Big Sky
Companies who have more than one location often struggle with maintaining effective and efficient ways to share information between each other. Many standards are still a hybrid of analog and digital components that can't keep up with changing demands. Stock software built for general purpose use aren't very helpful if they aren't suited for the kind of records that company needs to keep. Not every company has a department or staff equipped with programming the sort of software that would work best, either. This is where services like the ones Big Sky provides fill the gap.
- Free vendor integrations available for the purchasing catalog system; his can be used with third party vendors or it can also be developed for an internal system for distribution.
- Automatic alerts flag issues or generate reports for each location.
- Fully centralized organization for a variety of business needs like internal and external communications, vendor profiles, accounting, inventory and other customized tracking and reporting.
- The questionnaire-style guide complements a natural thought process for problem-solving. These
- Their asset management software tracks the full life cycle of a transaction from request to receipt.
- Automated invoicing and analytic reporting can be specified for each office location.
- May be too feature-rich for small companies with highly simplified processes since Big Sky's software designs targets making many difficult pieces work together seamlessly.
- Products and pricing are specialized for companies with multiple locations and many features may not be useful for single office businesses at those price points.
- Learning new systems can be daunting for managers and associates used to older software and may require independent training not provided by Big Sky.
Big Sky's blend of streamlined technology and traditional know-how offers their clients robust service packages and flexible design capabilities. In their business model, the client's needs shape the final product -- they're not just offering competitive software for online reporting and communications, they're building each program specific to every client's individual needs. That holds a lot of potential for businesses that have highly specific operating parameters and need to track their progress in ways not often supported by the usual reporting methods. With so many businesses using several different applications to achieve these needs, Big Sky targets developing cooperative systems and services to reduce time and complication. Intuitively written and designed decision trees help remote managers and business administrators with navigating their way through system processes in order to get the most accurate solution or answers to their questions. Different attribute settings also provide a multitude of data-points in order to observe patterns or project how changes will influence the bottom line. Additionally, purchasing catalogs for each location can be set up so that the only items available are those that are approved for that exact location which reduces the cost of mistakes that can be made.
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