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Getting Down to Business
We're now a Microsoft Managed Partner in Nashville, TN! What does this mean? We've taken another step in building up our second office in Tennessee!
We'll be starting a weekly blog series in January 2012 called "Why Projects Fail." For 10 weeks, you can learn more about Aptera's Agile Alignment Process and how it ensures success when working with Aptera. Aptera Presents
Aptera hosted a Lync Lunch on November 14. Attendees received hands-on Microsoft Lync training from our Cloud Practice Lead, Eric Rupp, and lunch from Jimmy John's.
On November 27, Grant Harmeyer and Scott ...
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Challenge Aegis Labs got to know Aptera by attending several of Aptera’s presentations in Nashville on emerging technologies. So, when Aegis decided to take on some of their communications, data storage, and project tracking challenges, Aptera was the company they turned to for help. Aegis is a forensic chemical and drug-testing laboratory serving an array of clients, from law enforcement to professional sports organizations. They needed a reliable way to store and access information on employees, instruments, and lab materials. The project would be monumental in scale, impacting departments company-wide, and it would demand intricate planning to be successful. Since ...
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Shambaugh and Son: Lync Project Shambaugh and Son was looking for ways to streamline their communication channels when Aptera first reached out to them. As an engineering and construction company with offices all over the Midwest, Shambaugh depends on timely correspondence to stay competitive. Aptera’s team knew they could save Shambaugh and Son time and money by giving them the tools to hold video conferences with multiple attendees in distant locations. Microsoft Lync was the tool they needed. It makes it possible for them to access such conferencing platforms anytime, anywhere, using mobile devices like tablets and smartphones, thus eliminating ...
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Challenge Shambaugh and Son was looking for ways to streamline their communication channels when Aptera first reached out to them. As an engineering and construction company with offices all over the Midwest, Shambaugh depends on timely correspondence to stay competitive. Their specialty Design/Build service is an alternative to multiple subcontractors bidding separately on each of the various aspects of a project. This way the client only has to deal with a single company. Since these projects involve a great deal of coordination, anything that makes team members more readily available to each other would improve efficiency and trim costs. Solution...
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Several members of the Aptera team traveled to Nashville, Tennessee on Monday afternoon, some by car, some by Aptera Air (piloted by our very own T.K. Herman). Early Tuesday morning, Grant Harmeyer and Scott Walsh led a discussion at the Nashville Microsoft Office in Franklin on the importance of planning before implementing Microsoft SharePoint solutions to your business’s challenges. We even provided breakfast (courtesy of Jason's Deli) for the attendees and handed out longsleeve t-shirts. We'll be holding more events in Tennessee starting January 2013.We hope you can join us! Below you will see an event overview and parts ...
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Messenger LLC: Make It Personal Software Project
Messenger LLC, located in Auburn, IN, is a leading provider of stationery for the funeral home industry. Aptera's experts recently helped them redesign their "Make It Personal" software to add more features and accessibility using Microsoft's Silverlight and Windows Azure. Now funeral directors can create customized photobooks, register books, prayer cards, and more. More about this project Essex Brownell: Video Game Project Essex Brownell, a distribution arm of the magnet, wire, and cable manufacturer Superior Essex, came to Aptera because they were looking for help designing a quiz game to attract attention to ...
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Big News
Over the last six months, Aptera has continued to grow its presence in the Nashville, Tennessee market by expanding it's client base and completing several projects. Aptera is relocating Steve Ehinger, Business Development Manager, to Nashville as part of the company’s overall growth strategy to keep up with the growing demand and recent success in the market.
Presentations
Aaron Crouch, Business Intelligence Practice Leader, gave a presentation on Business Intelligence at the Microsoft Offices in Nashville, Tennessee on September 6th. In addition to Aaron's knowledge on the subject, attendees were also treated to a scrumptious breakfast. Aaron also ...
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Challenge
Messenger originally partnered with Aptera several years ago to develop an application that allowed funeral directors to create stationery with personal touches to help families commemorate their lost loved ones. That was when the people at Messenger came to appreciate not only how involved and responsive Aptera’s developers were but also how genuinely excited they were to see where cutting-edge technologies could take them. So, when Messenger set its sights on an ambitious new business model centered on an even more interactive application for designing still more customizable products, they turned to Aptera for help making it a reality. ...
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Challenge
Essex Brownell, a distribution arm of the magnet, wire, and cable manufacturer Superior Essex, came to Aptera because they were looking for help designing a quiz game to attract attention to their booth at an industry tradeshow in June of 2012. Eric Corzine, Essex’s Product Line Manager, says, “As we started this project, we interviewed several potential agencies. After talking with Aptera, you could see that they got what we were trying to accomplish here. It was just a gut feeling to go with them. And I’m really glad we did.” Working with Corzine and other Essex staff, Aptera’s ...
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May was the best sales month in our company history! We're very excited to contribute to the city's vibrancy and continuing growth. We hope this is a sign of even greater things to come. Events
On May 9, Aptera hosted the "Capture the Cloud" event at Parkview Field to introduce kick off Aptera offering Office 365 and to introduce local business leaders to Microsoft’s Cloud Technology. The event was attended by representatives of over 50 local businesses and featured presentations by Eric Rupp, Aptera’s Cloud Services Practice Leader, and Sjonia Harper, from Microsoft Corporation. The presentations included demonstrations of Microsoft ...
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