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AndyMark Recieves Growth and Entrepreneurship (EDGE) Award
Sponsored by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation's Small Business Development Centers, the awards recognize clients of the agency's 10 regional centers located throughout the state in two categories - emerging and established.
"We know the foundation of the Indiana economy is built on the ideas of entrepreneurs across the state," said Skillman. "These 20 small businesses have continued to grow and create jobs for Hoosiers despite a very challenging national economy."
Source Inside Indiana Business
FRONTLINE LOGIC EMPLOYEE HONORED EMPLOYEE AS ORACLE DEPUTY CTO
Frontline Logic employee honored as Oracle Deputy CTO
Jon-Eric Eliker, Solution Consultant with Frontline Logic, was named as one of Oracle’s Deputy CTO’s for 2008. Oracle recognizes a select group of highly influential Oracle Technical Architects based on their delivery of innovative services and solutions to customers using Oracle technology. As a Deputy CTO, Jon-Eric has been acknowledged by Oracle for his deep understanding of the Oracle platform and the vision he has used to solve clients’ business challenges.
“The impact technology can have on a business is directly linked to how it is used and implemented,” said John Gray, group vice president, North America Technology Alliances & Channels, Oracle. “This program is designed to help empower an elite group of Oracle Technical Architects from across our SI channel with the product knowledge, implementation best practices, and access to resources and information to allow them to deliver innovative services and solutions to their customers built atop of Oracle technology.”
Oracle’s technology resources are an essential part of the service and solutions System Integrators deliver to clients. The Oracle Deputy CTO program delivers further value to these System Integrators by providing increased access to Oracle sales, training, knowledge and implementation best practices to help improve overall solution quality. Oracle plans to expand the Deputy CTO program by reviewing additional nominated candidates quarterly and naming new Oracle Deputy CTOs annually. Click here for Oracle’s official press release about the Deputy CTO program.
Frontline Logic is a technology company that provides productivity solutions for growing organizations. Founded in 2001, Frontline has helped clients improve information and technology related processes three ways. First, the company focuses on providing imaging services for document management and processing of records, transactions, and projects. Second, the firm offers security systems to protect company data and information systems. Third, Frontline Logic provides web structure capabilities for easy management of online content, publishing, and update procedures. Frontline Logic is located in the Inventrek Technology Park, a high-tech business community in Kokomo, Indiana, and maintains an office in Anchorage, Alaska.
Courtesy of Frontline Logic, Inc. www.frontlinelogic.com
KOKOMO FIRM WINS $1.48M TECH GRANT
By SCOTT SMITH
(765) 454-8569 or scott.smith@kokomotribune.com
November 16, 2007
Kokomo’s Inventrek Technology Park scored a second victory Thursday in the competition to land a state technology grant.
State officials announced Dealerflow Corp., a software development firm located at Inventrek, will receive a $1.48 million grant from the Indiana 21st Century Research & Technology Fund, to help develop specialized software for use at car dealerships.
It’s the second such grant for an Inventrek-based company, following a $180,000 21st Century grant last year to Airvoyance, a company developing the next generation of wireless products for the trucking industry.
Dealerflow president and founder Ed Brown, the former technology manager at the local McGonigal auto dealership, was thrilled to win the grant on his company’s third try.
“This is going to really accelerate things,” Brown said Thursday. “This will allow us to bring in the expertise and human resources we need to move this thing into higher gear.”
Brown’s goal — along with his six-employee development team — is nothing less than new software “which will fundamentally change the way dealer companies are managed.”
“We see [Dealerflow] becoming the lifeblood of getting things done at well-run dealerships,” Brown said.
Employee turnover, Brown said, is one of the chief problems at dealerships, with turnover at many dealerships hovering around 50 percent annually.
Getting employees to feel a connection with the business, through online interaction via the Dealerflow software, could significantly help that problem, he said. The software is also designed to help better manage multiple-dealership groups.
“Dealerships nowadays are just extremely busy places to work,” Brown said. “It’s about better informing employees about what’s happening at the dealership so they feel a part of it, so they don’t just feel like a number.”
The software is based on an open-source platform called Ruby on Rails, and yes, Brown is looking for anyone familiar with Ruby on Rails.
Once the software is released to market, possibly next fall, Brown said he’ll probably also be looking to hire an array of individuals, including software developers, application designers, Web support, customer support and sales/account management.
“This is a tremendous win for Dealerflow and the Kokomo/Howard County community. It also points to the success of Inventrek, which has played a pivotal role in our growth,” Brown said.
Dealerflow is one of 45 businesses awarded a 21st Century Fund grant since 2006, with $54 million in state funds invested in high-tech Indiana entrepreneurial companies.
Officials with the Indiana Economic Development Corp., which oversees the grant process, hope that investment results in around 5,800 new jobs across the state.
IEDC CEO Nathan Feltman said the focus of the grants is assisting in the “commercialization of new technologies.”
“The IEDC’s focus on providing critical seed capital to emerging high-growth companies like Dealerflow is vital to ensuring our state’s economic growth and diversity,” Feltman said. Courtesy of Kokomo Tribune
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