QuickBooks Consulting and Information Management |
| Yahoo Pipes Mashup Products To Aid Your Business Operations and Decision Making |
| Richard Torian CPA, CMA, CFM, MBA Advanced Certified QuickBooks/POS Pro-Advisor |
Yahoo Pipes is a mashup application that is free to use for creating accessible online maps and
other mashups that might be useful to companies using QuickBooks.
Here are a few examples of how Yahoo Pipes might be useful to QuickBooks users:
1. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=7c113c0551ae12a7434ea627b15ccc64
This Pipe shows the location of customers on a map along with contact, open invoice, open
sales order, open purchase order, account balance, and credit limit information. Sales
representatives and others in the field can access this map and information on the Internet
using their iPhone or similar mobile devices.
2. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=64142b65fefe8f938e7eb595e435d71c
This Pipe attempts to show where sales are concentrated geographically. A list provides details
giving the items, quantities, and dollar amounts sold at the location. A single marker may
indicate many sales, so the list needs to be referred to get sales volumes.
3. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=3084f2a90fb1a4d4a2d9c017a513ca0f
This Pipe shows the locations of construction jobs. Showing these locations on a map might be
useful in various ways. Mapping the jobs could help in giving directions and evaluating where
jobs are in demand. Maps could also be created for showing employee residences and fixed
asset locations. Mapping employee residences might help some companies who depend on
employees for certain activities where distances to those activities might be a factor to
consider. If a company has several locations (stores, warehouses, storage facilities, and/or
other sites), a map that shows where fixed assets are might be useful.
4. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ePQgB_173BG8ICRxn0artA
This Pipe allows the user to find recent questions and answers on the Intuit QuickBooks Users
Forum. Results are generally very relevant to the search term because of Yahoo Pipes
capability to filter the source feed. Filtering can be built into the Pipe in a way not possible in
ordinary search processes.
5. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ddeef65494cd0682fe721cdc24815182
This Pipe pulls in several feeds that identify podcasts and filters those feeds for podcasts only
about QuickBooks. Yahoo Pipes has the capability to pull (fetch) dozens of RSS feeds and API
output from database sources simultaneously. Then the Pipe can filter these feeds and output
in a way not possible by ordinary search engines. Podcasts are excellent learning tools.
6. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=dd43b6d099bc0edfa4acb3d88485f8c3
This Pipe searches the Internet, using the Yahoo search engine, for QuickBooks add-ons and
then filters the search results in a way that delivers excellent results. This Pipe might be useful
to a company seeking to add an enhanced capability to QuickBooks. The Pipe should expedite
the search for potential add-on enhancements.
The Yahoo Pipes linked to and described in 1 to 3 above are produced by using QuickBooks
generated reports from a company file.
The following Yahoo Pipes are more general-use mashup applications that might be useful to
support company operations:
1. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=6d259b16d8bbf35102889ded355b5323 This
Pipe identifies companies within a 20-mile radius based on a zip code and a name and/or
description a user inserts. The companies need to be in the Yahoo Local database searched by
the Pipe and the inserted term needs to be in the company’s title or description.
2. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=540f3a222c7337b4a9fa3d33af103030
This Pipe finds prices for products being offered for sale on eBay. A product description and
price range is entered by the user. The Pipe could be useful to a company seeking price
comparisons for products purchased and sold by the company.
3. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5c04815201cda081f31d15dbc46af46b
This Pipe finds videos that have in their name and/or description the term the user enters. This
Pipe could be useful to a company developing and/or selling a similar product or purchasing
the product.
4. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5dc6b6727c26c0b14d4f73059d62efc0
This Pipe finds the price for a company product as listed in both the Yahoo Shopping and eBay
databases. This Pipe could be useful to a company seeking price comparisons for products
purchased and sold by the company.
If you are interested in exploring with me whether data maps and other Yahoo Pipes products
might aid your business operations and decision making, please contact me. Click the Contact
Button on my home page for contact information.
other mashups that might be useful to companies using QuickBooks.
Here are a few examples of how Yahoo Pipes might be useful to QuickBooks users:
1. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=7c113c0551ae12a7434ea627b15ccc64
This Pipe shows the location of customers on a map along with contact, open invoice, open
sales order, open purchase order, account balance, and credit limit information. Sales
representatives and others in the field can access this map and information on the Internet
using their iPhone or similar mobile devices.
2. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=64142b65fefe8f938e7eb595e435d71c
This Pipe attempts to show where sales are concentrated geographically. A list provides details
giving the items, quantities, and dollar amounts sold at the location. A single marker may
indicate many sales, so the list needs to be referred to get sales volumes.
3. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=3084f2a90fb1a4d4a2d9c017a513ca0f
This Pipe shows the locations of construction jobs. Showing these locations on a map might be
useful in various ways. Mapping the jobs could help in giving directions and evaluating where
jobs are in demand. Maps could also be created for showing employee residences and fixed
asset locations. Mapping employee residences might help some companies who depend on
employees for certain activities where distances to those activities might be a factor to
consider. If a company has several locations (stores, warehouses, storage facilities, and/or
other sites), a map that shows where fixed assets are might be useful.
4. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ePQgB_173BG8ICRxn0artA
This Pipe allows the user to find recent questions and answers on the Intuit QuickBooks Users
Forum. Results are generally very relevant to the search term because of Yahoo Pipes
capability to filter the source feed. Filtering can be built into the Pipe in a way not possible in
ordinary search processes.
5. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ddeef65494cd0682fe721cdc24815182
This Pipe pulls in several feeds that identify podcasts and filters those feeds for podcasts only
about QuickBooks. Yahoo Pipes has the capability to pull (fetch) dozens of RSS feeds and API
output from database sources simultaneously. Then the Pipe can filter these feeds and output
in a way not possible by ordinary search engines. Podcasts are excellent learning tools.
6. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=dd43b6d099bc0edfa4acb3d88485f8c3
This Pipe searches the Internet, using the Yahoo search engine, for QuickBooks add-ons and
then filters the search results in a way that delivers excellent results. This Pipe might be useful
to a company seeking to add an enhanced capability to QuickBooks. The Pipe should expedite
the search for potential add-on enhancements.
The Yahoo Pipes linked to and described in 1 to 3 above are produced by using QuickBooks
generated reports from a company file.
The following Yahoo Pipes are more general-use mashup applications that might be useful to
support company operations:
1. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=6d259b16d8bbf35102889ded355b5323 This
Pipe identifies companies within a 20-mile radius based on a zip code and a name and/or
description a user inserts. The companies need to be in the Yahoo Local database searched by
the Pipe and the inserted term needs to be in the company’s title or description.
2. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=540f3a222c7337b4a9fa3d33af103030
This Pipe finds prices for products being offered for sale on eBay. A product description and
price range is entered by the user. The Pipe could be useful to a company seeking price
comparisons for products purchased and sold by the company.
3. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5c04815201cda081f31d15dbc46af46b
This Pipe finds videos that have in their name and/or description the term the user enters. This
Pipe could be useful to a company developing and/or selling a similar product or purchasing
the product.
4. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5dc6b6727c26c0b14d4f73059d62efc0
This Pipe finds the price for a company product as listed in both the Yahoo Shopping and eBay
databases. This Pipe could be useful to a company seeking price comparisons for products
purchased and sold by the company.
If you are interested in exploring with me whether data maps and other Yahoo Pipes products
might aid your business operations and decision making, please contact me. Click the Contact
Button on my home page for contact information.