“It Starts with an Idea“: The story of a start-up company in Silicon Valley.

Beat the software gorillas ! Win the game and deliver high quality code your customers will love. Quickly and with agility. We did!

Perfection

Our Story is about a little company that beat the software gorillas. Azerity competed with the big gorillas (SAP, Siebel, Oracle) and won every time. And it didn’t cost the clients millions to install and millions more to upgrade. How? Leveraging managers with tried and true experience together with very talented practical software architects and dedicated engineers, the Azerity product demonstrated that software can be done right. High quality, intuitive. Some said it was nearly perfect software.

The Lessons

What did we learn?

• One. How to build practical software. Read more about Practical Software. Software that delivers what clients want – intuitive, useful, useable. How to avoid the pitfalls which often occur when engineers aim for software elegance, but end up with an architecture that is overly complex, bulky, and slow.
• Two. How to develop a software plan that includes all aspects including deployment and upgrades. We think software companies should charge for value-added services, but not for avoidable deployment and upgrade costs.
• Three.
  How to use the right processes and tools to make sure the software meets spec, is high quality (no bugs, that’s right, none), and completed on-time. A prototype of the right software development tool to improve the process and software quality is Software 2020.

Who

The Practical Software Methodology was a combined effort by Jan McCleery and Anita Wotiz. Both had worked together in the Aerospace world, both had learned the value and limitations of government waterfall processes. They teamed up at Azerity, where Jan was Co-Founder and CTO, Anita VP of Engineering. They developed a practical software methodology that was proven, release after release, to develop bug-free, on-time, scalable, reliable, and maintainable enterprise software.

Jan and Anita

It takes a practical process, practical architecture, and a great team!

Intelic 1999 (name changed to Azerity in 2001)   Front Row: Stephen, his son, wife Mary, Frank, Ketan, Chaiya, Arun. Back Row: Freeman, Starr’s son, Starr, Julie (Jan’s daughter), Jan, Julie, Starr’s other son.

Azerity 2006 Front Row: Hang, Kevin, Arun, Susan, Ashish, Gery. Back Row: Linda, Ken, Stephen, Michael, Ketan, Dale, Jenn, Rich, John, Jan