Cobb County is gaining at least 10 jobs from the expansion of PointClear Solutions.

The 6-year-old Huntsville, AL-based company develops software for customers in health care, including hospitals, doctors, government agencies and other information technology companies.

It is opening an office at 1775 The Exchange, which is just east of Marietta, north of Smyrna, west of Interstate 75 and south of Terrell Mill Road.

“Our business has grown substantially here over the past 18 months, and we continue to sign new business,” PointClear CEO David Karabinos said in a news release from the Cobb Chamber of Commerce. “We now have a critical mass of clients and employees here.”

PointClear will have 10 employees in Cobb within two months and plans to grow to as many as 75 people within three years, the Chamber said.

The jobs will pay an average of $60,000, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported.

“The addition of PointClear in Cobb County is incredible for our community and for all of metro Atlanta,” said Brooks Mathis, the Cobb Chamber’s vice president of economic development. “IT and health-care-related jobs create high wages and are the types of employment opportunities that we want to create for our citizens.”

PointClear fits two of the four industries the Chamber is targeting under its new Competitive EDGE initiative, which has drawn criticism over funding: health care services and information technology and software.

Competitive EDGE aims to draw new businesses and help existing companies expand. The Chamber reported 26 major relocations and expansions, 3,093 new jobs, and $248 million in new investments in 2011.

“The many assets of Cobb County create an environment for companies such as PointClear to thrive and be successful,” Mathis said.

PointClear has 10 employees now in Sandy Springs and serves such Atlanta-area customers as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, McKesson, Greenway Medical Technologies, Sharecare, and SeeMyRadiology.

“We selected Atlanta as our next office because it has an extensive health care IT ecosystem, has experienced software development and usability professionals in the market, and has a large concentration of prospective clients and partners to work with,” Karabinos said. “The health care IT and user experience talent pool here is one of the deepest in the country.”

Source:http://smyrna.patch.com/articles/health-care-software-company-opens-office-in-cobb

Dave Dowling and Jonathan Stars add a new concept to their arsenal of office efficiency tools. Called “Personal Custom Software,” these products fill the gaps left when companies purchase one-size-fits-all software packages that don’t answer the needs of all workers. It’s the next big step in office software technology.

Organizations that once required thousands of office staff to manage their information now handle the same workloads with hundreds, aided by computers. The widespread adoption of the Internet has offered businesses a level of information sharing never before imagined. The recent explosion of mobile computing has once again changed the way business is done.

These massive efficiency multipliers have propelled individual productivity to unprecedented heights, paving the way for the next breakthrough in technology: Personal Custom Software (PCS). The value of key people’s time within organizations has skyrocketed, revealing new and vast profit potential within the workplace, which can be reclaimed using PCS.

Dave and Jonathan have implemented PCS packages for their clients, with amazing results. These mini-applications are designed for individuals within organizations, automating very specific tasks that consume large amounts of time. Because these jobs are so unique, they have been ignored by the large software vendors who can’t make enough profit from them. However, there’s incredible profit potential for the end user. Says Dowling: “Broad scope software applications breed PCS opportunities. They’re everywhere, and they’re highly profitable. It’s not unusual for our clients to see five thousand percent returns on investment.” If that sounds far-fetched, see a case study.

Stars adds, “One client who bought some very sophisticated association management software had an employee filling orders manually. We built her a PCS ordering tool and her desk is now the largest single income producing arm of the organization — run by one person. Developing PCS is creating a great deal of energy for us, since every project offers a significant profit center for our clients.”

Today Dowling and Stars are introducing the tech industry to the groundbreaking concept of PCS. Dowling says, “It’s going to change the way we do business all over again.”

Dave Dowling and Jonathan Stars are independent software developers, both represented by the Charles E. Bicy Agency.

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Source:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/01/prweb9002992.DTL