Building a single coordinated platform for your business does not need to be difficult or expensive. That's just marketing.

You are the best IT expert for your business, and you don't need to know IT. You routinely enter into forms and reports all information necessary 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.

Ignoring the obvious

Why do small and midsized businesses spend billions of dollars on subscriptions, modules, and user fees when there could be so much simpler solutions?

Probably because it is easy to 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. 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 create the tool to 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. The technology is not too far beyond that needed for Excel, and that came out 35 years ago.

But then without all those billions of dollars in software sales, a lot of people would not today be enjoying their private islands and 300 million dollar yachts.

So supposing someone, like Sumer, decided to solve the basic problem, what would that look like?

The Big Tech promise... 'never do simple again'

When Microsoft realized they had made a terrible mistake with Excel and Word by making them so complete that no one needed yearly upgrades, they rescued their cash flow by converting to Office 365's subscription service. The modern Big Tech strategy was born, and no one would ever do simple again.

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

1. push subscription and advertising revenue, and
2. keep customers' 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?

Modules are a marketing, not a technical, invention. 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.

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