For J.R. Dunn Jewelers, we have self running desktop applications that pull inventory from their server, maps the skus against the skus on their website, and updates the website product inventory every 6 hours.
Although QuickBooks has extensive reporting capabilities, Miko Mechanical was in need of some custom work to combine estimates and actual work performed in order to get daily snap shots of how each job was doing. The result is our custom app is the daily creation of Excel Spreadsheets complete with formulas so that Miko Mechanical can easily make necessary adjustments.
Attorneys can not solicit business from a prospective client if they know that prospective client has already hired an attorney. We wrote a automatic lead generation program for a law firm that scrapes web pages from government county clerk sites that contain foreclosure information looking for prospective clients.