A bunch of the guys joined and checked in on their projects. We went over custom settings, data imports, logic questions, and other stuff. Eric and Steve were having multiple conversations about different topics as well. One of the major ones was about 3rd party solutions and how they sometime stay on the outside and somewhat leach (parasite type behavior) off of the bigger company. They provide a small piece, but charge quite a bit for their services. We have also seen where they are some simple, that if they try to intergrate with a bigger product, they just kill over and die.

As an interesting side note, we know that we are deep and robust (cover things all the way from A to Z along the operations to accounting realm). That same deepness and robustness has actually allowed us to keep surviving. There is a balance, but currently, having enough depth has really helped us out. Our internal goals are dealing with refining those processes and making things easier and easier. Interesting balance.

Another place where we have seen some of the 3rd party solutions fall apart is on their short sightedness. Sometimes they just build something but don't think about the full story or the cause and effect relationships that need to go on.

We will keep taking the next logical steps and trying to go to the next level.