Is outsourcing very cost effective?
Most companies are either too small to support the full time staffing needed to produce the critical business information they need or seek. Outsourcing allows you to get the expertise you need on a temporary basis without having to pay high annual salaries internally for those services. Outsourcing saves you time, automates and streamlines your processes and ultimately saves you money. It allows you to concentrate on running your business and simplifies making critical business decisions.
Our business currently uses QuickBooks and spreadsheets to manage the business. Can you integrate our new database with these applications?
Yes, your new database is just a tool that will allow you to logically store and share a large amount of data that can be used with QuickBooks and spreadsheets. Depending on your business goals, we will integrate your custom database with applications you are familiar with in a non-technical manner.
How do we get started?
You can call us directly at 303-800-4820 or 303-800-4813 or e-mail us. We will contact you directly to discuss your business situation and goals. After we understand what your goals are, we can outline a plan to “data-fuse” your business information.
Our business is constantly changing its organizational structure and perspective. Providing comparable business trends by sales channels or product categories is impossible. Will my new database allow me to retroactively reflect the new organization outlook to future business plans and forecasts?
Yes, in most cases. We understand the importance of being able to take the company’s new strategic direction and clearly communicate and align historical business trends for the past several years to future years in a long range plan. Depending on the complexity and level of detail in your database, new organizational restatements can be done reasonably quickly.
Our business is growing rapidly and becoming too big for MS Access. We don’t want to migrate to a more high-end database application since we currently have many Access users. Can you help?
Yes, often times when a business exceeds the capabilities and capacity of MS Access, it is time to implement a SQL Server as a back-end database. Fortunately, data tables stored on the SQL Server are easily linked to MS Access so that the company’s Access user can still continue to use their skills in analyzing and retrieving critical business information.
Our data is very inconsistent due to a lack of accounting controls and practices. Can you help?
Unfortunately, your business problem is larger than a custom database solution. Developing a custom database solution requires structure and reasonable data integrity. While we could create some tools to help identify and improve data integrity, implementing good accounting practices and controls would be a top priority. In most circumstances, we would not take on a project like this since it would be difficult to develop the critical business intelligence you are seeking at this time.