By now, it’s a given that the technology that helps industries get more specific and efficient with their work will advance. The businesses seeking to bring those innovations to companies can sustain amid changes if they’re adding new capabilities along the way, and have a sense of the right timing to introduce them. A couple other ingredients: a niche that provides a competitive advantage, and culture that can bounce back from challenges.
Columbia-based data and software integration company Skyward Apps is marking 10 years in business this month, and its trajectory shows how software development can change as industry needs grow.
The advances in mobile technology that led to the company’s origin date back further than a decade. CEO Nick Elliott began his career working with ZedX, a company specializing in tech for the agricultural industry. When he started 20 years ago, the available technology was PalmPilots. The consumer-facing technology showed promise for helping farmers to more easily capture and track key data. But when it got into the field, they found it didn’t yet work right. Elliott went on to work with Microsoft, but this early experience planted a seed.
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