The Pain of Sub-optimal Business Processes

Posted: March 2, 2009

Too many business processes are still done manually. Picture the process manager who runs around a document, from desk to desk, seeking approvals. When business processes are automated, they often involved a cobbled-together collection of off-the-shelf software solutions that no person had time to deeply understand, let alone research. Picture the meeting planner who enters participant names in Excel, in Word, in Access, and on the web to allow for the many different ways that name will be used. Sub-optimal systems cost money. They slow things done. They divert staff from higher-value activities. And they negatively impact employee morale.

Custom Software = Great Value

When you are grappling with inefficient manual processes that are being married to off-the-shelf software solutions that only partially do a task, and deploying staff and IT time resources to sustain a process that is slower than it could be – isn’t that costing you an arm and a leg? Not to mention the blood, sweat and tears!

Almost all of our clients, on initiating discussions about a custom software project, worry about the price tag. In working with us, our clients were able to develop a benefits model (usually, for those holding the purse-strings) showing that their companies would actually save money through the impacts custom software has on other resources and processes. Our clients have found that their employees, in participating in optimized processes, are happier and more productive. And last but not least, our clients got not only the results of elegant software solutions, but learned that custom software solutions can be delivered on time and on budget, making them look good. Custom software can be great value. Sandbox Software Solutions does value!

Why should you commission custom software to optimize business processes?

  • Custom software increases client and employee confidence.
  • Custom software increases employee productivity.
  • Custom software enables better decisions through improved access to information.
  • Custom software improves consistency and output quality.
  • Custom software improves employee focus.
  • Custom software better supports process participants.
  • Custom software improves employee morale.
  • Custom software can streamline the sales cycle.
  • Custom software can help you remain competitive.

About Us

We recommend, design, build, implement and support reliable software-based solutions that help you be more efficient, engage community and get noticed. Sandbox Software Solutions has partnered with more than 100 clients to deliver complex and powerful web-based or desktop software based on the unique requirements of its clients.