Hindsight is a lovely thing. Especially when watching information being migrated from one large, legacy system to another large, contemporary system.  Last month we discussed the information management gap, required reading as a definition for this post.

For point of reference, the existing system (or system that is being migrated from) will be called the legacy system and the system that is being migrated to is the contemporary system.

Below are some points to help as a checklist when dealing with migrating information.

Todays CRM market is saturated with products that purport to assist in easing the relationship management challenge.

The main products powering the enterprise focus on the ability of the organisation's people to generate leads, follow them up and complete a particular set of goals. This is great for an organisation whose primary focus is the development of wealth and profitability.

Where does CiviCRM fit in and what is it good at?

Have you ever asked yourself, "What about me is my competitive advantage?"

Take a second to have a think about what that means to you.

being competitive

Competition is a bad word - to different people it means a lot of things that turns out to be worlds apart. For our use, competition will refer to the display of characteristics that set one apart from the others. For example, competition on price means that entities are displaying their price as what sets them apart, introducing the idea that their lower prices mean that they are better.

Developing in PHP is fun; it's cheap; it's easy. All it takes is a LAMP or equivalent stack, whether from a free host or on your own local machine.

During my days in looking over people's code, I've found some interesting approaches. These approaches favour form over function – i.e., the code plain does not work.

Note, the below code samples are from actual production applications that I have worked with over the years.