sumer introduces a simple, inexpensive, open source business management and accounting solution

As a manager, you are already an expert at how to run your business. You routinely set up paper-based or spreadsheet-based forms and reports. You only need an easier way to harness your knowledge.

Sumer allows anyone to build a complete management and accounting application using only skills familiar from basic spreadsheets.

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

Who needs Sumer?

Sumer is designed for most Small and Medium Enterprises and Organizations (SMEOs) that need to keep up with the ever increasing pace of business.

SMEOs have special needs:

• no specialized IT staff or outsized IT expenses,
• flexibility to meet changing demands without seeking out entirely new software or expensive modules,
• an intuitive software interface so managers can devote time to business rather than mastering complex technology.

The result is a program that is as simple and inexpensive to use as any collection of spreadsheets while providing advanced business management integration that comes only with a relational database.

Don’t know what a relational database is? Don’t worry, we can explain it in 30 seconds.

Surprise yourself

Whatever you are using now—from refrigerator magnets to computer apps—you have a system. It's probably a good one because you have a going concern. But how can you stay competitive?

Cobbling together tools from spreadsheets, maybe adding some scheduling or bookkeeping or point-of-sale software, is inefficient and wastes valuable employee time. Purchasing more advanced software from vendors is often hopelessly expensive as they tie you into an endless cycles of subscriptions, modules, and user fees.

The solution involves a relational database. Most managers don't know—and don't need to know—what a relational database is. Not a problem. But a relational database is what lies behind all those business and scheduling and accounting programs.

Now here is a surprise: you already have a relational database. It is virtual and intuitive and it's in your head.

Sell something to a customer. Remove the item from your inventory list. Post the money received to the sales journal. Here is some genius doing this in Sumer 6000 years ago where they invented business.

⇨   a database is simply knowing how every piece of data including sales, inventory, salaries, and more is interrelated.

Now, how do you get a computer to do this?

You can buy expensive programs, or you can hire expensive programmers. Either way, they will look at your current systems to figure out how to design a program to do EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE ALREADY DOING.

Fact is, you clearly know more about your business than the salespeople trying to sell you their solutions.

Take it one step further: it is surprisingly simple to develop a program that can build computer-based relational database management systems using spreadsheet-style inputs entirely under the control of managers with no IT experience. Big Tech could have delivered it 20 years ago.

But they didn't because they enjoy a cartel. A program like Sumer could have meant goodbye to billions of dollars, private islands, 300 million dollar yachts...