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Australian developer Pronto Software today introduced the new PRONTO-Xi Dimensions, an innovative product that brings together ERP transactions and BI Analytics in a unified, out-of-the-box solution.


PRONTO-Xi Dimensions is the ‘next generation’ smart ERP solution that will transform the way businesses work and receive information. Quick to implement and easy to use, the new release responds to key market needs including instant insight into business performance for faster, smarter decision making for all employees.

Embedding the powerful IBM Cognos BI suite, PRONTO-Xi Dimensions enables mid-market businesses to manage large volumes of data and access real time analytics to understand key business drivers and influence business outcomes.

According to Quest Serviced Apartments Chief Financial Officer Doug Hutchinson, an operator of franchised accommodation businesses in Australasia, Pronto Software has removed significant implementation efforts typically associated with BI and delivered an easy end-user experience.

“Pronto has invested the time and effort to restructure the underlying data tables and simplify report development,” he said. “To generate our financial reports, currently we’re exporting end of day data from PRONTO-Xi into Cognos on a nightly basis which means that our data is not automatically available for reporting in real-time using that platform.”

“When we upgrade to PRONTO-Xi Dimensions, we’ll have the ability to achieve real-time reporting which gives us improved insight into the performance of our businesses. Dimensions also gives us a large suite of pre-formatted reports and dashboards available out of the box, which will improve efficiencies and significantly reduce the cost of investment.”

“When planning for this release more than 18 months ago, we envisioned a product that’s not just a logical extension of the success we’ve built so far, but a breakthrough solution that will make our ERP engine smarter and create greater access to knowledge, to enable customers to innovate and differentiate,” said Pronto Software Managing Director David Jackman.

“PRONTO-Xi Dimensions gives users the ability to harness the intelligence from the ERP system to run their business efficiently and extend data to actionable insights. It offers unparalleled ease of use, with personalisation capabilities to help our customers be agile and gain end-to-end business process excellence. This in turn reduces costs and returns the business a healthier profit,” added Jackman.

As an on-premise or Software-as-a-Service offering, PRONTO-Xi Dimensions delivers unmatched value and rapid ROI for the mid-market.

Other key product highlights
With PRONTO-Xi Dimensions, every user has access to a new, intuitive user interface (UI) with a high level of personalisation. This UI makes it easy to define personalised workspaces, look and feel, and provides full access to the web for collaborative networking and intelligence sharing.

PRONTO-Xi Dimensions also integrates new features specifically targeting international markets and customers servicing international markets:

• A new Multi-tier tax engine designed to meet the compliance needs of globally diverse tax regimes;
• Multi-Factory costing to optimise manufacturing in multiple locations and countries;
• Multi-Currency POS for retailers located in areas frequented by international travellers and tourists, including Duty Free and Airport Specialty Retail stores, to easily conduct sales using currencies from varying countries;
• A unique Shipment Processing feature suited to Australian imports to track real-time, consolidated shipments from local and international suppliers;
• A French Language pack to service the French, African and Canadian markets.

PRONTO-Xi Dimensions will be available in May 2011. A beta version is currently available for Pronto Software customers.

Pronto Software, a leading developer of enterprise software solutions, today announced it has won the 2011 IBM Choice Award for Midmarket Leadership.

The IBM Choice Awards honor Business Partners who have demonstrated business excellence in delivering IBM-based solutions. Selected by an IBM panel of local and global leaders, the awards are presented to the Business Partners who exhibit IBM values in all client interactions and achieve common business goals, resulting in superior customer satisfaction and mutually significant business impact.

Recently, Pronto Software delivered the industry’s first ERP system with Cognos 10 Business Intelligence (BI) embedded out of the box. This is a boost to the midmarket which has been under-served in the area of BI as it is perceived as being out of reach and the deployment for end users challenging.

The seamless integration of two industry-leading solutions, PRONTO-Xi’s strong transactional ERP system and the powerful Cognos 10 BI suite, provides users the ability to harness the intelligence from the ERP system to run their business efficiently and extend data to actionable insights. PRONTO-Xi delivers an easy end-user experience, empowering users to create their own analysis on the fly. It allows users to personalise their computing experience – helping them be agile and gain end-to-end business process excellence. This in turn reduces costs and returns the business a healthier profit.

“Pronto is committed to deliver value and simplify IT for our customers. This win recognizes our success and focus in the mid-market and we are very pleased to accept the award,” said David Jackman, Managing Director, Pronto Software.

The winners of the IBM Choice Awards were announced at the 2011 IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla. on 16 February 2011.

Pronto Software has released the lastest edition of Pronto Wire.  Look for the following news articles in this edition:

• Pronto Software partners with IBM to deliver world’s first ERP system to embed Cognos 10 out of the box.

 

• Sneak Preview! PRONTO-Xi Business Intelligence with IBM Cognos 10 enables you to make more informed decisions and drive insight into action using powerful business dashboards, reports and analytics packages.

 

• Discover three handy time saving PRONTO-Xi quick cheats, including an easier way to find accounts in the General Ledger.

 

Click here to read December 2010 ProntoWire

Pronto Software delivers world’s first ERP system with IBM Cognos 10 embedded out of the box

Las Vegas, 25 October 2010: Pronto Software, a leading developer of enterprise software solutions, today announced it has integrated IBM’s latest business intelligence (BI) suite, IBM Cognos 10, into the upcoming release of its flagship solution, PRONTO-Xi, to enable quicker, smarter decision-making for mid-market customers.

IBM Cognos 10 was launched today at IBM Information On Demand 2010 Forum in Las Vegas. Pronto Software is the first ERP vendor worldwide to embed and optimise IBM Cognos 10 functionality into its software, delivering instant value to Pronto Software’s 1,500 customers globally when they upgrade.

The seamless integration of two industry-leading solutions, PRONTO-Xi’s strong transactional ERP system and the powerful IBM Cognos 10, provides enhanced reporting capabilities and instant business insight, thereby empowering users to access meaningful data anytime, anywhere.

According to Pronto Software Managing Director David Jackman, the strategic partnership with IBM is a defining step in its vision to increase the functionality and breadth of Pronto’s product portfolio and offer its customers a competitive advantage by delivering them the next generation ERP system that includes an intuitive BI capability out of the box.

“Over the past five years, Pronto Software has had a heavy development focus on simplifying IT for our customers. This is becoming increasingly important from a business analysis and reporting perspective as volumes of data increase, making fast and effective business decisions all the more challenging,” said Jackman.

“We’ve done all the integration work so that IBM Cognos 10 is tightly embedded into PRONTO-Xi and our customers can start reaping the benefits immediately. They will be able to create ad hoc reports, slice and dice the data, and create dashboards in a new intuitive interface,” added Jackman.

Jackman explained one of the biggest obstacles to gaining insight from data is demystifying the complexities in the underlying database. “IBM Cognos 10 offers a simple mechanism for providing at-a-glance insight into key business drivers in an easy to understand way.”

“Pronto has been a valuable member of our IBM Cognos 10 beta program and instrumental in validating the value and benefits Cognos 10 will bring to midsize companies,” said Mychelle Mollot, vice president worldwide marketing, business analytics at IBM. 

In late 2009, Pronto Software researched the market for BI solutions that were user-friendly, scalable and had the ability to cope with the complexities of large underlying data structures and present the data in an intuitive and simplified format for easy reporting.

“We undertook an assessment of the best BI products in the world,” explained Jackman. “We selected IBM Cognos BI as our platform as it was the only one that met and exceeded our requirements in terms of both our business and the needs of our customers going forward.”

“Up until now, the mid-market has been under-served as BI has been perceived by many of our clients as a little out of reach and the deployment for end users challenging. Through this innovative integration with IBM Cognos 10, we will be able to differentiate our solution in the mid-market and deliver out of the box BI to our customers worldwide in one hit,” added Jackman.

“We can see a major sea change, particularly for Pronto customers. They’ll be moving from having to talk to the IT department about writing a technical report based on a specification to easily using BI tools to make informed decisions centred on the needs of the business,” said Jackman.

PRONTO-Xi’s newest release will be launched in March 2011. A beta version will be available for Pronto Software customers from November 2010.