees work long and furious hours getting the business going. Data and documents are easily tracked and shared between departments and stakeholders, if for no other reason than because the other so-called department is the person sitting next to you.

Is Application Maintenance Needed?

Many businesses believe that once their application is developed and deployed, it only needs to be touched if they desire new features. This view, however, doesn’t take into account the many facets of application maintenance, and how it can help improve the user experience or even prevent a data breach.
11 Cybersecurity Threats Your Web Application May Have

Cyber attacks are on the rise. According to the BDO Cyber Governance Survey, attacks grew significantly in 2018. How significantly? Ransomware attacks grew by 350% while spoofing attacks went up 250%.

Legacy Modernization: Out with the old in with the new

Technology is always evolving and with that, so should our systems. The modernization of a system is the process of evolving restrictive, legacy technologies to modern technologies while keeping the original business logic and data. Although it may seem like a significant investment (both time and monetary) at first, you will see benefits in the long run. Below is a list of a few common benefits.
Four Easy Areas you can Lower Operation Costs

As your business grows and competition gets tougher, many organizations look harder for ways to lower operation costs to remain competitive. As a company specializing in web applications and business efficiency, we recommend checking your organization in the following areas as a starting point. These are a few places where you can cut costs without compromising the quality of your goods and services.
The Key to Maximizing Business Capacity

Business capacity can easily be increased if work progress is tracked through a good software application. Why? It is sometimes a struggle to follow complicated processes, remember multitude of tasks that need to be completed, and on top of that, many deadlines to keep track of. As a result, we continually fix problems through a broken process. A streamlined software application is an effective tool to help people to address these challenges.

5-Step Process to Reduce Custom Software Development Failure

According a report from The Standish Group Chaos Report, only 29% of IT projects are successfully implemented. While the success rate of such projects seems daunting, embarking on a custom software project does not have to be scary and stressful. Having a mature creation process in place is an effected way to minimize the risk of failure. Furthermore, properly communicating this process to all parties involved in the project will put you at a great advantage. The right software vendor will be able to guide you and your team through the steps and expectations of the project cycle.
What your software vendor wants to know

You've come up with a great idea for a software that can prove to be very beneficial to your business, but now what? What steps do you take to turn this idea into reality? What kind of information do software development companies look for? These are all very common concerns. The first step is mapping out a scope and putting it on paper. We have complied a list of questions that will further help you develop your idea and put you at a great start with your software development company.
Saving Money and Four More Reasons to Move to The Cloud

We have all been in a situation where we stayed up working late hours on a project-- numerous files and documents saved-- only to come back to discover the files are now missing. Maybe they were accidentally deleted, your hard drive crashed, or your laptop was stolen. If your business is utilizing cloud-computing for backups, then this situation is an easy stress-free fix. If you are not utilizing cloud backups, your hard work is now potentially lost forever.
Custom Software vs Packaged Software. What’s best for your business?

As a business owner, you go through many decisions regarding your business’s direction. One of them might be related to software for your company’s day to day business. Should you invest in custom software or go with commercial?
5 Steps to Take Before Building a Mobile Application

Thinking about building a mobile app to showcase your latest idea? Want a mobile app to complement your website? Continue reading to find out the 5 steps you need to take before building a mobile application.
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How to Reduce Custom Software Development Project Failure

On average, respondents manage $200 million in projects each year, of which approximately 37 percent are “at risk.”A study by project management consulting company, PM Solutions, identifies top causes of IT failure
Steps to Creating the Right Custom Software

With over 10 years of experience in developing dynamic web application solutions for businesses, we have incorporated several steps that help us ensure your project’s quality and deliverables, and focus the emphasis on Building the Right Product for the customer.
5 Tips to Help Keep your Technology and Business Healthy

Many cyber-attacks succeed because of weak passwords. All equipment, wireless networks and sensitive data should be guarded with user names and passwords. The strongest passwords contain numbers, letters and symbols. Consider implementing a regular password update rule.
Cloud Servers vs. Dedicated Servers: Which is right for my business?

Are you unsure what your business needs are when it comes to hosting your data? When trying to make a decision between a cloud server or an in-house dedicated server, there are several items you need to consider.
Tips for Finding a Software Development Company for your Project

Starting a custom software project can be a daunting task especially if you’ve never done one before. Understanding what to look for can help facilitate your search for the company that will best fit your needs. Selecting the right company will have an enormous impact on the success of your project. Following these tips will help you select a company that’s qualified, thorough, and capable of providing the end result you need at a fair and accurate price.

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An Effort To Keep The Weekly Project Meetings Fresh And Informative
Better Results with myDataIQ

Its Monday, and what a weekend! You ended up flying back home from one of your projects on Saturday afternoon. You could not catch a flight back home Friday night (your Friday off – by the way), because you could not get finished with all you needed to, until it was too late to even catch the last flight out. Oh, well it’s not the first time that’s happened; just part of the job.
Computer Systems and Databases Facilitate Pipeline IMP and Risk Management

Corrosion personnel were probably one of the first groups, if not the first in the maintenance crews to develop and use databases to compile data collected during their field surveys. They would use these databases to later analyze, and make several determinations; from checking the current protection status of their systems, forecasting future needs, and even to demonstrate why improvements may be needed, and later use them to assist in developing annual budgets, upgrades or repair estimates.
The People Have Spoken-House Bill 2982

On July 23rd SunNet attended the Railroad Commission of Texas, Pipeline Safety Division’s Workshop concerning House Bill 2982 (HB 2982) held in Rockport, Texas. The Workshop consisted primarily of a presentation given by Polly McDaniel, Pipeline Safety Division’s Director with a follow-up of questions and answers. The following is our brief take-away from that session, and how we may be able to help those operators who will be involved by its implementation on September, 2015.

Tips on purchasing new laptop

Holiday is just around the corner and the best deals on laptops are coming along with it! To some people making a purchase decision seem to be a real difficult task, with all those different choices out there, it is hard to tell which laptop to get without any experience. Here we can help you by breaking the process down into series of questions, by answering them, you will be able to make the right choice today.
Help speed up your PC's Boot-Up time.

Is your computer taking too long to start up? Here’s a tip that may help speed up your PC’s boot up time.
Help Your Desktop PC Run Faster by Keeping it Clean.

Dust build up plays a part in messing up your computer. Dust gets trapped and can greatly affect the way our computer behaves
Protect Your Online Accounts

The drastic rise in phishing (online account theft) over the last year is an unfortunate reminder that it’s all too easy for thieves to steal your identity on the Internet – gaining access to your bank, email and other personal accounts.
Protect the Security of Your Data

Many companies store all their data in one central location. The problem is, if something were to happen to that server, all your data could be lost – forever. Imagine the devastation that would do to your business. Backup options such as using a remote database can keep you running – even when the original server isn’t.
How to Manage your Business Leads, Sales, and Customer Information Effectively

Many businesses have problems managing sales leads and customer information, which often leads to operational issues such as:
Websites and eCommerce Guide

Having a Website for any business is a neccessity these days. Here is a good guide to how to get started in the Website development process. It also includes a good deal of valuable information on how to integrate online shopping with your Website.

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