| Ethix Systems took on our large project with enthusiasm and has created a bridge between our obsolete programs and Quickbooks that allows us to ... be more efficient in servicing our accounts. We have other projects and look forward to working with them in the future. |
Vice-President
Vision: Advanced Fire Company installs, inspects, and services fire extinguishers and fire protection systems for businesses. Their scheduling software links up with their accounting program, Quickbooks, and allows them to efficiently manage their employees and jobs.
Problem: The scheduling software that they used reached end-of-support, so they needed an alternative solution. They also needed their data migrated into the new system from the old software.
Solution: Not only did Ethix Systems build custom software to replace the old, out-of-date scheduling software, but they added several enhancements that drastically improved the scheduling process at Advanced Fire, allowing them to keep better track of their jobs as well as reduce the amount of time spent scheduling. This software also integrates with Quickbooks to eliminate redundant data entry.
Web applications are a great way to share data from a centralized location. Unfortunately one of the administrative downsides is the difficulty in gauging a web application's performance. Luckily, there are many free tools available that can help you optimize your website.
One of these tools is YSlow. It was developed by Yahoo as a part of their developer framework and is geared towards helping you improve the load time of your site and help keep bandwidth utilization at a minimum. YSlow is very easy to use and install as a Firefox add-on (you must also install the Firebug add-on), and you can run the tool on any website. Once a site has been analyzed, it will receive a performance grade from 0 to 100 using its top 13 parameters. Each parameter translates into a letter grade from A to F and comes with a detailed explanation on how to improve your performance for that parameter.
While you can run this utility on your own, Ethix Systems provides free YSlow reports for anyone's website along with recommendations on how to improve performance for that site.
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