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I have no experience in that area myself, but I assume most businesses (and schools!) track inventory. I would expect there to be plenty of commercial off-the-s
by Thiez 5y ago
I have no experience in that area myself, but I assume most businesses (and schools!) track inventory. I would expect there to be plenty of commercial off-the-shelf inventory tracking solutions by now. Isn't that the case?
- ehnto 5y agoSort of, it's true there are lots of inventory tracking tools available but this school needed particular requirements that they couldn't find. Some of their requirments were that it needed to: - Run on their intranet - Run on a server they own - Not use user accounts but rather individual pins, anyone can use any pin, they need to match an already used pin system at the school - Work like a kiosk for ordering, enter pin, add items to a perpetual order - Track internal budgeting and generate reports, nonone actually pays or has limits but they wanted to see howmuch budget Pin X was using etc. - Purchase once, no subscriptions So that ruled out SaaS and since almost every modern software company is SaaS or just a desktop application they weren't able to find a reasonable replacement.
- Thiez 5y agoFair enough. I don't really see the advantage of pins over user accounts, and wonder how long it will take them to recoup the costs of developing a custom solution over just paying for a subscription. But if their requirements are not negotiable then it's understandable that custom software will be required.