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Notes on custom software, automation and the systems we build for our clients.
Why QuickBooks Alone Is Not Enough for Growing Businesses
QuickBooks is a great accounting tool, but it wasn't built to run day-to-day operations. Learn how pairing it with custom software gives growing businesses the inventory tracking, order workflows, and real-time visibility QuickBooks alone can't provide.
Why You Should Consult with Go To IT Solutions Before 2025: IT Consulting for 2025 Planning
The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year are a strategic window to plan ahead. Discover five reasons to start IT consulting with Go To IT Solutions before 2025 arrives.
Custom Software for Small Business: Tailored Solutions for Growth
Off-the-shelf software rarely fits small business workflows perfectly. See how custom software delivers the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness small businesses need to grow.
Interview with Monica Blumenfeld, Co-Founder of Go To IT Solutions: Bringing the 'WOW' Factor to Tech Solutions
In this interview, Go To IT Solutions co-founder Monica Blumenfeld shares how her QuickBooks background and passion for automation shape the custom software solutions that bring the 'WOW' factor to every client.
Custom Software: Tailoring Digital Solutions for Your Business
Custom software is built around your business instead of forcing your business to adapt to generic tools. Explore the types, benefits, and development process behind tailored digital solutions.
The Power of Bespoke Software Development for Your Business
Off-the-shelf software often can't keep pace with a growing business. Discover why bespoke software development offers a better fit, stronger scalability, and a real competitive edge.
Software Development Outsourcing: The Smart Choice for Growing Businesses
Software development outsourcing lets businesses tap global talent, cut costs, and stay focused on their core operations. Here's when outsourcing makes sense and how to choose the right partner.
Custom Software Engineering Services: A Comprehensive Guide for Startups and Enterprises
From requirement analysis to deployment, custom software engineering services give startups and enterprises a tailored path to solving their unique challenges. Here's a comprehensive guide to the process.
What is Custom Software? A Complete Definition and Overview
Custom software is built from the ground up to match your exact business needs rather than the needs of a generic market. This overview covers the definition, benefits, and development process.
Why Custom Software is the Smart Choice Over Off-the-Shelf Solutions for Your Business
The custom software market is booming as businesses seek tailored, scalable alternatives to generic tools. Learn why custom solutions from Go To IT Solutions offer a real competitive edge.
The Future of Software Engineering: Trends, Automation, and Growth
From AI adoption to the shift to cloud services, the software engineering field is evolving fast. See what the latest trends and workforce data mean for growing businesses.
Transforming Quality Assurance: From Paper to Streamlined Digital Solutions
Manual, paper-based quality checks are error-prone and slow. Discover how Go To IT Solutions helps manufacturers move to centralized, real-time digital QA platforms.
Streamline Your Claim Submissions with Ease: How Go To IT Solutions Simplifies the Process
Paper-heavy claim submissions are slow and error-prone. See how Go To IT Solutions' digital platform simplifies document upload, secure storage, and processing for claims of any kind.
Revolutionize Warehouse Efficiency with Real-Time Tablet Integration
Real-time tablet integration can transform a warehouse's speed and accuracy. Learn how Go To IT Solutions builds custom apps that work on the device you choose, without the markup.
Streamlining Distribution: How Go To IT Solutions Optimizes Your Operations
From inventory management to automated shipping quotes, Go To IT Solutions helps distribution companies streamline operations with custom software. See five ways tailored tools boost efficiency.
Embracing Digital Transformation: How Go To IT Solutions Supports Manufacturing Companies
Go To IT Solutions helps manufacturing companies modernize with digital quality assurance, streamlined raw material inspection, and advanced tracking and traceability.
Claims Management Reinvented: Go To IT Solutions' Blueprint for Success
Go To IT Solutions streamlines claims management end to end, from digital submissions and real-time status tracking to accounting integrations and customer portals.
Embracing Digital Transformation with Go To IT Solutions: A Helping Hand for Service Companies
Go To IT Solutions helps service companies go paperless with tablet-based updates, work order tracking, route optimization, and unified business systems.
Technology did more good than harm this decade
A look back at the decade's uneasy verdict on technology: a tool that solved real problems while creating new ones around isolation and polarization.
What is a Hybrid Application?
Hybrid apps let developers build mobile applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript instead of separate native codebases. Here's how they work, and their tradeoffs.
Learning to Program
Programming has become an essential, accessible skill for every industry. Here are a few fun, beginner-friendly resources to get started.
Meet Programming Languages
A beginner's map of programming languages: what programming logic means, why languages share similar syntax, and which ones fit each career path.
What's the Difference Between Front-End and Back-End?
A quick primer on the two halves of web development: what front-end and back-end programmers each own, and how the two depend on each other.
The Importance of a Dashboard
A dashboard turns scattered company data into a clear, actionable view for decision makers. Here's what makes a strategic dashboard effective.
What is a KPIS?
KPIs give a real-time X-ray of business performance. A look at what makes a good key performance indicator and some common sales-area examples.
Customer Satisfaction, Net Promoter Score.
Why measuring customer satisfaction matters, and how the Net Promoter Score turns customer responses into a single, actionable loyalty metric.
Smart Retails
Digital transformation has reshaped retail. A look at what a customer-centered Smart Retail strategy looks like, in-store and across the customer journey.
Fidelity of Prototypes
Low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes each serve a different purpose in product development. Here are the tradeoffs of each approach.
Learning About Prototypes
Prototypes let you explore ideas cheaply before investing in full development. A quick look at how a prototype evolves from sketch to working demo.
Product Thinking
Product Thinking applies design-thinking's user-first approach to defining what a product actually is and who it serves.
What's an e-commerce?
An overview of what e-commerce is, the benefits it offers consumers and companies, the main business models (marketplace, hybrid, e-retail), and the key KPIs used to measure online sales performance.
What is User Experience?
A short primer on user experience versus usability, how the two concepts differ, and what it takes to create a truly great user experience.
How To Manage Your Time
Ten practical techniques to help you plan your day around real time instead of clock time, protect your most productive hours, and get more done.
How to Start a Digital Office
A five-step framework for launching a digital project without getting overwhelmed by early chaos: identify the chaos, declare intention, face reality, take a direction, and prepare to adjust.
How Stock Management Can Boost Your Business
Why warehouse management is critical for manufacturing companies, and five ways a good stock management system helps control costs, improve traceability, and boost efficiency.
Digitizing Your Company
Nine reasons why digitizing your business - from automating data processing to improving customer relationship management - is one of the best decisions a company can make.
Using Lean Six Sigma
How Lean Six Sigma increases income, reduces costs, develops people, and improves efficiency by eliminating waste and reducing process variation.
Introduction to Lean Six Sigma
An introduction to the Lean Six Sigma methodology, explaining how combining Lean's waste reduction with Six Sigma's defect reduction helps organizations do more with less.
SCRUM WORKING METHODOLOGY
A quick introduction to Scrum, the framework that lets cross-functional teams build products iteratively and incrementally.
AGILE MANIFESTO
The story behind the 2001 Agile Manifesto and a rundown of its twelve founding principles for software development.
Jobs to be Done
An introduction to the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework, and how understanding the job a customer is really hiring a product to do can drive genuine innovation.
Internal Leader: Agile Coaching
Why successful agile transformations depend on an internal leader working alongside an agile coach, and how tailor-made coaching engagements evolve over time.
The Benefits of Implementing Agile Methodologies
How agile methodologies improve flexibility, continuous customer feedback, constant interaction, and overall product quality in technology projects.
Agile Frameworks and Techniques
A look at five common agile techniques - Planning Poker, Daily Meetings, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective, and Sprint Planning - and the benefits each brings to a project.
Agile Methodologies in Change Management
An overview of agile methodologies as an alternative to classical project management, and the core principles that make agile teams more effective amid change.