My Story
As an engineer, entrepreneur and problem solver I am constantly thinking on how to improve things. One of my favourite saying is: ‘Simplify your live and streamline your business’. It is not that I am lazy, but it is most likely in my German blood to get things perfect. So I want to apply this philosophy to my business operation to make it lean, effective and efficient.
After shopping around for the right tools, which is software, to run my business, I quickly realised, all of them are more or less a compromise. Being a little computer literate, but knowing exactly what I wanted and had done some programming in the past, I knew pretty much, how the perfect business software solution could look like.

How I did it
Once I figured out the details for all different screens within my new software and the workflow, I documented everything in writing with screenshots and flowcharts. I fine-tuned and optimised workflow scenarios until the future ‘application’ fitted my perfect service business model. It was a business tool, which could save time and manpower,  I have not seen in any of the thousands of dollars ‘of the shelf’ software packages. Leave alone the mainstream accounting package, which was not even included and one of the main requirement to make it work, ‘to run in the cloud’, was almost unheard of.  

Why a ‘cloud’ application is a must!
A lot of people not only enjoy the convenience of internet shopping, banking and making their travel arrangements online, they expect more and more other business services to go online. Even  as a small business owner I am always thinking BIG and want to provide a service like the banks, e-bays and amazons. Based on the positive customer feedback on our job-tracking system, which is for more than a couple of years in use, I can see, that I am certainly on the right track. The time and overhead savings are nothing less than spectacular.

Where do we go from here?
With more than a couple of years of implementation without a glitch, my developer and I realised, that this amazing application or business structure you may call it, can be adapted to most other service and manufacturer businesses.  So we (more he) has been working on a more flexible and highly adaptable application, which can be a rock solid foundation to most service/manufacturer businesses. With some more added features and tools, even your business can reap the benefits and provide the same customer service as Allcam Cameras & More.
To find out more details about cloud business in general, read my article 'What is a cloud' or if you want to take your business into the cloud, visit NextSoft today.