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Strategy consultancy ISVfocus.com: Exploiting new business opportunities

Conjuring practical ideas and solutions to help independent software vendors (ISVs)

Andrew Biss started strategy consultancy ISV Focus to help ISVs exploit new opportunities. He conjures practical ideas and solutions by combining fresh thinking and his software industry experience.

Before starting ISV Focus Andrew had held senior strategy, marketing and engineering positions at enterprise application development tool vendors in the UK, US, France and Germany.

Does your ISV need help responding to a new opportunity? Then start exploring how Andrew can apply the insights he’s gained from successfully completing diverse strategic projects. Learn more.

  • What’s ISVfocus.com?

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    ISV Focus is where Andrew Biss conjures practical & solutions to help independent software vendors (ISVs) exploit new business opportunities. Learn more.

  • Who’s Andrew Biss?

    Andrew Biss

    An experienced software industry executive, I own strategy consultancy ISV Focus and curate presentation blog Tech Presenting. I post on software industry topics on my personal blog.

  • What’s Tech Presenting?

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    Tech Presenting is where I curate tips and tricks, examples and other resources to help you give technical presentations that get audiences to take action. After all, without the action it’s just entertainment!

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TechPresenting.com blog: Getting audiences to take action

After all, without the action it’s just entertainment!

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I created presentation blog Tech Presenting to help you give technical presentations that get audiences to take action. After all, without the action it’s just entertainment!

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Positioning: Stand out from the crowd

Helping an international financial services ISV respond to RFP

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Consulted for an international financial services ISV to respond to an urgent RFP from a large French financial institution. I helped the ISV discover how to present their established positioning in such a way as to stand out from the crowd answering the RFP.

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Responsive web design: Flexible everything

Automatically adjusting to device, screen size and orientation

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Implemented responsive web design to automatically respond to different screen resolutions and device orientation, without having to know details of every possible display, notebook, netbook, smartphone, tablet or other access device.

This new WordPress theme builds on the minimalist approach of the iA³ template from Information Architects. I’ve enhanced the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript code so I can easily run all ISV Focus blogs and websites from a shared source.

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