For over 20 years Data Basics International has been helping firms large and small make better use of technology. Over the years our focus has been the same: making IT better able to serve the goals of the business, and avoiding building technology for technology's sake. For our CIO clients this has meant working with them to define and implement effective IT organizations and processes. For the CIO's direct reports, it often means helping make technology decisions and implementation choices based upon business value rather than technical elegance. Even our deep technical work is focused on assuring that all benefits are extracted from every layer of the technical stack.