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NYC Summer Street Style in July
We call our fashion-apparel-footwear-accessories division “The Fashion Matrix” which is focused on technology solutions for fashion design, manufacturing, distribution, and retail management. Along the way, The Fashion Matrix has found our photographic purpose, our vibe, our groove, our “visual voice” as lovers of fashion: it’s street-style! We’ll post mostly NYC street-style, but of course we’ll shoot…
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What the heck is RIM?
Perhaps you can figure out “RIM” from the drawing above… A simple definition: R.I.M. is an old consulting and tech-speak acronym for “Rapid Implementation Methodology. A bit more detail: Rapid Implementation Methodology or “RIM” is a consulting/services approach to implementing software (primarily), based on template(s) and “best practice(s)” rather than a completely unique “start from scratch” approach…
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180 MPH
Originally posted on Klemantaski Collection: A drive in the countryside? Well, perhaps – but this drive was in the 1957 Mile Miglia, a race all around Italy on public roads in May 1957. In this sunny photo, taken by Louis Klemantaski, the Ferrari in which they were riding was traveling at over 180 mph down…
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Impossibility and Risk
In discussing a difficult, pending project, with many real and imagined obstacles, via email (an imperfect tool) with a partner and colleague. Business and product names have been [obscured] in the text below, to protect the [innocent] and/or [neurotic]. 🙂 <I wrote> As the French writer Andre Maurois said, “the world progresses thanks to impossible things,…
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Acronym Soup
As you may have noticed (how could you not?), the tech world is awash in jargon, lingo, languages, letters, numbers, texts, characters, codes, abbreviations, and initials — a veritable alphabet and acronym soup! In fact, the phrase “information technology” itself is rarely used any more, having been forcibly replaced by the now ubiquitous acronym “IT” which…
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Brazil is Complicated and Fabulous!
We succumbed to the allure and promise of doing business in Brazil! To satisfy a client requirement (NYC-N.A. based) to expand internationally, we were engaged (as DreamIT) to provide Dynamics NAV ERP-based systems and services to facilitate and launch their business in Brazil, while satisfying all local requirements. The client was a multi-faceted import, wholesale & retail group, which may have meant…
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Le Barn Antiques
CASE STUDY:Le Barn Website, Blog & Social Media Le Barn is an antiques importer/exporter (worldwide), and retailer (mostly US), which depends on their web and physical locations in several high-end antique cooperatives to generate sales. They feature unique, one-of-a-kind furnishings primarily from France, China, Italy, and Indonesia. Highlights: REQUIREMENTS BUSINESS PROBLEMS Le Barn was searching…
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Client: Juliska – fine tableware & home goods
As DreamIT (2006–2016), we rescued Juliska from a failed implementation, fixed and resurrected bad code, re-implemented and optimized their operating system, and took them forward with new functionality. Juliska makes, imports, wholesales and retails fabulous, luxurious tabletop and household — functional and decorative — items. Here is a sampling of images taken on in iPhone in…
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Client: Caudalie USA
Caudalie makes fine skincare products, infused with the essence (and extracts) of grapes and wine, sourced from the passion and history of Bordeaux… We are proud to have supported and optimized Microsoft Dynamics NAV — formerly called “Navision” — and Lanham (WMS-shipping-EDI) software at Caudalie USA. Over time, we also provided Caudalie USA with customization…
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More early fascination with technology…
I used to love going to where my dad worked. Over 20 years at Cambridge Instrument Co., he moved from clerk to personnel manager (HR). It was a factory in the downtown of my hometown Ossining, NY. They manufactured medical and industrial devices and had an electron microscope on premise! For me, it was a…
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