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Wow, may I ask what kind of software creates such an astounding change?
by klbarry 16y ago
Wow, may I ask what kind of software creates such an astounding change?
- icey 16y agoHeh, it's a boring industry - Insurance sales. But other than a few small players that are focused on the wrong things, we mostly compete with home-grown systems and excel worksheets over email. We made a choice to focus on this metric a few years ago and it's been a tremendous boon for us (and our customers). Now we consider every change with the lens of "Will this help our customers do their jobs better?"
- DevX101 16y agoHow'd you end up focusing on that industry? Boring, but solid industries make for excellent profit margins.
- icey 16y agoIt just worked out that way. This company used to be one of my consulting clients, and they talked me in to staying full time to fix some quality and process issues as well as tweak their sales process. It's been very satisfying to see the progress for sure.
- muhfuhkuh 16y agoWhen I used to sign up for insurance face to face through a local broker, their system was logging into a ISDN line, then connecting to a VMWare session that opened up a hosted desktop that they then used to open a TN3270 emulator to the insurance (in this case, Allstate) text-based interface. I have a feeling independent resellers of services, brokers of any kind, and management companies of all verticals are seeing this type of abysmal computing and are crying out for someone building that next Quora knock-off to give their industry some love, likely at _any_ price (because they're probably paying a fortune for their kludge solutions anyway).
- icey 16y agoRating systems are part of our offering ;)
- klbarry 16y agoThank you. More specifically though, what does your software do? Help people collaborate, store files in an organized way?
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