Replacing Excel with custom software: when is it time?
When do you replace Excel with a custom application? The warning signs, the real cost of spreadsheet errors and a step-by-step plan for SMEs.
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Kontich is about twenty minutes from our office in Boom. We build web apps, internal systems and dashboards for the companies on and around the business parks along the E19.
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Why Kontich
Kontich benefits from a location few municipalities can match. From the E19 exit you are quickly in Antwerpen, Brussels, Mechelen, Sint-Niklaas, Gent and Turnhout. Business park Gate 7 plays to that deliberately: 35,000 square metres of which 12,000 square metres is office space, with warehouses and offices in the same park.
That mix says a lot about the type of company here. Often a head office with an operational arm underneath. Which means two kinds of software need at the same time: clean reporting and overview for management, and fast, practical screens for the people in the warehouse or out on the road.
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A good internal tool serves both sides of a company like that. The warehouse worker or the engineer gets a screen with three buttons that works with gloves on. Management gets a dashboard that pulls its figures from that same system, without anyone having to merge anything.
That only works when you have one source of truth. Which is why we always start with the data model and only then with the screens.
Companies with a head office here collect a stack of tools over the years. A package for this, a subscription for that, a spreadsheet for whatever falls in between. Every piece costs money and nobody knows the whole any more.
We bring that back to a core you own yourself, with integrations to whatever is genuinely worth keeping. Fewer subscriptions, less retyping, and a system that grows with you instead of needing another one bolted on beside it.
Where we are
Build More works from Boom and Puurs-Sint-Amands. Kontich is about twenty minutes from our office in Boom. We come over for kick-offs, working sessions and demos, after which the build runs online with weekly versions.
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FAQ
Our office in Boom is about a twenty minute drive. Our second office is in Puurs-Sint-Amands. For a first conversation we are happy to come to you.
Often they can. We first look at which tools genuinely add value and then build a core you own yourself, with integrations to the rest. That saves subscription costs and it finally makes your figures comparable.
Yes, and it belongs in the same system. The warehouse gets simple screens that work fast, management gets dashboards fed by that same data. That way the two always agree.
A well-defined tool or MVP starts around €8,000, a full platform lands between €25,000 and €75,000. After a first conversation you get a fixed price and a date within 24 hours.
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When do you replace Excel with a custom application? The warning signs, the real cost of spreadsheet errors and a step-by-step plan for SMEs.
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