Recently a construction company came to Altamente with the unique problem of having so many field sites and traveling engineers that project management had become a thorny challenge. The company had earlier invested in web modules for expensive group and project management software as well as a web interface for their accounting system. However, a year and many tens of thousands of dollars later, they were no better off. The engineers in the field were dissuaded from using the web interfaces because the interaction with the software and database rendered so slowly. They considered it a waste of their time. Reports they managed informally via spreadsheets in minutes, took an hour or more through the estimation program. Frustration set in and the company was on the hunt for a new solution.

Short from installing new hardware and licenses in every remote office to run programs locally, the company asked, "what can we do?"

Altamente is super excited for the launch of a new project which involves a beverage responsible for our every success. Coffee. Without coffee, we dare say our engineering department would not function. When an agricultural cooperative (farmer's group) presented us with the opportunity to extoll the virtues of Cafe Cibales, a locally grown and producted coffee, we could not say no. Will work for coffee? "Sure, anything you say," said the engineers.

A large industrial bakery in Puerto Rico came to Altamente over three years ago with many of the classic symptoms of larger companies trying to effectively use the Internet to do business. The company's core competency is baking bread and pastries and distributing them throughout the island. What makes this case especially interesting is the necessity to keep the company's focus on bread baking and not IT infrastructure. IT infrastructure can help them, but it can easily become an expensive distraction.