Connections to the systems that hold your data
Sales, jobs, stock and accounts are read from the tools you already run; nothing is re-entered by hand.
PLATE P.04 — REPORTING PLATFORM
Data platforms and reporting systems, built in Adelaide
A data platform is one place where the numbers from the systems you already run — sales, jobs, stock, accounts — are collected, reconciled and reported, so every report is drawn from the same figures. Ozwebnet builds data platforms and reporting systems from scratch in Adelaide, South Australia, for businesses across Australia. You receive the source code with the IP assigned to you, under one fixed quote staged against milestones.
GENERAL NOTES
02 / 08
What is a data platform, in plain terms?
A system that takes the figures out of the tools you already use, keeps one reconciled copy, and produces the reports and dashboards your decisions actually need. It replaces the Friday spreadsheet that three people build by hand and nobody quite trusts. The reports are written for your questions, not a vendor's defaults.
SECTION A–A
03 / 08
Who needs a data platform rather than another spreadsheet?
- BUILT FOR
- Businesses whose sales, job and accounting numbers disagree; owners who wait a week for a report; teams exporting CSVs to answer one question.
- REPLACES
- Nine spreadsheets, nightly exports, reports built by hand.
- NOT FOR
- A single system that already reports what you need — we will say so.
SCHEDULE OF WORKS
04 / 08
What is included in a data platform build?
One reconciled store of the figures
Every figure is kept once, in one place, so each report is drawn from the same copy.
The rules that make the numbers agree
How a sale in one system matches a job in another and an invoice in a third — written down once and applied the same way every time.
Reports and dashboards written for your decisions
What sold, what is owed, what is on hand — answered as screens you open and reports you can print.
Scheduled delivery of the reports people wait for
The report someone builds by hand each week is produced by the system and sent to the people who read it, on the schedule you set.
Handover of the source code with the IP assigned to you
The system is yours: the code, the rights, and a working build at every milestone along the way.
TYPICAL SCOPE FOR THIS KIND OF SYSTEM — YOUR EXACT SCOPE IS FIXED IN WRITING AT THE SPECIFICATION STAGE.
STAGES
05 / 08
How is a data platform built and priced?
One fixed quote, set in writing at the specification stage (02 Blueprint) and staged against the five milestones below. Each milestone ends with a working system; stop at any milestone and keep what has been built.
SEE THE FIVE STAGES ANIMATED →- 01 SURVEY
Discovery
We learn which systems hold your figures and which questions the reports must answer.
- 02 BLUEPRINT
Specification
The sources, the matching rules and every report are specified in writing; the fixed quote is set here.
- 03 FORGE
Build
Built source by source; each milestone ends with reports you can read.
- 04 TEMPER
Testing
Figures checked against the systems they came from, and tested before launch.
- 05 DEPLOY
Launch
The platform goes live, and you receive the source code with the IP assigned to you.
DETAIL 1 — SCHEMA SKETCH
06 / 08
How a data platform fits together
One sale becomes three records: a till receipt, a job on the board, an invoice in accounts. The platform reads all three from the systems that hold them, matches them by the rules you set — invoice number, customer, date — and keeps the matched record once. The owner's, operations' and finance's reports are then drawn from that one record.
- SOURCES
- The systems that already hold your figures — sales, jobs, stock, accounts. The platform reads from them; nothing is re-entered.
- ONE STORE
- One reconciled copy of every figure, with the rules that make the numbers agree written into it. Every report reads from here.
- REPORTS
- Screens and printed reports written for the questions each reader asks — the owner, operations, finance — all drawn from the same copy.
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
07 / 08
Questions before you brief us
RFI-01Can reports run on the data we already have?
Yes — the platform connects to the systems you run today; nothing has to be re-entered.
RFI-02What is a single source of truth?
One reconciled copy of your figures that every report reads from, so two reports never disagree.
RFI-03How much does a data platform cost?
One fixed quote, set in writing before the build and staged against milestones.
RFI-04Do we own the platform?
Yes — source code delivered, IP assigned to you.
RFI-05Do you build for businesses outside Adelaide?
Yes. Adelaide first, Australia-wide, remote-capable.
ISSUE
08 / 08
Start a brief for a data platform.
One email is the whole front door. Tell us what you run or sell, what breaks today, and when you need it working. By appointment only.