Technical Toolboxes Blog - Calgary

Canada?s Capital Pool Company

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:58:00 -0600

Canada’s Capital Pool Company
We are all looking for ways to raise money and to build or rebuild our businesses. Canada has a unique means of sourcing capital and management. It is available to emerging businesses that want to become public at a time when a traditional IPO would not be suitable. The objective of the CPC Program is to facilitate a company becoming public and using the Venture Exchange as a springboard to a more senior listing. [More]

We Work Better Together

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:01:00 -0600

We Work Better Together
An old colleague once said, “we work together apart”. Joe Murgio was the founder of a very nice project management system called onProject. I was just reading about the major airlines planning to build airborne conference rooms for hundreds of passengers/delegates, how cool is that! The fact is, we work better when we are together and that means getting people together in groups large and small as much as you can. I like the flying conference center idea, but we need to make this level of collaboration happen now for all businesses rich and poor, large and small. The great common denominator and catalyst for countless success stories is the internet.

Web-based enterprise systems work. We just added our endorsement to an outstanding free download called CrossLoop. This is one of the companies headed up by the patent holder for the Universal Shopping Cart, Lee Jay Lorenzen. Lee is the CEO of company, Altura Ventures. This is one of the products that we can use in order to get as close as we can to being face to face.

Tomorrow night a number of us gather together for the Calgary DemoCamp. Meet like-minded people, make contacts, get the word out…….together. See this Blog for a summary of the DemoCamp.

Tom West, Technical Toolboxes Canada, Ltd., twest@ttoolboxes.ca, +1 403 235-3495 x201, www.ttoolboxes.ca, Skype: twest1960

Blogs I Read Every Day and Why

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:00 -0600

Blogs I Read Every Day and Why
Blogs are becoming one of my major news sources. With my interest in ERP, SFA, CRM, Business Process automation , enterprise computing, marketing, business intelligence, business analysis, finance, engine technology, Calgary, Silicon Valley, startups, Web 2.0, data warehousing, business intelligence, military, and etc. I have a few Blogs that I go for the straight goods. Here are the ones that have my attention these days (in no particular order): [More]

CBC Dragons' Den Auditions in Calgary

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:33:00 -0600

CBC Dragons' Den Auditions in Calgary
I wanted to alert everyone in Calgary about a special opportunity to get your company’s message heard. If you are entrepreneurial and could benefit from investment and national TV exposure, please read on. The CBC has a show called the Dragons' Den and it is properly defined and talked about at length in Kempton Lam’s Blog. Kempton and some of our other local Bloggers are getting the word out that auditions for the show will be held on April 20th and 21st right here in Calgary, it is a wonderful opportunity that shouldn’t be missed.

Please have a look at Kempton’s Blog for more information on this rare event, http://kempton.wordpress.com/tag/dragons-den/.

Following is an excerpt from a CBC announcement: [More]

Portable ERP is a Beautiful Thing!

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:41:00 -0600

Portable ERP is a Beautiful Thing!
“I just want to cut down on the morning smoking, coffee drinking, and generally wasting precious time every day”, that quote was one of the main factors in the ERP decision of a successful construction service businessman. He just wanted to be the best in our city and beyond and he knew without a shadow of a doubt that he needed to change the way they were doing business. So he built a custom ERP system that worked for his industry, and then built a portable version of the ERP system and never looked back. [More]

Simple Formula: ERP = Instant Growth

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:39:00 -0600

Simple Formula: ERP = Instant Growth
This simple formula is a given for me as I build ERP systems for a living….but as I said this to a potential client the other day it kicked off a very interesting conversation and intense scrutiny of that claim and I will outline some of those discussions in this Blog. The reason why ERP is a “secret advantage” for big business is because they can afford it. Now with new software development tools, the internet, and a growing rank and file of users, the secret is out of the bag and it is ERP. I will now step off my soap box (no software pun intended) and get to the area of my concern. How can I best explain the advantages of ERP to the SMB owner who wants to grow to the next step and has exhausted all other avenues? [More]