We are proud to announce the opening our new sister company, Lextech Labs. Sure, a sister company may not be a sibling in the traditional sense, but there are some commonalities.

We have the same parents. 
Or in this case, parent. Alex Bratton founded Lextech Global Services in July of 2001. Over the past 7 years, he has worked to establish Lextech Global Services as a leading provider of systems engineering and support services. Working closely with clients and listening to their business challenges brought to light a demand for increased mobility in the security and surveillance industry. Alex decided to start Lextech Labs in July of 2008 as a response to this demand.

Lextech Labs will be a product-based organization, and the first family of products will be a high-end set of surveillance applications that operate over WiFi via the intuitive touch interface of an iPod Touch or iPhone.

We rely on each other.
Lextech Global Services will design and engineer cutting-edge iPhone applications as solutions to real business needs. Lextech Labs will then bring these products to market for personal and commercial use.

Lextech Labs trusts that we will provide the highest level of systems engineering expertise and software development because we have a proven record of success. The Lextech Global Services team has extensive experience working with high-end surveillance systems, embedded software, and military security projects for industry leaders like QuickSet International and the United States Army, Navy, and Coast Guard.

We share.
We have taken the life lesson “share your toys” we learned as children to heart. Sure, our toys consist of high-end technologies, but they still elicit the same type of excitement. Both companies will play an active role in research and development and share resources to make it easy for users to interact with their complex systems using Lextech Labs’ products.

We also share the same facility at 3080 Ogden Avenue, Suite 200 in Lisle, IL. 

Learn more about Lextech Labs and their exciting new product line by visiting http://lextechlabs.com today!

If the phrases “fault tolerance” and “load balancer” sound all but foreign to you, you are not alone. I used to consider myself fairly well versed in technical jargon. It wasn’t until I started working in the Marketing Department at Lextech that I realized how much I didn’t know. There were times I felt like I was working in a distant land, where everyone dealt in a currency to which I didn’t have access.

With the knowledgeable Lextech team as my guide, I have picked up more technology tidbits in the last year than I imagined possible. Hopefully, these terms will help you navigate the technology jungle with a little more confidence.

fault tolerance: A system is built so that if a part fails the system functions properly until the broken part can be replaced. The value of designing a system with fault tolerance is that it will reduce the occurrences of unexpected down time.

load balancer: This is a device used to distribute a heavy work load across multiple computers. This technique enables you to efficiently serve more users and ensures that no one computer is overwhelmed or relied upon too heavily.

Software as a Service (SaaS): This is web-based software that provides some type of ongoing value. Customers pay by use, rather than buy it outright. An example of this would be an email marketing program, like Bronto.

web 2.0: This is a way to categorize a website. The powers that be tend to refer to it as the “next generation” of websites. There are no hard and fast rules that qualify a site as Web 2.0. That said, Web 2.0 sites can be identified by their increased emphasis on collaboration, design, functionality, and usability. One sure-fire sign you are looking at a Web 2.0 site is a high level of interactivity. Facebook is a good example.

Look for more terms in Part 2, coming soon! If you have a tech term you would like to know more about, leave a comment and I will try to address it in a future post.

Lextech refuses to employ some of the less imaginative sales tactics used by other growing companies. For example, we don’t use obnoxious sales pitches or interrupt families gathered around the dinner table by cold calling them. Why? Because we have faith in our work.

We believe that we can only be as successful as we make our clients. If our clients are successful and happy with the work Lextech has done, they will tell their friends. And they have!

100% of our clients to date were referred to us by previous clients or friends.

This referral helps us immediately establish a higher level of trust and a close working relationship. When our clients trust us, they are more likely to share their real business challenges and pain points - making Lextech more effective at designing custom solutions.

We don’t simply want to be the systems engineering company you trust with your business. We want to be the friend you would trust with the business you have financed by taking out a second mortgage on your family home.

The team here has been working diligently on a wide variety of iPhone apps for quite a while.  Having our official development keys, we’re cranking things out using the new OS.  We’ve even been holding internal training events on building iPhone apps. We are building applications to extend some of our clients’ systems as well as stand alone apps that will be available through the Apple store.

As they each get closer to being ready for distribution we’ll be posting more details here.  First up — controlling uber high end surveillance equipment using the iPhone!

Picture this:

I am at Lextech interviewing for my current job. I have been getting to know as much about Lextech and about many of the folks here as they probably got to know about me. I’m liking what I hear and I’m mentally picturing the benefits of being a Lextech employee: Good salary, benefits, paid time off, learning opportunities, interesting projects, free snacks and drinks, and a great team to work with. Even though it means moving from another state, it really isn’t that hard to make up my mind.

I tell Alex that I’ve decided to come on-board and we shake hands. Moments later, I get the first of many pleasant surprises: a beautiful new iPhone.

Now THAT is instant gratification. I know I made the right choice.

I’m proud to say that through the hard work of a bunch of folks on our team, Lextech has a new online image. The web site does a much better job communicating our focus on building technology based revenue streams for clients and this blog will let us get lots of content out to the world much quicker.

With 6+ writers for the blog you’ll see all kinds of useful revenue generating ideas and technology tidbits appearing.