There are quite a number of data reconciliation products on the market. Some aim to be major components of global businesses and have very high price tags prices that can’t even be mentioned. Others are more modest, focusing on the ubiquitous “bank reconciliation” process carried out by most organisations. I believe there’s room for another, so today I’m announcing … (drum roll) … ReconSilo.
ReconSilo will join Isolist as my second reconciliation application. It’s an entirely new and substantially bigger tool, providing many of the full reconciliation process features that just don’t fit inside of Isolist. Features such as carrying forward unmatched records, manual editing of matches, capacity to handle hundreds of thousands of records and full activity logging are all new and put ReconSilo into a different class.
Creating a new application from scratch meant I could build something that I’m passionate about: software that’s a joy to use. Too many applications, especially in the business world, look and feel just as they did way back in the the early 90s. To use them you must scrute the inscrutable icons on the tool-bar, or else wade through endless menus and dialog boxes to accomplish every single task. And they force users to convert their mental understanding of the task they need to perform into the different representation of that task as implemented by the software. Working this way is just not pleasant.
Software that works well, with a high quality, easy-to-use interface, is inevitably more costly to create but will pay off with much stronger user acceptance. Not only do I want to create software that I want to use, but I want lots of you to want to use it too.
Of course, regardless of how it looks and feels, an application must be capable of doing the job required. So the guiding principles in ReconSilo’s development are:
- Be flexible and powerful enough to complete all of your reconciliations
- Be as simple and engaging to use as possible with a rich, visual display
The pre-release version of ReconSilo 1.0 is now available and the final release is only weeks away. You can try it out for free. If you do, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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