I am proud to say that Snowbound continues the fight against tree harvesting for the purpose of manufacturing paper for business documents. Numerous business processes—including mortgages, insurance claims, banking transactions, medical records and so many more—never see “the light of

Doesn’t sound appetizing, does it? But we do. Or put more plainly: We use what we sell. Our VirtualViewer® HTML5 (VV) for Java and .NET sits on top of our RasterMaster (RM) SDK/libraries. Those libraries are driven to excellence because we depend on them for our VirtualViewer universa

The Importance of Modern Browsers – Microsoft will agree with you In our commercial, profit-oriented world, it is counter to reason that free products continue to see speedy development. But that is the fact with web browsers. Microsoft offers MS Edge (and formerly offered Internet Ex

Updating your Enterprise System Gently – without cracking any eggs I don’t think anyone could have predicted that Fortune 500 companies (among many others) would be running software written in the 1960’s and 70’s today. But for the same reasons that’s been going on,  that situation pe

In today’s world, business-to-business and business-to-consumer communications and transactions, include both unstructured and structured data. Structured data is generally numerical and can be easily searched. Examples would include spreadsheets or databases. Unstructured data, on th

In our line of business, document formats like PDF, DOCX, TIFF, and JPEG are critical to our customers. Often customers, even engineers, don’t appreciate the amount of effort that these highly complex documents and images require to be manipulated and rendered for display and other fu

It happens to all of us… You cook a steak and someone wants it cooked more. You plant a tree and your wife wants it on the other side of the yard. You carefully plan, design and create a beautiful document viewer but the customer wants the backend to run on Jboss rather than Web

Having been in the software industry for so many years, I’ve seen a lot of good ways to develop or integrate software applications. I’ve also seen some that are not so good. Everyone has heard of vaporware and knows that at some point you have to cut the cord on promises. However, wha

Many of us have heard the following sales pitch many times over our careers: We’ve got a product that’s carefully crafted with the “best of breed” components and tuned for optimum performance and quality as a turnkey solution. Oh, and it is also backed by our Fortune 500 company resou