CONCORD, CA – JANUARY 6, 2009 — D-Tools Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software, today announced that BG Radia, a leading manufacturer of premium audio loudspeakers has joined the D-Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) Program, making it easy for D-Tools System Integrator™ users to specify BG Radia products for their client engagements.

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 …

OK, for any of you who have pre-teen children and the Disney Channel, you may recognize the title of this post. If you don’t, then it really doesn’t matter. The point is this: 2008 is over. Done. Behind us. It’s time to focus on the year ahead and what we can do to improve. Improve what you might ask? Well that is entirely up to you.

As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday it may be a little harder to think about all of things we have to be thankful for, given the hits that our market has taken, the state of the economy, the mounting job losses….wait that’s not where I was going with this. Yes, it’s been a difficult year. But we’ve had difficult years before and somehow we get through it. I’m not saying that it is easy right now, because it isn’t. We have to work harder for every deal, we may have to offer additional services at no charge that we were used to charging for, or make less on every job.

We just got back from our D-Tools University last week. DTU is our annual 3-day user conference and training event. This year’s event was very well attended despite the downturn in the economy. It seems …

Winning companies reveal impressive projects that were created with D-Tools Award-winning System Integrator software. Over $20,000 in prizes were donated by APC AV, Atlantic Technology, Draper Inc, D-Tools, and Middle Atlantic Products.
D-Tools, Inc. is …

If change is good, why do so many people have a natural aversion to it? Is it really “better the devil you know?” Change can be scary and intimidating, but one thing for sure is that it is constant, and depending on your perspective, can be the difference between success and failure. Reluctance to adapt to changes around you (many of which are beyond your control, such as our current economic and business climate for example) or plain stubborn refusal to change due to long-held beliefs have doomed countless companies, relationships and even entire careers.

Seattle-based professional services organization to offer Visio Shape Development and integration services for users of D-Tools System Integrator software.
CONCORD, CA – OCTOBER 22, 2008 — D-Tools, Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software, today …

The word for today is refine. We are currently undergoing an overhaul of our internal processes, which you can read all about here. We have implemented Zoho as our CRM to help us better manage and control communicating with our prospects, customers and partners. I won’t go too much into that because Adam is documenting our process and will continue to add to this category as we continue to move forward with our Zoho implementation.

I was on a panel last week at CEDIA as part of their Survival of the Fittest series. This was a panel discussion that focused on how integrators can continue to survive and thrive in this difficult …

D-Tools was founded in 1998 by Adam Stone. He launched the first version of what is now known as System Integrator software at CEDIA 1998 as Digi-tools CE. 10 years later, D-Tools is a worldwide …

Email campaigns. Check. Every CRM has this as a checkbox on their feature list. Whether it is integrated as part of the system, as is the case with NetSuite & Oasis, or acheived through a …