17 articles in this category
Growing e-commerce business outgrowing Shopify limitations. When migration made sense, custom platform architecture, maintaining sales during transition, and 3.2x revenue growth enabled. $340K investment, 14-month timeline, transformational results.
Regional investment firm replacing legacy trading systems with modern platform. Regulatory compliance, real-time data requirements, security architecture, and business continuity during 22-month migration. $420K investment for mission-critical upgrade.
Multi-location medical practice implementing compliant practice management system. Regulatory requirements, security implementation, EHR integration, and 40% operational efficiency improvement. $285K investment, 18-month timeline.
Investing $145K in AI capabilities that never provided business value. Misaligned expectations, poor problem selection, inadequate data, and lessons about AI readiness vs. AI hype.
Failed outsourced development project that burned $180K and delivered nothing usable. Warning signs missed, communication breakdowns, technical debt accumulated, and the expensive do-over.
Honest analysis of a failed ERP migration. What we got wrong in planning, where vendor promises didn\t match reality, the decision to cut losses, and lessons that saved future projects.'
Side-by-side comparison of two similar companies: one built custom, one bought SaaS. Real costs, capabilities, and total investment over 36 months. The numbers tell the real story.
Real cloud cost reduction project for a SaaS company. Identified and eliminated $168K annual waste through rightsizing, reserved instances, and architectural changes. Complete breakdown of what worked.
Complete financial analysis of a SaaS audit and consolidation project for a 75-person company. Eliminated 23 tools, renegotiated 12 contracts, saved $67K annually with 8-month payback period.
Complete technical architecture of microservices implementation for 100-person SaaS company. Real service boundaries, inter-service communication patterns, data management strategies, $310K build cost, operational overhead, and when monoliths are actually better.
Complete zero-trust architecture for 80-person SaaS company. Identity-based access, network segmentation, continuous verification. $128K implementation, SOC 2 compliance achieved, and why perimeter security failed them.
25-person family manufacturing company transitions from paper to digital systems. Real change management with family dynamics, $42K investment, 8-month timeline, and 35% productivity improvement despite generational resistance.
8-person consulting firm implements AI for proposal development. Real process redesign, $12K investment, 3-month timeline, 65% time savings on proposals, 22% higher win rate, and quality improvements clients noticed.
From Excel hell to unified analytics: a 300-person company's 14-month journey implementing a modern data warehouse. Real costs, migration challenges, and $520K annual value from actually understanding their data.
50-location specialty retailer deploys real-time inventory system across stores and warehouses. Complete architecture, vendor selection, $240K investment, 12-month timeline, and $890K annual benefit from reduced stockouts and transfers.
How a creative agency ditched 23 Excel files for integrated project management. Real tool selection, $18K investment, 4-month timeline, 40% improvement in on-time delivery, and actual profit margin gains.
How a mid-market company deployed enterprise-grade unified communications across 200 remote employees in 14 countries. Real architecture, actual costs ($127K), 8-month timeline, and measurable productivity gains.