Building With Data
Your business needs data
Every activity in your business needs data. Data tracks sales, quality and customer satisfaction. Data highlights opportunities to improve margins by cutting costs or raising prices. Data identifies why people choose your business, and what they will buy again. Data can help you find new clients as well.
Data Challenges are Increasing
With the explosion in tools that connect, capture and analyze data, opportunities are increasing for companies.
The right tools let you quickly…
- • Transact business with customers
- • Ensure delivery
- • Assess their satisfaction
- • Identify reasons people choose your business
- • Project your clients’ future purchases
The challenge for your business is that your competitors can also find ways to expand using data.
To stay ahead, you need to win the battle for data.
Why do we recommend building vs. buying a packaged solution?
Shop around and you will find packaged software to cover many areas of your business. The software may have most of the features you need,
even many that you do not need. Quick analysis may conclude the package is an acceptable base to integrate into your business.
We have two main problems with the package answer.
The first problem is that the effort for aligning the package to your business is always greater than expected.
In trying to change for your specific needs, the system still needs to consider the vendor’s commitment to other customers.
If your changes are not compatible to upgrade versions, your future costs could be unexpectedly higher.
The second problem is that packages usually force your business practices, existing systems and people to change. Not everything in your
business will align with the new package. This leads to numerous discussions on changing the package or changing something your business.
Changing package software can be expensive. Changing your business costs productivity. Both options affect the bottom line, yet are usually unplanned at purchase.
Why build?
Building software can be a hard decision for business leaders to accept. Building software requires the finding the right team.
It requires accepting that quality development takes time. Additionally, many business leaders’ strengths are not in building software.
Even with these challenges, the best way to maximize the life and return on your software investment is to build.
Building is also the best way to align software to your business, as well as scale with your future growth.
How can we help?
AshlarBox Systems believes in Building with Data. We understand the technologies, capabilities and risks your business will face
in the information economy. We use our knowledge as the foundation for your system needs.
We learn your business and build the best system to your needs. We constantly monitor our progress with you, assuring we deliver quality.
We also work with you to improve your processes, strengthen your return-on-investment, and seize new opportunities.