Unfortunately I was unable to attend the Web 2.0 Conference in person but have been following the conversation via Twitter. I commend the organizers for structuring an impressive and diverse range of speakers and topics that have elevated the conversation beyond solely the web’s challenges and opportunities. It is great to see the web community explore new roles the web can play in the challenges facing our world today from politics to global finance to healthcare.

Following the tweets got me thinking about TrackVia and how we have expanded our own line of thinking from where we started several years ago. We got started by helping a $5 billion transportation project solve a major data management problem. The problem: How could they track, manage, and respond to the unexpected volume of comments received from the community? The solution: TrackVia’s online database that provided a powerful and user friendly database that collected comments via web forms, organized comments by relevant category and provided a tool to share information with the community, vendors and government agencies.

By harnessing the best that technology has to offer and providing software through a web-based approach, we have evolved our online database solution that has been embraced by thousands of users in industries such as real estate, recruiting/hr, advertising/marketing, money managers, and non-profits alike in nearly every U.S. state and over 30 countries. When we started a few years ago, we knew a really diverse group of companies and industries would find our solution a useful tool. For example, a major food bank in California is tracking donors and campaigns with TrackVia and a global sustainable energy company is tracking logistics, inventory and wind generator defects with TrackVia.

We agree with Tim O’Reilly that this is just the beginning of the Internet; we also believe that this is just the beginning of TrackVia. We look forward to further expanding our presence and evolving our product with our current customer organizations and exposing our web-based database to new industries looking for a better way to collect, organize and share data.

To our customers, we are curious, what were you using before TrackVia?