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 »

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).

This morning my wife offered her constructive critique of the newly re-designed website. In the course of our conversation she said,”I am just not sure that there are enough organizations that are cutting edge enough to move their IT to the web.” As a point of clarification, my wife is in the IT profession and has been for 20 years. She currently is the network manager of a large mortgage brokerage company. (In other words, she is ideally qualified to have an opinion!)

Clearly that is the crux of the “challenge” we at OMBNexGen will be facing in our endeavors to help organizations move their businesses to the web. After a bit of verbal fencing our discussion settled on the mutual perspective that if OMBNexGen can overcome the psychological barriers of change, the “ideal place to move IT infrastructure would be to the web.”

In my humble opinion I don’t think moving one’s business to the Internet is that much of a cutting edge venture. Today most of us already do a substantial portion of our business on the Internet: We do our home banking, our medical insurance and doctors scheduling, we pay our utility bills, mortgage and telephone bills on the Internet. Face it, unless you happen to live in a third-world country, most of our personal business lives are done on the Internet.

Just reflect a bit on the current pervasive nature of how much day to day business is done on the Internet and I believe it becomes easier to appreciate that moving one’s business to the Internet is not a “cutting edge” kind of decision at all. In fact it may more appropriately be called CATCHING UP!