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.
Province of Antwerpen
Lier is half an hour from our office in Boom. We build web apps, internal systems and dashboards for the production, construction and service companies on and around the Duwijck business park.
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The Duwijck business park is a good example of how companies in this region work together. The business association vzw Duwijckpark has existed since 2006 and counts the city of Lier and POM Antwerpen among its members alongside the companies themselves. Together they keep the quality of the park up. They recently launched an energy community there as well, together with POM Antwerpen and the energy cooperative ZuidtrAnt.
Duwijck holds mainly companies in production, processing and recycling of goods, construction, storage and distribution, and research and development. Standalone offices and retail deliberately have no place there. That makes it a park of companies that make or move something, and those are exactly the companies where good internal software wins the most time.
Source: POM Antwerpen, energiegemeenschap bedrijvenpark Duwijck
For production and processing companies we build systems that follow an order from start to finish, with all the documents attached to it. For construction and installation companies we build site tracking that works on a phone, so hours, materials and photos land in the file straight away.
In both cases a dashboard goes on top that runs on your real data. No more monthly export that is out of date by the time it is ready.
We start by looking at how the work runs today, preferably half a day on site. After that you get a scope with a fixed price and a date within 24 hours.
During the build we put a new version on a test link every week. You test, we adjust. Changing course stays cheap and you always know where you stand.
We have no office in Lier. We work from Boom and Puurs-Sint-Amands, with Boom about half an hour away by car. For kick-offs and working sessions we come on site.
Yes. Duwijck holds mainly production, processing, construction and distribution companies, and that is exactly the profile we build internal systems and site tracking for most often.
Yes. Everything we build works on phone, tablet and computer. For people out on the road or in production we deliberately design screens you fill in within seconds, because otherwise they simply do not get used.
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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