Articles by Adam Stone
Other than my personal life and hobbies I am all about the system integration and A/V industry. I started in 1981 as a “TV delivery specialist” for the Good Guys a west coast CE chain. From there I started my own big dish satellite installation company which morphed into a home theater installation company in the early 90’s. I got out of the installation business in 1996 and went to work for an electrical contractor as project manager of their residential division where I was exposed to the complexities of old school/analog job costing, estimating, blueprints and project scheduling. Being a long time PC geek and creator of some database driven estimating tools I knew that there had to be a better way to deal with these complex projects. During the course of my employment there I was exposed to Visio as an easy to use drawing tool. After spending some time with it I realized that I could hook it up to a database and automate many of the disparate processes I needed to do to accomplish my tasks. That let to the formation of my current company D-Tools which is the leader in the marketplace with thousands of companies using our design, engineering and business management tools. My direct contact information is on the About tab.
D-Tools MVP manufacturers realize the importance of bringing you their product information and have chosen to support the D-Tools user community by joining the program and making their product data directly available through D-Tools SI …
In part 1 of this series I went over How D-Tools Uses the Mass Email Functionality in Zoho CRM to send targeted mass emails to their leads. In part 2, I will go over …
In the selfless spirit of the holiday season, and the selfish spirit of knowing I write better for an audience, I offer my colleagues and readers another in depth, how to articles on how D-Tools …
What James Cameron did for the movies with Avatar D-Tools is going to do for system integration. As much as I love a rack elevation or floorplan done up in Microsoft Visio it just …
We are pleased to announce the launch of the D-Tools WikiBlog, your new source for technical information about D-Tools software. On the WikiBlog, you will find a complete, up-to-date knowledgebase, helping you find the information …
This started out as an internal document that I was going to share with the marketing team here but in the tradition of openness and Web 2.0 I am going to share with the world. …
I just received the email below from Steve Collard, the D-Tools CFO/COO regarding the phased roll-out plans of SI 5.5. This is only interesting because we already rolled out 5.5 earlier in the month and …
I came across this news article and video called Mothers Voice May be Best Fire Alarm last year. The video and article explain how kids do not respond to the standard beeping/wailing fire alarms but …
CONCORD, CA – JANUARY 30, 2009 – D-Tools, Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software, today announced that Federal Technologies Unlimited, an Abu Dhabi-based design and technology integration company is improving business efficiencies while …
I was inspired by our CTO’s eloquent post on how our development process has evolved over the years and I thought I would add how we start the dev process with a written specification for …
It does not look like it at first but there is some solid business advice somewhere around the end of this post.
This is my first real post since my unfortunate mishap in November. At …
I saw this post in CE Pro today. Electronic Systems Consultants: Making Data-Driven Decisions. I like this article for a number of reasons.
Process first. They identified a number of areas where software (not ours BTW) could …
