Sunday, May 20, 2012

Sample Client Sites

Why Opstreams?

Our Information Technology Focus

Our primary focus is to be your information technology partner. If you have an info-tech staff, we w...

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Value: More Than a Website

At the same cost (or often lower) of a typical website, Opstreams gives you a powerful, modern onlin...

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Our Client Relationships

These may seem obvious, but are rarely committed to in the Information Technology industry: We li...

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Our Team and Process

Opstreams has a multi-disciplinary team of experts who complement each others skills. We use a ...

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Our Site Frameworks

Content-managed. We use only Joomla 2.X, Wordpress 3.X orDrupal 7+, and have been for years - t...

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Our Full-Web Marketing

Our Social Marketing delivers the greatest prospecting benefits per time-dollar. Google Adwords no l...

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Our Social Media

Our Social Media We were engaged by an expanding but low-key multi-use facility to understand new media and how best ...

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Segment Experience

Business and organization segments each have their specific online needs. Mis-matching needs with on...

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Info-Tech: Technology Alignment

Info-Tech: Technology Alignment Opstreams has several successful engagements with small to mid-size businesses on matching technolog...

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Info-tech: Workflows for Segments

Operational workflows need to be reflected in the site operations if you intend to go online. This i...

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Info-Tech: Systems Modeling

Info-Tech: Systems Modeling As experts in dynamical systems modeling and creating powerful business solutions, Opstreams is ofte...

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These may seem obvious, but are rarely committed to in the Information Technology industry:

  • We listen... carefully. Clear expectations mean everything.
  • We have broad and deep understanding of business models, and will quickly identify whether our solution is appropriate or not for your objectives.
  • We are happy and willing to recommend other solutions, including our competitors', if they provide a better cost or feature fit with your business objectives.
  • Our team blends the best of both big-business and small-business methods and processes, having deep experience in both environments. This increases the ROI of your time and money.
  • We have a refined workshop approach that truly optimizes your valuable time to achieve a quick, high-quality implementation.
  • We are neither afraid to use client suggestions nor afraid to push back, depending on whether it will further the business and site objectives. We always give cost-benefit estimates to explain the reasons behind alternatives.

The game in the technology industry is to give a short-term cheap solution that looks like a bargain to a business owner or manager who doesn't have the time to take from his or her real business and study technology issues to distinguish fact from fiction. We refuse to take that approach, instead using higher-quality subsystems and tools, swallowing our cost differential, such that our clients get a reliable, high-performing business site with "technology-free" maintenance.

Opstreams tells the truth up front about our solutions and those of our competitors. There are some businesses we are over qualified for, some we are not qualified for, and some that just don't fit. From the first contact, we will help evaluate where you are currently and connect you with the right solution.

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Best for SMB, 501c; investment-grade sites
Year 1 only obligation
DIY; site updates $12-40/hr.
Powerful extensions
Very good templates/looks
Free; Great community support
High-end DB design, not pages
Wordpress CMS
Best for branding and blogging
Year 1 only obligation
DIY; site updates $12-40/hr
Weak extensions
Excellent templates/looks
Free; Excellent community support
High-end DB design, not pages
Drupal CMS
Best for enterprises, large sites
Powerful results
Substantial learning curve; not DIY
Limited extensions
Mediocre templates/looks
Free; Very good community support
High-end DB design, not pages
Traditional HTML
Hard to use; pages coded
Lock-in to designer
Designers expect $60-90/hr.
Extensions = $$$
Templates usually from scratch
Nothing free; support scattered
No DB; Labor-intensive; $$
Sitebuilder/Quicksite/Etc.
Best for amateur branding
Ongoing host lock-in
Easy to use, but canned
Cookie-cutter exts.
Cookie-cutter templates
No community; paid support
Easy to use; functional
Data belongs to host - not good
.NET, Java, CF
For enterprises with large capex
Unlimited $$
No DIY, requires software engineers
Extensions = $$$
Custom templates from scratch
Locked into development team
Easy to use; powerful
Closed access; high-end DB