The Great Minnesota Get Together

I can already smell the corn dogs cooking and see the crowds gathering for the Great Minnesota Get Together—the State Fair. It reminds me of the Rodgers and Hammerstein lyrics: OUR STATE FAIR IS A GREAT STATE FAIR, IS A GREAT, IS A GREAT, IS A GREAT STATE FAIR, HEY!!

The excitement, thrills, and fun associated with this event each year is something you can count on. And, each year, you can count on some changes too. In the past few years, they've added deep fried candy bars, chocolate covered bacon, deep fried fruit, and new this year (we hear), deep fried butter—all on a stick, of course. Mixing in a few changes each year with the items you can count on is a formula that works year after year.

The whole thing really reminds me of the Help/Systems approach to a consistent development strategy, one that introduces change over time, enhancements as we go, and the same friendly support you can count on every day. We want you to enjoy your experience, whether you’re using our software or calling our team for help.

And that reminds me that one of the losing experiences at the Fair is a trip down the Midway, where you try your luck at games like bursting balloons with darts. This is similar to another losing experience you often encounter when you try to automate your system with solutions from multiple vendors. Across the IT landscape, I hear more and more customers say they want to work with just a few familiar vendors, partially to reduce the number of vendors they need to maintain and partially to control costs (it can cost you a lot of money to manage all those different relationships, just like it can cost you a lot of money to try and hit all those balloons on the Midway).

You can lose the luck element with the Robot Solution, an integrated solution for automating all the elements of your IBM i environment with no surprises. It’s like hitting every balloon you aim at. Remember, Help/Systems is built on the “Minnesota Nice,” State Fair approach. So, come visit us and change your luck.