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Our Services
Automation Programming
Custom automation tools built primarily with Python and VBA
Automate Excel work with VBA or Python, and just about everything else with Python!
Turn multi-hour, multi-day, or multi-week long processes into minutes or seconds.
Increase efficiency, standardization, accuracy, productivity, cost-savings, scalability, and confidence.
Decrease time investment, variability, and manual errors.
Spreadsheet Optimization
Outside of standard automation programming, we are happy to help with complex ad-hoc formulas and spreadsheet design within Excel or Google Sheets.
Even without coding, spreadsheets can be optimized with well-designed and logical structures (row/column layout), live formulas, auto-calculating pivot tables, conditional formatting, and many more design elements that allow you to quickly, accurately, and logically interact with data as necessary.
We’re happy to build spreadsheets from scratch or help redesign existing spreadsheets to accommodate all of your needs.
Process and Data Consulting
Unsure if you automation opportunities? We are happy to discuss our ideas about upgrading your processes.
Do you have tricky data pipelines but not the time needed to make them easier to work with? Let us lift that burden off your plate.
Do you have a business goal but not sure where or how to best collect data for it? Let’s talk about your options!
Our Process
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We will meet with you to discuss your needs and create a proposal for a custom automation solution. If you decide to engage us to create this product for you, we will discuss cost, contract terms, and timeline for solution delivery. Pricing and timeline both depend on the complexity and urgency of your needs.
We will sign any necessary data-privacy agreements or work exclusively with anonymized data to ensure you and your customers are not put at any risk relating to loss or misuse of sensitive information.
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Once we understand your needs and paperwork is signed, our team builds the first iteration of the custom tool(s) or program(s).
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Once we have the tool(s)/program(s) built for you, you have the opportunity to test, see the current iteration of work, and suggest any functional updates. This is where the fine-tuning happens to get the overall solution perfect for you. Detailed technical documentation and training sessions are included.
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Once we have the tool(s)/program(s) built, tested, and confirmed by you, we will officially release the product(s) along with documentation so they can be ready for use immediately.
Functional updates, code maintenance, and more training can be provided as necessary after release.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Automation is the gateway to efficiency. When automating tasks or processes, you reap the rewards of faster completion times, decreased errors, increased standardization and scalability, decreased labor costs, and more money saved at the end of the day. Use the time and money saved to reinvest back in your business!
There are many people who may think their tasks are already as fast as they can be, or maybe they don’t have the time or technical background to make their work faster and more accurate. Start a conversation with us today and hear our ideas for improvement!
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The timeline from first contact to product delivery depends on a few factors. These include:
Complexity of the process or task to be automated
The software or tool in which the current process is completed
How accommodating the process or task is to change
Creating software tools in Excel or with scripts of code is a very detailed process and we strive to account for all nuances within the data or tasks you work with. We operate on a fast deployment schedule and strive to have our tools built, tested, and delivered to the client in about a month after all information and data has been provided to us.
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Pricing depends on a few factors, such as the complexity of the task we are automating and client’s requested deadline.
Baseline Automation Group strives to create fast, accurate, and dependable tools at an affordable cost to our clients. The upfront cost of automation is miniscule compared to the cost savings realized once in use.
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Baseline Automation Group specializes in Python scripts and VBA Macros. Python scripts can be designed to handle almost anything that happens on a computer or online, but our expertise is the manipulation and movement of files and data. VBA Macros are mini-programs within the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Access, etc.) that automate tasks. For example, if you need to make a monthly financial report in Excel, instead of spending a few hours each month creating the report by hand, we can create a button in Excel that runs a Macro, and it would create a report to your specifications in a matter of minutes or seconds as opposed to hours, days, or weeks.
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Yes! Please see below for some high-level examples:
Python script that scrapes data from a government website, recording information into a CSV file, then visually mapping and formatting that information in a report. The map is visually represented as a nationwide coverage of information by state level. The report is auto-emailed to the desired recipient(s). The scraping is automated to run at 8am daily, so no user is required to run each scrape. This codebase can easily be modified to represent data at the county level for each state in the report.
Python script that reads elemental concentration values of 9 elements within core log data from a CSV file. The data is then graphically represented vertically by drilling depth. This script quickly and accurately shows the relationship between the color-coded variable elements and allows the user to visualize elemental relationships in drilling depth with ease.
Python script that exports large quantities of data from Access databases via SQL queries embedded in the script itself.
Python script that searches multiple directories to see if certain files exist yet or not, and returns a small report to the user showing the results.
Python script that creates unique n-digit alphanumeric codes based on a desired number of codes needed.
Python bot script that drives web traffic metrics for any specific website. The script randomly chooses a page on the website, stays on that page for a random amount of time (a few seconds to a few minutes) and then repeats as many times as directed. This enhances the client’s site performance in search engines.
Python script or VBA Macro that converts each item in a folder into a certain file type.
VBA Macro that parses dynamic ranges of XLSX data into consistent “upload ready” formatted CSV files.
VBA Macro that appends multiple sheets of data together, creating a “master file” that is then saved, and emailed to a stakeholder.
VBA Macro that takes data from a user and converts the table into SQL queries the user can then run in their applicable database.
VBA Macro that converts a column of data dynamically into a comma separated list of values, while accounting for Excel’s character limit per cell.
VBA Macros to do anything and everything related to pivot table creation, cell formatting, file creation, data analysis, reconciliation checks, and more!
Ranging from small “one-off” auto-formatting tools to large-scale enterprise data manipulation and cleaning processes, we have a history of taking multi-day or multi-week data processing tasks and coding them down to a matter of minutes or seconds.