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Corporate class software at small business prices

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

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You may have heard of SAP software. It’s a software application used by a major percentage of medium sized and large enterprises all over the world. The prime use of the software application is to connect the whole company together and allow hundreds and often thousands of workers to store, share and view data concerning the physical and financial processes of the company. Significant organisations are managed by intelligent people who appreciate the strategic value of this type of software, such as how it can give them insight into why issues are occurring inside their business or where there might be opportunity for refinements.

This type of system is commonly known as ERP. It is very complex, very costly and can take along time to implement. A deployment of ERP software can cost ten’s of millions of dollars but this doesn’t stand in the way of substantial firms buying these systems.

Until a few months ago software like this was not within reach or affordable for tiny companies. As a result small businesses have not been aware of the substantial benefits that ERP systems can offer. Tiny firms have been misled by predatory software like Sage Software and Intuit that small business accounting software is the answer. These applications most often have no features to permit their owners to join together the entire firm or undertake common tasks such as customer relationship management.

The rise of Web based CRM software from vendors like Salesforce.com is a damning testimony of the small business accounting software organisations misleading or misunderstanding the small business community.

It is for this reason that small business ERP businesses in the same category as Salesorder.com have begun to make great progress in the market. They sell on demand software which includes all of the major functionality a small company requires at very low cost. What is even more compelling is these platforms are easy to use and can be installed rapidly.

At last ERP applications are no longer the privilege of substantial vendors.

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Discover a better way to manage your business

Monday, October 26th, 2009

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Accounting is for accountants and what’s more infuriating is they want it to stay this way, so it’s hardly suprising that people like me who run a small business and can’t and don’t want to pay an accountant uncovered the shortcut I want to share with you here. Everyone who creates or manages a business has ‘better’ tasks to perform than spend hours on their bookkeeping. Bookkeeping is a ‘chore’ that many people relish doing but must be attended to on a regular basis to avoid issues.

I asked my accountant for direction and he persuaded me to use Sage Software which turned out to be a small business accounting software package. Without even evaluating software I simply went ahead and purchased the lowest cost system I could find. On reflection I am relieved I didn’t spend too much cash on this as this software is arguably the most badly designed and most complex application I have ever used. OK my first piece of advice is that whenever you see the words accounting software go carefully as it probably means the designer isassuming you know a enough about accounting.

Just like me small enterprise people know about their craft and the product or service they sell and not accounting but in my case I was driven to allocate time to finding a system that would work for me. The good news is I found a really good answer, it’s an online system called salesorder.com.

Definitively the best application I have discovered, salesorder.com works on the internet and is thoughfully designed and of course lets me do my job anywhere I can access the net. Better still and the third piece of advice I want to share with you is that the team who work at salesorder.com are not just very knowledgeable of their service but they know a significant amount about the issues of running a small enterprise and have taught me the bookkeeping I need to know.