Kicking off the new year in high gear

We're nearly one month into 2010, and I'm excited about all that's happening around the office. Here are a few highlights:

• CCC membership is growing fast and that means that all of us in Professional Services are keeping very busy and we continue to grow our staff to meet the ever increasing demand. This is good stuff and I welcome all the new CCC members.
• We have our first Grants customer live on Click Commerce Extranet 5.6 and within days of going live they electronically submitted their first grants application to Grants.gov using Click Commerce SF424 1.7. Milestones like this are always rewarding.
• We just completed delivery of our Introduction to Process Automation course last week.
• C3DF preparations are in high gear and I hope to see many of you here next month.
• Our upcoming Advanced Workflow Configuration course, scheduled for the Monday immediately following C3DF is already full and more have signed up for the next offering. This is personally exciting to me because one of the things I enjoy most is sharing what can be accomplished on the Extranet platform.
• We've kicked off a project with the nation's largest IRB (I'll let you wonder who this may be since the official press release isn't out yet)
• We're kicking off several other projects as well including the NASA IRB project, though we're disappointed that the meeting won't include a trip to the International Space Station. I can only imagine the battle to be a member of that project team if it did!
• We've kicked off our first Grants project that will leverage a completely new approach to budget grid implementation. This new Grid approach is very exciting and will rapidly spread out beyond Grants and surface in other solutions such as Clinical Trials, Participant Tracking and Animal Operations.
• We've begun to work through best practices for defining and implementing a new generation of reports. I'll definitely be talking more about this as we roll out our Enterprise Reporting Services.

It's been a frenzied start to the new year and I've been unable to return to this blog since the relative quiet of the holidays. Realizing that things aren't going to slow down any time soon, I either accept the fact that I go dark on this blog or somehow find the time to keep things relatively current. It's not for a lack of topics, I rarely find myself without something to say. Whether or not it's something you actually want to hear is up to you and I certainly hope to hear from you either way. Not being one to accept defeat so easily, I sit here at my laptop late at night night, writing down whatever comes to mind. Hopefully it will make sense to at least some of us. ;-)

In several of my previous posts, I promised I would revisit topics to let you know how things are going and I plan to do just that in my next post. Beyond that, if you have any thoughts on what you want to see in future posts please let me know. I'd love to hear about them. Keep those cards and letters coming!

Cheers!