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How a Small Technology Company Copes with Covid-19 Challenges
Covid-19 has hit us all with a huge impact and unprecedented challenges. It is hard to believe at Snowbound that we're on week 17 of working from home while keeping our employees, our customers, and our partners safe. With more perspective on the situation, I wanted to reflect on the challenges,...
We’re Working Hard to Support You Despite COVID-19
Over the past few weeks, we’ve naturally had many conversations with our customers and partners about Snowbound’s availability during the coronavirus pandemic. So many of our customers are large enterprises that depend on their vendors to protect their data and ensure continuous support. Whether...
Thank You for Your Support in 2019
And a request for ideas on what more we can do to address Global Warming Thank you to our customers, partners and employees for making 2019 a great year! There is no question in my mind that the collaboration and cooperation between us is the secret sauce. To reassure you that...
What Will You Do in January When Windows 7 is No Longer Supported?
Windows 7 is going, going, almost gone! Support ends January 2020! Can you accept the risk of staying on that platform? For those of you who can isolate your Windows 7 systems from the web, that may be a workable solution (at least for a while). But how feasible is that in today’s...
How to Make Your Enterprise Operations Easier: Managed Services, Serverless Computing & Containerization
It used to be that large enterprises had a set playbook for creating and enhancing their key software applications. If, for example, they were creating a document management application, they bought the various software applications (such as a repository for storing and retrieving...
Getting Out Major Releases (Not a Trivial Task)
With a sigh of relief, we recently put out two major releases in succession. Our VirtualViewer HTML5 v5.0, that sits on top of our RasterMaster product, came out only a month after RasterMaster v20. We put out major upgrades only every few years because our Fortune 2000 enterprise customers need...
Disaster Prevention – How to Take a Storm in Stride
Can you survive a 24 hour power outage in your office? A little while ago, severe windstorms swept through the Northeast, felling trees throughout the region. Even a modern industrial park where we’re located wasn’t immune. Power was lost for more than 24 hours. Our office backup...
No Trees Were Harmed Using Snowbound Products
I am proud to say that Snowbound continues the fight against tree harvesting for the purpose of manufacturing paper for business documents. Numerous business processes—including mortgages, insurance claims, banking transactions, medical records and so many more—never see “the light of paper”...
Eating Your Own Dog Food
Doesn’t sound appetizing, does it? But we do. Or put more plainly: We use what we sell. Our VirtualViewer® HTML5 (VV) for Java and .NET sits on top of our RasterMaster (RM) SDK/libraries. Those libraries are driven to excellence because we depend on them for our VirtualViewer universal HTML5...
Why Old Browsers are Bad for You
The Importance of Modern Browsers – Microsoft will agree with you In our commercial, profit-oriented world, it is counter to reason that free products continue to see speedy development. But that is the fact with web browsers. Microsoft offers MS Edge (and formerly offered Internet Explorer)....
Scrap or Enhance Your ECM?
Updating your Enterprise System Gently – without cracking any eggs I don’t think anyone could have predicted that Fortune 500 companies (among many others) would be running software written in the 1960’s and 70’s today. But for the same reasons that’s been going on, that situation persists today...
How To Address the Needs of the OEM Customer
In today’s world, business-to-business and business-to-consumer communications and transactions, include both unstructured and structured data. Structured data is generally numerical and can be easily searched. Examples would include...