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<div dir="ltr">What are the business requirements.
<div>Defining that is 1st.</div>
<div>Then it's determining which requirements are, and are not,
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<p>I have developed for various business environments: retail,
wholesale, warehousing, transportation, import/export (air/ocean)
to name a few.</p>
<p>One industry I feel I know best is Flooring; this is the industry
I was introduced to when I first picked up filePro and dove into
the old Kaizen Accounting system to convert it into an application
for the flooring industry (retailers).</p>
<p>Over the years, one is tasked with projects (big and small) and
they are all unique in their own right. In writing the
application I have been working on, I have tried to include the
"most" meaningful features that can be of value for all businesses
and not necessarily to a habitual practice. We all know that two
people may have the exact same business and run it in two entirely
different ways.<br>
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<p>I have tried to put all those years of experience into a bottle
(the application). The challenge has been to stay true to my
philosophy: end users do not need a Bachelor Degree to
successfully use the application, just know the business they are
in.</p>
<p>The 2nd challenge was to write it so that nothing in the system
is needed in order for the other part of the system to function -
This may sound weird, but if you do not want to deal with Bank
Reconciliation, Financial Reports, Purchasing ... there is no need
to force these to be active in order for you to accurately
generate sales/quotes. You are not even required to have
inventory table populated to generate sales/quotes.</p>
<p>Of course, the more defined your data structure (completeness of
content) is, the application will prove to be a lot more
productive (this should be true to all applications) in tons of
ways (time savings, financial tracking, loss prevention, cost
savings, etc.).<br>
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evaluating an application, what are the top 10 questions you
ask?<br>
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If not questions, prerequisites in the form of features or
properties <br>
that you figure are "must have"!?!<br>
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