ProWorks Celebrates its 20th Anniverary

ProWorks Corporation proudly celebrates our 20th Anniversary this year. Thank you to all of our past and present customers and partners. For two decades it has been our pleasure to contribute to your information technology needs. We look forward to continuing to provide you with the highest quality software and IT services for years to come.

Looking Back:
In 1986 Susan Prothero founded ProWorks based on the sales of Flipper Graphics Library written by Gary Prothero for Clipper. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for innovation Susan and Gary together formed ProWorks LLC in 1988. Staying abreast of the latest technology at the time ProWorks LLC created data visualization tools for Visual Studio.
These tools attracted the attention of a NASA airlines safety project managed by Battelle. Soon after, Gary Prothero was named the technical lead on the project in 1999. Steady growth allowed ProWorks to move to our present offices in Corvallis, Oregon in 2002.

ProWorks continued to partner with Battelle to develop cutting edge software applications based on data analysis. In 2005 ProWorks consulting team was recognized with a R&D 100 Award for 'The Morning Report' software. Today, ProWorks continues to deliver quality IT services to Battelle and NASA and maintains a line of available COM and .NET data visualization tools.

Looking Forward:
Building on our successes delivering actionable data mining insights to airlines and hospital safety experts, ProWorks is developing CRM analysis tools that improve the daily operations of sales, marketing and customer service users. New CRM solutions such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 are making customer relationship management systems affordable for small and mid-sized businesses and usable by non-expert employees. ProWorks CRM analysis software is designed make the same analysis benefits previously accessible only to large enterprises, available to a broader spectrum of business users.

Although ProWorks has grown in size over the past two decades, we have remained committed to the tradition of service and innovation that we started with and has steadily steered us through recessions, changes in government spending and the dot-com bubble burst. And of course we are thankful to all of our customers and partners that have supported us all these years. Happy Birthday to ProWorks and a Happy Holliday to you

Sharing the Benefits of Data Mining at the Olsen Thielen Technologies Summit

Earlier this month ProWorks was invited to attended and contribute to the 4th Annual Olsen Thielen Technologies Summit and Year End 2006 in St. Paul, Minnesota. About a hundred local area businesses attended the two-day Summit to learn how Olsen Thielen Technologies and the Microsoft Dynamics line of business solutions can help drive their success.

Olsen Thielen Technologies (OTT) is a progressive information technology consulting company that provides a wide array of products and services for small to mid-market businesses in the Upper Midwest. Their services include implementing solutions that extend from front office CRM to back office operational applications. OTT is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with competencies in Microsoft Business Solutions and Networking Infrastructure technologies.

Jason Prothero and I were pleased to present at two of the Microsoft CRM educational sessions alongside Gretchen Mann, CRM Practice Manager and Tad Thompson, Senior CRM Consultant with the OTT Microsoft Dynamics CRM team. We concentrated on educating the audience about SQL Server Analysis Services 2005, it's data mining capabilities and how data mining is able to positively impact regular business processes and daily tasks.

View ProWorks OTT Summit PowerPoint Slide Deck

A common theme throughout the CRM sessions was the importance of utilizing CRM to empower employees and drive businesses forward. ProWorks could not support this message more. As Gretchen Mann pointed out during her presentation, simply storing information within CRM can be compared to throwing the information into a waste basket. Businesses are impacted when that information is transformed into actionable insight through data mining.

Thank you to the great folks at Olsen Thielen Technologies for allowing us help spread the message of CRM and data mining.