ENow Product & Company Updates

Microsoft Ignite is fast approaching and the ENow team has tons going on. Come join us!

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Headquartered in Dallas, TX, The BARBRI Group specializes in educational advancement and professional skills development. The organization focuses on programs designed to help legal professionals and students prepare for and pass state bar exams and other certifications. According to BARBRI, they have helped over 1.2 million practicing attorneys and judges - more than all other bar review programs combined, times a hundred. They have been the preeminent leader in the bar education service for nearly 50 years.

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From survey to inspection, Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc., utilizes and employs innovative positioning technology and machine control automation systems to give surveyors, civil engineers, construction contractors, equipment owners and operators a competitive edge. Topcon remains unparalleled to any other company within this industry through adamantly addressing critical issues such as boosting profits, quality craftsmanship, improving productivity, lowering operating costs and ensuring jobsite safety. Though its primary headquarters is located in Tokyo, Japan, the majority of its administrative operations and IT “heavy lifting" is achieved in Livermore, CA.

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For more than 35 years, this Los Angeles-based, Fortune 1000 enterprise has grown, harvested and marketed many well known agriculture brands. With 2 billion in assets and 500 employees across 20 plus locations, the organization is a leader in its industry and a member of the S&P 500.

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Bodek and Rhodes is one of the nation’s leading wholesalers of imprintable apparel and accessories. Started in 1939 by Ed Bodek and Harry Rhodes, the company was originally a wholesale clothing business to the retail market. In the 1980s, however, the company shifted to servicing the imprintable activewear niche market. Today, Bodek and Rhodes offers an impressive 37 different brands of apparel to their network of screen printers, embroiderers, promotional products and uniform companies. Bodek and Rhodes is a family-owned business headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, with five warehouses nationwide. The company delivers award-winning customer service and is proud to provide the best accuracy record in the field.

I just flew back from Microsoft Ignite, and boy are my arms tired. (Not really; I got to fly myself there and back.) It was a tremendous conference, with lots of announcements, product changes, attendee chatter, and various other happenings. I wanted to write a quick recap of some Ignite highlights, but first: a quick book review. (I promise it’s relevant.)

As a result of 162 percent growth over the past three years, ENow announced it made the 2016 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately held companies for the third consecutive year.

ENow, a leading Microsoft independent software vendor renowned for its monitoring and reporting solutions, was named #2244 on the 2016 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately held companies. This is the company’s third year appearing on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list.

One of my favorite parts of being ENow’s CTO is bragging on the work our technical team does. I’m delighted to announce the latest GA release of the ENow Management System, 7.2.0.1999. (Yes, that’s an odd version number—we purposely chose it in honor of Prince’s passing. Now we can, with a straight face, tell our customers to party like it’s 1999, as long as “party” means “upgrade” and “like it’s 1999” means “with our awesome new installer.”)

On November 24th, a post on Reddit announced that Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) had been hacked by a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace (GOP). Since that time, a steady stream of claims, counterclaims, data from the breach, and reports about that data has occupied both mainstream and IT-focused media. There are lots of open questions about what happened, who exactly is responsible, and what the long-term impact of the breach will be for SPE. The more important questions to ask right now, though, revolve around how to ensure that you’re not the next high-profile organization to have its security woes splashed across the front page of the New York Times and CNN.