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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
The following are our FAQ.

Site:
What is this website?
What is the site content?
What is the site goals?
Who are we targeting?
How do visitors navigate our site?
What best describes our organization?
What is our domain expertise?

Products:
What are we selling?
Is it a new product(s)?
Is our product unique?
Does it have a market?
Will our products bring about change?
Are there similar products in the market?
Are our products compatible with what is in the market?
Is our product scalable?
Pricing

Projects:
Post Office
Intelligent System, Frameworks and Templates

Clients:
Who are our clients?
Possible clients:
Who is our future clients?
How do our ideas, services, or products help our target audience?
What is our proposed solution (product, service, or combination)?
How can we help clients do their job better?
Would clients be able to integrate our product and services into their system?
Return on the investment
What needs, challenges, and frustrations does software development (Big Data and CRM) have?
How can our products help?

Partners:
What would our prospective partners expect?
Do we know how to run a business?
What will be contributed to the partnership and by whom?
Time, relationship capital, reputation, money, recourse risk, etc.

What are each parties' responsibilities to the partnership?
What are the main expectations that each party has in this partnership?
Who owns the output of the partnership?
This not only includes the revenue generated, but also includes any intellectual property (e.g. database, written materials, software, proprietary processes, etc.)
Are there any non-compete expectations during the course of the partnership?

Competition:
Who are our direct competitors?
What do these competitors have that we do not have?
What would differentiate our products from our competitors?
How do we stand out against the competition?
What are our key strengths--what are we better at than anyone else?
Do we have an advantage to beat out similar competing businesses? How?

Uniqueness:
Is our business concept unique?

Technologies:
Which Technologies are we using?
Do we have up-to-date working knowledge of technology necessary for efficient operation?
Other technologies which we can leverage?
Would our products be able to adjust and accommodate new technologies?

Fundamentals and Directions:
What are the fundamentals in moving in our direction?
What does success look like for our products and company?
How does our company set goals?
Do we believe we have what it takes?

Approaches:
What are our approaches?

Strength and Weaknesses:
What are our strengths and weaknesses?

Marketing:
How do we measure the effectiveness of marketing correctly?

Future:
Do we see a future?

Risks:
What are the risks?
Are we a risk taker?

Credibility :
How is our credibility rated?

Usability:
How do our projects leverage usability?

Finance:
What is our financial situation?
How much will it cost to get started?

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) - Answers

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What is this website?
This site is our attempt to present our Post Office Project architect. The site is "The Technical Know-How".
It is a Virtual Data Farm which means it only exists in the computer memory.

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What is the site Content?
The site content is our Data Farming. Data farming refers to the processes and methods used to determine the most appropriate data collection for subsequent data analysis. Using data farming techniques, you can enhance the data that you have on hand and determine what the most relevant data to be collected. We are addressing how to handle Big Data, CRM, Security and data services not data access.

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What are our goals and what is the purpose of the site?
To present "The Technical Know-How" of our project for both technical and none-technical audience.

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Who are we targeting?
We are looking to team up with employers, investors, teams or companies seeking to beat the competition in this new data era.

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How do visitors navigate our site?
The site is straight forward. The top links in white color present what would companies, CEO and investors want to know. The Golden links are the business opportunities that our project has to offer. The bottom links are technical answers to our architect and approach. The home page has eleven (11) links that present our Architecture Tiers.

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What best describes our organization?
Our reality check is: Sam Eldin is One-Man-Show seeking support to build the future. Sam is open to work with any teams, companies, investors, funding-grants.

Sam Eldin is an IT professional with over 18 years of experience as PM, Architect, Developer, Tester, Trainer, Teacher and Student.
He has over 36 copyrights and 12 projects, owns ZebraSoft.com and other small companies.
He is a visionary who uses technologies to bring his visions to reality. He uses his vision to create products-projects and architect the details of these products-projects and their future. He is also a student of history in which he learns from the past to envision the future. Being a One-Man-Show, he perfected Object Oriented approach for reusability and developed tools to help his vertical and horizontal growth. Horizontal meaning more products and Vertical meaning tools to help develop these products faster and more efficient.

He is looking for an aggressive team that uses technology to bring the future to us rather than wait for the future to come. His thinking starts with the big picture and knows that the world will be run by few companies and he would like to be the lead think-tank for these giants.

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What is our domain expertise?
J2EE, multitier, cloud computing, mobile, Big Data, Security, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), RUP, OOD and eCommerce.

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What are we selling?
We are selling the "The Technical Know-How" and management tools and processes.
We offer products (Post Office, CRM Data Farm, Intelligent and Security Systems, Frameworks and Templates), tools, the know-how plus our years of experience in management and development.

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Is it a new product(s)?
We are architecting intelligent end-to-end system.

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Is our product unique?
We label our products and approaches as "Thinking out of the box." We are trying to replace the existing thinking and approaches with new intelligent system which addresses the main issues such as security, Big Data, CRM, data access, interfaces , automation (Template Driven) and web development.

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Does it have a market?
We believe that our products addresses the future of thing to come. The potential market is already exist, but we are not talking to right CEO, investors, employers or even hiring managers and technical leads.

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Will our products bring about change?
Our products will bring a great changes in approach-thinking, development and reusability. Sadly, the big players in the market have invested heavily in the current products and services and they are not willing to listen nor give anyone a chance until they had the return on their investment. In other words, our chances of getting our products out will be an uphill battle.

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Are there similar products in the market?
There are similar products in the market, but we believe our products are more intelligent, efficient, faster to develop and use-reuse.

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Are our products compatible with what is in the market?
Our products are cost effective to develop and run with flexibility and dynamic features for scalability, expandability and reusability. Our products can be integrated in any system with minimum effort and time.

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Is our product scalable?
Scalability, expandability, security, reusability, flexibility, transparency, loosely coupled and dynamic are main features of our products.

We offer products (Post Office, CRM Data Farm, Intelligent and Security Systems, Frameworks and Templates), tools, the know-how plus our years of experience in management and development.

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Pricing:
We need help with such topic.

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Post Office:
Check pages in this site plus the following link:
       http://sameldin.com/CRM_Folder/PostOfficePage.html


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Intelligent System, Frameworks and Templates:
Check pages in this site plus the following link:
       http://sameldin.com/CRM_Folder/IntelligencePage.html

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Who are our clients?
None at this point in time.

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Possible clients:

       Department of Defense securing mobile and data communication
       Any company needs help with Big Data
       Any company is interested in intelligent system
       Any company is interested in securing the databases and access
       Any company is looking for encryption-compression
       Any company is interested in data steaming
       Any company is looking for help building cloud services
       Any company is interested in building software tools and frameworks.
       Big Data vendors

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Future clients;

       Big Data vendors
       Department of Defense

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How do our ideas, services, or products help our target audience?
Our main focus is farming Big Data into smaller version and in the process we encrypt and hash data into format that is intelligent, secure and faster-easier to process. Using data storage and processes as DAO which are intelligent objects that help with business processes and security. Therefore, our software development become a vehicle to build smarter services and products.

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What is our proposed solution (product, service, or combination)?
We offer products (Post Office, CRM Data Farm, Intelligent and Security Systems, Frameworks and Templates), tools, the know-how plus our years of experience in management and development.

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How can we help clients do their job better?
The first keyword is Intelligence, followed by security, reusability, flexibility, scalability, transparency, loosely coupled and dynamic.

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Would clients be able to integrate our product and services into their system?
Our products are cost effective to develop and run with flexibility and dynamic features for scalability, expandability and reusability. Our products can be integrated in any system with minimum effort and time.

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Return on the investment:
"Nothing ventured nothing gained", but how much of the gain is a factor of the right visions, solid strategies, calculated risk, good management and working smarter and harder. Before we build a better mouse trap, we need to put together teams of technical gurus, visionaries, management and investors and work out a concrete plan with a solid architect. Sam Eldin has done the footwork on the important details of the architect, the knowhow and the bottlenecks. We are presenting the technical aspects of building our Virtual CRM Data Farm without any sales pitches.
The return is based on the initial investment and the size of scope, and how much an investor is willing to take on. We believ the return is worth it.

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What needs, challenges, and frustrations does software development (Big Data and CRM) have?
Big Data and CRM are new comers to the market. Sadly, Big Data is creeping in and most enterprises are not aware of their situation, nor are they equipped to handle it. Technical personals and managers believe that as long they do not need to use Hadoop, then they have not gotten into Big data yet. The reality is that their data handling are still using the old ways of thinking and approach. They also are not willing to venture further than what they are currently handling.

Our Post Office project is the remedy for needs, challenges, and frustrations.

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How can our products help?
Check our trade secrets page for what we are offering.

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Who are our direct competitors?
In a nutshell we are competing directly or indirectly with IBM, Sales Force, Intel, Apple, Nokia, Red Hat, Oracle, data vendors and defense contractors. We need to add that any institution deals with CRM, Big Data, Encryption-Compression, cloud computing or software development is a competitor.

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What do these competitors have that we do not have?
Their trade name, marketing, size, resources and credibility are our concern.
Outsourcing and offshore development had given small competitors the ability to develop products and support them with a cost which is affordable by these small companies.
As for open source vendors without good-expensive marketing they are at mercy of time and luck.
Marketing is another issue of our concern.

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What would differentiate our products from our competitors?
“Pick Your Battles” is what would differentiate your products. We are developing intelligent system with data services which farms Big data into a fraction of Big Data and faster and easier to process. We also have new compression-encryption that would make data security a thing of the past. We adding CRM services to an interactive front to speed development and implement the latest in CRM gadgets.

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How do we stand out against the competition?
We are creating a new way of thinking and approaches, and with the right business plan, management, development teams and marketing, we believe our competition will be paying catch.

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What are our key strengths--what are we better at than anyone else?
Again, “Pick Your Battles” is what would differentiate your products. We are developing intelligent system with data services which farms Big data into a fraction of Big Data and faster and easier to process. We also have new compression-encryption that would make data security a thing of the past. We adding CRM services to an interactive front to speed development and implement the latest in CRM gadgets.

We think-outside-the box and we are not limited to current approaches and thinking patterns. We are solving real world issues that have been daunting the IT community for years.

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Do we have an advantage to beat out similar competing businesses? How?
We do have a solid business plan with management and due to our limited resource we have created real solutions exploiting reusability and intelligent approaches.

We would be able to beat the competition with funding, team work, management, think-outside-the box, reusability and intelligent approaches.

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Is our business concept unique?
We believe we have the answers to real world issues that have been daunting the IT community for years. See the link on Trade Secrets.

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Which Technologies are we using?
Java, web, mobile, cloud and we are competing with Hadoop for compression and MapReduce. We are also willing to use or integrate with other technologies as needed.

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Do we have up-to-date working knowledge of technology necessary for efficient operation?
Yes, we have architect, prototypes, frameworks, templates, code, training and documentation.

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Other technologies which you can leverage?
C-C++, C#, .Net or any of the new ones on the scene.

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Would our products be able to adjust and accommodate new technologies?
Our products are Intelligent - Self correcting, fast, dynamic, loosely coupled, flexible and transparent.

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What are the fundamentals in moving in our direction?
We believe that the big players in IT redress the same IT tools, rename with new buzzwords and resell it to the IT community with help from their marketing. We do not see any real values in these newly dressed tools, it may only help keep the IT community from getting bored. Our fundamentals is real solution to real problems and moving toward building intelligent system which is secure and answers Big Data and CRM.

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What does success look like for our products and company?
The answer to this question is marketing before even executing our business plan. We do see a great future for our products, but we are competing directly with the top IT vendors.

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How does our company set goals?
We have been in business for over 20 years and our goals change as the market and technologies change.

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Do we believe we have what it takes?
Sure, otherwise We would not have gone through all the effort and time in posting this site.

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Our Approaches
KISS, see the technical links on this site.

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What are our strengths and weaknesses?
We have a good understanding of the current technologies, the business, Big Data and CRM, the future, building intelligent system, teamwork, open to changes, the return on the investment, what it takes to succeed, how tough our competition, reusability, not to mention our stubbornness of keep trying.
As for weakness, we need help when it come to finance.

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How do we measure the effectiveness of marketing correctly.
Our development and business plans must work and support marketing and our system will be working with marketing to perform the following:

       1. Analyze, categorize and sort data - Transactional and Non-transactional
       2. Relation and correlation of data
       3. Profiling
       4. Personalization - Predictive personalization
       5. Customization
       6. Segmentation
       7. Perform market research
       8. Figure out market trends
       9. Predict the future and habits
       10. Help sales
       11. Create data from other data
       12. How can Big Data help with Products Complexity

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What would our prospective partners expect?
Our partners need be involved with and brainstorm everything we do. We are not promising easy pickings, but we have the foundation, the visions and the tools. Our Business plan has all the detailed needed for getting things going as well as long term plans.

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Do we know how to run a business?
Currently, we are running our small business, but we need help to get the next level.

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What will be contributed to the partnership and by whom?
Time, relationship capital, reputation, money, recourse risk, etc.
Our Partners have to buy into our organization and own a piece of the Pie. Based on the ownership percentage, our partners would be sharing our growth and profits. We do have a number of trade secrets and some of our trade secrets are prepaid, which we need to be paid for them before we can even start working with them. We do need help with marketing and support such as call centers.

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What are each parties' responsibilities to the partnership?
Based on the size of project and marketing, we and our partners would be drawing a plan and "dos and don'ts". We have to have a clear plan and duties matrix.

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What are the main expectations that each party has in this partnership?
Our partners and we are in the business to make a profit and build a future. We need to have a clear and documented agreement on every point of the business with daily tasks and feedback on our performance.

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Who owns the output of the partnership? This not only includes the revenue generated, but also includes any intellectual property (e.g. database, written materials, software, proprietary processes, etc.)
We need to draw and document all the detail in our plans and duties matrix.

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Are there any non-compete expectations during the course of the partnership?
Our Trade Secrets are not for free nor do our partners is funding and working for free. We need to find common ground and must be documented and signed by all parties involved.

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Do we see a future?
We believe our products only scratch the surface. As for other projects-products we have to finish the current tasks first.

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What are the risks?
Effort, finance and time are the risks plus we are facing the existing competition. Bid Data, CRM, security, data streaming, intelligent system and defense contracts are sold and marketed by the biggest companies in the world. These companies had invested heavily in these businesses and will not give anyone room to be the best seller or even from top 500.

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Are we a risk taker?
Our answer is we are risk taker, but sadly we don have the finance to be consider a serious risk taker.

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How is our credibility rated?
We score low when it comes to credibility since we are small business and employees of other companies and business. We can present all the details of how to build the best mouse trap more intelligently and cost effective with great returns.

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How do our projects leverage usability?
We wrote the book on that. See technical links on this site.

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What is our financial situation?
Poor if none existence.

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How much will it cost to get started?
The business plan, marketing, the size of the project and the effort undertaking would decide the actual finance needed.

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