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. […]
June 25, 2014
In Patrick Lencioni’s “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees), the author correlates job satisfaction with performance. He focuses specifically on three areas where employees begin to loathe their jobs; irrelevance, immeasurability, and anonymity. Lencioni offers actionable advice on diagnosing and addressing these issues. I could not help […]
June 23, 2014
Friday one of Volano’s former developers dropped in to say ‘hi’ and play a couple of games of darts with the team. Doug Dawson was one of the first class of developers who helped Volano in its early days and it was great to have him back. Friday culminated a long week and our team […]
June 20, 2014
One of the issues Volano Solutions faced this year when selling our mobile compliance review app Action Card was from a restaurant that expressed concern that they might be held liable for intellectual property patent infringement by using our software. We learned that there was a special breed of bottom feeder that “trolled” published patents, […]
June 16, 2014
Launching Saas Product Launching and selling software product has been challenging and fun. When you’ve developed a nice tool that solves a specific problem for a defined group of people, getting clients up and running is a rush. Our mobile compliance app Action Card has been a great experience. We knew we had an innovative idea […]
June 12, 2014
Volano Solutions received honorable mention in the Silicon Prairie News among some esteemed technology-focused entrepreneurs. Read about Action Card here. Story lines: Nebraska Ecosystem Builds Talent Muscle, Gets Moving
June 4, 2014
Volano has written about the disproportionate male to female ratio in software developers. We have also been in the trenches with our Omaha brethren when looking for technical talent when demand far exceeds supply. This is why we are encouraged by the advent of code schools and the increased awareness that ignoring this problem is […]
May 28, 2014
The term “compliance” gets a bad rap. Immediately the term suggests rules, regulations, inspections, audits and punitive outcomes for those outside of the rules. We immediately think of the financial industry or maybe the manufacturing sector and health and safety compliance. Rarely do we correlate compliance to customer satisfaction. This is something I do daily […]
May 27, 2014
The Omaha World Herald wrote a nice piece on some of the local clients benefiting from Action Card. Companies in diverse industries have a common challenge in managing best practices and brand standards across their network. We are proud of the value proposition Volano’s latest SaaS application brings to business owners and field agents.
May 20, 2014
As Volano continues to grow, we find ourselves again in need of a good developer to help us build custom software solutions for our clients. We’ve had a great run recruiting highly skilled, resourceful people who collaborate well with each other and communicate effectively with our clients and we want to find someone who will […]
May 13, 2014
Big Omaha wrapped up last week and Volano had some key takeaways. The Silicon Prairie News did a great job once again of bringing out the best in Omaha and attracting the best from the country to our city to teach, inspire and create a more attractive climate for aspiring entrepreneurs. As a young software […]
May 9, 2014
This week I read an interesting piece by Andy Zinga in the Harvard Business Review titled “A Social Brain Is a Smarter Brain.” . As an unrepentant extrovert, the title was immediately validating. The author asserts that social interaction is not only good for maintaining higher level mental functioning, but in fact may help drive […]