User talk:Andrewtull

Hi!
Note that you don't have to read all of the above; that's just a collection of helpful links if you feel you need them. Now, how may I help? You mentioned something about writing an article about your corporation before; the first thing I should mention is the existence of our conflict of interest policy. In other words, writing articles about subjects you are biased about is discouraged. Of course, I encourage you to create a draft; there's certainly a possibility that it would be accepted. Oh, and you may want to review company notability guidelines.

Questions at my talk page are welcome! Glad to be helping, Master of Puppets  Call me MoP! :D  23:47, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Article
After a read-over, I'd have to say that this needs quite a bit of trimming and rearranging. I'll go through part-by-part:

Pragma Systems: Your Telnet and SSH Solutions Provider The title of the article should be just "Pragma Systems".

''The corporation of today is faced with constant challenges in providing secure and reliable access, control, and management capabilities across its network and computing infrastructure. With these challenges come seemingly endless requests for more - more information, more access, and more productivity. Unfortunately, there also seem to be more solution providers that offer 'one stop shopping' as it relates to networking, infrastructure, and security solutions.''

Articles do not need advertisational intros, or essay-like leads. Ideally, the lead sentence should focus only on the company, and not the environment it is based in or why it exists.

''That is where Pragma Systems comes in. Pragma Systems is not your 'one stop shop' for any and all of your networking and security needs. What we are is focused. Focused on providing the most secure, fast, scalable, and reliable solutions for your telnet and ssh connectivity needs.''

Too ad-like. You shouldn't be trying to hook in customers, but rather provide information about the company; statistical stuff. See any large company's article for an example; Microsoft, for example.

With more than 16 years solely focused in the telnet and ssh space, Pragma Systems has achieved a level of technical knowledge, domain expertise, and industry experience to lead the market in the effectiveness and extensibility of its software solutions.

Again, 'flavor' words and viewpoint-reliant statements have to be avoided. A more Wiki-friendly, neutral way of stating this would be, for example, "Pragma Systems has been critically acknowledged as a top player in the market (citation here), though some opponents have critiqued the company's allegedly "short" history of 16 years (other citation)." The idea is to combine praise and criticism, to portray all the sides.

''Pragma Systems is a privately held corporation with headquarters located in Austin, Texas. The organization was founded in 1990 by David Kulwin and Quamrul Mina, with the intent and focus to design, develop and port networking software for Fortune 500 companies. In a short period of time, companies like IBM, Tandem, and Tivoli became customers. The organization's focus on customer service and providing customized and extensible solutions has provided the foundation for the reputation of reliability associated with Pragma Systems''

This part is much better, though it still has some issues that it shares with the above parts.

''In 1995, Pragma started developing industrial grade software for the emerging 32-bit Windows NT platform. From that point on, Pragma has delivered high quality products and services focused on Windows 2008/Vista/2003/XP/2000 operating systems. In the summer of 2006, the company continued its focus on technical innovation, and was the first in the secure connectivity segment to announce products built on the 64-bit platform.''

"High quality" and other such statements shouldn't be used unless they've been stated by prominent sources. By this point, I'm gonna have to say you'll need a lot of sources if you want it to be structured somewhat like this.

''Pragma's software is deployed in the majority of Fortune 500 companies in the USA and over 2100 companies worldwide in over 62 countries. Our clients include banks and financial institutions, U.S. and international universities, telecommunications companies, internet service providers, foreign government agencies, computer hardware manufacturers, real estate, software companies, aerospace, hotels, supermarkets, retailers and many others.''

A narrative tone can't be used; "our" would have to go. Again, citations needed!

Our customers include: Target, McKesson, Food Lion, Micron, Dell, Intel, IBM, NTT, Sony, Coca-Cola, Symbol, Daimler Benz, Boeing, HP, Siemens, Motorola, Bank of America, Bank BNP-Paribas, Barclays Bank, IMF, Unilever, Woolworth Australia, Sogei Italy, SchlumbergerSema and Reynolds Aluminum.

Acceptable; just needs citations.

''Pragma's products have won top awards in the industry such as PC Week Analyst's Choice and NSTL's best in class rating. Pragma has also been recognized by Microsoft as a top 75 fastest growing Windows Independent Software Vendor. Our technology partnerships continue our reputation for 'best in class', ranging from Computer Associates to Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Motorola.''

That's also acceptable, for the most part; just take care of the citation, POV and stylistic issues, and get back to me (take as much time as you'd like, I'm not rushin' you). Cheers, Master of Puppets  Call me MoP! :D  01:49, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Pragma systems
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