Finding Ways to Use Big Data to Help Small Shops – NYTimes.com.
Brian Janezic, 27, was in the equipment room of one of the two Auto Wash Expressself-service locations he owns in Tucson, going through his cleaning supplies and vending machine items to determine what to reorder, when it hit him. “We have machines that automatically size and wash a car, mix chemicals, activate pumps, turn on lights — and here I am still counting inventory by hand.”
An online search introduced him toFileMaker Pro, a software product well suited to small businesses and tailored to the iPads that Mr. Janezic envisioned for himself and his three remote employees…