Snowbound Software came into being offering development tools for engineers who wanted to embed imaging technology into their own specific applications. These companies had already made the decision that their area of expertise was not in imaging technology. The display and conversion of various image formats such as TIFF, JPEG, MO:DCA, AFP, and PCL was better left to the experts – Snowbound or our competitors. When tabulating the cost of development, if you could find the expertise, and comparing it to our price which included mature, widely tested technology, it was a no-brainer.
Because it is a developer to developer relationship, we talk the right language and we understand engineering needs. Many times we’ve added new capabilities at a customer’s request – it helps them and it helps us create a more powerful, more useful product. When we developed a Java version of our Windows and Unix imaging libraries, it was originally at a customer’s request.
So what’s different today? Well, time-to-market and cost concerns seem more pressing. Everyone is in crisis mode. Some people don’t even have time to read the manual ☺. Well, we have a new department for that – Professional Services. We’ve organized and expanded what we’ve always provided – a group of engineers that can understand your needs (often better than you can yourself), recommend the right product, and also integrate it into your system.
And if you want to support your system yourself, what then? Simply contract us to create the integration layers for you to own. Then, with the purchase of our imaging tools, you can both get a quick start and obtain full control of your application.
We can implement our imaging solutions for you quickly because we’re the experts – we know our products and how to get the most out of them. We’ve solved the imaging problems for hundreds of companies world-wide - this is what we do.
-Simon
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