Assured Success for your Startup

I wanted to share my thoughts on ENKI can assure our startup customers success with the operation of their live sites, and hence their enterprises.  It's what we were originally founded to do, and I'm seeing from our current customer base that the world of startups still desperately needs the experience, process, and tools that we bring to the table to assure that software deploys reliably to your live site and runs successfully.

Going back to basics, lets talk a bit about the problem that we're trying to solve, and why it's interesting.  From the 50,000 foot level it looks like your startup being unable to meet its go-live dates, having problems with post-release quality, and uptime problems.  I watched this happen in the early days of NetSuite and other companies I worked at, and most of them took a long time to iron it out. This situation, if it occurs, really revolves around skill sets that a typical software startup has.  There are lots of smart programmers and problem-solvers which can bang out an interest-grabbing new product in record time.   However, what's often missing are the skills and experience necessary to do the boring work of repeatably releasing quality software on-time.  Companies that are successful with this effort have shown that the necessary skill sets are: