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Solve Technical Staffing Challenges
By Marketing Director on 3/23/2007
Do you have a large software project coming up—but not the permanent staff to handle it? Maybe you’re thinking of implementing voice over IP for your call center, but don’t have the telephony expertise in-house. Now, Artemis can help you find the best solution to your technical staffing issues. With our new staff augmentation services, we have put our years of experience locating and screening technical hires to work for our clients. We set a high bar for Artemis employees, and we’ll make sure that you also get the best.
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Congratulations to an award-winning team!
By Marketing Director on 3/23/2007
Artemis Solutions was honored recently in the prestigious ADDYs, the world’s largest advertising competition. The Artemis creative team, headed by Creative Director Steve Jencks, walked away from this year’s 6th District regional competition with three Silver ADDYs in recognition of their outstanding design for the Lansing Symphony website, the Artemis Solutions website, and the Greater Lansing Visitor’s Bureau Kiosks.
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A Little SEO Goes a Long Way
By Joseph Sak on 2/26/2007 4:55 PM
Last December, I took on the task of doing my first real Search Engine Optimization (SEO) job for one of our clients: Modern Metal Processing.
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Turning around a project in a weekend – an Artemis code jam story
By App Dev Team on 11/29/2006
What happens when a project fails to actually solve the business goals of a client yet perfectly fulfills the original ‘objective’ it was devised for?
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What to design first: Your database layer? Or your user interface?
By App Dev Team on 9/25/2006
It seems that every six months there are new buzzwords or processes that are springing up, attempting to revolutionize the software industry; you really have to do a lot of research and apply some common sense and experience to determine which ones are worth their salt. There has been one shift in the industry that we at Artemis are definitely firm believers in:  Starting your software project from the Front to Back (UI to Database), not Back to Front (Database to UI).

Back to Front- The Outdated Method
Traditionally, when a new project began, the software architects would start by designing all of the low-level architecture along with the complex data structures that would house the software's entities.  This technique would allow the software engineers to figure out all of the data the software would track, and then build all the code to store and retrieve the data.  Lots of time would be spent in designing and re-factoring how the da ...
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Post-Implementation What?!
By Ben Eysselinck on 8/1/2006 Ben Eysselinck
In the last 12 years, one of my favorite events in the software development lifecycle, an event where I tend to sit back, smirking to myself on the inside, has been the "Closing of the Deal."  I enjoy sitting in the conference room while John Q. Salesman announces the new "Big Fish," that they just landed (of course not bothering to mention the amount of time my developers and I had to devote to their sales pitch of course, but that’s a discussion for another article) and how many orders of magnitude this sale is going to improve our finances, our company, the neighborhood, the war on global terrorism, the environment, the state of local schools, the cleanliness…  you get the idea.  

Don’t get me wrong, I love making a big sale!  It’s a fantastic feeling to have taken a completely unrealized relationship, and cultivated it into one where your new customer now trusts you to the point that they are willing to fork over their ...
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