Revolution Software Services

As a rapidly growing ERP solution provider we have often struggled to keep pace with the reporting requirements of our customers. Each customer wants a variation of the same reports and this creates a constant strain on resources keeping up with the demand to develop new & modified queries & reports.

We started working with the guys from NuVu a few years ago after having seen the solution set at a conference. The demo’s looked great but we were skeptical as there had been many failed reporting solutions for the Progress environment including those offered by Progress themselves. After spending some time developing some real world reports and queries from a sizeable database we found the product was exactly what we had been looking for, for some time.

We have now taken on the Product and are offering it as a standard solution within our product set. The feedback from our customers has been fantastic and the product has been well received. Most importantly it has now freed up a number of our resources to concentrate on our core product set instead of spending time modifying reports & ad-hoc queries.

The ability to schedule queries, multi-tenant capability, secured access to data along with the brilliant real-time executive dashboard functionality make this product a world class offering & a must for any Progress based solution.

Anthony Nadalini
Director

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Illawarra Toyota

Illawarra Toyota have been using the NuVu Query Suite for custom reporting for approximately 18 months now. The product has evolved into a feature packed versatile reporting and query tool that is used on a daily basis to generate real time reports that are essential to the operation of our company. The support provided by the team at NuVu software has been nothing but first class.

I highly recommend NuVu software to any organization that requires it’s reporting/query functionality.

Adam Berriman
IT Manager

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Damar Industries Ltd

After encountering setup problems peculiar to our own specific environment through which NuVu sales and support assisted us through, the product has run flawlessly without any intervention on our part. Our external documentation looks highly professional with great graphics and has been tailored and designed internally just for us. Great product.

Paul Burrows
Management Accountant

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Compac Sorting Equipment

During our recent LN upgrade, we identified a significant cost would be the redesign of our existing reports. NuVu has ably solved this problem for us with very little change to our existing output programs. NuVu has taken our complex remittance methods and streamlined them into a single template, giving us the capability of sending tailored remittances to customers in 7 countries around the world automatically. NuVu has also provided the flexibility of faxing, emailing or printing multiple pages from the one print run, providing previously unavailable functionality in a straight-forward and flexible software package

Mike Poland

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TeamMoto Motocycles

“I purchased NuVu Query recently to extract reports from my Progress database.

I have an issue with my main software supplier that they provide a range of reports for any company in the database, but only one company at a time. NuVu allows me to produce reports for all companies at once, and also allows me to consolidate the results across companies. It also allows me to customize report content, sort orders, and page layout.

It is easy software to navigate, and anyone who has used Access will feel right at home. I am an Accountant, not a Programmer, and can manage to get it to do what I need. A Programmer or someone used to writing queries would be able to get great results.

The support is fantastic. I spent a couple of hours on the phone getting up and running, and any emails are answered very promptly. I have even had a couple of upgrades I have suggested implemented within a matter of days.

I feel I have only just scratched the surface of what this software can achieve, but still love it.”

Bob Donavan
CFO

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Nicor IT Consulting Pty Ltd

Nicor IT Consulting Pty Ltd is a South African software developer, specialising in Property Management and Financial solutions. The company has been operating for over 20 years, primarily in the Progress database arena. Nicor has utilised the NuVu Reporting Suite since 2001, and have enjoyed the functionality that this reporting suite has offered during that time.

“We invested considerable time and cost attempting to develop an in-house reporting and query solution, but when the NuVu Query Suite was demonstrated to us, we realised its potential, and chose the NuVu Query Suite as our solution, as it gives us and our clients the competitive edge they were looking for, at an affordable price.”

Paul Silverman
Sales and Marketing Director

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Standard Universal Textile Group

Standard Universal Textiles is an Australian owned textile manufacturer. The company has an in-house software development team with extensive Progress skills and experience.

Some years ago, the company had adopted the Lexmark Optraforms based output formatting technology. Optraforms allowed advanced output formatting from a Unix system for an affordable price. However, the system has a major drawback. Whilst the report formats are constructed on a PC using an Optraform native editor, the merging and output management occurs in the printer itself. That means that:

• It is not possible to produce a formatted output electronically (e.g. PDF). Pages have to be printed and then scanned first if an electronic image is required.
• Each printer requires a special Optra Memory chip that adds around $900 to the purchase cost of each printer.
• Because of the form size and memory restrictions, each printer requires a customised list of forms. This results in additional management overhead. It also means that when a printer is taken out of production for, say, repairs, it is not possible to replace it with another printer without clearing and re-loading the required forms.
• The company is fully dependent on high-end Lexmark printer. The printers themselves have been extremely reliable. However, the company is not able to benefit from favourable printer prices offered by other manufacturers.

NuVu solves all of the above problems. It is easy to implement, easy to use and offers far more advanced formatting features. It also offers easy UNIX/Linux integration. We are using NuVu in all our new systems and have enjoyed more than 12 months of trouble free operation.

George Sponiar
Manager, IT

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Epicentre

Having already revolutionised the way in which users of outmoded legacy systems present their all-important business documents, NuVu Software’s NuVu Reporting Suite has found its perfect match in an enterprise resource program called SYSPRO.

The two packages have been combined at a clothing distribution company called Epicentre and this software marriage has proved to be so successful that the firm will soon be used as a reference site for SYSPRO application partners throughout the world.

It’s an exciting development which will open NuVu to a potentially lucrative global market.

Epicentre originally purchased the highly-regarded SYSPRO system to manage its business operations and discovered that by integrating it with NuVu it created an even more powerful and efficient tool.

NuVu Reporting Suite Version 4.0 was released late last year and has proved to be a saviour for users of character based applications with its ability to produce smart, professional, graphics rich business documents.

“Originally, the SYSPRO application required the user to request the business document, wait for it to open in MS Word and then print” explained Michael Van Dartel from NuVu Software.

“Although the re-formatting of the SYSPRO text output was one of the main reasons for Epicentre purchasing NuVu, it is the automatic electronic delivery of these documents that has proved to be most beneficial to Epicentre.
With its built-in fax server and utilisation of existing e-mail applications, documents can be faxed or e-mailed via the web in PDF or in native NuVu format to multiple destinations automatically, thus improving business efficiency.”

Anne Mulder, from SYSPRO application partner Proactive Integrators, said that after a couple of minor enhancements were made to NuVu to ensure the two products were even more user friendly SYSPRO clients from across the globe would be directed to Epicentre to examine this match made in software heaven.

“Already, people have been quite excited by what we have told them about SYSPRO’s compatibility with NuVu” she said. “When the refinements have been made it will be an even more powerful product – It will be totally integrated and the plan going forward will be to promote it that way.”