Sierra Bravo Exceeds Expectations in its First Year of Business

Sierra Bravo exceeded its expectations at the end of the first twelve months in business. Sierra Bravo was founded by Luke Bucklin, Mike Schmidt and Mike Derheim in October, 2003 as a web solutions provider.

By the end of October, 2004, Sierra Bravo tripled its staff to nine full-time employees, all skilled software developers with a wide range of experience in various technologies. Sierra Bravo continues to offer a wide range of web solutions to its customers, however, its B2B Online Store has been the flagship product over the past several months.

“Were excited about the growth we’ve seen over the past twelve months. We didn’t expect to grow as fast as we have, but our previous experience in this business has driven us to start out by solving the problems that limit the growth of service companies like ours. We’ve kept our focus on quality, customer service and the ability to scale to meet growing demand from our customers,” said Luke Bucklin, President of Sierra Bravo Corporation.

By using mainstream software development technologies such as PHP, Java and Microsoft .NET to create solutions for its customers using legacy business systems, Sierra Bravo has been able to add seasoned web developers to its staff without searching for individuals with highly-unique skill sets. “It’s a major growth-inhibitor when you need to find a web developer with mainframe programming experience. We’ve eliminated the complexity of working with legacy business systems by extending our tool set to allow our programmers to develop these solutions in their native environment,” explains Mike Derheim, Vice President of Sierra Bravo Corporation. “We knew we’d hit a wall if we didn’t implement a method to quickly scale our services. This was a topic of discussion for us a year ago when we started this business. I’m confident that we’re on the right track to meet the enormous demand for these unique solutions,” continued Derheim.

Sierra Bravo takes pride in being able to provide custom web solutions that integrate directly into a wide variety of existing business systems. Its success is attributed to Sierra Bravo’s ability to provide comprehensive solutions quickly, accurately and inexpensively.

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