Running your business with a collection of spreadsheets, disconnected apps, and manual processes can be overwhelming. Pulling everything into a single coordinated platform could change all that.

But no need to look around for an IT expert...the best expert is you. The information you routinely enter into forms and reports contains everything needed for a fully-linked management application.

Sumer allows anyone to build a complete business management system using only skills familiar from basic spreadsheets.

No software vendors, no salespeople, no modules, no cost to add new users.

Seeing the obvious

Sometimes we get so intimidated by authority and flashy displays that we forget our own common sense.

Business patterns like

have been routine for thousands of years...before the invention of computers. Any business manager can express this in paper-based or computer-based spreadsheets.

So seriously, with all our advances in technology including now AI, we cannot convert these basic patterns into a coordinated management platform?

Of course we can. Big Tech could have delivered something like Sumer 20 years ago. Any competent business programmer could think of half a dozen ways to do it.

But then small and midsized businesses would not need to spend billions of dollars on subscriptions, modules, and user fees for more complex solutions.

Sumer is a better alternative to a modular system

From social media to business management programs, high-tech solutions are designed to

1. push subscription or advertising revenue, and
2. keep your hands off the controls.

The technology behind business data, however, is extraordinarily low tech. In fact that is why this is called 'Sumer', because the Sumerians were doing it 6000 years ago.

The problem with a low-tech solution in a high-tech market is that it violates the two principles listed above

1. it decreases subscription and advertising revenue, and
2. it allows you to control your own data.

If you don't have an issue with these high-tech drawbacks, you should look at Sumer.

Why buy modules if templates are free?

Forms and reports are the basic documents used by all businesses.

Module-based software vendors split your data into tiny pieces so they can repackage your forms and reports and sell them back to you separately. That is a marketing, not a technical, decision.

Sumer has a library of templates that can generate limitless forms and reports. This simple Price List demonstrates how templates work.

The template behind the Price List is almost self-explanatory.

• Column names across the top, parameters down the left side. You probably recognize most of them.
• Add new columns—anything you want—with the 'AddColumn' button.
• Set DataType, Width, Alignment and so on. You can even add Filters and Formulas.

Now that you have created this price list it can later be recalled and used automatically in sales entry forms and reports.

Other forms for purchasing, production, sales, scheduling, and more have additional parameters, but all work the same way.