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Testimonials
Welcome to our customer reference portfolio.
Please feel free to browse and read about the many ways in
which our solutions have contributed to the success of our
customers.
When we started our company, Assurity Technologies, in 2004, my business partner and I had a vision for a software product with an immediate market opportunity. When considering our options for development, we decided to outsource development principally because the cost of onshore development was prohibitive. Selecting a partner was the next challenge. Using Google as our research tool, we identified several firms ranging in size, all located in India. We selected Clarion Technologies principally on personalities. We trusted the management team, we liked their methodology, and we felt their expertise would lend value to our business beyond the code they produced. Clarion has exceeded all of our expectations.
We’ve been working with Clarion now for over two years. They’ve seen us grow from a start-up consisting of two people, to the successful launch of our product, through to the acquisition of our company by a larger publicly traded organization. In just over two years, our product is now used by over 30 large multinational companies to manage compliance requirements around the account reconciliation function, providing the proof required to support the executive attestation requirement under Sarbanes-Oxley.
Clarion continues to be a valued member of our team, even post acquisition. We are pleased to report that our partnership with Clarion has delivered benefits we did not originally factor into our assessment, including a faster time to market due to a 24 hour work day, as well as the benefit of best practices developed through the larger Clarion organization. We simply couldn’t have done it without them.
Heather Lynds, Founder Assurity Technologies
Clarion technologies has been instrumental in the success of Jyve.
They built all our backend and web site. We went through many iterations as we were refining the business model and built numerous innovative technologies together and learnt a great deal in the process. They were always patient with us and helped in the design process by providing their own ideas and suggestions.
Their professionalism, commitment and responsiveness has been exemplary. They have always provided top notch developers.Their developers take ownership of the projects they are assigned and pride themselves in their work.
We have been looking to Clarion for our development needs for over 2 years now and will continue to do so.Over this time, I've seen Clarion grow considerably and am very happy to see them doing so well.Jyve wishes you continued Success
Charles Carleton, CEO/Founder Jyve
I am pleased to have this opportunity to endorse the services
and unique business model offered by Clarion Technologies.
I have found Clarion Technologies and their staff (from management
to coding engineers) extremely proficient and professional,
from pre-contract through to delivery of the product. Their
business model (from design to delivery) is very efficient
and cost effective.
When comparing their business model and business practices
to conventional methods and IT departments, we have found
Clarion’s deliverables to far outweigh the traditional/conventional
methods. Clarion’s methods, speed of delivery, reporting
mechanisms, progress and process tracking, etc., in each case
far outperform traditional in-house development, without sacrificing
control and security.
We believe that their business model is unique to the industry.
However, when compared to traditional programming methods,
it is extremely efficient and cost effective.
We are pleased with our decision to employ Clarion Technologies
and move the bulk of our coding to them, and would not hesitate
to recommend their services.
Yours sincerely.

Rod Cummings, President
As we draw near the completion of 'EDDY Version 1.0' and plans
to continue onto other versions within the 'EDDY Design'.
We wanted to say thank you all for the true professionalism,
dedication, and commitment found within all aspects of Clarion's
'Virtual Employee' concept. As we reflect upon the last year
we can't imagine doing this without Clarion as a whole and
our amazing team: Kalim, Abhijeet, Norma, and Yukti.
We remember going through the selection process related to
finding a 'programming company' with Ankur and we eventually
arrived upon the doorstep of a decision. Accordingly, the
tipping point with respect to going forward was fostered by
Ankur stating: “If you will trust in my vision for Clarion
and give the 'Virtual Employee' concept a try You will never
need another programming company again.” Ankur and Swati
- We can say that statement was, without a shadow of a doubt,
'TRUE'… you all will be our programming company from
now on. Moreover, Clarion has truly moved into the realm of
a trusted and valued collaborator as we continue to deliver
and build upon our vision and mission found within 'EDDY'.
Warmly,
Dr. Joe Nichols (Founder and
Chief Executive Officer) &
John M. Weber (Chief Information Officer)
One of the largest problems
in the United States is managing information within our complex
healthcare system. EnableComp provides business solutions
for major hospitals and physicians who deliver our healthcare
services. To meet our goals, we needed expert, enterprise-scale
technologies that were rich in healthcare domain expertise.
For over two years now, Clarion has been our entire “virtual”
programming team. Their commitment and passion to learning
the complexities of the U.S healthcare system, along with
their dedication to precision engineering has been exceptionally
impressive. I offer my highest recommendations to the Clarion
team.
David Iskowe, CEO of EnableComp,
was the co-founder and former CEO of FOCUS Healthcare,
one of the largest specialty healthcare companies in the U.S.
The purpose of this note to let you how happy Vacation Planners
has been with the absolutely great work Clarion has done for
our company. Clarion has given us excellent support and has
made us think of things and go into markets we would have
never thought of entering in the past.
Our company is a small Property Management company on the
island of Culebra, Puerto Rico. We own, operate, and rent
on commission, hotels, guesthouses, apartments, condominiums,
and houses. In the past we always thought of our company as
simply picking up more properties to rent and this was how
we were going to expand and grow our business. However, since
working with Clarion we see global opportunities beyond what
we could have ever imagined in the past We now believe that
we can transition from a small property management company
on a small island in the Caribbean to a global Internet company
serving the property management needs of guesthouses, hotels,
and property management companies around the world. This whole
change in our paradigm has come completely and solely from
our work with Clarion Technologies.
As we worked with Clarion technologies the support, quality
of service, and technical competence of Clarion has been nothing
short of excellent. There are many areas where Clarion excels.
Two specific examples of where Clarion excels that we believe
are important to Clarion’s business follow.
1.Technical Competence: Through our work with Clarion we have
worked with a number of different Developers, Programmers,
and Managers within Clarion. We must unequivocally say that
every person we worked with at Clarion is extremely technically
competent, responsive, and has given us excellent support.
Today, if Clarion ever informs us they would like to move
our work to another Developer we have no worries whatsoever.
We know that we will be working with a very competent person.
2.Responsiveness to Requests/Needs: Whenever we request work
from Clarion, the work is done almost immediately. Due to
time zone constraints we sometimes can not work directly with
Clarion every day. However, we know we can send Clarion an
E-Mail with a critical item when we leave the office at night
and when we arrive the next day the work will be done and
ready for review. Clarion’s responsiveness is excellent.
In summary, Vacation Planners is extremely happy with Clarion
Technologies and all the work Clarion has done for us. We
are very happy customers.
I hope this helps. If you need more information or have any
questions, feel free to let me know.
Sincerely,
Michael McCarty, Owner and
General Manager
Vacation Planners, Inc. Culebra, Puerto Rico
Here are some
top feedbacks about Jyve.com, a web application that we built
from scratch and still maintaining and enhancing. We won the
Skype developer competition 2 years in a row for Jyve.com.
“A Skype 3rd party innovation is Web Presence integration.
This may sound complicated but it simply allows you to see
if someone is online. For example Jyve is a social networking
site that can connect people over a shared area of interest.
It takes one of the basic functions of Skype and syndicates
it across the web. It has powerful implications for building
and enjoying communities which we believe has great promise
for EBay and other like minded sites.”
Meg Whitman, CEO Ebay
“I’m thrilled to
congratulate Jyve for winning our developer competition. The
competition was fierce and we are so excited by the creativity
of the developer community, and can’t wait to work more
with this ever expanding network of partners”
Niklas Zenstrom, CEO/Founder
Skype
Skype launched a beta on Wednesday
with call forwarding. "Jyve beat us to that," said
Pryor.
"They are very innovative."
Lenn Prior, Head of Platforms,
Skype
"Jyve is one of the leaders
in the emerging Skype Ecosystem."
Mary Meeker research group,
Morgan Stanley Research
"SHEA
Business Solutions highly values our relationship with Clarion
Technologies. Clarion has been able to deliver outstanding
quality, professional management, and real value to all of
our projects."
Jeffrey Hunt, C.A., President
SHEA Business Solutions
Clarion Technologies is a top
class, first rate organization – including development,
project management, customer relations, accounting, and overall
operations. They are friendly and professional, and take a
“can do” attitude. I look to them not only for
software development, but for ideas to better the whole process.
I highly recommend them for any development project.
Chuck Vigeant M.Ed., Certified
QuickBooks and POS ProAdvisor
Managing Partner ACCOUNTiGRATE, LP
Clarion Technologies successfully
completed and implemented several complicated projects for
us. They have talented resources that work extremely hard,
communicate well and follow-up on tasks to confirm accuracy.
Clarion has put together a nice system to manage, design and
develop projects that resulted in successful implementation.
We could not be happier and will continue to use their services.
Carmen Romano, President
Aberon IT Services, Inc
"We have been working with
Clarion for several months now, and are quite pleased with
their work. They are acting as our out-sourced product development
team, and we like to believe that they are an integral part
of our company. They are highly competent, courteous, and
responsive to our
needs. We interact with their developers on a daily basis,
just as we would if they were here in Boston. We utilize on-line
MSN Messenger for chat sessions and an on-line tool (wiki)
for tracking bugs, enhancements. These tools are essential
to work within the different time zones.
Initially, we utilized Microsoft Powerpoint for a storyboard
of the application. This worked very well for the initial
screen designs to make sure everyone was on the same page.
We divided up the screens for each developer, and after awhile,
we had each developer working in the other developers' space.
We also shared the same development tools required for our
SQL server environment.
Clarion assigns a part-time project manager, part-time UI
person, and part-time QA person to our project. This has worked
out well in that we received these individual skill sets as
part of our developer fee, without having to pay separately
for full-time people for each one.
We are counting on this product development team to meet our
long term needs as well. As we add new customers, there will
be new functionality and new challenges. We highly recommend
this group for their professionalism and responsiveness."
Kermit L. Stofer, President,
TopLine Systems
“Sometimes
it gets so busy that I don't have an opportunity to communicate
effectively with you and that is something that I regret.
At this moment I would like to take a minute for my partner
(Shawn) and myself to thank you.
When Shawn and I give you lots of changes, confusing instructions,
difficult tasks, or change our mind frequently, it makes us
feel very secure knowing that we can count on you to efficiently
and effectively implement these changes as troublesome as
they may be. To have such a positive response from you on
a regular basis is very much appreciated.
As this weekend approaches and you have some time away from
work, realize that just the knowledge that you are conscientiously
working on our project gives us confidence. We hope this finds
each of you well and thank you again for your quality work.
We look forward to continuing this relationship for quite
a while (not necessarily this project ;) ). ”
Daryll Johnson, Campus Learning
Solutions
“My virtual
team is extremely easy to work with. I, personally, do not
have any technical expertise. They explain things in layman’s
terms, without any IT jargon, go out of their way to make
sure I understand what is going on and equip me to make fully
informed decisions.
We are in the process of expanding the company. This will
require extra, technical specialists and data analysts, which
we intend to source in the form of Ankur’s virtual employees”
Stewart Ramsay, Intellidat
Systems Ltd.
“I have
nothing bung on and equip me to make fully
informed decisions.
We are in the process of expanding the company. This will
require extra, technical specialists and data analysts, which
we intend to source in the form of Ankur’s virtual employees”
Stewart Ramsay, Intellidat
Systems Ltd.
“I have
nothing but great things to say about Clarion Technologies.
Ankur's company has helped us immensely in improving the efficiency
of our business and in helping expand our business into areas
we never would have thought about a few years ago.
As background, our company is a property management and rental
company on the island of Culebra, Puerto Rico. Up until I
was referred to Ankur our business was all managed on paper.
We had paper reservations, paper maintenance systems, paper
cleaning schedules, etc... We knew that we needed some form
of an Internet based online reservation system so we started
literally searching the world for a reservation system. We
first tried to buy a system "off the shelf."
However, all the systems we found didn't have the capability
we needed, were too expensive, or both. A friend of mine who
owns an Internet business then suggested we program our own
system and referred me to Ankur and Clarion. Since then we
haven't looked back. It was a great referral for us at the
time and Clarion has done a ton for our business. I won't
be able to do justice to the
great experience we've had with Clarion but I'll give it a
try.
We have worked with a number or Programmers at Clarion. Every
single one of them has been very capable and has done a wonderful
job. Our experience is everyone we have worked with on Ankur's
staff has been Technically Competent and very responsive.
For responsiveness, when you ask for things to get done and
set priorities, Clarion responds immediately. There is a little
bit of a time difference but if you send an E-Mail of things
you'd like done (or use a Project Management system such as
Mantis to manage your work - which is a system I really like)
one afternoon, you will most likely come in the next morning
and see much, if not all (depending on the scope of course),
of it done.
As we developed our reservation system and reflected on the
experience we went through trying to find a reservation system
on the market, we realized that we had developed a very innovative
product with Clarion. Therefore, we decided to start selling
our reservation system on the market and compete with all
the sub-standard, expensive reservation systems we found in
our initial search.
Therefore, we are now working to transition from a small Property
Management company on Culebra to perhaps an Internet company
offering our reservation system across the world. This is
something we would have NEVER even considered or thought about
before working with Clarion.
I am a very, very happy customer of Ankur's and Clarion's.
As I mentioned, an E-Mail can't do justice to explaining how
good of an experience we've had with Clarion but I'm 100%
sure that you will be very happy with their work.
If you have any other questions or need more information regarding
our experience with Ankur and Clarion, feel free to contact
me any time.”
Mike, Vacation Planners
“Avidly searching for
a software development resource, to deliver a substantial
in house project, we came across the vEmployee concept offered
by Clarion Technologies.
Initially, attracted by their low prices, we signed up for
a probationary, two week period. Impressed with their hard
working ethos and responsive customer service, we granted
them the seven month programming project.
Their approach is simple; true to their word they deliver
on time and on budget. I would not hesitate to recommend them
to any organisation looking for a software development resource.
Save your self time and effort, call them first. They provide
the best value for money”
Enrico Williams, Tramp Media
Productions
We have been working with Clarion
Technologies since April 2006 and have found them a valuable
resource for our mainly web based programming needs. We started
with one developer and subsequently added a second, now the
majority of our development work is handled by them.
We always find the developers, and others on the Clarion team,
courteous and easy to communicate with. They seem to have
a good grasp of the technologies we employ. On occasion they
have made special efforts to meet our deadlines and generally
deliver high quality work at the expected time.
We would not hesitate to recommend their service to others
with similar requirements.
Kind regards,
Rupert Cutler, I S Director
“We had been using another
offshore, development centre, but decided to look around for
a better deal with a different skill set. I discovered the
vEmployee service on the Internet and entered into discussions
with Ankur via MSN.
We needed to convert from Access to .net. Their engineers
are easy to work with, flexible and very capable. The project
has gone so well, we have recently signed up another engineer
for an additional six months”
Jim Wells, SoftSmart Ltd
“We were searching for additional resources to embark on a large, long-term project, developing property management and warehouse control software. Whilst investigating traditional outsourcing methods, a friend recommended vEmployee because it is low cost and would allow us to control every aspect of work.
Our 'virtual employees' are now considered as part of our organisational infrastructure and business model rather than outsourced consultants. These virtual teams work for members of our UK staff.
vEmployee provide a much wider variety of skills than we could ever hope to offer alone. The ability to tap into such an array of skills has presented our business with unforeseen opportunities.
Substantial cost benefits of using vEmployee services have meant that we are able to take on projects that were not previously viable, expand our customer base and increase our annual profits”.
Dov Uhrmasher, Director of 4D Accounts Limited.
“Milford Associates Ltd. is a small company and although we often require software development, we cannot justify the overheads that come with employing additional, technical staff.
I found the vEmployee concept on the Internet. Having used offshore resources before, I was fully aware of the importance of a well specified project outline and clear communication. Ankur of vEmployee and I discussed the project at length, over email, before any work started.
After a short settling in period, our two organisations worked together as one. I consider them a substantial and highly affordable extension of my technical department”.
Tony Merry, Milford Associates Ltd.
“Needing to resource a PHP project, we searched on-line for offshore, development centres with strong recommendations. vEmployee of Clarion Technologies sent me a competitive quote.
They are extremely easy to work with and experts at providing a high quality service through to project completion.
We have developed an extremely good relationship, which is reflected in the increasing number of projects in which they are involved”.
Jon Roy, Roy Media
I needed affordable IT help that I could rely on long term to provide the proper level of support in the high and low periods for my business.
Clarion not only provides the technicians I need, but also the project leaders, relationship managers and online Project Management tools needed to keep things moving smoothly.
I would highly recommend Clarion for any small business seeking technology support
Mike Love
Clarion has made it possible for us to do the impossible. In the highly competitive sector we work in, we must build software constantly. This means early releases and an attention to getting it right the first time. Where this has not been possible, Clarion has thrown all the expertise required to get our work back on track, on time.
They have demonstrated an attention to detail and excellence to the degree that, over the past two years, we passed all our critical development tasks to them. Their use of teams that remain with you makes all the difference. They know our work intimately and have become and extension of our present and future organization.
Geoff Irvine, Chalk & Wire Learning Assessment Inc.
Clarion has literally changed the way our business operates. Our employees productivity has tripled since we started working with Clarion and sales have increased by the same amount.
Our programmer has built custom applications tailored specifically to our business model - which has made us more effective in every aspect of our business. At this point our company could not function at such a high level if it was not for the work Clarion has done on our behalf.
Josh Grund
Of all the programming companies we have worked with, Clarion is by far, the most effective. I think the greatest strength that Clarion offers, is their
ability to function as a team to create solutions and recommendations for optimum functionality as well as form for our websites.
It is a skill that I have long sought after in our relationships with other programmers. We have been so impressed we are looking at adding additional programmers to our team.
Jonathan Pocock, Atlas Home Mortgage.
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