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The History of Basis

Basis business management software manages your business and leaves you in control.

When we began doing business as Central Coast Internet in February 2000, our business model was very different than it is today. We provided dial-up Internet access to people in our small rural community of Hollister, CA.

It was a different time. 56kbps modems were the rage. They had just recently replaced the 33.6 kbps devices that had been the standard for the past 5 years.

We hosted Websites and e-mail on relatively modest servers in our office. At that time, we could support 24 simultaneous dialup connections with each T1-PRI ISDN circuit. Each of those cost about $1200/month.

Over the years, we changed. We still provide dialup to a few customers. But we provide Wireless Internet in and around Hollister. We also provide T1 lines, various flavors of DSL and business class VoIP Telephone service.

As the business evolved, we wrote internal applications to manage the business. A couple years ago, we began combining all of the little programs that had evolved over the previous eight years into one web-based portal that we called Basis. (No, Basis is not an acronym, it is simply the foundation for all the tasks we perform regularly within Central Coast Internet.)

At some point, we had the ah-ha moment. It occurred to us that Basis is a pretty handy tool for us. Wouldn't there be a market out there for something similar?

At that point, we began to re-code Basis from scratch. It had developed warts (a bunch of idiosyncrasies that were well know inside our company, but wouldn't look nice in a publicly available product.) It also had functionality like management of authentication servers and integrated monitoring of our wireless network. These things wouldn't be useful to anyone not engaged in the operation of an Internet business.

The rewrite gave us the opportunity to clean up the code, improve performance and customize it so that the users would have complete access to tasks that they needed to perform and not to parts of the program that fell outside their realm.

Our first Basis product is a Business-to-Business customer relationship management product (CRM).

We intend to produce versions of Basis to fit other segments of business management. Some of the versions that we are considering in the near future are:
  • Basis4Consumers - Business to Consumer CRM
  • Basis4Rescue - Animal Rescue Management System
  • Basis4Med Care - Online Medical Records Management
  • Basis4Hospitality - Hotel/Motel Reservation And Management
  • Basis4POS - Point-Of-Sale For Retail Stores
  • Basis4Restaurants - Restraunt Management System
If you have any suggestions, please let us know. We will try to create these applications based on the preceived demand.