How often have you stood in the local software palace and been given a dissertation by a young, eager, well meaning high school student on why you should put your business’s future in the hands of Software A. Will Software A fulfill your needs, or should you choose Software B? After all, your brother-in-law’s best friend's neighbor ( the day mechanic turned computer expert by night) says that it's really cool. As you compare your host of choices you find Software A could use your existing file format, but Software B has the new feature you needed, and Software C produces the report that's perfect for your best customer?
Let’s be honest, you've made
an investment in staff, workflow and computers and now, you must get the most
productivity out of that investment. How? That’s where our
experience comes in.
Here's a quick case study:
Customer A receives a daily electronic report from a vendor. Their current workflow requires the report to be printed, copied and then handed to 2 assistants. Assistant 1 reenters the pertinent information into one existing program then Assistant 2 takes some other information from the report and cross-references it in another program. They both then combine the resulting data into a publishing program. Analyze that situation! The owner has invested in two computers, the software for each system and two fulltime employees (both of which could be doing something more productive.)
After our analysis, we designed a program that read the data from the report (remember, it was in an electronic format before it was printed. ) We took the pertinent information Assistant 1 was busy reentering and automatically put that into another program’s data file. We then wrote another program to take the cross-reference data and cross-reference it, then combine it into the publishing program. Those two quick programs eliminated several hours work a week. Take that time savings times 52 weeks and well, you can do the math…
You may ask? Can a programmer understand how I run my business in the real world while trying to make a profit?
Ours can! We have been in the real world! We understand answering to the bank, making a mortgage and most importantly, having sufficient funds in the bank every other Friday.