TopiaryDan is the username for Topiary Communications President and founder, Dan Schramm.

His focus is in the technology areas of self-service automation, decision support, expert systems and rules engines. Industry focus is primarily within the finance and insurance sectors particularly around risk management, disaster planning, impact analysis, and emergency mitigation.

He is also the creator and co-inventor of patented self-service software and process US 07337159 found at the following external USPTO site link http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week09/OG/html/1327-4/US07337159-20080226.html

So Topiarydan knows a heck of a lot about self-service automation and self-service software vendors and welcomes your questions.

Graduated from Illinois State U (double major in Mathematics and in Finance - whewwww how impressive).