January 2017 | Business View Magazine

188 189 and Honolulu. In addition to having performed services in almost every state, the company has also delivered on projects in Mexico, Canada, Malaysia, and China. How does Centerline juggle its myriad of on- going projects across the country and beyond? “We invested in a custom-built ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system to manage all of our project details and business functions-- we call it CenterPath,” Little explains. In September centerline solutions 2016, Centerline actually acquired the devel- opment firm that it partnered with to create CenterPath. With the development staff now in-house, the company is well-poised to simul- taneously manage many thousands of projects. “Working in wireless is at times analogous to juggling BBs because you have many parts that are happening simultaneously and you can’t let any one of those BBs hit the ground,” describes Little. “This software system has allowed effec- tive scaling of our business in such short time because of the streamlined information access and workflow efficiencies it introduces. In a tra- ditional network deployment, there is a handoff from Company A to Company B, and that hand- off may not be as seamless as one would hope. However,when it flows from Department A to Department B within Centerline, there is no inef- ficiency. We leverage our customized software to work smarter for our clients and ultimatelymiti- gate finger-pointing and communication silos.” Little says that even with its rapid growth to date, the company is always looking for more opportunities. “Right now,with the scale that