One of the areas that we do no like reinventing the wheel on is shopping carts. If a client comes to use wanting an ecommerce site/shopping cart we will research one of the many good options, make a recommendation, and help get them up and running. There are just too many good companies with a lot of good options out there. And they deserve every dime they get.

Our latest venture – find a new shopping cart for BatteryFuel. We moved BatteryFuel to a Yahoo! shopping cart about 3 years and it was a big step up from what they had before. But over the years we have found that Yahoo! just does not allow much in terms of back end development (i.e. there is NO API for programming). For design/customization it also requires you to learn their proprietary language called RTML. No thanks – they’ve had enough. Time to shop and move on.

We narrowed it down to Big Commerce and Volusion, and we have settled on Volusion because – again – their API. The Big Commerce API is output only, while the Volusion API is input and output. Yay for them

Well we have just signed up for the biggest cart that Volusion has and we will start to play with their API and mass importing of products (50000+). Stay tuned to learn if/how Volusion can handle this project.

For awhile now the staff here at GYWT has believed that the folks over at WordPress have create a beautiful product. It is not only a great blogging platform, it is a great content management system and overall site management package. We highly recommend it to every client we have, and most people take our word for it.

Well now we are eating our own dog food. As of today we are converting our site over to use WordPress. So you may see some things in odd places. But trust us – whatever you are looking for is here someplace.

This will be good!

Home Sweet Home: Focus Moves into Leadership Square

2008-08-30 – Focus take occupancy of a new great location in downtown Oklahoma City. The Leadership Square complex at 211 North Robinson is a great location for any company. Focus now occupies office space on the 8th floor of the North Tower.

Focus in the News

2008-2-26 – The president of Focus was recently interviewed for the local newspaper the Daily Oklahoman. Here is the first of the two releases. Stay tuned for the next one to be out shortly.

Click here to read the article

2007-1-1 – Focus has just completed the process of acquiring their GSA Schedule. This is a long, difficult process that was several months in the making. This now allows any Federal (and most State) agencies to contract with Focus at predetermined pricing with predetermined terms.

To view the contract details:

1. Visit GSAAdvantage.gov
2. In the “What are you looking for” box type in “Focus Consulting”. Click on “Find it”
3. When your search results are presented use the “Contractor” drop down box and select me – “Focus Consulting”

From there you can click on the company name for more details, and then eventually you will find a link for “View Contractor Catalog” to see a Word document of the contract details.

We are proud to announce that Focus Consulting Incorporated has signed a multi-year consulting contract as a Serena Software partner to provide services for the investment firm of  Morgan Stanley. Focus/ATBS plan to work onsite with Morgan Stanley at their main IT services location in beautiful New York City. Focus will be providing a variety of services including: Change Process Management, Software Customizations, Project Management, and Management/developer training.

We are proud to announce that Focus Consulting Incorporated has signed a multi-year consulting contract as a Serena Software partner to provide services for US Bureau of Engraving and Printing . Focus/ATBS plan to work onsite with US Bureau of Engraving and Printing at their main IT services location in Washington DC. Focus will be providing a variety of services including: Change Process Management, Software Customizations, Project Management, and Management/developer training.

We are proud to announce that Focus Consulting Incorporated has signed a multi-year consulting contract as a Serena Software partner to provide services for the investment firm of WPS. Focus/ATBS plan to work onsite with WPS at their main IT services location. Focus will be providing a variety of services including: Change Process Management, Software Customizations, Project Management, and Management/developer training.

We are proud to announce that Focus Consulting Incorporated has signed a multi-year consulting contract as a Serena Software partner to provide services for the USDA. Focus/ATBS plans to work onsite with USDA at their main IT services location in beautiful Washington, DC. Focus will be providing a variety of services including: Change Process Management, Software Customizations, Project Management, and Management/developer training.

We are proud to announce that Focus Consulting Incorporated has signed a multi-year consulting contract as a Serena Software partner to provide services for  Metlife. Focus/ATBS plan to work onsite with Metlife at their main IT services location in New York. Focus will be providing a variety of services including: Change Process Management, Software Customizations, Project Management, and Management/developer training.