Vendors offer software applications for every area of business operations: benefits administration in HR, accounting systems for finance, supply chain management solutions for production, CRM for sales and customer service, and more. Sometimes, they share data smoothly and seamlessly.  All too often, though, we find the following inefficiencies result:

• Duplicate data entry
• Inconsistent or inaccurate data
• Inefficient work processes where users have to jump between several disconnected systems
• Spreadsheet pandemonium

Complicating the problem is a technology industry filled with specialists who recommend what they know to be best practices in their narrow area of competence without considering the full tapestry of systems and processes their clients are employing. 

Back in 2002, in our 1st year of operation, Uncommon Solutions helped our very first client consolidate from 13 separate, overlapping, and disconnected systems into 6 systems interconnected through a central SQL database.  They are still our client today, and we've since consolidated and integrated those systems even further, enabling them to process over three times the transaction volume with about twice the complexity, but with less than twice the staff. 

It takes a solid partnership of earned trust to accomplish that kind of business transformation together.  So, our team is constantly refining how we can best listen to your needs, apply technology, and - in so doing - earn your trust.  We've repeated that kind success with several clients since. Here are a few examples of our work.

• For a Fortune 500 company: A regulatory reporting solution that tied together accounting data with engineering and field plant data, replacing error-prone manual effort and providing accurate and compliant reporting to multiple government agencies.
• For a 10-store retailer: A point of sale integration and supply chain management solution that provided visibility of key performance metrics to management.
• For a non-profit: A single system to integrate volunteer management, donor management, and the accounting system, lowering the cost of administration, improving service to donors, and helping volunteers feel more valued.
• For a manufacturer: Application integration to transfer transaction data from the eCommerce site into QuickBooks, eliminating time-consuming manual data entry.
• For a regional faith-based organization: A third-party billing system to support funds apportionment and integration with Microsoft Great Plains.

Is there an opportunity in your organization to optimize and integrate your systems?  How could data integration improve your business? Contact us to discuss the efficiencies you'll gain by integrating disparate systems.