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Services We Provide ... Custom Solution Development
Custom Solution
Development
Our
custom development projects range from the quick & simple to complex and
comprehensive. Our focus is to let computers do what they do well - replacing repetitive, manual tasks with computing horsepower. This frees
people to do what people do well - thinking, deciding, interacting.
The
results include better customer service, improved staff morale and higher
productivity - resulting in the ability to grow your business more quickly
without having to add additional staff or additional workload on the existing
staff.
The
most common categories of custom application and tools we develop are these:
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Custom report development to
turn your BusinessVision and other data into information you can use - using Crystal Reports, MS Access,
Excel and
similar tools
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Custom applications to meet unique
requirements - either stand-alone or integrated with your BusinessVision
system. We employ MS Access, Visual Basic, SQL
Server, Palm OS, ASP/ASP.NET (web) and other platforms, whichever are the best choices for a
specific project
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Reporting
tools (including web-based) that allow people inside or outside your office to securely access the
information they need to do their jobs effectively
Examples of custom
projects
Our custom
development projects range from the quick & simple to complex and
comprehensive. Some are standalone applications, but most are designed to
integrate with BusinessVision behind the scenes.
A small taste of what
we've done for other clients:
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Custom
BusinessVision forms - we produce
great-looking, functional forms that meet the needs of our clients and their
audiences - everything from quotes & invoices, to purchase orders,
statements, to barcoded labels that get laminated & attached to products
brought in for service
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Custom
BusinessVision reports - we often
tweak existing reports to exactly meet client requirements. As well,
we create many brand new reports from the ground up to present the
information specific audiences need, in the format they require. These
could be simple "list" type reports, or much larger reports
relating data in ways that otherwise would be hugely time-consuming
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Data
Extraction tools - simple,
inexpensive tools for ad-hoc extraction of BusinessVision data into Excel,
for customer contact worksheets, inventory movement analysis, detailed sales
analysis - anything you can imagine needing
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Commission analysis
and reporting - typically, we can reduce analysis and reporting time from 2-3 days to 2-3 hours per month
using MS Access, Crystal Reports or other tools
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Web
Reporting packages -
we can make selected data available to outside sales reps / customers; in
one case, we eliminated 30-40 hours a week of staff time answering queries from reps & customers, while providing far better self-serve response time
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Data
Warehouses
- automated extraction of whatever data you need, from whatever source, all
deposited into a common "warehouse" of data for use with reporting
/ analysis tools, web sites and more
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Data
Exchange tools - routines written
to automatically send/receive data to/from BusinessVision for exchange with
suppliers or customers, eliminating layers of manual data re-entry
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Complete
Workflow
Systems to handle quotations, costing, purchasing, production, inventory
and invoicing without re-keying data
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Order Status Management
utilities to allow individual production / warehouse users to update the status of any order, making this
information available to all users immediately - even
remotely over the web
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Bulk
Data Management - to simplify or automate maintenance of
large volumes of costing / pricing, customer / supplier or inventory data;
one specific project enables a client to automatically add inventory items
and import weekly price list changes from an industry data provider; another
enables our client to rapidly update pricing and costing on thousands of
items and produce future and current price lists for e-mailing to
customers
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