Small Business Software

I develop database software applications for Windows. These can range from single-user to network-based; can work with small, single use tables, to full SQL Server databases. This is my primary skill, having worked in this industry for over 20 years in some capacity (ranging from teacher to developer, to speaker, to Quality Assurance Engineer ...).

What exactly does this mean to you?

The applications I write are aimed at helping small businesses automate processes that are being done by hand or are being done in a variety of different ways.

For example, I have talked with potential customers who do things along these lines to create an invoice:

• Create the Invoice in Word™
• Look up the line items (items being sold) in a notebook (or in one case several notebooks - one for each manufacturer they worked with) or in some database program
• Looked up the customer data in an Excel™ spreadsheet
• Manually put it all into the invoice
• Print multiple copies so that the customer gets one, and it is possible to track them ...

It would have been an easier process (for the person creating the invoice) to:

• Start the Invoice in an application written for that purpose
• Click a button to see a customer screen that allows you to find the customer easily, and place their data into the invoice
• Select each line item in a similar fashion, at the click of a button
• Change the number of items ordered by clicking on a control on the screen, and having the extended price automatically calculated
• Have totals, sales tax, shipping all calculated automatically
• Once printed, keep the invoice in the application so that its status can be tracked easily.

This is a simple example, really, but hopefully you get the idea.

While there is nothing wrong with needing to do some things manually, there are often more efficient ways to do a process.

Application Services:

• Creation of new customized software that works for your unique situation. These new applications can also be web applications. Or even a combination of desktop/web application.

  New Applications might include:

  • Inventory Solutions
  • Customer Tracking (Contact Management)
  • Invoice Solutions
  • Business Management Software
  • Other Database Management and Reporting
  • Combining processes that are being done in multiple applications (see example above)

  In many ways, the sky's the limit to what can be done for you.

• Conversion of dBASE™/DOS and Visual dBASE™ applications to dBASE Plus™ (the current versions).
• If using dBASE™, enhancing applications.

dBASE™ is a trademark of dataBased Intelligence, Inc.; Windows™, Word™, Excel™ are all trademarks of Microsoft, Inc.

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