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Every business has collections of information. Examples include
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customer lists
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employee lists
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product lists
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supplier lists
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customer orders
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supply orders
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inventory
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payables
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receivables
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Each of these collections is related to one or more of the others. "Information
management" is storing data efficiently and using it effectively. In a
real-life example, it means that your customer information, your product list,
and your in-stock inventory records are available to your staff at the point of
sale.
Your situation may present software needs that have never been addressed
commercially. Or you may need the existing applications to work together in
ways their creators didn’t anticipate. Visalia Business Solutions
will create components, interfaces, or entire applications that are custom
tailored to your individual requirements.
Nearly everybody who uses a spreadsheet program (such as Microsoft® Excel®)
eventually uses it to store information that really belongs in a database. Visalia
Business Solutions brings years of database experience to the
table. Whether your needs can be met with a desktop database such as Microsoft®
Access®, or your operation requires a more sophisticated,
server-based solution, we can organize and store your data and make it
accessible wherever you need it.
Microsoft has spent considerable resources integrating the Office® suite
of applications. As the product line has continued to evolve, more and more
functionality is shared among the component programs. The benefit to Office®
users is that each application looks and feels very much like the others.
Less obvious, and perhaps more important, is the fact that most Office®
programs can access and use each other’s documents and data. There really is
very little reason to have the same name and address information stored in
three different files on the same computer. It takes three times as much space
to store, and three times the work to maintain this way. Yet, this sharing
capability often goes untapped because it is complex to implement.
If your business operations involve entering the same information in a database
and in QuickBooks®, you probably don't need to do it manually. We
can build a one-way or two-way interface between your operations and accounting
records, that will keep them synchronized and free you and your staff for more
productive activities.
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