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Culture » History     

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A Summary
In
January 1989, the founders of Papugai began as a design and
brand-development agency serving retail, corporate and manufacturing
clients with a variety of effective creative solutions.
Today, the members of our award-winning creative department are
seasoned masters of the same crafts that we loved some 20+ years ago.
But now there's more... a lot more.
In June 1998, with the fast-growing popularity of the internet, some
of our clients were beginning to notice that their
"programmer-designed" websites did not live up to the same professional
design, branding and usability standards that they enjoyed with their printed marketing
and communications materials. We began to receive requests from
clients, new and old, to take over the creative direction and usability
strategy of their websites.
We had no software engineers on our staff in early 1998, but we were committed to engaging the the world of web design and software development.
The next steps began a chain of milestones that led to our current set
of web-development and software achievements, including the creation of our most
popular e-commerce products, SmartCommerce.NET™, SmartShip.NET™, and SmartCustomize.NET™ private label business software, and more
than a dozen other technological achievements. (See our products section for more details.)
By mid 1998, we began engaging web development projects by outsourcing the more complex programming
tasks to various development firms, but that
became increasingly difficult to manage with larger and more complex projects.
Some development firms preferred Linux-based solutions and others preferred
Microsoft-based solutions. Some were more sensitive to our clients
branding objectives while others were (ahem) less sensitive.
We quickly concluded that Papugai needed its own team of software
engineers that clearly understood our company's vision for a new breed
of web and software-development platform that is expertly-designed and addresses the
global business objectives of our clients, including strategic brand
implementation, clever and well-planned usability, with effective SEO strategy, compelling and
effective visual presentation, and razor-sharp business logic.
This goal was met that same year and by January
1999, our new web-development team was producing world-class websites
and inventive applications for web-based services, including
extraordinary e-commerce applications and tools. By 2004, we had expanded that expertise to include top-level software development for both Windows and mobile
platforms.
Today, like 20 years ago, Papugai's team of professionals are still managing
cutting-edge design and brand-development projects, but our focus has
clearly shifted toward web strategy and other business software solutions. Our e-commerce strategies,
applications and tools are arguably the most powerful and effective solutions for small business in the United States.

For more information, please call 1-877-PAPUGAI (1-877-727-8424) or send an email to sales@papugai.com and we will respond right away.
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NEWS UPDATES ... 7/3/2009
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Branding and creative roots still shine bright at Papugai.
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Just under a decade ago, 100 percent of Papugai's business was in branding and creative services. Today, we are more known for our technological inventions and innovations around e-commerce and other web-driven solutions. Still, Papugai's effective brand development solutions and award-winning designs keeps a spotlight focused on it's creative side as well. » read more
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Papugai Celebrates 20 Years!
A note of thanks from managing partner.
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I looked at the calendar this week and it suddenly hit me... We've been doing this for 20 years. 20 YEARS? Man... That means every time I tell a story about the 1980's (the decade we started all this), I have to stop and realize that roughly half of our professional staff were still in grade school or perhaps not even that.
But it's fun to think about some of those more-than-decade-old client relationships that are still going strong today. » read more
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