I am very impressed with the idea of managing business information in order to help make business decisions. I have found a lot of Enterprise Resource Planning software suites that can go a long way to managing just about every facet of information in a business from sales to inventory to manufacturing.

The problem is that these fail to capture the information resource needs of small businesses. Small businesses need solutions that are easy to implement without an IT department and give the flexibility and access to information that makes them successful.

I think it could be a profitable business to help businesses implement these kind of systems on a web based system and then handle all of the hosting for them. It is now something I am exploring for some local businesses.