The Math
Ten minutes of re-keying per person per day, across a team of twenty, is over 800 hours a year. At any reasonable loaded cost that is a full-time salary spent copying numbers between tools.
The Errors You Do Not See
Manual entry does not just cost time. Every re-key is a chance for a typo that lands in a report, an invoice or a forecast.
What Replaces It
A direct integration between the systems that hold the data. The build usually pays for itself within a quarter.
