Customer Profile — Blackfin

Build a business, not a start-up. Focus on delivering good work. Invest and grow to meet customer's needs. Sounds rational, but in the late 1990's, high tech dot com companies spent investor dollars as fast as they could, creating a perception of growth to fuel IPO's. Blackfin founders were radical in their belief that focusing on delivering results would resonate with customers. The same loyalty to quality, customers and employees that these three schoolmates shared since they were twelve, fuels Blackfin's success.

Blackfin, founded in early 2000 by three technology veterans, Jason Scherer, Brian Konrath and Jefferson Jewell, is the largest independently owned software development firm in Idaho. Starting a business with $6,000, credit cards, one desk, home computers, sublet office space…… and no customers, is not for everyone. These three dug in and went to work. Early customers like Hewlett-Packard and Micron Technology kept coming back. Today the company has an impressive customer list, is forty people strong and growing revenues every quarter.

Everyday Blackfin technologists design and develop software solutions that directly impact their customers' success. The "back-end magic" that makes web sites work is where the company started. Now Blackfin can create the look and feel of the website and still make it work! They have practice groups specializing in: Enterprise Solutions and Systems Integration, IT Strategy and Management, Database Consulting and Development, Web Applications, e-Commerce as well as Marketing Communications and Design.

In 2005 Blackfin needed to communicate more quickly and efficiently with their customers so they turned to Integra. Why Integra? Blackfin's Brian Konrath answers, "Integra had the best service and was the most knowledgeable. Integra and Blackfin share core values of delivering customer service and results. We now have a T-1 line that is fast, reliable and cost effective. Integra is there for us when we need them, they understand they are an important link in our ability to deliver quality to our customers. And that's what we're all about."

Blackfin can be reached online at www.blackfintech.com.

Blackfin
1702 W Fairview Ave
Boise, ID 83702
www.blackfintech.com

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