From day one, defi SOLUTIONS has been all about community and collaboration. Mutually beneficial collaboration is at the core of who we are as a company and forms the foundation of the defi Preferred Integration Partner (PIP) program.

“It’s all about working together,” said Patty Jefferson, defi vendor relationship manager. “Evolving based on what has worked well, and not so well. And facilitating great relationships that empower our clients and partners and giving both access to one another through powerful integrations.”

We recently provided a defi Tune-Up for a long-time lender and managed to save them hours in their work day. What’s a defi Tune-Up? It’s one of the many services we provide our clients to make sure they’re getting the most mileage out of the defi SOLUTIONS loan origination software. 

Glenn Munro, VP of Sales for defi SOLUTIONS, is heading up a dedicated, innovative team of professionals with decades of experience in lending and lending technology services. 

We are thrilled that Keven Sticher has joined the defi team as our chief information officer! Keven is taking charge of business alignment, vision, strategy and execution of information technology and information security for the company.

What does that mean exactly?

Remember the computer programmer in Jurassic Park? He was a rotund loner whose workstation was littered with soda cans and empty potato chip bags. The Hollywood stereotype of software engineers is The Lone Coder, a social misfit who shuns human interaction. He can make magic happen with a few clicks of his mouse, but he probably does it from the solitude of his parents' basement. 

In real life, The Lone Coder makes mistakes -- lots of mistakes. Answerable to no one, The Lone Coder designs a system only he can understand, and no one else has a prayer of maintaining or modifying. The Lone Coder is a threat to the growth, security, and stability of a computer system. Scariest of all, entire software "teams" can be full of Lone Coders, each one marching to his own beat, following her own whims, leaving a cloud of chaos behind in their wake. Their product might work, but it is a house of cards. 

Most of us know what we’re looking for in a life partner, but do you know what your business is looking for in a hardware or software technology partner? What are your preferences? What makes one vendor a better choice for you than for someone else?

Not sure? Haven’t thought about it? Think you already know? defi SOLUTIONS CEO Stephanie Alsbrooks suggests ten questions to help you narrow down which technology partner is right for you.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, a book by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister about sociology in software engineering, uses the phrase "cult of quality" to define a team that has decided "only perfect is good enough for us." DeMarco and Lister write that while most of the world won't argue for higher quality, members of a cult of quality will "always turn out something that's better than what their market is asking for." And this usually doesn't happen because of any dictate from upper management. Most often it's the team members themselves holding themselves to a higher standard.

This year started off with a bang when we officially introduced defi ANALYTICS and defi SERVICING. Although they are hard acts to follow, we think defi EXCHANGE, our auto loan portfolio marketplace, is equally, if not even more, exciting.

Our CEO and founder Stephanie Alsbrooks has culture in her blood. Company culture that is.

She continues a tradition today at defi SOLUTIONS that she started years ago in many past work lives in the auto lending industry, focusing on the important mission of bringing people together through work and play.

How do you know or go about finding out if a solution is right for you?

Director of data and analysis for defi ANALYTICS, Brandon Burns, explains in the most recent edition of Non-Prime Times how to go about the process of deciding which data warehouse technology solution is right for your business.

Brandon's ideas apply to any technology decision. He suggest you follow three steps.