Data Apps
Data-Driven apps streamline business operations.
Overview
Data apps are an incredible tool in the modern business tech stack. These apps help your entire company run more productively. I have built many data apps which also may be called ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) apps or information systems. Since they are typically delivered through a web browser they are accessible via any device without end user installation or updates needed. Many companies also offer their own data app using the SaaS (Software As A Service) subscription model.
Integration & Automation
Data integration and automation are part of the hidden secret of data apps that goes on behind the scenes.
Quite often in an enterprise setting many apps will consume the same data from a common data store. I've done this using MDM (Master Data Management) combined with the hub-and-spoke integration model, where the central data repository is the hub and each individual apps is a spoke.
On the automation side, data from an app may by quite valuable in other areas. Automated Data Pipelines may process data and write it to other systems or generate reports for leadership. When it is custom data engineering you are only limited by your imagination.
Examples
Here are a few examples of my favorite types of apps to build and use.
CRM
Tracking how your team interacts with the customers to streamlines the sales process.
Document Management
Digital document directories with OCR and text analytics to provide full-text searching.
Asset Management
Knowing what items you have, how many of them you have and where you have them at any given time.
Inventory Management
Provides search, filtering and sorting options for users to easily find what they are looking for.
Work Order
The request, assignment and fulfillment of work orders from facility maintenance to IT requests.
Messaging
Apps that offer two-way communication with customers and enhance their experience.