Camp Roger wins $25K Makeover

Camp Roger has won the $25,000 “Extreme Office Technology Makeover”! This makeover will give Camp Roger totally new technology in their office, replacing their pieced together system. The makeover includes an IBM server, four workstations with LCD monitors, one notebook computer, a 3Com five user phone system, five Microsoft Office 2007 licenses, a firewall, anti-virus software, and installation services.

i3 Business Solutions and the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce sponsored the makeover. Entries were judged on current business pains and how new technology would increase productivity. It was hard to select a winner!

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Congratulations, your business is growing! Your technology and business systems have grown and with that growth come new challenges. Are you wondering if it might be time to explore bringing on an information technology person full time? i3 can help. i3 Business Solutions now has dedicated recruiters to help you find the right technical person for your long term, full- or part-time placement.

As a services business, i3 depends on the quality of its employees for its success. As your current service provider, we are already familiar with your business and technology needs. Our technical and business consultants are highly trained, experienced and professional and we have the resources to evaluate candidates and find the right fit for your needs. We’ve done this every day for decades – we can align your requirements with the right skills resource.

You may already know that as a trusted partner with our clients for over 15 years, i3 has been providing the experience and business solutions that our clients need to be successful. But did you also know we specialize in locating and evaluating top talent for your upcoming short term or permanent staff hiring needs?
Here are a few recent success stories:

As a database and application developer, I spend a lot of time analyzing clients’ requirements, defining relationships between data elements and carefully architecting a technical foundation that will bear the weight of future applications. This is crucial and interesting work, and often less time-consuming than the task of creating a human interface to collect, consume and present the data.

The software development cycle can be rather ponderous; everything has dependencies on other things, everything provides its own specific and finite capabilities, and everything demands an investment. When any one of those things fails to perform its job as part of a coordinated whole, time and money is wasted.

It’s a lot like engineering a concrete bridge; once the cement has been poured, it’s awfully expensive to change the shape of the product.

For several years that model has been changing, with a greater emphasis on creating things which are “modular” – that is, components that behave in predictable ways defined by an external set of standards. Building applications using this approach is more like assembling with Lego’s.

Enter SharePoint, which takes this model a step further by providing, behind the scenes, the ability to create and assemble its own Lego’s. In this approach, we can potentially begin and end the design process with a consideration of how a body of data should behave; less consideration is required of how individual data elements will be stored, inter-connected and presented because SharePoint knows how to do those things without our help. Read more