Developing Windows Accounting Applications

 For the

 Green Industry

 By Brian L. Dontje,

President, UDS Green Industry Software, Inc. 

Copyright 1998

All rights reserved

Introduction

The world of computers and the green industry are vastly different business types. Your company will decide to buy a new accounting system once every ten years or more. How do you determine what software to buy when computer technology changes every 18 months or faster? It is an impossible decision to make without understanding where the future of computer systems is going.

As a software manufacturer with software designed for the green industry we are especially sensitive to the lack of knowledge available to you about what is good systems development. We believe that if you are well informed it will make your decision easier and our software more attractive.

We are extremely thankful about our customer base of Nursery, Greenhouse and Landscape companies that have supported us during this development process. Without their financial support and encouragement the project would not have been possible. It has taken many years and a bunch of dollars to get it accomplished in the right way.

Those companies that have supported us for these many years will receive a world class accounting system that will revolutionize the way they do business. Our goal is to make our customer’s so efficient and knowledgeable about their business  that it will hurt their competitors.

This project summary should provide you with enough information about ActiveApplications  development to calm your fears about the next ten years. 

The Operating System Of the Future

Microsoft Windows will be the future of the desktop and server operating system until the time Microsoft becomes complacent. An advisor that tells you any different is doing your company a huge disservice.

There are certainly criticisms that can be made of Microsoft but only one company has had the vision to command the complete attention of the computer industry. Other companies had better funding. Some were much larger and actually better situated but made only feeble attempts to challenge Microsoft. Some have actually had better products and had them sooner than Microsoft but none were willing to continue the investment necessary to refine their operating system. Others were better but had no vision or did not know how to sell their products.

In the same way but on a much smaller scale UDS has survived the years of wars with our competitors. We continually learn more about your business and have incorporated that knowledge into our software. We like to think our efforts to push the ball forward have made the entire industry a better servant to you and your needs as a progressive green industry business.

As the future of the computer industry unfolds whether Windows or another operating system. UDS Green Industry Software, Inc. will be there with products of the right design and implementation.

UDS Windows Project 

This white paper explains the UDS Windows system from an executive perspective. It summarizes the reasons the UDS Windows System is what it is. Many of the discoveries outlined here are the direct result of the philosophy of UDS to look forward while learning form the past.

The people behind UDS take our responsibility of providing high tech Green Industry Software very seriously. For you to be competitive into the future, your software must look into the future. The results are forged from a combination of conscious choices and forced adaptation to hardware and software limits beyond our control.

UDS Green Industry Software, Inc. is a computer programming company that specializes in accounting applications written for Nursery, Greenhouse and Landscape Companies. Our many years of experience have taught us what is important to this industry and why. Applying that knowledge to the computer programs of the future is what makes UDS Windows applications your key weapon in the mission critical applications of today and tomorrow.

Management people in the industry we serve realize that choosing an accounting system will change every aspect of their business. They know that selecting computer software suited to their business will enable their company’s progress for years. Selecting software from a company that has been around a long time and has stable management is not wise if the software does not fit the business and cannot be adapted to future changes in the industry. Conversely new, dynamic and creative software is no good if the software company providing it has poor management or a lack of experience.

In 1980 when the predecessor to UDS Green Industry Software, Inc. was founded it was a vastly different world of computers than it is today. Today’s common technology was not invented yet and the idea of affordable and powerful computers was just being born. One of the most important things learned over these years is that software written for the computers of today is outdated before it is released.