We know they exist! Think about the times when you thought, “I wish I had the ability to turn my idea into an application.” At OMB, we want to help you move those ideas into applications.

Your ideas for enabling and or solving a business process is exactly the kind of challenge we are looking for. As seasoned business professionals with Internet development and technology skills, we are prepared to convert your ideas into applications. Read the rest of this entry »

OMBNexGen (Oh-Em-Be-Nex-Gen) is a Next Generation Products and Services Technology company that help Business Owners integrate business information and management activities from within a web browser. The result is a “NexGen” solution that enables better communication, lowers costs, increases the accuracy and the quality of business information and shortens the time to access and distribute important business intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »

On Friday, January 16th, we contacted 1200 organizations with an invitation to participate in our contribution to Barak Obama’s call to action by honoring Martin Luther King on MLK Day through a National Day of Service.

Barak Obama asked all American’s to celebrate his innauguration and the “Spirit of Change” by volunteering on MLK day. We at OMBNexGen, irrespective of any political affiliations, were impressed with his request and decided that we would participate with our own idea to honor the spirt of change: We have offered to contribute our professional expertise and time to solve business problems and we will do so by volunteering our time for free.

With that idea in mind we contacted 1200 organizations and asked them to submit a problem that they would like OMBNexGen to help them resolve. Our invitation was very well received with a large number of the invitees reading our email invitation. In addition we got quite a number of responses with some interesting as well as challenging problems.

We contacted all of the responder’s who submitted a problem and we have even started a problem resolution project for the software development company, Outformations. Based upon preliminary conversations with the responders, it looks like we will be undertaking at least three other additional free consulting projects.

Because we have had such an incredibly favorable reaction to our offer, we are actually going to extend the offering for another couple of weeks and we will be sending an additional email invitation to an additional group of organizations. When you get that email, and if you are not one of the lucky organizations we had in our email list - please contact us as we want to extend the same offer to you - please take the time to think through our offer as well as let us know about a problem you need solved. We want to hear about the problem and we want to bring our focus and professional skills to that problem to help you resolve it.

Change is good and given the current economic circumstances as well as challenges, OMBNexGen believes that not only is the change of doing everything on the Internet a good idea but that getting professional services for free or for a price that you are willing to pay based upon your sense of what we do is worth, represents the kind of change that will be the future.

Please call or email us with your problem and lets engage in changing your problem to a solution!

The secret to being a great technologist (apart from having innate diagnostic skills) is having a good “tool-box” of things to use to solve an opportunity.  Take 50 years of solving technical opportunities, add it to our superior innate diagnostic skills, and mix it up with our keen ability to learn new things and I can assure you, we have a great set of tools to use in moving your organization to the Internet (really, solve any of your technical opportunities!)

Listed below are some of the tools we are currently working with.  In reviewing the tool box of solutions we are familiar with, you will get an overall sense of how and where we fit in terms of helping your organization make the move to putting your business on the Internet.

The List Of “Tools”:

• Team Viewer - There is no reason to let distance separate us from helping and or supporting you. Team Viewer is an incredible solution for remote support, remote teaching, and remote desktop sharing. This product is very easy to use and overcomes the silly issues of Firewall’s, private networks, and technical configuration confusion.
• Grand Central - One number that can follow you anywhere and will take to all of your other numbers.
• ZOHO - This is tough to describe as there are so many parts to the ZOHO solution. Our best advice is to seriously check ZOHO out. In fact, we are seriously considering moving from Google Apps to ZOHO.
• MindMeister - Online MindMapping solution that allows us to collaboratively present ideas visually.
• Gliffy - Online drawing application (think cloud based VISIO).

Google Apps is and has been, since it’s by invitation only beta days, the primary IT infrastructure for OMBNexGen: We live in Google Apps!  While the various individual principles were using Google’s personal services for some time, once we came together to form the new company, OMBNexGen, LLC, we purposefully deployed all of our “internal” (remember for us “internal” is a concept that lives on the Internet Cloud) IT infrastructure through the Google Apps for business services.

Our email is hosted and managed by Google Apps, our office automation solutions like Wordprocessing, Spreadsheets, etc., are provided through Google Apps, and in addition our collaborative workspace services, i.e., Google Chat, Google Video, shared documents, and our Intranet services are all provided by Google Apps.  We use the Premium Google Apps version so that we can have the security and SPAM services of the Google Postini products as well as compliance and email retention services.  In a sentence, Google Apps is our IT infrastructure.

As early Google Apps converts and by invitation beta testers, we have developed an incredibly strong and rich skill set in all of the Google offerings (Google Analytics, web-tools, maps, etc…).  To a great extent Google Apps epitomizes are philosophy of what is smart about the direction the Internet can take in terms of transforming IT into Next Generation solutions.

While Google Apps is completely second hand to us, we have come to understand and learn that even today many organizations don’t know or understand the extent of what Google offers in terms of commercial class enterprise IT services.  Everyone knows Google search, but lots of people don’t know Google Apps.

If an organization does nothing else to upgrade their IT infrastructure to Next Generation Internet services, it must and should seriously consider Google Apps for email.  Email is one of those organizational must have services, like a phone and electricity, that should be as trivial and reliable as having a phone or electricity; Google Apps hosted email for business is as good as it gets for enterprise email.  How many organizations can say that about their MS Exchange environments! Furthermore we challenge anyone to show us an email solution that is less expensive, while still being enterprise grade and quality, than Google Apps business hosted email.