On the morning meeting with the guys. One of the first topics of the day was a client's system stats and how to monitor who is big, small, or somewhere in between? We have a few small reports, but we really need to beef that area up and make it more available and visible. We would love to do some visual stats, like the new invoice homepage that Alan made. The difference would be that instead of just invoice and sales data, it would be corporation (world) or location level stats and data. That would be really cool. We went into one of the servers and checked around. The data 0 box had over 1,000+ unique logins yesterday. The corporation in question had over 55 unique users yesterday make and/or modify an invoice. That same company had over 110 unique users affect an invoice in the month of October. We would like to make those kind of stats available and ready for viewing. It helps with decisions and what not.

As we were talking about shared hosting plans, we had the idea of creating an in-depth news and update with information about shared hosting plans (standard adilas accounts), semi-dedicated plans (limited number per server), and fully or full dedicated plans (private server boxes or cluster). We also made a note that some of that info may go well in our ecommerce pages and section. Basically, let the companies decide if they want to upgrade and what not. Show the features, advantages, and benefits of what we have to offer.

Along with that discussion, we had some talks about how fast things are changing all around us... think of technology in general, software packages, servers, hardware, and even versions of existing products. Everything keeps advancing. It becomes a maintenance balance to keep up with things.

Steve wanted to be fair and look at upgrades and maintenance from both sides. What are the clients wanting and/or expecting (their side)? What are we wanting and/or expecting (from our side)? Where do we meet in the middle and who pays for what? Great questions.

We also talked about the fear of selling and making the sale. Sometimes it is scary to virtually rock the boat. This was mostly on my part, but I was expressing that sometimes my angle and strategy is very open and doesn't commit and/or over commit on certain things. Each person needs to be their own style. Later in the day, I was challenged to write a big email to open the door to a client about getting on their own box. It made me think of a quote from Spencer Johnson's, "Who Moved My Cheese" book about dealing with change. It says - "What would I do if I weren't afraid?" That is a good question to ask. It is even more fun to ask yourself that question and then actually go do it. Difficult but fun.

Historically speaking, we are seeing things such as the data 0 server. It was setup in 2011 or 2012, it is on a 2008 server, it uses older versions of ColdFusion (coding environment) and older versions of the MySQL database. That conversation moved us to talk about older technology like fax numbers and other older hold-overs and such. It is amazing as it comes down to a form of maintenance and upkeep. Lots of the new things are going to faster processors, solid state drives, and up to date versions of both software and hardware.

A quote from Steve - "Lessons in time". It is amazing what we have learned over time and by trial and error. We keep learning as we go.

Towards the end of the session, I helped merge in some new code from Bryan. His code was dealing with show/hide option for 2nd vendor/payee tied to PO's. After merging code and pushing things up, he went in and did some live testing. After that, I helped get Steve's latest code branch merged into the master code repository. His code is currently all in custom pages and mostly dealing with the cannabis vertical. He's got some good things going. On that note, he would love to turn over his code work and swap it out for more sales work. He is really good at that.

I worked on some feedback for Dave Forbis and a new graphic that he sent to me. See attached for a copy of the new graphics.

Eric popped in and we setup some bigger blocks of time to work on his special account tracking projects. As we were talking, Eric was talking about project management and the "risk factor" within project management and risk management. He is excited that our current project will help other pieces and clients, but it not dependent upon other pieces in the system. Our goal is to get that section finished and launched by end of the year. That would be awesome.

This is an observation, but there is a growing need to keep breaking things into smaller and smaller pieces. Eric had questions, just today, about how to show/hide fields, change names and aliases, etc. We have a mini project that was done and created for the customers add/edit page, but it doesn't go any further than that. We really need to break each section into smaller pieces and have group settings, page settings, and personal settings. That seems to be a growing need. Along with that, we also see a future need to sub divide the permissions into virtual functions within the functions themselves. It is crazy to see how deep those fractures are and will be heading in the future. Crazy customizable levels.