Computer Application Specialists
* * * Application Development * * *
Create and Manage Application Development Projects
using MS Access, Excel, Word, SQL Server, .Net, and other Development
Software
Employees at most companies use what's termed a "Computerized Manual System". In most instances, they have taken a manual system and put it on the computer. For example, a company may have been keeping sales figures in a ledger of some sort. With the advent of the computer and a spreadsheet program, they took that data and just plugged it into the spreadsheet. They created a computerized manual system. They did not computerize their sales data.
If the data was truly computerized, then the following functions could be performed with the data: searched on screen, reported on in hardcopy, exported, imported, emailed, published to the web; sorted, grouped, filtered, or broken out by various categories defined by your company. When you computerize a manual system, to perform those functions can be time consuming and tedious at best and maybe impossible at worst.
As an example, a major phone company had been using catalogs, spreadsheets, etc. to put together a quote and other associated documents for new phone systems for their customers. By creating a custom database system, the amount of time it took to create one new system quote was cut by 10 fold. Instead of finding all the components and prices, writing them down, creating all the associated documents, printing them out and emailing to various people which took 60 minutes, the new system documents were ready to go within 6 minutes!