It has been quite a while since we talked about a company having custom software written for them. Packaged software used to have many limitations; and many companies did not want to compromise those processes that they considered their secret sauce or create work-a-rounds that reduced their efficiency. The only option used to be hiring a company to write a whole accounting system tailor-made to your specific needs, or live with the limitations that someone else created in a packaged application.
Workarounds and compromises
The funny thing is that custom software could fit your company like a glove. Nothing compromised, no limitations. You could have the exact process that your company needs to get things done, your way. And if you changed the process, you could have the software changed again to fit perfectly. Even though today’s packaged accounting applications are better, more robust and gives more options, there are still compromises with every implementation. Packaged software is usually a lot cheaper, better supported and faster to implement. The trade offs make sense: accept the workarounds and compromises, save money and time. Improve things just enough to justify the change.
What if you could have the best of both worlds: a packaged application that can be easily customized, a customized application that is easy to support, implement upgrade when new versions are available? Gravity Software® (Gravity) is a complete packaged accounting software built on an easy to use tool set from Microsoft that allows easy and quick customizations.
Related: No developers? No problem. Personalized accounting dashboards are easy with Gravity Software
Workflow automation
Let’s say you have you have a unique Purchase Order approval process, not your typical dollar value approval, but a complex process that involves the vendor type, dollar amount and buyer’s location. In most packaged applications, you would build a manual workaround as they could not support this type of complexity. With Gravity’s workflow engine from Microsoft Power Platform, you can easily build this workflow, automatically routing a PO to the appropriate person at the correct time. No workarounds, your secret sauce is still intact, and your company is more efficient than ever.
Today, you can get the best of both worlds a complete packaged accounting software that is . . .
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Easy to implement
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Well supported
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Cost effective
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Personalize on any form
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Able to add any workflows
What’s even better is that you don’t need an army of developers to make the changes, because the Microsoft tools can be easily learned by a non-developer “Power User”. More importantly, with all the changes you have made, Gravity can still be upgraded to the latest version without losing your customizations.
Contact us to schedule an online demo to see how you can have the best of both worlds with Gravity.
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