When you enter the corporate offices of Exstream Software on Harrodsburg Road, you are greeted by two large drawings neatly framed in black. At first glance, they seem out of place. The hand-drawn scrawls of connecting boxes, numbers and words certainly don't look high-tech. The hurried-looking handwriting indicating the relationships between the scribbles doesn't resemble any kind of spreadsheet for a software idea. Instead, they resemble two tablecloths someone scribbled on during an extended business lunch.
Yet, these two drawings hang in their prominent position for a reason: they were the impetus behind what is now one of the world's fastest-growing software companies.
"That is pretty much the Dialogue software as we created it," said President and CEO Davis Marksbury. "A lot has changed since then.
In 1998