Accounting

I sat through a presentation on integration recently.  "Oh boy!" Although the gentlemen presenting did an excellent job and had great presentation skills, his material was out dated and his techniques were obsolete. "Oh my!"

He explained how integrating business applications could be accomplished by exporting files, then manipulating the files in a spreadsheet and finally importing them into the target application.  "Oh no!"

Whenever you make a purchase for your business, you need to figure out whether the ROI is high enough for that purchase to make sense. Some businesses ask why our product costs so much while others don't blink an eye. That kind of behavior is perfectly understandable if you think about the following scenarios:

Company A sells a product that costs $10k in which they average 10 sales a month. Company B sells a product that costs $2k in which they make 50 sales a month. Finally, Company C sells a product that costs $1k at 100 sales a month.

John (in his last blog posting) pointed out some good reasons to have Salesforce integration in place. But there are others. 

I have been reading a new (new to me) Blog called SmoothSpan. Its focused on SaaS and Web 2.0. It is of particular interest to me. However, neither is the subject of this entry. My focus today is on data quality. The entry on SmoothSpan called "User-Contributed Data Auditing" was interesting on several levels.