sumer introduces a simple, inexpensive, open source business management and accounting solution
No IT experience required...
because your current spreadsheets have everything you need.
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.
Keeping it simple
Sumer is designed to be:
- free of jargon,
- free to download,
- free to add users,
- simple to use,
- offering open-source templates,
- requiring no knowledge of IT,
- with data in the cloud based only on data storage fees,
- and with a platform encouraging peer-to-peer sharing in the medium and small enterprise and organization communities.
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.
The problem is getting it from your head into your computer. Sumer can do that.
Sumer 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, you don't need to know. Anyway, we can explain it in 30 seconds.
⇨ a database is simply knowing how every piece of data including sales, inventory, salaries, and more is interrelated.
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.
Here is the surprise: you already have a relational database. It is virtual and intuitive and it's in your head.
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.
Considering that most business managers already know their data management systems, it seems ridiculous that programmers write business apps by duplicating the information already obvious to business managers. It is inefficient and expensive to pay programmers to replicate already existing information.
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. Big Tech could have delivered it 20 years ago.
But they didn't. They have a cartel. A program like Sumer could have meant goodbye to billions of dollars, private islands, 300 million dollar yachts...