Database Development
Very few businesses amass little or no data. Most have information about products, clients, stock levels, transactions and so-on and so-on. What is amazing is how cumbersome this data is to manage (often paper-based or electronic lists) and how little it's used to benefit the business.
Imagine being able to call up all the information on a customer when he phones at the click of a button, remembering to wish him happy birthday for Friday and did he want to order the same items as last time? Your customer is impressed - he's obviously your most important client you have for you to remember this much detail - and you probably gained a bigger sale than you would have. Ohh...while we're at it, another button click and the invoice is automatically printed and the relevant entries are sent to the accounting package. Now, do you really want to go back to doing it all by hand?
"There being nothing available off the shelf for a small firm, we turned to IAS Solutions. They built a fairly sophisticated but easy to use dealing system for us, that can be developed as we grow and our needs change."
Craig Strong
MD, Capital Currencies Ltd.
Databases sound frightening. They're huge things running on big computers in even bigger buildings, aren't they? No. A database is just a away of managing your information in its simplest terms. We would hope that you'd want to leverage your investment to enable you to put the goldmine of information you have to work. Let's find just which customers are our most important in terms of profit, not just sales. Let's generate a letter automatically if we've not heard from a customer in a few months.
We use a variety of packages to acheive this, including Filemaker and Micrsoft Access. Before we make a suggestion, we listen to what you want to acheive and then explain how we might produce that result. With Microsoft Access, we have produced a variety of tools for clients, ranging from simple customer contact management to an exceedingly sophisticated pension management system.
For the latest prices on database development, click HERE but if you're unsure how a database can help you, why not give us a call to discuss. We'd be pleased to help.
