ZERTIS

TheraNest – Software for Improved Outcomes

sotulana — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:51:21 +0000

We are glad to announce that we have officially launched TheraNest to the public. For the past few months, we’ve been serving a short list of invitation-only clients. These clients have been invaluable with their feedback and we are grateful.
The idea of TheraNest began a few months ago when circumstances aligned and presented us with a need for a modern, powerful, and yet affordable practice management solution for social, mental, and human services. We’ve designed TheraNest to be people-focused and help you see the impact you are having on your clients.

We are also focused on helping you grow your organizations efficiently and achieving significantly improved outcomes. With TheraNest, you can see the state of your organization with a single click, drill down with reports and analytics, and give you and your staff the tools you need to continue to perform.
Our goal is to continue to provide you with the tools to achieve improved and positive results for those you serve and continued growth for your organization.

Check us out at www.theranest.com and sign up for a 30-day free trial to give it a spin.

Client Profile: Landscape Workshop – Technological Advantage

sotulana — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:06:42 +0000

Landscape Workshop (LW) is a Birmingham based landscaping company that is well known for quality work, great designs, and innovative practices.

They have over 200 employees in the field daily serving clients. Knowing in real time what projects and jobs are being done, where, and by whom and being able to relay that information to Account Managers who interact with clients is big deal. It’s also important to capture employee time correctly for compliance reasons and to assure field workers that their hours are accounted for and fully compensated.

LW has recently contracted with Zertis to design a platform that meets these challenges. The project comprises mobile/web/data delivery platforms that get the right information to the right people at the right time.

Event Store For Node.js

sotulana — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:05:52 +0000

Mike has been working on a cool tool that’s very valuable here at Zertis and is open-sourced.
It’s an event-source persistence strategy that leverages node.js’s Stream Interface. In terms of performance, it’s been quite impressive.

I hope he can take some time to write more about it in the near future.
Check it out at https://github.com/mnichols/node-event-store

Welcome, Mike Nichols

sotulana — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:11:45 +0000

Please welcome Mike Nichols to Zertis Technologies.
Mike is an outstanding software architect and developer with broad experience in web applications requiring web accessibility standards, event-driven message based architecture design, event sourcing, NoSQL, and object-relational mappers implementations. He’s also well versed in C#, SQL, Javascript, CSS, Ruby among other technical skills.

He’s also contributed to numerous popular .Net open source projects including Castle’s Monorail MVC implementation and Windsor Inversion of Control container.
He’s a maintainer of lightweight open source tools including jQuery plugins and object-object mapping support.

You can read some of his work on his blog: http://devlicio.us/blogs/mike_nichols/default.aspx
Check out his work on GitHub here: https://github.com/mnichols

Once again, welcome Mike. Glad to have you on the team.

Shegun Otulana

Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes

sotulana — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:21:45 +0000

The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it. That’s somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That’s when you find out who you are and what your values are.
So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

—Steve Jobs.

Sourced from Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes

Goal Setting

sotulana — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:26:41 +0000

This morning, I was at a roundtable with some other business people I truly respect and enjoy discussing the challenges of business and life in general with and we were discussing goal setting. I mentioned to them that at Zertis, we focus less on the granular details of setting concrete goals in terms of numbers.

I’m worried it makes us dollar focused, instead of culture focused.

We care more about:

Making sure we hire the right people and acquire the right clients than just meeting some quarterly figures.
Hiring smart, dedicated people who are passionate about what they do.
Always doing the right thing, first by the team and by our customers.
Creating an atmosphere that is fun, but intellectually engaging.
Finding sustainable ways to grow our revenues with good profit margins.
Taking reasonable risks.

Of course in my personal life, I have goals and I have people I share those goals with to hold me accountable, so I don’t consider goals bad. I just wonder about the balance between the grand vision and overly focusing on the little goals that help achieve it. I fear focusing on those goals sometimes makes it hard to pivot when necessary.

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:28:20 +0000