SAVE TIME AND MONEY
with streamlined workflows and
custom business intelligence (BI) tools
using your existing software systems
TIMELY DECISION DATA™ and Efficient Operations to
Grow Your Business WITHOUT Implementing an ERP System
Business Intelligence (BI) tools give you more control of your company and its cash flow
In your favorite used car salesman voice, say to yourself “THAT’LL make you smile.”
Go ahead. No one is watching. It sounds like "Data Make You Smile" don’t you think?
Silly? Sure.
Does it describe the transformation we deliver to your business? Absolutely.
Data Make You Smile transforms raw data from your company's existing disconnected software systems into custom business intelligence tools. We deliver TIMELY DECISION DATA™ you need to streamline your business and grow your cash flow.
WITHOUT an expensive and disruptive ERP software implementation.
Data Magic To Grow Your Small Business
Automate the capture, cleanup and delivery of
TIMELY DECISION DATA™ from your company's existing software systems so you can:
1) Increase operating cash flow
2) Make better decisions to grow your business
3) Avoid a costly E.R.P. software implementation
Book an appointment now to learn more.
This Helps Me How?
If your problem is disconnected software systems and operational inefficiencies
stunting growth of your small business, then we can help.
Do you have a love-hate relationship with software?
Small and medium size business (SMB) owners and their staff sacrifice convenience for low cost, living with separate accounting and operations-specific apps to run their companies.
A common tradeoff with these cost-effective but disconnected systems is a lack of TIMELY DECISION DATA™ to streamline workflows and make better decisions.
These disconnected systems do not integrate well.
Billing doesn’t play nice with the general ledger.
Payroll doesn’t acknowledge fleet-tracking GPS logs.
CRM and Accounts Receivable are not even on speaking terms.
Is your business stuck with software silos?
The result? Many SMBs use Excel or Google Sheets to combine data from these systems manually every month.
Are you frustrated that these software systems do not talk to each other?
Are you tired of canned reports that are hard to analyze and do not help you make better decisions?
How much time does your company waste every month with manual and duplicate data entry requiring one or more employees to get it done?
Your existing software systems already possess more data than you realize. You just have to extract and process it in a more useful and timely format.
Streamlined processes and TIMELY DECISION DATA™ - when and where you need them.
You can get the TIMELY DECISION DATA™ you need - from your existing siloed software systems - to make better decisions and grow your company’s cash flow.
By automating data capture from these disconnected software systems, you can eliminate duplicate and manual data entry and save time and money.
Data Make You Smile can help you take better control of marketing, sales, operations, accounting, finance and ultimately, cash flow in your business.
We also help you delay (possibly eliminate) a costly and disruptive ERP implementation project you’ve been dreading.
Book an appointment to speak with us today.
Who Would I Work With at Data Make You Smile?
Jake Gray is an Entrepreneur, CFO and "Citizen Developer"
Building a Team of Fellow BI / No Code / Automation Geeks
Want to squeeze more juice from your software lemons?
Jake is an entrepreneur and finance professional who understands the challenges you face with disconnected software systems for reporting, operations, HR/Payroll and other functions in your small business.
We have built dozens of custom business intelligence (BI) tools for our own businesses and others. The results produced involuntary smiles.
We look forward to helping your business in the same way.
Why We Do What We Do
Streamlined internal workflows and TIMELY DECISION DATA™ mean you can scale your business without the expense and disruption of an ERP implementation
Our Philosophy
Everyone has a blind spot: we don't know what we don't know.
Entrepreneurs may think that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is necessary to take their businesses to the next level. They simply may not know about alternatives.
But an ERP implementation may not be the best option for a growing small business, and there are viable options.
Our Promise
There are less expensive, less disruptive, less frustrating ways to process and capture the data you need to make better decisions and grow your business. You can achieve this with your existing software systems.
We customize data tools and automations to streamline your team's internal workflows, eliminate duplicate manual data entry, and put the right information at your fingertips, when and where you need it.
Our Guarantee
TIMELY DECISION DATA™ and streamlined operations we deliver for your business will make you SMILE.
If they don't, we will gladly refund your money.
SMILE or you don’t pay.
That is the Data Make You Smile money-back guarantee.
TIMELY DECISION DATA™
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Small Business and ERP Software By the Numbers
Alternatives for Small Businesses
What is ERP System?
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is software that consolidates multiple core business processes across multiple departments – all in one platform.
This can include financial management and accounting, customer billing, service work orders, time and attendance, supply chain and inventory management and other core processes.
Traditionally larger companies have utilized ERPs, but new cloud hosted platforms make ERP adoption more attractive for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well.
Many ERP systems can also be configured to automate the transfer of data between the ERP and other software systems not incorporated into the ERP, and between the company and third-party partners (vendors, customers, etc.) to eliminate duplicate (and often manual) data entry in multiple systems.
The ultimate benefits of an ERP should include faster and smoother internal processes, lower costs (both labor and operating expenses), increased profitability, better customer experience and scalability.
ERP System Evaluation, Selection and Time to Install[1]
Thirty-one percent (31%) of organizations surveyed by SoftwarePath identified “support growth” as their primary reason for implementing an ERP system. Other reasons included “greater functionality” (20.3%), “increase efficiency” (13%), and “replacing outdated legacy systems” (12%).
Companies with less than 50 employees took an average of 14 weeks to select ERP software, with the decision makers spread across four different groups:
(1) IT staff
(2) Finance/Accounting staff
(3) CEO and Operations staff, and
(4) Outside consultants, sales teams and project managers
ERP Cost of Implementation and Cost of Ownership[2]
ERP system implementation is cost prohibitive for many small businesses. Based on survey results from 2021 and 2022, smaller organizations (< 50 employees) spent an average of US$ 8,500 per user on their ERP system. (Source: SoftwarePath)
ERP system ownership is even higher. For a company with less than $1 billion annual revenue, the cost of ERP ownership is approximately 3% to 5% of annual revenue. (Source: Panorama Consulting Group)
Eighteen percent (18%) of the small businesses surveyed with less than $50 million annual revenues did not have an ERP system. Eighty percent (80%) of those relied on spreadsheets and accounting software, or some other collection of disconnected, siloed software systems.
The leaders of most of those companies recognize the limitations of using spreadsheets and siloed legacy systems for managing their businesses and were searching for non-ERP solutions. They cited the following reasons (with the corresponding percentage of respondents):
legacy business systems cannot track business processes (49%)
business systems cannot interact with each other (47%)
legacy business systems lack collaboration features (40%)
cannot access data outside the office (34%)
difficult to share data outside of the organizations (30%).
Alternative Solutions for Small Businesses
The good news is that the 18% of SMBs not yet utilizing an ERP system have cost effective and non-disruptive alternatives to an ERP system available. Inexpensive business intelligence (BI) software tools and automation software tools can connect to the siloed software systems they already use.
It is possible to streamline workflows and internal processes in ways that mimic ERP functionality but keep the existing systems and user interfaces that are familiar to their staff.
If you or a friend own a small business that fits the description above for the 18% of SMBs without an ERP, you may want to consider these more cost-effective and less disruptive options.
If you would like to discuss alternatives for replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, automated workflows that help you grow your company, here’s how we can help you.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q:
How can DMYS help with disconnected software systems and operational inefficiencies stunting growth in my business?
We eliminate manual data entry and automate data capture from these disconnected systems so that you can make better decisions to grow your company.
We help you delay (possibly eliminate) the costly ERP implementation project you’ve been dreading.
Q:
What is a "data model"?
A data model (aka "semantic model") captures raw data from multiple sources (software systems, websites, SQL databases, data warehouses, Excel files, CSV files and dozens of other sources) and ties the data together in a manner similar to a relational database, but with custom calculations and analysis built in.
The model allows you to clean, shape, analyze, summarize and present all that data so that it is useful to you, as a business owner or finance or operations professional, to evaluate your business and make better decisions about how to grow it.
Q:
What do you mean by "automation"?
Automation is a fancy word for connections between software systems that move data without human intervention. We use automation technology tools to transfer data between your disconnected software systems so your admin staff don't have to do it by hand.
An example includes connecting to your billing software and its Application Programming Interface (API) to move transaction and timesheet data to your HR/Payroll software, so you can process payroll more quickly, and with fewer admin staff hours to do so.
Q:
What do you mean by "business intelligence"?
Business intelligence (BI) is just a fancy category name for tools that turn raw data into information you can use.
You see this information in custom dashboards, data visualizations and reports that highlight changes over time or give you a better understanding of your company's health and performance.
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