Database Driven Software

Databases have been around for a while now, and have long provided companies with a way to manage their business details. From large multinationals down to small businesses we all have a need for databases that help us everyday.

There are many off the shelf software products written to service our business needs, but every now and then finding a software package that does everything that your business requires is simply impossible.

Your processes - Your Software

This is where Inhale steps in to guide you through creating a database driven system that will do everything that you need it to do.

We sit down with you to determine your exact needs, which in some cases might identify an off the shelf product that may be more cost effective for your business.

Historically speaking: keeping your information for the future

One of the biggest benefits of a well written piece of database driven software is that all of the information that you record and store will be accessible for many years to come, and in some cases can make your business worth even more.

Customer Relatioship Managers (CRM)

Having a good customer relationship database is important for keeping track of your customers, as well as helping you contact them and market to them.

There are plenty of software solutions built to suit most industries, from sales centric companies through to service companies. But not all of them perform every task or function that you would like them to do, we find this in our own business every day.

Got the budget and the motivation?

OK so we can't tell you that it is a cheaper option to buying off the shelf and we can't tell you that it will be a peice of cake, but we can tell you that once you have completed the process you will have software running within your company that you:

own the source code and intellectual property for
you can add to at any time
can be taken to any programmer or developer to maintain
never need to share resources with any one else

Take your processes online

Lot's of companies are reaping the benefits of creating software solutions that mirror their day to day business processes every day.

By sitting down with our business analysts and software developers, your team can start to create a solution that can shave hours from your days, and weeks from your year.

Some of the benefits of building a solution yourself:

Manual tasks can be automated, saving time and money
Performing one task can setup to put in place several actions, again streamlining your business
Free up your management and staff to perform their roles better
You can define who has access to what information and functionality, securing your information

Do it your way... and get it right

By matching upi your business processes with your software you can put in place the measures that ensure that your business functions smoothly

For example: If your stock ordering must go out on the 21st of every month, it could be automated or at least setup to continually warn you that you are about to miss deadline. There are of course many examples of how software can help you work smarter every day

Integrating BC with "Anything"

Business Catalyst is a great online management tool that will let you manage customers online or even sell your products online, but how can it be used in conjuction with your existing brick and mortar sales systems?

Inhale can help you integrate your systems with Business Catalyst using the Business Catalyst API which effectively lets you read and write to the Business Catalyst database. This can be done as a transaction is happening (realtime) or on a scheduled basis (eg overnight).

Sending to Business Catalyst

Using the Business Catalyst API we have helped clients:

keep their in store inventory up to date with their online shopping carts, so that they don't sell a product that they don't have in store.
maintain their online product catalogue from within their accounting software, they only need to maintain product details such as price or colours available through their existing software.
sync a list of customers and rep logins between systems
never need to share resources with any one else

Getting Information from Business Catalyst

Using the Business Catalyst API we have helped clients:

integrate their online sales with accounting software such as Cudos, Capital, Attache, MYOB and Xero, including creating new contacts, invoices and sending invoices.
created external business solutions for managing customer information collected via BC such as requests for quotes
syncing customer enquiries with exting CRMS such as SalesForce

Rewards and Loyalty Software

Companies that use channel marketing as their preferred marketing method often look to incentivise channel partners to sell more of their products, and the smart ones are using Rewards applications to help streamline the process.

A good Rewards Program provides the benefits of allowing these companies to communicate with their resellers or sales people, streamlines the process of offering incentives and allows participants (the resellers) to view and get excited about how close they are to benefitting from their performance.

Rewards Online is the Solution for you

Inhale partnered with Business Rewards Online in 2006 to build an online solution that provides all the benefits listed above and more.

Get your marketing department to evaluate Rewards Online today

Rewards have a massive list of prizes to choose from to make your rewards campaign just that little bit better. Choose from products like Gift Vouchers, Sporting Goods, Apple Merchandise, Overseas and Domestic Holidays.

Contact Andrew Koch at Rewards Online to organise your demonstration be emailing andrew@rewardsonline.com.au