Make more money for your growing SME business from your beach house

Cerebiz Pty Ltd, Adelaide, South Australia
28 August 2009

Cerebiz today announced that it has a trial programme under way with a number of SME businesses and their Accountants using the Cerebiz Business Intelligence (BI) solution to provide business owners, managers, and their internal and external accountants with Internet based ‘anywhere, anytime’ access to their key business data.

‘Using a browser such as Internet Explorer over a secure network connection, easy to read and interpret business information on cash flow and profitability is now instantly available to business owners and managers’, said Peter Vroom, Corporate Development Director for Cerebiz.

‘Customer cash collection status and profitability as well as product or service sales and profitability information provided by the Cerebiz Internet service is always up to date as it’s automatically extracted from the business accounting system located in the customer office’, he continued. ‘Spreadsheets and back of the envelope calculations can be done away with’.

‘The SME business manager, owner or accountant can now access business critical cash and profit data in the office, at home, while travelling, or at the beach house. Cerebiz can also send Alerts by email or SMS when, for example, a customer order arrives (or does not) or a payment is not made. It’s truly a tool for the times!’

‘In the same way, the internal or external accountant can view the profit and loss and key performance indicators that can be set up. Exceptions, variances, and trends can be seen in graph form. Figures that appear out of line can be ‘drilled down’ into interactively to get to the cause. Corrections can also be made via the Internet as Cerebiz provides a two-way link to the accounting system in the office’, stated Vroom. ‘Cerebiz data can be viewed online or emailed, and static reports and spreadsheets which are often out of date by the time they get to people can be a thing of the past.’

‘The Cerebiz service is available for MYOB accounting systems now and will be made available for QuickBooks and others to follow. The service is offered on a subscription basis with no set up and equipment costs other than a broadband connection being involved.’

‘Cerebiz is aimed at SME business and the key to use and acceptance is relevance, immediate value and payback, as well as absolute ease of use,’ said Vroom. ‘We don’t envisage the need for training for anyone familiar with a browser, but we will have short video clips on the information that is available through Cerebiz and how that can be used to for making decisions to improve SME business.’

‘We strongly believe in better data makes for better decision making and therefore doing better business’, he concluded.

About Cerebiz

Cerebiz has developed a Business Intelligence (BI) ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) offering designed for use by SME business owners, managers, and internal and external accountants. It’s a subscription-based service with fee levels designed to provide immediate payback.

The purpose of Cerebiz is to facilitate better data for decision-making leading to business improvement (BI) for the SME business. Cerebiz also streamlines and provides Accountants with new and better ways to service SME clients.

Cerebiz is available in two formats: Cerebiz for Business Managers, and Cerebiz for Accountants. It has automated links to MYOB now and soon also to other SME accounting systems.

More at www.cerebiz.com, or contact peter.vroom@cerebiz.com