New business opportunities may require a business owner to have access to the company's inventory. With today's smart phones and tablets, coupled with WiFi or cellular service, this type of access is becoming more mainstream. As long as the business owner has the right inventory management application, and connectivity to the internet, the information is only a few clicks away. There is no need to be tied to the office to access the important inventory data, any longer. Cloud applications make this possible. Stockpile, our online inventory management system, is a prime example of cloud computing is changing small business.
A cloud application is installed at a central, secured host that is connected to the internet. The data that supports the application is either stored on that host or on one nor more hosts, that the application has access to. The cloud application can be accessed via a web browser, that is installed on a smart phone, a tablet, or a laptop PC. As long as the user has access to the internet, they have access to the cloud application.
The use of spreadsheets and word processing documents to track inventory in a small business may be acceptable, but what happens when two people need access to the data at the same time? Multiple copies of the inventory list become common place, which are difficult to keep synced with the master list. Stockpile is the free online inventory management system that allows multiple parties to access and update the inventory list concurrently. This keeps the list accurate and accessible to everyone in the small business.
