Drinking from the Consulting Firehose
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Friday, April 06, 2007
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Yesterday's post on Top Flex Firms has been a huge lesson for me and has highlighted some very important gaps about the Flex marketplace. Flex is much larger than I thought it was and with one blog post, my inbox became a lightening rod for our customers, partners, and new firms working with Flex. Exciting and Overwhelming all in one.
Here is a summary of the issues:
Lesson 1 - Adobe Partner Programs
I had little idea about many programs Adobe has for partners and ISVs but I found out about all of them in a few hours time. To a large extent it highlighted a communication gap on my part with our partner teams and I now have a world of new information to share about the companies we are working with on Flex. Adobe's partner program contains a majority of the largest ISV's in the world. Since I do not work with them, they didn't make my list. This is a gap I can close and one that I think would be helpful to communicate to the community. There are some rather large companies working with Flex in a consulting capacity, companies on a scale that I have never worked with. There is a lot of information here and it will take me some time to process it all. More to come...
Lesson 2 - The Great Unknown
I got 100+ emails from firms that I have never heard of. I thought that there were 20 or so that I didn't know about but not 100+. It is a bit overwhelming to discover in one afternoon that Flex consulting is a very large and growing market. I think I underestimated how many firms are working with Flex and just how many we do not know about at Adobe.
Lesson 3 - We need a Directory!
We need a directory to allow projects to find consulting firms. What is interesting is that I now have the contact list to get this done quickly. Ideally there will be a single place where consulting firms large and small can post and manage a listing. Think of this as a Yellow Pages for Flex.
I am racing to get all this information consolidated and processed. Stay tuned for more on this, lessons learned!
Onward through the fog!
Ted :)
You have to admit - this is a much better response than finding there were far FEWER resources than you had though!
It is better but my discovery technique was a bit rough. I think there is a big opportunity here for Adobe to drive business leads to Flex consultants both publically and privately. Part of the reason I put this list together is that I am constantly asked for a list of consultants. We have some work to do to make this easy but I think it will alter the marketplace and scale Flex for the better.
In the trenches shoveling! Oh another 5 emails...
Ray you got the directory API coded in CF yet?
Ted :)
Hi Ted,
I'm not sure if Ray has it coded in CF / Flex yet but we have if you want it?? If you had let me know in Sydney I could have built it in the 3 minute webjam!
Hope the diving was fun.
Cheers
Grant
Could the FlexProjects mailing list we discussed a few weeks back be a quick fix for pulling together a directory of consultancies and project potentials together until someone can setup a proper directory?
There is a proper list already. http://partners.adobe.com and search for Flex.