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Foster Solutions, Inc.

Foster Solutions, Inc. (FSI) successfully stands apart from other companies by offering a unique blend of professional services in four very different, but related areas: website development, database programming, market research and city planning. Each individual area of expertise supports the others, resulting in a superior product for our clients.

Whether it’s a CMS website, automated report, GIS project, or local government development project, we’ll bring a personal approach to every job. We’ll handpick a seasoned team that will foster the best process and solution for your project.

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What we do

Websites / Hosting

SQL Databases / VBA Automation

Government/Planning

GIS / Market Research

Sample Projects

“Hot Spot” Mapping

Green Confidence Index

Automating PowerPoint

Automating “Rogue” Reports

Migrating Survey Panel Data

Eco-Insights Syndicated Survey



FSI Partners

Hudson Digital

Darkwater Digital

GORGES

Jenny Vainisi

Rosedove Writing

TNG Research

Sample Articles


Affordability and the Funding Gap – 2021 Redux

I stumbled onto a research paper I wrote with Mark Duda in 2006/2007 for NeighborWorks America. It was striking how much our current economic situation and housing market has in common as it did in the mid 2000s. There are some disturbing parallels to that time period just before the great recession when too few …

Filling the BI/Reporting Gap

There is, and I believe there always will be, a gap in what large Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting software systems can provide to serve the needs of business professionals. BI/Reporting software has come a long way since the 90s when I started down the BI/Reporting path. But despite the great advances, building a solution …

Using SPLUNK for simple Business Intelligence: segmenting clients

SPLUNK can be a very powerful tool to data mining, for “operational intelligence”, to learn what is going on now or in the recent past. The temptation is great to use SPLUNK’s powers for Business Intelligence as well as Operational Intelligence. When diving into log files, therefore, it often is useful to bump the data …

Genesis Simple Sidebars Plugin fix

I use the Genesis framework for virtually all my websites and am very happy with it.  BUT, the Simple Sidebars plugin developed a catastrophic error which left a website with an error that starts with “Warning: Illegal string offset ‘name’ ” and leaves your site unworkable.  You can’t even log in. Thanks to Nick Ciske …

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