At Elysian Productions Inc., we expertly manage vital services such as email, Teams, and OneDrive, providing a personalized touch that surpasses the conventional call-center support you might find at larger companies. Our close relationship with clients allows us to fully understand their business and specialized software needs, which helps us guide them clearly through integration between applications.

With years of experience in software development and a deep understanding of various industry domains such as automotive sales, furniture manufacturing and ticketed event management,  we provide strategic consulting that's invaluable to smaller businesses. These businesses often have limited IT personnel, yet face the challenges of growth and the need for sophisticated technology integration. This is where we excel. Our commitment is to deliver projects on-time and within budget, while ensuring a level of excellence that distinguishes us from others in the field.

At the height of the DotCom era, I worked at a company called Venusoft Inc. We were a custom software development and managed IT company headquartered in southern Indiana across the river from downtown Louisville. My team, the eventual founders of Elysian Productions Inc, was busy at work on a video game development contract for Fuzzy Zoeller Productions. GreatShot.com was supposed to make us a pile of money. In the end, GreatShot.com failed to produce the success that we thought it would produce and we pivoted to form EPI in an effort to continue video game development. Funny how things don’t always arrive at the original planned outcome outcome but without the lessons learned from that ill fated project, there would be no EPI.  This experience readied us for the challenges that would be presented to us during most every customer engagement.  There's almost always something unexpected; a long forgotten business practice that is still critical to daily operations or a service being used that current personnel didn't know to mention. Regardless, we're ready to tackle the unknown while keeping an eye on the end goal.

Fast forward a bunch of months and the Fuzzy Zoeller game, while a technical success, wasn’t the market success that we had hoped for. The contract sunk Venusoft and Venusoft became one of many companies in the dot com era that went bankrupt. The failure of Venusoft took with it, an internal video game project that we were working on at the time called Ages of Athiria. It was supposed to be a large scale massively multiplayer online game (MMO).

Elysian Productions Inc was founded by the employees of Venusoft to continue that project. Long before World of Warcraft changed the video game industry, we set out to raise $15M to fund the development of our video game. As with the Fuzzy Zoeller game, we had plans and aspirations that didn’t quite turn out the way we anticipated. A year later, we were unable to raise that kind of money in Louisville and the surrounding cities. What I learned was that with rare exception, that kind of money wasn’t available in the region and for certain not available to a video game company. EPI was forced, once again, to pivot to stay alive.

We took what we were good at and began to apply those skills to projects in the business sector. We knew how to write software and knew how to handle the complexities of software development. By then, our founders had been successfully building software in one capacity or another for nearly a decade. From 2003 when we shelved the Ages of Athiria project until the housing crash of 2007, EPI moved from custom software development project to custom software development project helping small businesses in the region develop line of business solutions that they could not buy off the shelf. We created inventory systems, content management software and customer relationship management applications.

We integrated all of these solutions with vendors and suppliers from all different industries. In 2007, every contract we had with businesses in the region were cancelled almost overnight as the country headed into a deep financial recession. Once again, what we planned for wasn’t exactly the reality that manifested. Each of my three other founders took jobs with companies in Louisville to survive.  I eventually took a job with Kindred Healthcare, my last project through Elysian Productions being one for them that implemented a remote PowerShell environment for managing their email infrastructure. Plain and simple 2007 hurt but EPI remained, temporarily in support and maintenance mode for all of the contracts we executed and continued to support.

Fast forward to 2015 and an opportunity presented itself to us that I could not refuse. Write a human resource planning platform for a company that split from People Strategy. EPI was back in business as a custom software developer only this time, I was determined to not allow the whims of project work to crash my company again. Enter Microsoft. Up to then, we had quite a bit of Microsoft experience but were not in the Microsoft Partner network. Joining the partner network gave us access to resources to help us sell Microsoft services and shortly after that, sell Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure. Today, we’re focused on Microsoft 365 administration and custom integrations between Microsoft 365 and our client’s line of business applications. After a long journey and learning process through the world of software development, we found a planned outcome that stuck.

Today, EPI, manages our client’s Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and Azure environments. We provide personal service to our clients versus what you get when you buy direct from Microsoft which is call center support from overseas. This personal touch allows us to get to know our clients and understand their business needs so that when they need some sort of integration between applications, we can be there to help. The expertise we’ve acquired over the years in both software development practices and industry domain knowledge is leveraged to provide valuable strategic consulting to our clients. We specialize in helping smaller businesses that do not have a full IT department. Our ideal client is the company that has one or two individuals tasked with maintaining the IT infrastructure of the company. These companies are growing, need help from an IT perspective and more than not need help integrating all of the different software solutions that they have in use across the company. That’s our wheelhouse. We pride ourselves in our ability to execute projects on-time and within a budget that few of our competitors can meet with the level of quality we provide.