The story of KJ...

I met my buddy KJ, aka 'Kishore the Juice Maker' - The owner of the Juice Jam Junction chain on last Tuesday. He is currently dealing with a few challenges.

Here’s the itemized list mentioned below -

Even though his procurement boy buys the right quantity of fresh Oranges from the whole seller every morning, his inventory always goes dry by the end of the day - forcing him to close his 13 odd shops in town much earlier than planned. He has raised his purchase quantity, but his sale does not go-up! Simple case of theft inside the business process :) - turns out that the purchase guy had made a better Business Process for stealing oranges from Kishore's inventory. The inventory was not digitized or maintained in any software program.

Secondly, his competitors are able to provide a better price on their glass of juices - even though KJ gets the best rate from the whole sale market for his fresh Oranges. He seems to be running out of competitive offerings on his business. Does marketing help to drop prices and make more sales? If the answer is 'NO' then how can this work for his competitors? For a diehard analyst – this was just a chip and a putt, ‘Your friends have a better optimized business process than you my friend. If only you could make a simple inventory application, the purchase boy could have accessed and filled out the details on the quantity and prices of Oranges in real time from the wholesale market on a daily basis, the store manager could have logged inside the same inventory application when they open shop for the day and see the price on Oranges and select the marketing plan which he can offer based on the prices of the day and know the exact amount of sales he can offer under those prices. How about two cents (2¢) for the first 20 juice glasses?’

KJ was all happy, ‘But how & why do I buy or manage a full ERP – hardware-software-customization/maintenance plus people… this isn’t going to work for me! '

Nothing could have made me happier than to help KJ out. We made a small inventory app in a day’s time, added 3 roles, made a couple of business rules for each of the deals based on the Orange prices of the day and made it available over a PDA. KJ now is all set to offer his best price for the day and he pays me $ 20 dollars a month for everything.

If only I can reach out to the KJ’s of the world. Can someone help??? I can pay – OnReach!

Letter to Dr. Ruth …

Letter to Dr. Ruth … (Click on the Dr. Ruth link to get the original version)

Dear Dr. Ruth,

I am writing to thank you for opening my eyes & life. The anti-aggressive hormone therapy which you started a few weeks back for getting your clinic’s business software upgraded using my programming skills 'FREE' has made me realize a few truths!

I understand the computer didn’t build a business first; a business built a computer first. The computer also didn’t build software, businesses build software into a device called computer. The age old technical programming language which I use is geared to enhance software & not businesses in the long run. Nevertheless, software’s have digitized business processes and in the process locked businesses inside software code, but I understand businesses build processes first. So unfortunately and ironically – my technical software skills isn’t enough for me to enhance your clinic’s patient information system anymore, you can DIY (Do-it-yourself)…

Under your therapy, I have realized software programmers like me are just mere cogs in this epic industry & without any further delay I have prescribed the anti-ignorance therapy to all my software friends around the internet & have asked them to stop luring about the world of Wachowski Matrix. To express the message, I have cited examples of colonization and rise of democracy, regulation and deregulation, the rise of globalization, mass-collaboration, consumerism, social production and cloud computing & capitalism

I have also initiated a project called, ‘Business Definition Software Service’ which will be an open standard Platform-as-a-Service & can be used to develop business software’s within days without programming. It keeps the business entities, logic, rules, seperate from software code so your app can be enhanced without software upgrades & helps to read, write, change your software without technical programming skills. This project is based upon the new high level XML based business language called WBRX, which is my brain child.

While this is keeping me occupied, I regularly get chest pains, nightmares about angry customers whose businesses I have locked inside software code and would like you to know that your Sybase database license will expire by the end of this month, the company does not renew those old licenses anymore, the rent of the hardware servers have never been paid by me, your patient history dates cannot be queried -- I had hard coded them using PASCAL -- which will not support 8 digit date formats and t e s p t s nt wor t j d g hgs re shu w euur rj ddjfd dhd he ejjje ejeje…~¨¨¨¨¨~… j d g hgs re shu w euur r…~…………………………~…………………………~……………………~………………………… ............................................................... ................................................................................................. ............................................................................................ ........................................................

Another business win, software was only consequential...

It’s been a long time… Can’t remember how we got together and got started with developing our platform for business. There were clearly many points of discussion then, ‘How can a software platform help to build a engaging relationship with customers and partners? Why should technical software’s have such high prices & intellectual ratings? Can we truly enhance productivity & lower cost for any business by creating technical software – is it possible? Why creation and recreation of software hurt customers with more cost, time and higher learning curve? Why do we lose customers when we enhance our versions? Is every software in this world – computer language dependent? Is there a computer which understands the language of business? Can such a language become equivalent to the tune of modern accounting terms such as balance sheet – which every businessman understand?’

Clearly, we were not going to develop another technical software and add to the chaos. We simply couldn’t afford too.

Now -- It’s obvious that we were asking the right questions. Without them being answered we wouldn’t have closed our fifth partner deal today. What seems to have happened since those days of inception of our product to this day of delivery is a long battle of unwinding. Unwinding years of experience & knowledge in creating our intelligent software platform which businesses could read, understand, build & enhance without code. We call it our ‘Business Definition & Designing platform’, the world’s first of course :)

So this is just a quick post to celebrate another business win over technical software, with our software which is business language driven & not otherwise :)