In recent years, the terms “SaaS”, “Cloud” and other forms of jargon have entered the mainstream technology lexicon. Like a lot of buzzwords, though, sometimes the actual meaning can get confused, obscured by the process of commonization. These days, it seems that everyone has a cousin, nephew, or colleague who is working on a SaaS
Surge Acquires Insurance Technology Consulting Company
Surge, a leading custom software development and consulting firm, today announced the acquisition of 10X Design, a boutique technology consulting company with deep expertise in the Insurance industry. As part of this acquisition, Brett Houghton, Owner 10X Design, has joined Surge as EVP and Chief Operating Officer. “We are delighted to be part of the
White Paper: Offshoring Software Development – Reality Hits Home
In this latest White-Paper, Surge CEO Matt MacKay takes an in-depth look at offshoring software development work, with specific emphasis on the hard realities most companies face. Offshoring is not a simple, cut-and-dry sort of topic. There is a lot of rhetoric surrounding this topic, positive and negative, and in this white paper we deal
Benefits of Telecommuting, a Company Perspective
One of the things that makes Surge unique is the fact that we are a 100% telecommuting company. And although it is true that having employees spread out all over the country does create some unique challenges, it is also true that it creates some incredibly powerful benefits. One of the amazing things about this
Surge Announces Surge Hub, a New Mobile Content Management & Sales Platform
Surge announced today their first product, Surge Hub. Surge Hub is a complete mobile content management and sales platform. Built for remote sales forces, Surge Hub allows remote sales persons to access all of their company’s sales collateral, sales materials, etc. from anywhere. The Surge Hub is a tablet-based app that lets your sales force
Software Development and Consulting Firm Recognized as One of the Fastest-Growing Companies in America
Surge ranked number 530 out of 5000 on the Inc. 500 | 5000 list, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Surge, a US-Based Software Development and Consulting firm, announced today it had made Inc. magazine’s annual list of the 500/5000 fastest-growing companies in America. Inc. ranked Surge number 530 on its 31st
UX 101: Creating WOW! Moments in Your Software/Website
One of the biggest revolutions of the past 5-10 years has been the focus on the user for both software and website design. At one time, user experience issues were an afterthought, something to be caught during testing (if at all). The focus was on the company’s version of how their product was to be
The Vernacular of Icons
Icons are a wonderful thing. Whether used in software development, the custom-designed interface of a SaaS application, or on a website, icons can be a useful design shorthand. Especially when it comes to software, where it seems like the most successful designs are the simplest designs, every pixel is scrutinized for its overall effectiveness. Often,
White Paper: Responsive Layouts – The New Web Design Format
There is a lot of talk these days about responsive design, and for good reason. Most large websites out there have seen huge upticks in their mobile traffic over the past year. Not only that, but the trend seems to be increasing. Some estimates claim that the majority of web traffic will be viewed on
Putting the User Back in User Experience (UX) Design
Often times, as designers (or even as developers) it can be easy to forget the user. Now, this seems antithetical, with all of the current focus on user experience, persona development, user research, user testing, etc., but it is actually a surprisingly easy trap to fall into. Now, it is important to note, that this
Managing Software Projects
“Operations keeps the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.” We manage a lot of software projects here at Surge. In fact, right now we are managing over 15 unique projects, ranging from mobile apps to large scale
Getting Started Bringing Your Idea to Life
“Ideas won’t keep; something must be done about them.” Alfred North Whitehead I have worked with many people over the past 10 years to help them bring their ideas to life through web technologies. In this post, I want to share some of the experience and questions you will face as you seek to bring
15 Factors to Consider when Hiring a Software Consulting Company
An individual or business may seek the assistance of a software consulting company to provide a software solution when in-house software development resources either do not exist or do not have the expertise or capacity to take on the project. This outsourcing of software development services is an effective way to expedite a software project.
Mobile Platform Choices
Purpose Finding a platform for your mobile application is a daunting task. There are a myriad of options available, all of them with enormous advantages and even larger disadvantages. Picking the wrong platform could eliminate your greatest feature. This article is to help you navigate these options and narrow the field to something that works
Software Consulting Firm Surge Grows Revenue 33% in 2011
Surge, a leading custom software development and consulting firm, today announced a revenue increase of 33% in 2011 compared to 2010. Other 2011 highlights include: • Achieved fourth straight profitable year • Acquired Wind-Up Studios, a Seattle based web design company • Completed over a dozen software development projects • Established a formal partner program
Brett Houghton, EVP, COO
Brett joins Surge through Surge’s acquisition of 10X Design, a software consulting company that architects, designs, builds, and deploys enterprise-level, mission-critical applications using the TenFold application platform. As owner, president, and chief architect at 10X Design, Brett and his team have successfully implemented applications in Insurance Policy Management, Electric Power Distribution Design, and Project Management
Matt MacKay – CEO
Matt is the Founder and CEO of Surge. Under his leadership and direction the company has grown into a multi-million dollar software consulting and technology firm providing products and professional services to clients ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 companies. Matt works with clients to conceptualize, design, develop, launch, and market elegant, powerful, easy-to-use
Erik Oh – Sales Director
Erik is a Sales Director at Surge. Erik’s prior experience includes working as the first Sales Director for RemedyMD where he was responsible for selling key accounts that generated over $1M (recurring) revenue within a year of launching the product. While at RemedyMD, Erik forged relationships with key advisory councils and consortiums and established RemedyMD
Garrett Maudsley – Design Director
Garrett directs Surge’s product design efforts. His experience gives him unique qualifications for this role, which combines the need to analyze and understand business requirements and translate them into easy to use and visually appealing user interface designs. Garrett comes to Surge with 10 years of software experience – including time at industry leaders Siebel
Chris Faulhaber – Chief Software Architect
Chris is the Chief Software Architect at Surge. In this role, he oversees the architectural design for all client projects. Chris is passionate about establishing and enforcing coding standards and design patterns that yield robust and elegant software from the ground up. Prior to working at Surge, Chris worked as Solution Architect and Integration Lead
Tyler Schroeder – Development Director
Tyler’s responsibilities at Surge include managing the development of client products and expanding and improving the Surge Platform. He is responsible for training new developers, architecting product solutions, and leading the development teams throughout the development lifecycle. Prior to joining Surge, Tyler worked as a Senior Developer and Team Lead for The Markets LLC, a
Software Consulting Firm Surge Delivers New SaaS Product for Workforce Development
Surge, a leading software development and consulting firm, today announced the completion of a new SaaS performance management software product for AspirePath, LLC. This new software product is designed for workforce development, training, and education organizations. Surge provided full lifecycle software development services, including design, development, testing, deployment, and support. AspirePath was built on the
Surge Acquires Web Design Agency, Wind-Up Studios
Surge, a leading software development and consulting firm, today announced the acquisition of Wind-Up Studios, a web design agency. As part of this acquisition, Vida Clement, Director and Founder of Wind-Up Studios, has joined Surge as Vice President of Marketing. “I couldn’t be more excited to be part of the Surge team,” said Vida Clement,
Slick Grid Extentions
Every consulting shop needs a good, reliable grid. Grids are the swiss army knife of UI design. Sure, in many scenarios you need a sharper, simpler, or more dedicated tool but a grid’s ubiquitos familiarity makes a good one indispensable for presenting and editing many types of data. This is why companies such as Microsoft
Software Consulting Firm Delivers New SaaS Product
Surge Consulting Group, a US-based software development and consulting firm, today announced the completion of a new SaaS-based software product for Senior Care Software, Inc. This new software product is designed to assist senior’s housing operators to accurately and securely collect, analyze and report on all operational aspects, and was created using cutting edge programming
Useful Browser Extentions
Browser debugging tools have come a long way in a short amount of time. Here are some of our favorites. Firefox Firebug http://getfirebug.com Firebug is the quintessential developer plugin for Firefox. It comes with several powerful sections: Console The console allows you to view requests made to the server. Each can be expanded to view
Getting a Value Back from a jQuery Dialog
There’s many ways to do so. You can use the close event and pickup values passed through the .data() method on the dialog, you can use a variable in the window context, but these are all very lacking in structure, however –All jQuery UI elements allow you to pass any value you want in while
Making jQuery UI Autocomplete “Super Search”
jQuery UI’s autocomplete widget provides no built in functionality to alter the search behavior, but has a static filter method that can be overridden instead, and as such, will be on an application wide basis. “Super search” is a generic term meaning orderless word search, as that “foo bar” and “bar foo” discover the same
Optimal Nen Queries, Part 1: Delayed Execution
Nen is a LINQ provider and as such uses delayed execution. Delayed execution means that whenever a query is written it’s not actually performed until the result set is being accessed, which is often by enumeration. Consider the following: As you see in the comments, 3 queries were performed across what is inevitably the same
Custom Software Development Firm Builds New Software Suite
Surge Consulting Group, a US-based software development and consulting firm, today announced the completion of a new suite of software applications for Windmill Software, a premier provider of software and services for the Senior Living industry in the US and Canada. TheWorxHub software suite includes: A Rich Internet Application (RIA) that runs as a Software-as-a-Service
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