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About kalmstrom.com Outlook Solutions
 kalmstrom.com Outlook Solutions is the brand for software
from the Swedish family business Tallstugans förlag
HB. Since the year 2000 kalmstrom.com offers add-ons
for Microsoft Office products.
Idea
The common theme for all the kalmstrom.com products is that they add a bit of functionality on top of Microsoft Office.
When you stand on the shoulders of giants …
By knowing more about the Office platform than most and making intelligent choices about which technologies to use, and when
to use them, we can build solutions that are cheap, powerful and easy-to-use. We don’t build functionality from scratch if it is already available in the Office/Windows/Exchange platform that most of our users already have and like.
People
The
brain behind the applications, Peter Kalmström, lives
in Sweden with his family, while the parents, Kate and
Sigge Kalmström, live in Spain. We also depend on our
partner TimeRewards and the employees Bahrur Ipham and Saurabh Verma.
Start
kalmstrom.com Outlook Solutions was born when Peter
worked as a programming consultant and saw what his customer
needed but could not find on the market. He therefore
started to develop products for certain customers, products
that later became what is now Calendar Browser,
PF HelpDesk, TimeCard and all the others.
Future
The
products of kalmstrom.com Outlook Solutions are
continuously improved, and this improvement is
our prime goal also for the future. The applications
are sold over the Internet, and the majority of our
customers speak English. Since several years we
also have German web pages and manuals for some of
our products, thanks to our partner Tom Janocha
at Mailhilfe.de, and we have recently published
web pages in Swedish and Spanish.
We want to go on expanding into more markets,
hopefully with the help of new serious and knowledgeable
partners.
We wish to continue growing slowly and steadily like before.
The greatest challenge facing us and others in the software industry today, is
to choose the right path among all the interesting and feature-rich technology offerings out there and
to build applications that take advantage of it all.
This is a challenge we are happy to meet!
Do and don’t
for kalmstrom.com Outlook Solutions
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We don’t
do standard web based development – too many
others do that
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We
continue to develop or cancel our products – too
many others sell solutions and code they no
longer use/know
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We don’t do open-source – but we do sell our source code
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We
assume that our customers are smart people who
know what they are buying as well as make
rational choices. Therefore we don’t use “cheap
tricks” such as 49.99$ prices.
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We don’t
build mission critical systems such as ERP,
Invoicing, accounting etc – we build systems
that allow knowledge-workers to collaborate more
efficiently. Our systems are limited in scope –
they are flexible but we don’t sell them as
solutions that solve all problems for a company.
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