Portfolio: Software

Understanding Business Process

Paul Yost has been described by his clients as "the only consultant who actually gets it".

Paul has a knack, and a love for digging in and kindly interrogating his clients on how they operate. It takes years of experience to know the pitfalls of automation - and which right questions to ask. One weird case-scenario can throw off the entire design.


The system detailed above took the 2-Week End-Of-Month Process for an Actuarial down to one single lunch-break. A mountain of data could be imported flexibly, from almost any data source. The numbers are crunched and compressed into an Excel Pivot Table Spreadsheet. Finally, summary reports are printed.

Understanding Business Procedure • Table Relationships • User Interface • Coding