Brandon Howard Your ERP Runs on One Person's Memory. That's a Risk You Can't See. Ask yourself one question: if the person who knows how your ERP actually works took a two-week vacation, could your finance team close the month? For a distributor doing tens of millions in revenue, t... Business Automation Custom Development Legacy Software Software Strategy Technology Decisions Aug 12, 2026
Brandon Howard Your 20-Year-Old Desktop Software Won't Survive Windows 11 There is a class of software that keeps small businesses alive and nobody writes about. It is a desktop application, built twenty years ago, that people open every single day to do their real work. Cl... Custom Development Legacy Software Small Business Software Strategy Technology Decisions Aug 5, 2026
Brandon Howard Your $200K Software Project Failed. Now What? We get a specific kind of phone call. It starts the same way every time. The business owner is frustrated but not angry. More exhausted than anything. They spent months, sometimes years, on a custom s... Custom Development Legacy Software Small Business Software Strategy Jul 29, 2026
Brandon Howard Your Business Has the Data AI Needs. Your Systems Just Cannot Serve It Yet. Every company we walk into has the same thing: 10 to 20 years of operational data. Customer records. Transaction histories. Production logs. Compliance documents. Inventory movements. Support tickets.... AI Business Automation Custom Development Legacy Software Technology Decisions Jul 27, 2026
Brandon Howard 4 Days to Modernize 15 Years of Technical Debt: What a Manufacturing Company Taught Us About Speed Day 1: understanding what the system actually does Most modernization projects start with a technology decision. What framework are we moving to? What cloud provider? What database? This one started w... Custom Development Legacy Software Manufacturing Technology Decisions Jul 22, 2026
Brandon Howard What Happens When a Software Project Fails—And How to Recover What Happens When a Software Project Fails—And How to Recover Software projects fail more often than most people realize. Not "slightly behind schedule" or "over budget"—actually fail. The system does... Custom Development Legacy Software Software Strategy Jan 7, 2026
Brandon Howard Navigating the Challenges of Legacy Software Support February 13, 2025 Navigating the Challenges of Legacy Software Support Common Legacy Software Challenges and How To Navigate Them In December 2022, Southwest Airlines canceled 16,000 flights in ten da... Legacy Software Software Strategy Technology Decisions Feb 13, 2025
Brandon Howard How Zelifcam Turns Passed Down Problems Into Long-Term Solutions Inheriting an Opportunity: How Zelifcam Turns Passed Down Problems Into Long-Term Solutions While software developers pride themselves on their ability to create custom software from scratch, we've fo... Custom Development Legacy Software Software Solutions Jul 14, 2022
