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Our typical client is a retail franchise which has grown its locations on the back of the point-of-sale and recordkeeping system it was using in its first two o
by flashman 11y ago
Our typical client is a retail franchise which has grown its locations on the back of the point-of-sale and recordkeeping system it was using in its first two or three stores. That system hasn't scaled, they're not big enough for the vendor to add features for them, and changing systems would be a massive investment, so they bring us in to write reporting middleware. Sales by category by location by day. Not a lot of science to it for the most part.
- greggyb 11y agoExactly. Or the customer that grows from $10M -> $100M, still running with the same accounting team, who now take >25 days to close the books every month. This is an unfortunately common refrain. I often joke that my job is simply the application of arithmetic under a handful of logical rules, for varying values of "logical". Edit: I don't type so well.
- Spooky23 11y agoI worked for a retailer in college like this... Multi billion dollar company working on some dinky system like you describe. They tied the sales/finance systems to their manufacturing division via some ad hoc lotus notes apps!
- greggyb 11y agoWe've been in talks recently with a very large manufacturing customer that is still in the process of coming off Lotus Notes for Office 365. They started last year.