TrackVia provides High-grade Encryption using AES-256 256 bit encryption.  This means TrackVia’s SSL encryption (protects your information as it travels through the internet) is so incredibly secure, there’s really not much more to say about it!

By default, all new TrackVia accounts have SSL enabled from the time they’re created.  Some existing TrackVia customers may not have SSL enabled.  If this is the case for your account, just email us at support@trackvia.com or call us at 800.673.3302 and we’ll get it enabled for your account, pronto!

Want to know a great way to find TrackVia help articles, and other TrackVia tips & tricks?  Search on Google!

Once you’re in the TrackVia forum after clicking a Google search result, be sure to click around and read other articles.  And please – leave some comments!

• Smoking on an airplane
• Kids riding loose in the “way back” of a station wagon
• Baseball players with the same team for a career
• Mobile phones the size of a suitcase
• Waiting for IT to build a solution

Remember back before TrackVia, when you’d need to wait on IT to build an application to solve your department’s business problem?  Back when the IT group had to requisition hardware, install OSs, apply patches, write custom code, monitor uptime, etc.?

Yesterday came news that a hacker stole 130 million credit card numbers (no, that’s not a typo) from 7-Eleven, a supermarket chain, and a few other corporate victims. This is the latest in a series of data (in)security headlines, which seem to come along every couple of months. In fact this same hacker was in the news a few years ago, having stolen data from retailers TJ Maxx and Dave & Buster’s.

One thing I find interesting about these stories is that the victims are always traditional offline companies, not cloud software or software-as-a-service providers. There’s a reason for that. Cloud vendors like TrackVia, who make it their business to secure data, invest in and diligently follow security practices that too many non-tech companies overlook.

For example, does anyone think 7-Eleven was….
• Performing daily vulnerability scans provided by an independent security firm?
• Turning off all unnecessary software and services on externally facing servers?
• Closing every port on the firewall by default, and allowing access for individual services only on non-standard ports?
• Using strong passwords on every machine and rotating them regularly?

My guess is 7-Eleven wasn’t doing these things. But cloud software vendors with any heft, including TrackVia, perform all of those security practices and many more routinely. We do it because it’s our business to do so.

The analogy I often use is one of a bank. Businesses store their cash in banks, not on premises, because banks are experts at keeping cash secure. Doesn’t your data deserve the same? Stop storing your data under a mattress! Put it in TrackVia, the world’s safest place for data, and avoid being the 7-Eleven in next month’s headline.

Sitting at a stoplight this weekend, I was one lane over from a K Car.  I’d say that the K Car had seen its better days, but I’m not sure that any K Car had better days, even new.

Seeing that piece of machinery from a bygone era made me think about how the American automakers completely missed the dawn of a new era.  I’m not exactly going out on a limb by stating that those decisions have come to haunt the American auto industry.

It’s easy with hindsight to wonder how the American auto industry could miss such obvious signs that the smaller, more efficient and more reliable Japanese cars represented a strategic threat.  But, I’m sure that the automakers had board meetings where it was pointed out that they enjoyed higher profit margins on bigger, less reliable cars – or something like that.  So, that’s what they kept making.

So my question is, aren’t we at a point in the technology industry where the behemoth ERP, database, and systems integration providers are continuing to offer overpriced, unreliable systems even though this isn’t in the best interests of their customers?

Isn’t it clear that a cloud-based application like TrackVia, that doesn’t require you to purchase hardware, and that doesn’t require you to pay consultants to implement, is the future?

Want to see who made what changes to a database, when?  Just use our “change history” feature!  (”Change history” sounds pretty ambitious, but don’t worry, it’s just a short way of saying “see the history of what changed!”).

For better or worse, there’s no hiding or “fudging” about what happened if you inadvertently delete a field from the CRM.  Your little snafu is right there in the “change history” section for your boss and others to see.  (Although if that happens, don’t worry, we can restore the deleted field for you!)

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If you can think of anything that any company does these days that doesn’t involve some kind of app to run it, I’d love to hear about it.  The fact is that every business initiative, no matter how big or small, has some underlying technology that helps the team keep track of progress.  An app could be as simple as a spreadsheet that’s emailed around.  Or it could be as sophisticated as an ERP.

Enter the browser, plus ubiquitous broadband access, i.e. the “cloud.”  These 2 factors allow you to leverage someone else’s equipment to build an app and to give others access to it.

Throw in some security, reliability, and ease-of-set-up, and now you’ve got everything you need to build a sophisticated app to run your business initiative.

Combine all of the above into a “horizontal” platform that’s flexible enough to build any app in any industry, and you’ve just disrupted the way business teams solve problems.  You’ve just provided a way for individual teams, no matter how big or small, to build their own apps to support their business initiatives.

This is no small disruption.  It allows business teams to bypass the traditional routes of getting an app built.  Forward-thinking IT departments are adopting and promoting this trend as an answer to their never-ending backlog of app requests.

At TrackVia, we’re leading this disruption.  We have conversations every day with business teams and IT departments that need to build apps immediately to capture business opportunities, or to solve business problems.  Want to learn more about these conversations?  Just keep reading our blog…

We recently had a conversation with an IT employee at a large, publicly traded company that has built a sophisticated TrackVia application.  This TrackVia application is running a significant business initiative for the company.

The IT employee mentioned to us that back when the company first found TrackVia, they built their application in less than 2 days.  Sure enough, he got a phone call soon after, from one of his boss’ bosses.  This upper-level business manager told him that they’d need to look for some other solution, as TrackVia couldn’t be for powerful enough for their needs if it was that quick and easy to set up.

In fairness to the manager, understanding the value of TrackVia does require a huge shift in thinking about the time and resources needed to roll-out sophisticated applications.  Compared to the standard process of hardware procurement, software licensing & installing, etc., a manager could be forgiven for being suspicious of something that just works immediately.

Fast-forward many months, and this same business manager is now instructing his IT employees to migrate as many applications as possible to TrackVia.  In the time since they started using TrackVia, it’s the only business system his teams use that hasn’t had a single failure.

Need help educating management to understand that just because TrackVia is quick and easy to deploy shouldn’t be held against us?  Give me a call at 800.673.3302 and ask for Chris, and I’m happy to speak with anyone about TrackVia’s sophistication, security and reliability.  If you’re wanting to get your boss’ buy-in to TrackVia, I’m happy to help, and do it all of the time!