Effective, Innovative Small Business Technology Solutions
By: Tim McClung
Life Sciences and Technology Section
Acordia of West Virginia
Tim_McClung@acordia.com
Provided is an overview for small businesses that will help serve as a guide for effective and
innovative use of technology in the workplace. This overview follows the Business Technology
Checklist that has been developed by technology professionals as part of the West Virginia Small
Business Technology Education & Competitiveness Initiative. That checklist can be found at:
http://www.wvconnectivity.net/go/WVSBT%20PDF/Business%20Tech%20Checklist.pdf
These applications and technologies are offered as suggested ones that a small business may want
to consider. Please use the services of a technology professional or service firm to help analyze
and develop appropriate recommendations for your business. A database of technology companies
and service firms in West Virginia can be found by searching this on-line listing:
http://wvconnectivity.poclink.com/Index.asp
Additional background on small business technologies can be found at:
http://www.wvconnectivity.net/Business_Connectivity/Technology__Your_Business.htm
Effective, Innovative Small Business Technology Solutions
1. Productivity Enhancement Applications/Accounting Package
If you are one of the millions of small businesses that are NOT using accounting software to manage
your business check out w/Ease or Intuit's Quickbooks Simple Start. Lounge Pants Software www.w-
ease.com , based in Wichita, Kansas brings us w/Ease Small Business Software, which is made for small
businesses with five or less employees. At $89, w/Ease Software helps with Estimating, Job Tracking,
Customer Information, Labor, Inventory, Invoicing, Accounts Receivable, Tax Reporting.
As founder and president of, Lounge Pants Software, makers of w/Ease, John Dettenwanger, watched
the small business owners he hired scribble notes on legal pads, gum wrappers and the backs of their
hands then h