Curiosity is at the core of Foci’s culture. Our superpower is that our team is constantly learning and becoming stronger software engineers, product leaders, designers, platform architects, and executives. Training is the thing that we do and high quality software is the thing that we produce. The first thing we did when we created Foci […]
Read MoreHuman capital is undeniably the most important driver of success in the software industry. Great ideas cannot be implemented without great talent. It’s no wonder you see companies competing for the top talent and do their best to keep them from walking out the door; it is one of the top things keeping a tech […]
Read MoreIt is undeniable that there is a massive talent shortage within the software industry right now. This is a problem that long predates the more recent, universal worker shortages and is a problem that will continue to get worse as more of the world moves towards living and interacting digitally. Talented, inquisitive people are the […]
Read More“COTS-first”, “Why build it when we can buy it?”, “Custom development is expensive”, “We’re not a software company” were all slogans that were hammered into my head during the first half of my career working for a large global consulting firm. They were and are still the prevailing wisdom in the IT industry and when […]
Read MoreYes, this is an odd sentiment to have as a Cloud-native software company but hear me out. We spend a lot of time talking to organizations about adopting Cloud concepts and approaches. The large majority of the discussions land in one of two categories: Help me move stuff to the Cloud to save money and […]
Read MoreThe phrase “we need to change our culture to be successful” has become a punchline for any executive pitching ambitious visions and transformation initiatives, IT-related or otherwise. What is unfortunately less common is any mention of how such a change in culture will happen and how to know when this ideal future culture has been […]
Read MoreThe conversations I regularly have with clients, other executives, and my mentors are usually around “what’s your org’s vision?” or “what do you want your org to do”. Foci has gone through a tremendous period of growth and change over the last 12 months and the answers to those questions seem to be ever changing. […]
Read MoreWhenever I walk into a new client, the first things I hear from the Technology Executives are typically: “We need to modernize”, “We need to transform”, “We need to adopt <insert trendy tech buzzword>”. What I never hear is: “We need to bring our development and testing methodologies up to date”, “We need more collaboration […]
Read MoreToday, we are proud to announce the public beta launch of the Orbital Bus open source project. The Orbital Bus is a distributed Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) intended to make it easier for developers to implement smart, reusable, loosely coupled services. We believe that a peer-to-peer mesh of lightweight integration nodes provide a much more […]
Read MoreOne of the most common objections I hear among my large enterprise and government clients when discussing adopting new technologies is “We’re a Microsoft shop so why would we look at a Java-based tool?” or open source, or Google, or Salesforce, and the list goes on. This objection is grounded in the opinion that increasing the […]
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