Here are several small projects that usually prove immediately beneficial to small businesses:
- A program to generate reports based on information scraped from websites or mined from databases
- Automatic email responders
- Email systems that use databases to create and send personal emails
- Opt-in mailing lists
- Website performance metrics
- "Dashboard" applications for allowing management to see a big-picture view of the organization's Key Performance Indicators
- KPI Reports
- Email reformatting, to make maximum use of small portable devices such as Blackberry
- Database optimization - if your current database is slow or limited, this will increase productivity.
