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.
Waasland, Oost-Vlaanderen
Sint-Niklaas is half an hour from our office in Puurs-Sint-Amands. We build web apps, internal systems and dashboards for the SMEs and production companies of the Waasland.
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Sint-Niklaas is the engine of the Waasland and sits in an unusually favourable spot: twenty kilometres from Antwerpen, thirty from Gent and fifty from Brussels, with the E17 and E34 on its doorstep. The industrial estates in and around the city are developed and managed by Interwaas, the intermunicipal partnership of the Land van Waas. Metalunion, Manta and the new Heidebaan-Noord are among them.
Metalunion already says a lot about the profile of the region: metalworking, machine building, supply. Sectors with complex orders, plenty of technical documents and customers who ask for traceability. Exactly where spreadsheets give up first.
Source: Interwaas, bedrijventerreinen in het Waasland
An order in manufacturing drags a whole series of documents along: drawings, material certificates, inspection reports, measurement records. When those live in folders on a network drive, every later customer question costs half a day of searching.
We build systems where all those pieces hang off the right order automatically. A customer calls about a delivery from last year and you have the complete file on your screen within the minute, with the right version of every document.
We have no office in Sint-Niklaas. We work from Puurs-Sint-Amands and Boom, about half an hour away by car. For kick-offs and working sessions we come to you.
Yes. For manufacturing we build systems where drawings, certificates and inspection reports hang off the right order automatically. A customer question about an old delivery then costs a minute instead of half a day.
Usually yes, through its API or through file exchange. We rarely replace your ERP. We build the piece that is missing and make sure both systems see the same data.
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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