Soren Technology Consulting

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Soren Technology Consulting collaborates with its clients to meet their technology needs. The majority of our consulting engagements involve the development of custom applications to satisfy a specialized need, but we also have experience with a wide spectrum of other technology projects.

The technology services we offer include:

•  Custom Application Development
•  Website Design and Development
•  Business Process Reengineering

•  Application Tuning
•  Application Integration
•  Training & User Support

Custom Application Development
Soren Technology Consulting

First and foremost, we develop custom applications. We can create applications that you will host in your own environment or provide hosted solutions. We mostly develop web-based systems, but also have built many Lotus Notes applications. Examples include:

Workflow – automating manual processes
Request/Fulfillment – online request forms, backed up with a complete workflow process and database
Contact and Event Management
Group Calendaring
Sales Force Automation/Customer Relationship Management
Inventory Management
Coordination and Collaboration tools

Website Design and Development
Our website development services include any or all of the following:

Helping our clients define the objectives for their website, including its audience, the essence of the user’s website experience, and what actions the client would like the user to take on the site
Designing and building the site
Including a content-authoring component for easy ongoing maintenance and updates by the client
Hosting the website

Business Process Reengineering
Beyond our work building applications, we've also done more general, strategic analysis projects to help companies take stock of their business processes and systems, and to achieve new objectives. Some of the services in this area include:

Evaluating existing suboptimal business processes
Documenting complex business processes
Analyzing and recommending process improvements to meet corporate goals
Identifying new opportunities to deploy technology solutions to save costs

What our clients say
"Steve from Soren Technology Consulting was responsible for maintaining an active database and reporting system that I worked with for several years. Steve was always fantastically responsive when I had a problem. Steve would quickly troubleshoot the problem and find a solution. When I needed updates and enhancements to the system Steve was always helpful and accommodating."

— Josie McGehee
— Director of Finance and Business Operations
— Vogue Magazine

Application Tuning
If you already have an application in place that mostly works fine but needs adjustment, we can:

Evaluate applications that are underperforming because they don’t provide necessary features, require adjustments to meet new business requirements, are too slow or cumbersome, don’t integrate with other data sources, or have other issues
Recommend a refinement solution to repair the application and improve its usage
Execute the recommended changes

Application Integration
If departments or companies have merged, or previously unrelated business processes have been linked, we can:

Evaluate disparate systems that need to communicate and/or share data
Determine the most cost-effective approach to addressing consolidation needs
As appropriate, create interfaces between applications, modify one or both to achieve necessary integration, or design a replacement system

Training & User Support
We can assist with user adoption and support for applications we create, or for other systems already in place:

Provide training to users through various means: live classroom instruction, online tutorials, etc.
Create online help or other forms of documentation
Deliver ongoing help and support for user questions and problems

Technologies
Partial list of some of the software, technologies, databases, and languages we have used in our project work:

Lotus Notes/Domino
PHP
MySQL
Oracle
SQL Server
ACT!
FileMaker
SalesLogix
Visual Basic
JavaScript, XML, Ajax, JSP

We always aim to select the right technology for the project needs, and don't try to force every project into a preferred technology. If we don't have the necessary expertise in the technology that's the best choice for your project, we'll either quickly acquire it, or let you know you'd be better off with a different consultant. We're less interested in what's hot or the latest thing, and more interested in choosing the tools that will produce results quickly and provide a solution that's stable, secure, reliable, and long-lasting.

If your organization could benefit from any of these services, contact us for a free consultation.