Introduction

JRVsystems was founded to address the unique Information Technology needs of small businesses.

Small businesses have IT needs like any other business. In fact, IT gives the small company the opportunity to compete on an even footing with the "big boys". But small businesses usually do not have in-house IT staff, so they outsource. Typical consulting firms, however, provide minimal, off-the-shelf solutions that do not really solve the problem. In fact, the consultant seldom understands the problem. So the businesses they try to serve never really perform to their potential.

These IT consulting firms have little to offer systems of less than 500 seats. They do not understand small business budgets. They do not understand small business' fast pace. They cannot perform adequately.

But JRVsystems understands small business.

Its founder, Jeff Vandervoort, has been a partner and a vice president in two small businesses, in addition to now running his own small business.

He has an entrepreneurial, management-oriented background and perspective, where most consultants come from a technical one. Technical skills are easy to master, but you have to be born with acumen. If it doesn't enhance client service and productivity, it is not worth the investment and has no place in a computer system. Every project requires analysis and justification. In a large company, otherwise marginal projects are often approved because there are so many people that it will affect that some benefit is guaranteed. Small businesses have more stringent standards. JRVsystems is accustomed to performing this rigorous examination.

Further, you wear many hats as a small business owner. That's the nature and the biggest challenge of small business. It requires flexibility, intelligence, good time management and raw talent to pull it off. You do it; so does JRVsystems. Where most IT consultants have extremely narrow, specialized job descriptions, and several people may be involved in even the simplest project, with JRVsystems, you deal with one person across the life cycle. Through analysis, vision, implementation, installation, training, support, further enhancement and replacement. And where client relationships with typical IT consultants begin and end with each project, JRVsystems is around for the long haul. You will work with the same person across your involvement with our organization. The person who set things up will be the person to keep it running. That accumulated knowledge base is invaluable, and enhances efficiency and system up-time. It is unavailable from typical consultants.

That's what we mean when we say, "Information technology isn't about technology. Technology is about how you run a business."

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