Business Intelligence & Automated Reporting San Antonio | AEH Solutions
New Service from AEH Solutions

Your Business Already
Has the Data.
Start Using It.

QuickBooks, your ERP, your CRM — they're all generating data you're not reading. Most San Antonio businesses are making decisions based on gut feel and last month's spreadsheet. AEH connects to your existing systems and builds automated dashboards and reports that put real, up-to-date intelligence in front of you — every day, without anyone pulling a report manually.

The Problem We Solve

Most Businesses Are
Flying Blind

Your software knows everything about your business. The gap isn't data — it's the time, skill, and tools to turn that data into something you can act on. That's exactly what we close.

❌ Without Business Intelligence

  • Decisions made on last month's spreadsheet — or gut feel
  • Nobody knows cash flow status until accounting runs a report
  • Slow-paying customers go unnoticed until it becomes a crisis
  • No visibility into which services or products are actually profitable
  • Hours lost every week manually pulling and formatting reports
  • Seasonal trends and patterns invisible until it's too late to act
  • Growth opportunities missed because the data wasn't surfaced

✅ With AEH Business Intelligence

  • Key metrics updated automatically — always current, always available
  • Cash flow, receivables, and payables visible at a glance
  • Overdue invoices flagged automatically before they become problems
  • Margin by product, service, and customer — always visible
  • Reports delivered to your inbox on your schedule — zero manual work
  • Trends and patterns surface automatically with data going back years
  • Decisions made faster, with confidence, backed by real numbers
Use Cases

What It Looks Like
For Your Business

Business intelligence isn't one-size-fits-all. We build around what matters to your specific operation — here are examples of what we've built for businesses like yours.

Distribution & Wholesale
🚛

Inventory & Margin Intelligence

Know exactly which SKUs are profitable, which are sitting, and what your true landed cost is — pulled automatically from your ERP or inventory system.

Gross margin by product line, updated daily
Slow-moving inventory flagged automatically
Supplier cost trends over time
Customer order frequency and lifetime value
Service Businesses
🔧

Revenue & Job Profitability

See which jobs, clients, and service types are actually making you money — and which are eating your margin without you realizing it.

Revenue per technician or crew
Job profitability by type and location
Recurring vs. one-time revenue breakdown
Overdue AR automatically surfaced weekly
Healthcare & Medical
🏥

Practice Performance Reporting

Operational metrics for medical offices — billing efficiency, appointment volume, collections rate, and provider productivity — automated and delivered weekly.

Collections rate by payer and provider
Appointment volume trends over time
Outstanding claims aging report
Weekly executive summary delivered automatically
Construction & Trades
🏗️

Project & Cost Tracking

Know where every active job stands — budget vs. actual, labor hours, materials cost — without waiting for accounting to run a report.

Budget vs. actual cost per job, live
Labor hours by crew and project
Materials spend vs. estimates
Projected completion and margin by job
Any Business Using QuickBooks
📊

Financial Intelligence Dashboard

QuickBooks contains everything about your financial health — but its built-in reports are static and manual. We connect directly and surface what matters automatically.

P&L trends month-over-month and YoY
Cash position and 30/60/90 day projection
Top customers by revenue and margin
Expense categories trending up or down
Multi-Location Operations
🏪

Cross-Location Performance

If you operate in more than one location, consolidated reporting across all of them — in one dashboard, updated automatically — changes how you manage the business.

Revenue and margin by location, side by side
Staffing efficiency across locations
Inventory levels consolidated in one view
Weekly location comparison report to ownership
The Process

From Your Data to
Your Dashboard

No ripping and replacing your existing software. No months-long implementation. We connect to what you already use and build on top of it.

1

Discovery Conversation

We start by understanding what decisions you're making, what questions you can't currently answer, and what software your business is already running. No technical knowledge required on your end.

2

Data Source Audit

We inventory your existing systems — QuickBooks, your ERP, CRM, inventory platform, or any database — and identify what data is available, how clean it is, and what's possible to connect.

3

Dashboard & Report Design

We build your dashboards and automated reports around the specific metrics that matter to your business — not generic templates. You review a prototype before anything goes live.

4

Deployment & Delivery Setup

Dashboards go live on a secure, accessible link. Automated reports get scheduled — daily, weekly, or monthly — delivered straight to your inbox with no manual intervention.

5

Ongoing Maintenance & Expansion

As your business evolves, your reports evolve too. We maintain the connections, handle any data schema changes from software updates, and add new metrics or reports as you need them.

Systems We Connect To

📒
QuickBooks Online & Desktop
Financial data, invoicing, P&L
Ready
🗄️
SQL Server / MySQL / PostgreSQL
Any ERP or legacy database
Ready
📦
Inventory & WMS Systems
Stock levels, orders, fulfillment
Ready
👥
CRM Platforms
Pipeline, customers, sales activity
Ready
🏥
Medisoft & Medical Billing
Practice metrics, collections, claims
Ready
📊
Excel & CSV Sources
Any flat-file data source
Ready
🔌
Your Custom Software
If it has a database, we can connect
Scoped
What You Receive

Your Intelligence.
Delivered Your Way.

Every engagement is custom-scoped, but these are the core deliverables most clients end up with.

📊

Live Dashboard

A secure, browser-based dashboard showing your key metrics in real time. Accessible from any device — desktop, tablet, or phone — with no login complexity.

📧

Automated Email Reports

Scheduled reports delivered directly to your inbox — daily morning summaries, weekly performance reviews, or monthly executive snapshots. Formatted, readable, and ready to share.

🚨

Threshold Alerts

Automatic notifications when a metric crosses a threshold you set — cash balance drops below a floor, an invoice ages past 30 days, inventory drops below reorder point. You get alerted before it becomes a problem.

📁

Historical Analysis

We pull historical data — going back as far as your system holds — so your dashboards show trends over months and years, not just today's snapshot.

🔄

Ongoing Maintenance

We maintain the data connections, handle changes when your software updates, and keep your reports running reliably month after month without you thinking about it.

📈

Quarterly Reviews

Every quarter we review what you're tracking, identify new questions your data can answer, and expand or refine your reporting as your business evolves.

Common Questions

Business Intelligence —
Straight Answers

Do we need to switch software or buy a new platform?+
No — that's the whole point. We connect to what you already use. QuickBooks, your ERP, your CRM, your database — we work with what's there. You don't change a single thing about how your team works today. The intelligence layer sits on top of your existing systems and reads from them automatically.
Our data is a mess. Does that matter?+
It matters, but it's rarely a dealbreaker. We start every engagement with a data audit specifically to assess quality. Some cleanup is usually needed — duplicate records, inconsistent categorization, gaps in historical data — and we factor that work into the project scope. We'll tell you upfront what's possible and what the limitations are based on what we find. Clean data produces better reports, and we'll often identify data hygiene improvements as part of the engagement.
How long does it take to get up and running?+
For a straightforward single-source engagement — say, a QuickBooks financial dashboard — typically two to four weeks from discovery to live dashboard. More complex multi-source builds with custom database connections take longer depending on scope. We give you a specific timeline during the proposal stage after the discovery conversation.
Is my business data secure?+
Security is built into how we work. Data connections are read-only — we never write to your source systems. Dashboards are delivered over encrypted connections and access is controlled. For businesses with heightened data sensitivity — healthcare, legal, financial services — we discuss specific security requirements during scoping and structure the solution accordingly. Your data never leaves your environment without your knowledge and consent.
What if we want to add more reports later?+
That's exactly how most engagements evolve. We start with the highest-priority metrics, get those working reliably, and expand from there. Adding new reports or data sources is scoped and quoted separately. Our quarterly reviews are specifically designed to identify where expanding your reporting would create the most value as your business grows.
Often Paired With

Most clients who invest in business intelligence also want the infrastructure underneath it running reliably. Here's what we typically pair this with.

Get Started

What Would You Do If You
Could See Everything?

Start with a conversation. Tell us what software you're running, what questions you can't currently answer, and what decisions you're making blind. We'll tell you exactly what's possible and what it would take.

Questions first? Call us:  (210) 721-5080
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