| Every business has processes that are followed to | | | | customers to register their details and gain secure |
| produce a desired outcome. These processes in the | | | | access to your product and service catalogue. Then |
| majority of small to medium sized businesses are | | | | imagine the customer making orders through your |
| undertaken with the use of Excel spreadsheets, text | | | | online catalogue and an invoice being generated |
| based documents and stand alone applications. | | | | automatically. This invoice can then be sent to the |
| Wouldn't it be wonderful however to automate these | | | | customer via email as well as being stored within their |
| processes and bring everything together into a single | | | | secure area of the system so that they can review it. |
| system? | | | | The invoices are output as PDFs allowing them to be |
| You could opt to buy an off the shelf system, | | | | stored and sent electronically with the invoice number |
| however would it do the job and match every | | | | as the file name. |
| requirement? I often find that to think of a business | | | | Then imagine an administration section whereby all |
| and its processes it is linked and mixed together in | | | | customers, suppliers and invoices can be viewed and |
| such a unique way making it very difficult to find an off | | | | maintained as and when required. |
| the shelf solution that matches your needs exactly. | | | | What if the VAT rate changes, you can update the |
| Everybody has their own way of doing things. | | | | system settings therefore setting the new rate for all |
| Everybody has their own information that they want | | | | new invoice(s). You can also produce a VAT return |
| to retrieve. | | | | and have this output in the desired and correct format |
| Developing a bespoke database will provide you with | | | | with the ability to review the relevant calculations that |
| a solution that matches your needs exactly. As an | | | | were used to produce it. |
| example one of the many systems that we have | | | | So as you can gather database development can do |
| developed as a company are bespoke back office | | | | a great variety of things and be developed in such a |
| databases. | | | | manner that allows it to match your business |
| Imagine a Back Office Database that allows for | | | | processes and requirements to the letter. |