OT: Evaluating an Application

[Jose Lerebours]

On 12/15/19 11:55 AM, William J. McEachran wrote:
> What are the business requirements.
> Defining that is 1st.
> Then it's determining which requirements are, and are not, being met 
> by the software and it's vendor(s)..

I have developed for various business environments: retail, wholesale, 
warehousing, transportation, import/export (air/ocean) to name a few.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.).


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> Bill McEachran
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> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 10:28 AM Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list 
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> <mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>> wrote:
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>     When evaluating an application, what are the top 10 questions you ask?
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>     If not questions, prerequisites in the form of features or properties
>     that you figure are "must have"!?!
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