Through our experience with many companies we have seen the benefit of focused novel software solutions that provide greater nimbleness or insight to an organization. Tartan Solutions has a strong bias towards using data to make insightful decisions and we believe that well designed and implemented tools can help.

We are fanatical about delivering useful software. Our goal is to exceed your expectations both in functionality and capability. We subscribe to an iterative approach when building complex systems due to the need to learn “what you don’t know” along the way. Our iterative approach allows us to deliver incremental value as we progress while continuing to march towards the final vision for the overall solution. While the big issues and overall design are well understood in the design phase of a project, often the subtleties encountered during the development and integration with existing systems requires the need to quickly iterate through potential solutions to arrive at a final one.

Custom software solutions have fallen out of favor among many companies because previous vendors promised the moon and failed to deliver a fraction of the functionality while going over time and budget. We understand the need to execute flawlessly and deliver on-time and on-budget. We do this through a strong project management and project control discipline as well as through the use of the Akorn Integration Framework. The Akorn Integration Framework provides an out-of-the-box web integration framework that operates on most hardware, operating system, and database combinations. It provides an excellent method to mitigate software development risk by providing the ability to perform everything except the custom logic without writing a line of code. Since it is not technology restrictive it will fit within most corporate architectures, even the most hardened.

We believe custom software solutions have their place. They should be used for areas that are unique to your business or where you would like to differentiate your business from competitors. Solutions built on spreadsheets can serve a great need but they are prone to data corruption as they grow in size and there is generally no continuity in the design or maintenance of the tools. Furthermore, they are usually not part of the corporate disaster recovery plan and may not even be backed-up regularly. On the other side of the spectrum are ERP solutions or bolt-ons that are expensive and generic. They require extensive modification of the business or the software to make them work optimally. And when the implementation is completed you now have the same solution as your competitors. We believe investing wisely in custom software applications can provide competitive advantages that will yield superior returns over your competitors.

If you would like to learn more about how Tartan Solutions can help please contact us and we would be happy to discuss your business and potential solutions.