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drive your business to the next level with

the Extreme Solution for those who want extreme results

Extremely Flexible
+ Extremely Scalable
+ Extremely Powerful
+ Extremely Extensible
+ Extremely Easy to Use
+ Extremely Configurable
+ Extremely Interoperable
= An Extremely Good Fit for Your Business!

Now and into the future.

What is BizMan?

BizMan is our flagship product that does all the accounting functions (AP, AR, Inventory, Payroll) as well as Contact Manager, Document Management, Statistics, Graphs and Marketing Analysis, Work Planning, Job Costing in a single, fully integrated, whole-of-business application.

Most businesses have an operational requirement that accounting packages do not handle. As a result they track data in multiple spreadsheets.

What we do is create client-specific solutions that eliminate duplicate data entry and increase efficiency. Doing this can enable some businesses to take off like a rocket.

BizMan is our best answer to the question, “How can we deliver to a client a custom application at as close as possible to an off-the-shelf price?”

Client Problem

Nearly every customer comes to us with at least these seven things:
1. A burr under their saddle because their existing software does not do something they need it to do,
2. No prior experience with software development so they think that something is really simple that takes a developer a month to code,
3. A wish list so tall you need to leave the earth’s orbit to fly over it,
4. A budget so small you need a radio micropscope to see it,
5. Requirements so unique they’d make a creative thinking professor proud,
6. A target go live date that means we should have started 12 months ago and
7. A requirement that the software be simple, easy and fast to learn.

In other words they want everything, yesterday, for nothing. Welcome to my nightmare!

OK. That’s the entertaining version. Here’s the accounting exigency.

For a solution to be viable, it’s cost must not exceed the cost of the problem.
or
The pain of the solution cannot exceed the pain of the problem.

So, how do we profitably provide a solution that delivers as much as possible of what the client wants within their budget?

Our Solution - Version 1

To have half a chance of satisfying the client’s needs within cooee of their budget we need a product that does what they need done with minimal work on our part. In other words we have to have 90%+ of what they want already built.

This foundation for a business software solution needs to do all the basic functions and be able to accommodate all the unusual requirements without requiring a rewrite. In other words we need to have an over-engineered back end to a comprehensive, extensible and configurable application.

So I spent 15 years growing that solution instead of watching TV.

It had some brilliant features, 6 of which could each give the owner a 100% ROI within the first year of ownership.

It was very fast for me to add custom functionality.

Our Problem

I built it in the wrong product.
It wasn’t scalable.
It looked pretty good when I started it but now it looks like a maiden aunt that nobody wanted to marry.
As a developer, the tool made me feel like I was under weekend detention - not permitted to do many things I would like to do.
As a solution, it is humongous! With 4,400 menu options, it does so much it’s at least daunting if not overwhelming. I’m sure many prospects felt like they came in wanting three extra dials on their Cessna and we were offering a 747 as a solution!
It was tied to Windows.

The Solution to Our Problem

Now that we have this wonderful 20/20 hindsight, how do we solve our problem? How do we deliver a cutting edge solution to today’s clients?

Rewrite the whole application from the ground up using the world’s fastest database, Caché®, on the back end and a front end that will run on anything, Java®.

Based on nearly 20 years of delivering real world solutions, redesign the database to further expand the range of functionality we could deliver.

Redesign the menu and permissions to make the menu structure user configurable so they can:
1. Hide from all users menu options the organisation does not need,
2. Hide from each user group menu options to which that user group does not need access,
3. Rename menu options to suit the conventions in the client’s country, industry or organisation and
4. Alter the default icon if desired.

Make the form rendering not hard coded but done by an engine that can:
1. receive user definable parameters to,
2. display only those fields the user wants to see,
3. in the sequence the user has chosen to display them,
4. with the ability to edit only those values they are allowed to edit and
5. enable the user to edit the field labels on the fly then
6. save the newly edited value down to the database so it is used next time and
7. for those clients with unique requirements, display a user defined, multi-table form.

Provide multi-language support so each user can see the application text in their native language.

Allow import of data into multiple tables from one file.

Make reporting structure so users can create reports and define their own menu structure for them.

As you can see from a look at the configuration module you can tailor BizMan much more than any other software application on your desktop. You could say it gives us the ability to satisfy your needs with a tailored solution mostly via configuration, with little to no custom development.

If what you need your business software to do is not already handled in BizMan we have created BizMan to be easily extended to accommodate your custom requirements.

Check out the functionality evident from the screen shots by clicking on the options in the BizMan Modules menu.

BizMan delivers to you insights about your business that will have you raving about business performance metrics in no time at all.

If you would like further information or an on-line demonstration of BizMan please contact me on +61 2 9552 3311.