Bill Reynolds presents A Manager's Guide to Client-Server Solutions at the Powersoft International User Conference on May 26, 1994, in Orlando, Florida.

Our Founder

ASF's founder, D. William Reynolds Jr. ("Bill"), has spent the last 20 years helping large and small businesses improve the way they develop technology solutions to business problems.

Prior to forming Austin Software Foundry, Bill spent almost 10 years in the financial services industry applying technology to problems in banking and insurance. During that time he became frustrated with the traditional methods used to develop financial software.

In the late 1980's, during his graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, he identified the source of this frustration as a lack of technology solutions that were modular, adaptable and rapidly created and deployed and modified. The elements he identified as critical for supplying these kind of characteristics in line-of-business software were business-driven object-oriented software development processes and techniques, and component software technology.

The formation of Austin Software Foundry in 1989 and its growth throughout the 1990's were driven by Bill's vision of software development tools and techniques that would bridge the gap between business needs and technology solutions. Bill has been active as an evangelist, speaker and trainer at technology conferences throughout the Unites States and Europe. He has held advanced instructor certifications from Rational Software Corporation, Sybase Corporation, Powersoft Corporation and Enterprise Technology International.

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Our History

2004 through 2008

Bill Reynolds uses ASF's AdAPT architectural blueprint and ASAP software development process to create a healthcare business intelligence platform for Alianza Solutions, L.P. Alianza's data warehouse and analytical applications are used to improve the revenue cycle for approximately 100 medical practices; it helps providers more accurately identify patients who may be candidates for clinical trials.

2003

June - Austin Software Foundry's founder, Bill Reynolds, takes on the roles of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Technology Officer for Alianza Solutions.

March - ASF forms Alianza Solutions, L.P., to create business intelligence solutions for healthcare providers. Alianza licenses Austin Software Foundry's AdAPT component library and ASAP development process methodology as the foundation for its solutions.

2002

October - Austin Software Foundry completes the prototype for a comprehensive, healthcare business-intelligence platform that includes an industry-specific operational data store and analytical applications. In addition, the architectural design includes embedded components for enabling performance support and e-learning features directly in the analytical applications.

2001

January - Austin Software Foundry completes a technology risk assessment of PromoOrder.com's next-generation promotional products technology platform.

2000

December - Austin Software Foundry completes a technology risk assessment of ReCare, Inc.'s template-based, virtual medical assistant technology platform.

1999

September - Austin Software Foundry invests in AIM Technologies, Inc. AIM Technologies provides loyalty marketing platforms to professional sports teams. ASF's founder, Bill Reynolds, takes on the role of Chief Technology Officer at AIM Technologies. ASF's AdAPT and ASAP products are used to define the next generation of AIM Technologies' software architecture.

August - Sybase Corp. invites Bill Reynolds to present ASF's "Architectures for Object-Oriented Development" course at the 1999 Sybase Techwave User Conference in Orlando, Fla.

April - ASF's Consulting and Training divisions are sold to Noblestar Systems, Inc., Reston, Va. The Engineering Division and all intellectual property (courseware, software, processes, methodologies, et al) are retained by Austin Software Foundry, Inc.

1998

August - Powersoft Corp. invites Bill Reynolds to present ASF's "Architectures for Object-Oriented Development" course at the Seventh Annual Powersoft International User Conference in Los Angeles.

January - Austin Software Foundry acquires Houston-based Intertech Consulting, Inc. The acquisition gives ASF a new office in downtown Houston at Two Allen Center, 1200 Smith Street, Suite 2365. Its public training classroom is equipped with database servers, integrated audio/video capabilities and 14 networked workstations.

1997

September - Powersoft Corp. invites Bill Reynolds to present ASF's "Architectures for Object-Oriented Development" and "Using Design Patterns" courses at the Sixth Annual Powersoft International User Conference in Nashville, Tenn.

August - Austin Software Foundry expands its Austin office and adds a second, fully networked, public training classroom.

February - Rational Software Corp. invites Bill Reynolds to present "Implementing an Object-Oriented Software Development Environment Using Rose/PowerBuilder" at the 1997 Rational User Conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

1996

August - Powersoft Corp. invites Bill Reynolds to present ASF's executive seminar "Enterprise Strategies for Enterprise Computing" at the Fifth Annual Powersoft International User Conference at Disney World in Orlando, Fla.

March - ASF releases the first versions of its AdAPT software architecture blueprint and class library, as well as its ASAP software development process blueprint.

January - Austin Software Foundry becomes a Rational Software Corporation Value-Added Reseller.

1995

October - OOPSLA95 is held in Austin, Texas. As a member of The Austin Forum for Object-Oriented Technology and The Austin Software Council, ASF co-sponsors a reception at the Copper Tank Brewing Co. The "Three Amigos" (Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson and Jim Rumbaugh) introduce the world to version 0.9 of The Unified Modeling Language (UML). In addition to the unveiling of UML at OOPSLA95 in Austin, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland introduced their SCRUM Development Process.

June - Powersoft Corp. invites Bill Reynolds to present ASF's new "Application Partitioning with PowerBuilder" and "Enterprise Strategies for Client/Server Computing" courses at the Fourth Annual Powersoft International User Conference at Disney World in Orlando, Fla.

1994

November - Austin Software Foundry receives direct assignment of two Class C internet address blocks from InterNIC and registers the domain names foundry.com and financial.com.

July - Austin Software Foundry joins the Lotus Notes Business Partner program.

May - Powersoft Corp. invites Bill Reynolds to present his "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with PowerBuilder" lecture and "A Manager's Guide to Client/Server Computing" executive seminar at the Third Annual Powersoft International User Conference at Disney World in Orlando, Fla.

May - Austin Software Foundry licenses its original course "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with PowerBuilder" to Powersoft Corp. for delivery nationwide by all of Powersoft's training partners.

March - Austin Software Foundry opens a new office in the Silicon Hills of Austin, Texas, at 500 Capital of Texas Highway, Building 8, Suite 190. Its first public training facility features a state-of-the-art, networked client/server training room containing 12 fully networked client computers, a file/database server and integrated audio/video presentation capabilities.

January - Intelligent Financial Perspectives, Inc., (IFP) changes its name to Austin Software Foundry (ASF).

1993

December - IFP signs a contract with a Reston, Va.-based internet service provider, Performance Systems International (PSI, later PSINet and eventually acquired in 2002 by Cogent Communications), for its first internet connection.

May - IFP co-produces the third and final version of a summer executive management program for technology executives with The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business. Once again, the focus is on the organizational and strategic implications of the transition to client/server and distributed computing. Powersoft Corp., IBM Corp. and Sybase Corp. participate as sponsors.

April - Powersoft Corp. invites Bill Reynolds to present his "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with PowerBuilder" lecture at the Second Annual Powersoft International User Conference at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego.

1992

September - IFP becomes a certified Powersoft Corp. training partner and begins teaching the Powersoft course curriculum nationwide.

May - IFP co-produces the second version of a summer executive management program for technology executives with The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business. The focus is the organizational and strategic implications of the transition to client/server and distributed computing.

1991

June - IFP joins the Powersoft Corp. PowerBuilder 1.0 Beta Program.

May - IFP co-produces a summer executive management program for technology executives with The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business. The program focuses on the organizational and strategic implications of the transition to client/server and distributed computing.

May - Smith Banking Consultants, Los Angeles, retains IFP to convert an IBM mainframe-based, branch bank information system to a client/server environment.

1990

May - IFP assists The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business in the installation of Lotus Notes 1.0 in an OS/2 LanManager environment in Classroom 2000 for use by the students in the Information Systems Management MBA concentration.

1989

July - IFP partners with Chicago-based Financial Technology, Inc., to deliver professional education courses and software solutions to commercial banks, as well as savings and loan associations. Training is targeted at compliance with new banking regulations requiring these organizations to implement interest rate risk management policies and procedures.

June - Intelligent Financial Perspectives, Inc. (IFP) is founded by Bill Reynolds. The predecessor of Austin Software Foundry, IFP is a software development and technology consulting firm specializing in financial applications. Its goal is helping organizations 1) apply information technology to achieve competitive advantages 2) understand the financial and organizational implications of information technology projects and 3) improve the contributions of computer systems to bottom-line results.