Element Fusion

We were just answering some interview questions from The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City's major print newspaper, about our company's experiences during the recent ice storm. One of the things we were discussing is that when power went out at our offices, our team was able to work remotely, because most all of our work is on the web.

This got me thinking about the value of web-based software. Certainly, there are a lot of advantages to web-based software, but one big one is the ability to work remotely from anywhere.

At Element Fusion, we build web-based software and sell it as our product line. We have content management systems like Water, Sky and Light, which are web-based tools that allow our clients to manage their own websites. We also offer Icebrrg, an online form builder and Breeze, a web-based email marketing tool. Anyone using our products can access their accounts and accomplish anything inside our system from the other side of the globe just as easily as if they were sitting in their own office. And no matter where you are when you access it, you are always working on the latest version with the latest, up-to-date changes. That's the power of web-based software.

We not only build web-based software, but we also use web-based products from other companies to perform our business tasks wherever possible. We use a web-based email provider, a web-based project management portal, web-based documents and spreadsheets, a web-based calendaring system, plus a lot of other smaller tools. Personally, I use a web-based to-do list and a web-based time-tracker. I'm sure if you added up all of the web-based tools that we all use, the list would be long. Maybe I'll do that sometime ... anyway ...

Whether we're at home, at the office, or at Panera, we can get into our stuff and work on it because it's web-based. That certainly came in handy last week during the power outage, but it's also helpful even when there's no catastrophe in sight. We plan to continue to move as many of our business processes as possible into web-based products to take advantage of all the benefits of web-based software.