Steve and Sean were on the meeting when I got in. Steve introduced Sean Carlton who is going to be doing some sales stuff for adilas. Eric joined in and all three of us, Steve, Eric, and I spent some time getting to know Sean. Steve's goal was to introduce Sean to a few of the adilas players as a sort of flavor or culture type thing.

Eric and Sean were talking about using standard internal solutions and tools vs mixing tons of outside 3rd party solutions. Sean has worked for companies that have used adilas for the last ten or so years (experienced user). Eric was able to talk about pros and cons on the 3rd party solutions and what not. Lots of options, sometimes it is hard to figure out what path to choose (internal, external, mix, hybrid, etc.).

This was kinda funny, but at one point, they had been talking about internal vs outside 3rd party solutions, and Eric said "there are lots of little rabbit holes like this where you could spend hours and hours, all around adilas." I thought that was kinda funny, but true. Eventually the topic switched to the beauty of a fully integrated solution and/or system. Many of the current adilas users may not even know that certain things exist. That lack of knowledge makes it so that even some of our current clients are not using adilas as effectively as they could be, due to lack of knowledge and knowing what is already there and/or in the works. Things change daily.

One of the challenges is letting people know what we have and keep improving along the way. It is never done - at least it seems that way. The lungs can't tell the heart it is not doing a good job because they (the different body parts) each do different things... like a system and all the systems inside of the body. Lots of moving pieces. That is both a challenge and a blessing.

Towards the end of the morning meeting, Steve was talking and pitching pieces of the adilas culture to Sean. It was fun to listen to him pitch it and hear how it works from his point of view. We do have a unique company culture.

As a take away, it is very common for almost all companies out there, that they are trying to mix 4-6 (or more) different software solutions and packages to try to make everything work. The pain comes in the mixing, crossing, double and triple entry, and dead ends that each of those 4-6 different packages bring to the mix. We at adilas are actively trying to build a single system that handles everything in an integrated system type environment. That is where we are headed. We are calling it world building or business world building. Our goal is to follow the data assembly line type concepts and enter the data once, at the point of action, and then let it flow until it completes it full life cycle (dates, checkpoints, permission, phases, states, and status stuff). Catching and recording the story of the data as it unfolds and then passing it on to the next step in the cycle or life cycle. That's where we are heading. Good stuff.