Blogs

Our last blog update was over two years ago. In the meantime, a lot has happened. The tech industry has contracted while rapidly expanding in the generative AI space. The novel use cases GenAI introduced have caught the tech industry and the world’s imagination. In our view, small businesses continue to be wildly underserved. They’re forced to purchase several expensive and disconnected software solutions to keep up with large corporations. The companies that charge lower prices are upselling the GenAI features, which adds more cost to their tight budgets. ...

Canzan’s August update is all about community. Community is everything. Our long game includes connecting your business to complemental businesses. Through business communities with common interests, your business becomes their business. Why? Imagine you’re a flower shop owner with a keen eye for beauty. Everyone raves about your ability to turn flowers into a masterpiece. Now, imagine driving to local markets for inventory, balancing your finances, building a website, and securing your product inventory. ...

Canzan’s July update is all about teamwork. No organization makes the big time without healthy collaboration. Our organization puts teamwork first, giving them the best experiences at the lowest cost. Trust Trusting your teammates to do the right thing leads to solid relationships. Canzan curates the top open-source tools your team can trust. When your workflows go sideways, we clear the path to resolution and support you along the way. ...

Canzan’s June update is all about organizations. I’ve read several books on organizational structures in business. A standard character is Bureaucracy as the villain. I find this narrative suspect, the same way I find extreme political positions suspect. Balance is vital in life, so rejecting everything good about an approach lacks prudence. Follow along as I play the devil’s advocate for a bit, then contrast it with the alternative. Bureaucracy It’s an excessively complicated administrative procedure. Beauracracies include complex employee reporting structures, mandates, and misunderstandings—this top-down approach to business shackles leaders closest to human problems by prioritizing compliance over pragmatism. ...

Do you know containers? I don’t mean Amazon shipping containers or those happy things in your kitchen. I mean software containers. In the software world we can use containers to isolate a software solution. Most of our products these days offer a containerized solution. Canzan’s core reste on top of OpenShift which is a open source container orchestration platform. Why Containers? In the world of software serverless architectures are all the rage. Amazon keeps lowering prices along with Azure, Google, and friends. It’s quite possible to create a dirt cheap solution using serverless, and we recommend using it to solve many problems. ...

A lot has happened since Canzan’s November Update. We’ve been researching open-source infrastructure options for your business, setting up servers, and deciding on architecture. A lot goes into starting a business, and we’re baking our learning into our products as we go. Open Source Open Source isn’t just an economical choice; it represents freedom. Canzan will always commit to making our code available to the public where appropriate and ready for a pull request. We’re deciding on a great open source business model that will put you first and the sustainability of Canzan second. ...

Canzan’s November update is all about bootstrapping. Over the years, it took me quite a while to determine what I wanted to do. In the following paragraphs, I’ll recount where I went and how Canzan came to be. By Other Names Picking a business name isn’t easy. It’s like writing a song or performing in a scene. An artist never truly feels like they hit their mark, and neither does a business owner. It’s easy to second guess a business name. Recent evidence of this truth points to Facebook’s name change to Meta. ...