PulaTech Inc.
River Falls, Wisconsin, United States
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River Falls, Wisconsin, United States
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PulaTech Inc. is a professional software firm based in River Falls, Wisconsin. Established in 2011, PulaTech has been recognized as a growing powerhouse in the software consulting market. Our primary service practices include Application Development Services, Enterprise Integration, Business Video Solutions, Customer Relationship Management and Software Consulting Services.
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4 customer reviews
Praveen Tanwar
PulaTech is leading IT consulting company providing best software consulting services with it's expert team engaged to fulfill your software development needs.
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Hemendra Singh
Software developed by PulaTech are – Highly responsive. There is no end to web development companies in the market; globally and in USA, but what matters is the ultimate result and Cost competitive software development services. Very few USA companies could reach the zenith that we have reached today with a strong database of clientele. More...
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Greg Lee
I have had PulaTech work on a few projects for me and they have always delivered on-time and on-budget. They have also exceeded my expectations by suggesting and then implementing improvements that we hadn't thought of. I highly recommend Geoff and his team to anyone looking for custom software development. More...
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Lokesh Bhatt
PulaTech is one of the best growing software development company which provides software development services - Custom Application Development, Software Consulting, Enterprise Integration, Video and Media Services, Content Management System.
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What makes a great website?
This year, like a number of UX experts, PulaTech is betting on AI-powered chatbots, VR, and immersive storytelling trends to leave a permanent mark on the industry. Undoubtedly, we will also see a lot of last year’s trends continue to shape and influence the web design space.
Without further ado, let’s explore what design innovations can give your website a serious facelift in 2017.
Virtual Reality and Video
Although the gadget world was abuzz last year with the exciting virtual reality (VR) announcements, the trend hasn’t made a huge impact on web design trends so far. One great example of how VR and 360º video can be incorporated into web design to create a breathtaking, interactive experience is Peugeot 208’s promo campaign that utilizes both technologies to showcase a new product.
Video is by far having the largest impact of any technology influencing web design. Product markers are recognizing that not only does a picture have a value of over 10,000 words, but additionally a video is worth pages and pages and pages more. As a premier partner of the world's highest-rated corporate video platform, PulaTech is partnering with Qumu Corporation to deliver customized web interfaces to corporate America and small and midsize businesses alike. Showing, educating, training, illustrating and just plain talking about your product or brand is so much more engaging than simply writing about it.
AI-powered bots and conversational interfaces
In terms of visuals, bots are unlikely to have a big impact on web design, but they will significantly influence how designers think about creating websites. AI-powered bots are going to get even more realistic and complex this year, empowering businesses to automate communication and sales. Using tools like Letsclap, online businesses will be able to connect with their customers via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger or WeChat, providing customized customer support and commerce. Conversational interfaces will be a huge shift, helping big brands express different sides of their personality and making them more human and approachable. Additionally, the availability of plug-ins into the web content management world all the way to the open source technology and levels like WordPress and Joomla! of chat AI plug-ins is really pretty awesome. For a very small dollar you can create awesome experiences on a budget.
High-quality authentic photography
Stock photography reduces trust and is often completely ignored. It’s bad for design and even worse for business. With so many authentic photography sites popping up online, finding beautiful high-quality images is easier than ever, hence, we will continue to see the decline of cheesy stock photography in web design. Companies like Adobe and image blocks, video blocks, etc. are making a huge impact in this area of web design. But additionally, designers that are sharing their own libraries of open-source icon libraries and other very small image formats that can be styled using cascading style sheets and FontAwesome, Google fonts and the like make engaging icon oriented websites that are crisp, quick and efficient.
Responsive Design
The trend towards mobile phone consumption of the web is still increasing at a increasing rate year-over-year. It is extremely important that all great websites adhere to responsive design and ensure that they are highly available on all platforms. A great website that is poor performing on a mobile device because of bandwidth constraints or optimization issues is truly missing out what could be up to 60% of the market consumption of their website. I don't know the exact number, but mobile phone consumption of web sites is now approaching somewhere around 50 to 60% of all web traffic. If your site is not available on all platforms in a well-designed manner, it's truly missing a large share of the market.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
The rules this year have changed and search interfaces like Google and Bing have put more stringent requirements on what it takes to rank the site well from a search engine perspective. Gone are the days when you can just spam out a whole bunch of backlinks and make your website appear to be more popular than it is, thus promoting its ranking. Today true posts, not spam, well-organized campaigns that leverage social media, additional SEO techniques, and features are much more likely to be successful than traditional spam based brute force techniques. Additionally, search engines are paying much more attention to website optimization, speed, keyword management, blogging, and mobile capabilities than ever before.
What questions might you ask a client when starting a new project?
When starting the new project PulaTech likes to spend most of its time listening to a customer's goals. Understanding their brand, prompting with minor open-ended questions that allow us to get a great feel for a clients personality, brand, sites they like, short-term goals, what they consider success etc. are more important than asking a bunch of questions. We would rather understand the client first and bring in our expertise to fill gaps and help shore up ideas later.
What do you love most about your job?
PulaTech is a term that in many international languages blends to terms that describe some of the goals that we have for our company. The word "Pula" means "bridge" in many languages. Everyone is pretty sure what Tech means. Providing a bridge to technology is part of our mission and what we are trying to accomplish and why it's so enjoyable is that we get to create something from nothing in the eye of the beholder. It's kind of silly, but we consider ourselves artists, with the web as our canvas, and we get satisfaction from listening to what you would like to see built and making that a reality. It's really about using technology tools to create art, where design meets feature function with a couple of shakes of technology thrown on top.
What inspired you to start your own business?
I made a choice one day to move on in my career as a solution architect for a translation technology company. I created interfaces, and technologies that solved business problems, created efficiencies on a very grand scale and transformed a small business into a large business over the nine years that I spent there. Looking back, I have always had the talent to do this for myself and that is what I started out wanting to do. I wanted to build a brand that others had confidence in because of a fair and reasonable price point and a skill set that included listening to customer requirements, needs, wants and turn those into realities. I've always felt that "Listening" should have been a required course in either high school or college if not younger in school. Sometimes the most important skill that anyone can have isn't to be the smartest person in the room, but instead to be the best listener. If you can take someone like that and surround them with tech minds, you can create pretty awesome things that people will love. That's what I want to do.
Why should our clients choose you?
Because what we truly care about is your confidence in us. We will gain that confidence by understanding your needs, listening and satisfying the requirements and delivering on your timeline. But most of all we will always be transparent. Will be transparent in the way we are executing on your project, keeping in front of you open questions, thoughts, ideas, progress, costs. All way through the process we want you to know what you are going to get, where it is and what is going to cost. Then when you get it, we will do everything in our power to make sure that it is what you wanted! If we can't, we will make concessions and come to an agreement.
Web Content Management (WCM)
A short description of PulaTech's Web Content Management practice. PulaTech has worked with and created enterprise and business web solutions leveraging a wide variety of WCM platforms. We are partners of two of the biggest enterprise offerings as well as successfully implemented almost every open source platform there is.
Application Development Services
A short description of PulaTech's application development services offerings and experience. PulaTech has built in-house and custom applications for hundreds of customers globally and has the experience and cost model to deliver an affordable platform for you. Customers include 3M, Qumu Corporation, eBay, PayPal, Kroger foods, Super Value, EuroFins Biodiagnostics, MCM, the Bank of Indonesia, Bayer, WebEx, Wells Fargo, CLP of Hong Kong, several nonprofit organizations, and even an ex-Congressman. This is one of our bread-and-butter service offerings.
Enterprise Integration
The modern world of business IT is vast and complex. Most companies are running dozens of custom and off-the-shelf software packages – and if these programs are unable to communicate with each other, your business could suffer from decreased business agility and inefficient business processes. Enterprise integrations from PulaTech can help you prevent this!
Video & Media Services
There’s no escaping the power of video. Over 300 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute – and this number continues to grow. Videos are a highly-effective form of storytelling, and allow brands to connect with customers more effectively. So take advantage of the most popular form of digital media in the modern world – with PulaTech!
- Enterprise Video Content Management
- Cloud-Based Media Services
- Live & On-Demand Video
- Video Content Branding & Sharing
- API & Widget Integration
- Ingestion, Encoding & Media Management
Software Consulting
At PulaTech, we offer a comprehensive suite of software development services that can help enable the success of your project. From basic project management and high-level advising to “nuts-and-bolts” development help, our team can do it all.
- Managed Software & Application Development Services
- Big Data, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence Services
- Enterprise Mobility Services
- System & Data Integration Services
- Cloud Services
