The Inovis Blog

We are continually striving to provide better solutions and services to our customers. That’s why we’d like for you to weigh in! Answer our question of the week and let us know what you’re looking for. Today’s question is:

What is the coolest new feature you’d like to see in your Inovis software?

Leave us a comment and we’ll send you a green gift.

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A new blogger has joined our team! Cassandra Knight is a Tech Support Representative for the Inovis Solution Center, and will soon be contributing regular blog posts about EDI. Cassandra is a seasoned blogger and has been doing technical support for eight years. We look forward to the humor and insight she will be adding to the Inovis blog. Welcome aboard Cassandra! If you’d like to learn more about our newest team member, follow this link to a funny video Cassandra produced. Enjoy!

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There’s a buzzword floating around that you may have overheard: SCRUM. While we have featured blog posts in the past about the importance of Automation with SCRUM and how user stories are important to the Agile process, we really haven’t published a piece introducing SCRUM. Here’s a quick intro.

Also known as the Agile Process, SCRUM is a software development process that involves members of Quality Assurance, Development, Product Management, and various other employees.

What exactly is the Agile Process? The term ‘SCRUM’ originates from a rugby term for eight individual ruby players that act together rather than individually to get the ball down the field. They move in calculated, incremental steps rather than rushing to the goal.

In the world of software development, SCRUM is an incremental process that is composed of ‘sprints’ or development cycles that last two weeks. At the end of each sprint, a potentially shippable set of functionality is produced. While new features are added on in each cycle, the idea is to have a functional core product at the end of each sprint. SCRUM is not just a process, it’s a mind set. SCRUM builds team work, encourages creativity, and defines those who are pigs and those who are chicks. For more information or to better wrap your head around this subject, check out this Wikipedia article.

Today’s post is a Q&A with Paul Lavery, Director of Catalogue and Data Synchronization Services at Inovis. Paul is responsible for product strategy and planning, identifying market requirements, and defining specific features for product releases. Paul is a solid source about Data Synchronization and Catalogue for both Inovis employees and customers, and was kind enough to recently answer five questions frequently asked by customers in regards to the new Inovis Catalogue with Images.

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