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Screenshot of the new donateblood.com

Delta Systems is pleased to announce the publishing of an all new look for donateblood.com just in time for the 2010 Greek Week Blood Drive at the University of Missouri.

Delta Systems has been helping the American Red Cross for over 20 years with blood drives.

Need something done? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of in-house development, design, and computer network support talent.

Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, online, and programming needs since 1986.  Ask around.

You’ll hear people say, “Just call Delta” so much that we made it our website – http://JustCallDelta.com

Women's Network is a Critical Part of the Columbia, MO Chamber of Commerce

Women’s Network is pleased to announce that Sabrina McDonnell of Landmark Bank was presented with Columbia’s 16th annual ATHENA Award and Kerrie Bloss with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri was presented with the third ATHENA Young Professional Award at the ATHENA Awards Banquet held Thursday, April 22 at the University Club. The ATHENA and ATHENA Young Professional Award recipients must demonstrate excellence, creativity and initiative in their business or profession, provide valuable service to improve the quality of life for others in their community and actively assist women in achieving their full leadership potential. Please join Women’s Network in congratulating Sabrina and Kerrie for receiving these prestigious awards and for their numerous accomplishments.

Delta Systems was pleased to sponsor the event

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The Columbia Missourian needed to get some recent election results up on their website quickly. Their interactive maps were looking great. All elections and propositions were laid out by precinct. Now they just had to wait for election day and the results to come rolling in.

View the Interactive Maps

The only problem was how to get that pile of data from an Excel spreadsheet into the website.

Delta Systems was able to quickly build an XLS to XML converter that allows the reporters to import new XLS files as quickly as they receive them.

The result speaks for itself but the reporters chimed in too. . .

“The xml generator worked like a charm. It was kind of magical to watch this thing come to life when we dropped our data in the folder. You helped us out a great deal and I just wanted to say thanks once again.”  -Chris Canipe

View the Interactive Maps Now

on the Columbia Missourian website

Delta Systems has built a website to showcase a luxury beach rental home on Captiva Island, Florida.

Visit www.AlmostHeavenCaptiva.com

Almost Heaven Captiva

Enjoy the animated crab that shows you snapshots of the house and the unique treasure map feel of the site.

When a user visits the page, we pull live weather information from Yahoo’s weather RSS feed, and then we parse out the information we want to display.

Once the information is parsed, we compare to a database of images and weather types and then show an appropriate icon for the weather type. We use tango icons, because they have transparent backgrounds and are a higher resolution than the Yahoo images in the feed. This provides a better look and a more site-specific integrated feel to the weather portion of the page.

When Yahoo throws us a wrench, and we don’t have an icon for the weather type, the system immediately sends us an email and are able to go in and associate the appropriate icon for the weather type. We have some defaults in place, but sometimes you just don’t know; for instance, they added ‘Strong Thunderstorms’ and then ‘Wind/Rain’.

We’re waiting for ‘hurricane’ to be added as well.

To honor Debin Benish’s (the founder of Delta Systems) memory of volunteering and supporting small businesses, the Women’s Network, in conjunction with Delta Systems Group, would like to select a businesswoman who has achieved great success in her business to receive the annual Debin Benish outstanding Businesswoman Award.

6th Annual Debin Beinsh Outstanding Businesswoman Award Nominees Sought

If you know a Columbia businesswoman who:

• exhibits leadership in supporting small business
• has a record of volunteering in the community
• is a mentor to other business women
• owns (or is employed by) a Chamber-member business, preferably a Women’s Network member

NOMINATE HER TODAY!

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT IS MAY 7, 2010
Mail or email nomination to:

Mail or e-mail nomination to:
Liz Glockhoff
300 S. Providence Road
P.O. Box 1016
Columbia, MO 65205-1016
(P) 573.874.1132
lglockhoff@ColumbiaMoChamber.com

The recipient of the Award will receive a $1,000 grant from Women’s Network and Delta Systems. The winner will be announced at the Annual Chamber Meeting in June.

The Debin Benish Outstanding Businesswoman Award is a business grant designed for Columbia-area businesswomen who have achieved excellence in leadership, mentoring and volunteerism. It is awarded annually at the Columbia Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting.

Previous winners include Lili Vianello (2005), Lynda Baumgartner (2006), and Melody Parry (2007)

In 2005, Delta Systems Group and Women’s Network established the award to honor Debin Benish – Delta Systems Group’s founder and former owner. Sadly, Debin lost her battle with cervical cancer on June 14th, 2005. This award will live on to celebrate her life and the distinguished efforts of women in business throughout Mid-Missouri.

Senator Claire McCaskill

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill met with a group of small-business owners in Columbia on April 1, 2010 to discuss anything and everything on our minds. While most of the discussions centered around the recently passed health care reform bill, there were several issues brought up about grants, childcare as a barrier to employment, and a call to end the Internet sales tax holiday since it is unfair to local businesses.

Senator McCaskill listened to each and every person’s concerns, occasionally taking notes, providing feedback, and giving direction on where to go for more information – including a few that her office will look into.

Delta Systems was grateful for the opportunity to be heard.

For more information, read the full story in the Columbia Daily Tribune