The Pronto Software rebrand has been implemented to deliver new messages that focus on the 30 year old company’s evolution and growth in Australia and overseas. The creative and design development was carried out in cooperation with branding agency, Interbrand.

Managing Director of Pronto Software, David Jackman, said the rebrand marks a fresh way for the company to distinguish itself in the IT space in Australia and overseas.

“Pronto Software has been evolving and growing with customers in Australia, North America, Europe and Asia and we are very proud to announce a fresh look that represents the way we will continue to deliver value through our products and services for many years to come.

Pronto Software first began operations in 1976 and has since grown to 300 staff serving 1,500 organisations around the world with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) software solutions.

“The ability to evolve and adapt to serve changing market demands has always been a crucial element of Pronto Software’s approach and success story. In creating this new branding, we have made every effort to produce something unique and different that would challenge the relative conformity of the entire ERP and BI space,” Jackman added.

Marketing Manager at Pronto Software, Paul Goepfert, said the rebrand also incorporates the organisation’s approach to innovation, business evolution and plans for the future.

“Pronto Software’s business philosophy is based on listening very carefully to our customers, adapting to their requirements and revealing the best solutions for them. The new branding has been developed to reflect this approach,” Goepfert said.

A key characteristic of the new Pronto Software logo is the use of the interrobang punctuation mark – customised in the new logo to represent the ‘P’ in the company’s name. The interrobang combines elements of a question mark and exclamation point and was originally designed by Martin Speckter in 1962.

General Manager at Interbrand Melbourne, Andy Wright, worked closely with Pronto Software during the rebrand. He said the brand strategy and creative process began with getting to the heart of what made Pronto different. “We discovered that this was a company with an incredible attention to people and the needs of customers. They listen, and then adapt solutions to what customers’ need, which help them find out new and useful information about their business. It was refreshing to see in a category characterised by a one size fits all approach.”

He said the interrobang has been used in the design as a way to best visually represent moments of insight, inspiration and discovery. “The other key was to put the focus for design and communication on the moments of insight versus more clichéd photography displaying computers, handshakes and customer service representatives with headsets.“

Pronto Software builds Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions that help organisations manage business information. The company provides services to a wide range of sectors including retail, manufacturing, resources, manufacturing and logistics. Its customers include Kathmandu, Funtastic, Tyco, Bridgestone, Anvil Mining and more.

Launched at Pronto Software’s customer conferences in Chicago, IL and Toronto,ON, 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.

“We’re pleased to be working with Pronto Software to unveil the PRONTO-Xi Dimensions release to the North American market,” said Kevin Schell, General Manager, PSA Inc. “The business insight that PRONTO-Xi Dimensions provides will allow our customers to accelerate in their industries through unmatched Cognos 10 reporting and embedded Business Intelligence.”

“There is no ERP package more comprehensive in the market that can handle the industry demands of manufacturing, distribution, field service and retail, and with the addition of Cognos 10, PRONTO-Xi Dimensions is certain to hit the market running,” Schell added.

“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 game-changing 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.

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 personalization. This UI makes it easy to define personalized 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 optimize 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 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 is now available in the United States and Canada through Pronto Software’s value-added reseller, PSA Inc.

PSA Inc. is pleased to announce that Teranga Gold Corporation has selected PRONTO-Xi enterprise software and PSA services to support its international mining operations. PRONTO-Xi, an award-winning enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is an established player in meeting the needs of the mining community making it a perfect fit for Teranga. PRONTO-Xi will provide integrated financial reporting and consolidation tools along with multi-currency capabilities that will support its Senegalese and Canadian reporting requirements in a fully-integrated, scalable and comprehensive ERP solution.

Teranga Gold Corporation is a Canadian-based gold company fulfilling its vision to explore, discover and develop gold mines in West Africa. Traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:TGZ) and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:TGZ), Teranga operates the Sabodala gold mine in Senegal, West Africa, the first large-scale gold mine to come into operation in Senegal. Sabodala currently has mineral reserves of 1.46 million ounces of gold and measured and indicated resources of 2.25 million ounces of gold. The region is emerging as a significant new gold camp, with more than 10 million ounces of resources already discovered. Headquartered in Toronto, Teranga’s management team boasts extensive experience in the exploration, development and operation of gold mines in Africa.

“Teranga Gold Corporation had a very short window to evaluate and implement a new business management solution. In very short order PSA was able to understand our business requirements and provide a proven and solid mining solution with its professional services team and PRONTO-Xi” stated Teranga’s Director of Finance, Katerina DeLuca. PRONTO-Xi is currently improving business insight and operational efficiencies for over 200 companies in some of the world’s largest mining centres including Africa, Asia, Australia and North America. Known for its reliability and robustness, PRONTO-Xi mining customers benefit from real-time information in a cost-effective enterprise package. With PRONTO-Xi Dimensions set to be released in May 2011, PRONTO-Xi is the ‘next-generation’ smart ERP solution that is quick to implement and easy to use.

“PSA is looking forward to assisting Teranga Gold Corporation in the implementation of PRONTO-Xi” said Kevin Schell, General Manager for PSA. “PRONTO-Xi will provide a flexible, state-of the-art platform that will support their complex financial reporting requirements today, as well as support their future growth.“ Implementation of PRONTO-Xi is set to begin at Teranga Gold in both their Canadian and Senegal locations.

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.

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.

It has been a very successful year for both PSA and PRONTO-Xi Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software.  2010 has seen the addition of several new PRONTO-Xi customers which has further established PRONTO-Xi in the North American market.  In addition, the announcement of a new and exciting PRONTO-Xi release, the world’s first ERP with integrated IBM Cognos 10, has set the stage for a successful future in 2011.

To accommodate the growth of the PSA/PRONTO-Xi family, PSA will be launching its new PRONTO-Xi Help Desk service offering in January 2011.  The PSA Help Desk will ensure that customers get the prompt service that they are accustomed to from PSA’s team of professional consultants.  Clients may continue to contact their preferred support specialist(s) directly but are encouraged to call the PSA Help Desk in the event that they are unavailable.

The PSA Help Desk will be maintained by PSA’s team of PRONTO-Xi specialists that will be able to assess client requirements and in most cases, be able to address issues directly.  If more specific expertise is required, calls will be ‘triaged’ based on severity and priority and forwarded to the appropriate service personnel.  The PSA Help Desk will be available beginning Tuesday, January 4, 2011 with regular operating hours of 8:30AM to 5:30PM (ET) Monday to Friday.

When asked about the PSA Help Desk, Kevin Schell, PSA’s General Manager, stated, “We want our clients to continue to get the most out of their PRONTO-Xi investment. We believe this new approach will add more value for all of our clients.”   To reach the PSA Help Desk, contact +1 877 272 0411 or via e-mail at support@PSAinc.ca.

For more information about the PSA PRONTO-Xi Help Desk, please visit http://www.PSAinc.ca or contact Kevin Schell at +1 905 430 5445.

• 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.

 

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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.