Working for the man...

Actually, I've been working for the women lately, specifically for the Young Womens Christian Association, or the YWCA of Adelaide. I've been fortunate enough to be doing a system review and business gap analysis to help them align their IT systems with the strategic plan. 

The YWCA is a not for profit, and do great work for the women of Adelaide, including providing a variety of support services, professional mentoring for young women and advocating for women against violence and domestic abuse. They are also responsible for the SA area for the Big Brother Big Sister program which provides role models for young children.

From a technology perspective the YWCA are looking to improve the overall quality and reliability of their systems and processes and to utilise technology to enhance the service they can provide to their members.

Hopefully I'll continue working with them for the foreseeable future as they start to go out to market to look for a new business management system to fill the 'gaps' we identified between where they are now and where they aspire to be. 

Me and 3E

So, I've spent the last 6 months of my life working with Elite 3E, a Practice Management System used by Law firms worldwide. I'm specifically involved in the area of reporting and business intelligence and so I am heavily involved with the data conversion and report writing components of the implementation. 3E has this thing called a reporting tool, but it's not really.

It has a development environment named IDE that is used for report development. Supposedly the developers of Elite 3E use this same tool to build the product. Wow, good luck to them.  

I have been using the IDE environment to produce reports for a law firm to replace the current solution which is built on Microsoft SSRS. Talk about about taking a step back in time.