GraySail provides unified and targeted solutions for
leveraging your business information and data. GraySail brings the top people
and the best technology to bear on diverse data analysis problems, as well as
the development of creative graphical tools designed to fit your specific needs.
Complicated Data
Problems
In order to provide solutions to complicated
data problems, GraySail uses advanced techniques of data extraction,
architecture, and presentation, which allow for dynamically useful presentations
and elegant utilization of your information.
Dynamic Media
Development
GraySail uses a proven design process
to produce dynamic, powerful, interactive websites; hard copy marketing
materials such as business cards, letterheads, and other promotional materials;
and highly usable, customized graphical user interfaces for a variety of
software applications.
The Gray
Sail
In the time of Napoleon, the British Navy
overcame enormous challenges to become the finest naval force the world had ever
seen. Outnumbered and outgunned by the larger navies of the continental European
powers, the British navy rose to the challenge with highly disciplined crews
commanded by daring and relentless captains.
An English man-o-war ready to leave port was a portrait of
orderly perfection, with fresh paint, gleaming brass-work, and snowy white
sails… and the perfection had a purpose. The best crews tirelessly cleaned,
organized, and shifted ballast daily so that their ship was always in perfect
fighting trim. They practiced gunnery; firing shot after shot at floating
targets and coastal features until the ship was blackened with gunpowder, and
the sooty residue permanently discolored the ship's carefully maintained sails.
When it came time to form the line of battle, this careful preparation paid off:
a well-disciplined British ship had a firing rate up to twice that of their
opponents, and the guns were aimed with an uncanny accuracy that made French and
Spanish captains think twice before they engaged even the smallest of English
ships.
The gray, powder-stained sail of an English warship was the sign
of a disciplined and relentlessly practiced crew. It stood as a testament to
ingenuity, hard work, and a commitment to mastery of skills. And at GraySail, it
still does.


