Business: OTI Choose PRONTO ERP as Standard for Clients

OTI Choose PRONTO ERP as Standard for Clients

Written by Tom Verzi

OTI, Optimization Technology Inc., located in Mississauga Canada, has been developing and implementing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems since 1984. The Canadian VARs (Value Added Reseller) customer base appreciates repparttar

features built into their legacy systems which focused on individual manufacturing and distribution requirements. With repparttar 102859

advent of GUI (Graphical User Interface) it became too difficult to add some of repparttar 102860

new productivity features OTI and their clients wanted.

According to Dave Airey, VP of Sales and Marketing at OTI, “We started looking for a way to move our application to a GUI “look and feel,” but after two years of investigation it became obvious that it was not a practical goal. As an alternative we investigated upgrading our legacy application to a new product.”

OTI’s requirements for a new system revolved around their customers. After many years of custom changes, repparttar 102861 legacy system was geared to client requirements.

Airey noted, “OTI’s initial search took us to repparttar 102862 major ERP players, but none had repparttar 102863 features we required to support our loyal customers.”

Finding an ERP System with Strong Functionality:

The search for a new ERP system ended when OTI was introduced to PRONTO North America (www.PRONTOerp.com). According to Airey, “We were introduced to Pronto and were immediately impressed with repparttar 102864 rich functionality. One important feature was that Pronto is fully integrated. We had engineered our legacy system to be fully integrated so this was of major importance.”

The Rationale for PRONTO ERP:

oFully integrated oUser definable options to tune repparttar 102865 systems functionality oA support system to back up our customers oFunctionality oGUI look and feel built using a 4 GL tool oEquipment rentals and tracking oService maintenance oBoth Manufacturing and Distribution in one package oEmail & Fax capability oMultiple SQL platforms including MS SQL

Why Are You So Busy?

Written by Lorraine Pirihi

Why are you so busy? Do you really have too much work? Is work so important to you that you'll sacrifice just about anything in your life to get repparttar

job done? Even if it's at repparttar 102858

expense of your health and your relationships?

If you find these questions disturbing then see how you rate with these ones:

Do you work more than 50 hours a week? Do you dream about work? Do you feel that in order to succeed you must work late most of repparttar 102859 time? Are you a stranger in your own home? Do you constantly miss family and social events because you're always working? Do you schedule and undertake more than you can get done in a 40-hour work week? Do you get bored when you're not working? Is missing family and social events a regular occurrence because you have to work? When on holiday do you constantly check your phone messages and email? Your Score The greater repparttar 102860 number of yes answers, repparttar 102861 closer you are to fitting repparttar 102862 profile of a workaholic. If you've answered yes to more than half of repparttar 102863 questions, it's time to take stock before you lose your health, family and everything you hold near and dear to your heart.

Do a Stocktake First, of all take a really good look at your job, what you do and repparttar 102864 importance of your accomplishments. Are you appreciated for all those long hours you've put in? Does it really - I mean really - make a difference to your income? Let's face it. In today's economic environment, employees are often nothing more than expendable pawns. No amount of overtime and sacrifice will make a difference when a company has to make cutbacks.

Are You Having Fun? Secondly, determine if you're having fun at your job, long hours notwithstanding. If you're not having fun and are popping antacids to avoid a stress-related ulcer, then you need to rethink all that hard work you're putting in. Fun must be a high priority in your life and your job should be no exception.

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