Independent Reach Software

Independent Reach is a consulting practice with a mission to help our customers stay independent with respect to information, and maximize their reach. We are a software foundry with two products: Tromis manages restoration dry-cleaning orders artfully, and Fenestratio makes windows and doors easier. We are an open-source contributor of Java and Microsoft .NET code. "Independent" is about ensuring our customers retain the ability to have our software cooperate within their enterprise, as it is today, and as it may evolve. An organization's information independence is compromised when they do not have control over the software they use to run their business, and/or when their data is not in a format they can use with other tools. We nurture customers' information independence by following some rules of thumb: avoid writing software that will only run with one type of computer or operating software avoid closed and non-portable data formats avoid incorporating proprietary tools in our software stack avoid "bleeding edge" technologies that may not have longevity avoid using products from companies that may not have longevity avoid using products for which expertise will be too difficult to find keep program source at the customer site provide advice with regard to other software participating in the enterprise "Reach" is about avoidance of limiting the audience of applications built for customers. We maximize reach by following some rules of thumb: "bake-in" internationalization, customization, personalization adhere to universal standards on web pages produce output in portable formats like PDF, RTF, CSV...