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Thursday, November, 2008 10:15:58 AM
Executive Luncheon: CFO’s & Technology Best Practices. Netsuite and 2nd Wind Fitness.
    On October 29th 2008, Agosto held it’s first in a series of executive luncheons. The subject of this event was CFO’s and Technology Best Practices.  Tom Kelly of 2nd Wind Exercise Equipment presented NetSuite and how he transformed 2nd Wind’s operations through the use of key business applications delivered through SaaS.  Gary Pokorn from [...]

Saturday, September, 2008 5:16:11 PM
Google Video - Enterprise Video Sharing
    Now that Google has launched Google Video, an enterprise youtube, as part of Google Apps, I can talk about the pilot that we’ve been running at 2nd Wind Exercise.  2nd Wind has 325 employees and over 100 locations across 9 states.  As one might imagine, training can be very difficult and expensive.  We participated in [...]

Saturday, September, 2008 3:44:37 PM
Online network share (file storage) - Getdropbox.com
    Is a server-less IT strategy possible in the mid-market / enterprise space?  Can an organization leverage SaaS and outsourced partners to effectively remove all premise-based IT?  No one doubts the success of SaaS / ondemand applications for specific functions like CRM (Salesforce.com, Rightnow.com), Financial Modeling (Adaptive Planning), ERP (NetSuite, Plex), etc.  But few mid-market and [...]

Friday, August, 2008 2:30:13 PM
Software as a Service (SaaS) Employee Appraisal System
    Implementing a SaaS based employee appraisal system will enable achieving your strategic goals and tactical objectives. During the famous Apollo 13 space mission in 1970, the astronauts on board the ship and Mission Control personnel on the ground at NASA were faced with one of their worst nightmares.  An explosion had left the crew with a [...]

Monday, June, 2008 3:19:3 PM
Managed VoIP and MPLS- Why Outsourced Voice and Data Services Mean Better Business:
    Agosto was one of the first consulting firms in the metro area to understand the value of offering VoIP and MPLS as a managed service for our clients.  In this blog post I will describe how we worked with one of our clients to implement this new strategy. Client Overview Our client is a multi-location organization with [...]

Monday, June, 2008 3:18:43 PM
Google Apps - Has email become a commodity?
    Has email become a commodity?   It depends who you ask.  For years Microsoft has had the market (62% of commercial email according to a recent Radicati Group analysis) believing that premise-based collaboration with all the bells and whistles was a requirement of a savvy business.  In fact, Microsoft would lead you to believe that [...]

Monday, June, 2008 3:18:25 PM
Backup and Disaster Recovery
    Recently implemented Agosto’s backup and disaster recovery solution for the largest Midwest exercise equipment retailer.    Our client maintained an aging tape library and manually rotated tapes offsite.  They needed a reliable and efficient solution that provided offsite backups (tape replacement) with highly available disaster recovery capability.   To meet their needs we implemented Agosto’s [...]

Tuesday, June, 2008 7:00:40 PM
Google Apps a big win at 2nd Wind
    Google apps was a big win at 2nd Wind.  Agosto managed all aspects of the migration to Google Apps, from TCO analysis all the way through implementation.

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