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Software Assessments

In a distressed company - and in fact, in many companies whether they are distressed or not - it's not uncommon to hear complaints about the company's business software applications.

(The common business software application - typically at the core of a company's suite of software applications - is the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.)

The employees who complain can range from executives to office staff to distribution center personnel. Complaints are usually focused around inefficient data entry, the difficulty in finding information, and the queries and reports upon which people have to make decisions.

What we've found is that how data is set up can either enhance or reduce the functionality of a business software application. Poorly setup data can make reporting a difficult task, and can result in information being left off of reports or reported inaccurately.

Even if the software application's reports are less-than-desirable in format and substance, if the data is accurate, external reporting capabilities can often be used to support such internal software deficiencies, and to do so very successfully.

Before a distressed company thinks about throwing away and replacing their ERP system, a very expensive and painful proposition, it would be wise to allow us to perform an assessment to determine if the system can be retained and salvaged and alternatively supported.