Emphasising the value that FTSE 100 company Sage puts on its relationship with its business partners Steve Attwell, General Manager for Sage’s Lower Mid Market and Channel Division commented: “Our Business Partners are immensely important to us and companies such as Eureka Solutions are leading the way in their field.  The launch of our Sage Platinum Partners programme is testimony to our continued commitment to delivering value add and we are confident that it will deliver significant mutual benefit for Sage, our Business Partners and ultimately our customers too.”

Alistair Livingstone, Managing Director at Eureka Solutions said: “At Eureka Solutions our focus is on delivering outstanding customer service and technical expertise. Being awarded Platinum Partner status is further testament to our commitment in these areas and we are delighted to gain this level of recognition from Sage.”  

Sage ACT! is the number one selling Contact and Customer Manager with over 3 million users worldwide.  It is a business productivity tool that’s more powerful than e-mail systems and spreadsheets, but easier to use, faster to get up and running, and less costly than a CRM solution. To help make the most of this information, Sage ACT! integrates with social media sites, such as LinkedIn®, Facebook, Google Maps™, to build a richer picture of customers and prospects.  Sage ACT! helps to develop long-lasting, profitable relationships so existing customers keep coming back and new customer referrals keep coming in.

Sage 50 Accounts empowers small businesses to effectively manage every aspect of their finances, enabling them to accurately keep track of cash flow, invoice customers, pay suppliers, submit VAT returns and prepare year end accounts. It contains a host of inbuilt measures designed to reduce human error and allow businesses to gain an instant view of their accounts information on a minute by minute basis and take greater control of their finances.

Sage’s Platinum Partner programme will continue to evolve following its launch this month, and over time it will develop further to incorporate a range of new and timely benefits for member partners.

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Spindle Professional integrates with Sage 200 and Sage 50, in order to to send out all your documents to multiple locations by email, fax and print. Spindle stores these documents for easy access, freeing up your time and saving your business money.

Credit Hound also integrates with Sage 200, giving the user credit control within their business. Credit Hound helps the user to manage their credit control procedures and reduce bad debts quickly.

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Our developers have made some fantastic updates to our Sage 200 Sales Order Plus module. Sales Order Plus has been created from various customer requests to make Sage 200 order entry as fast as possible.

The utility bar and rapid grid are now available in the Quotes Screen as well as in the Sales Order Screen. This means users now have great functionality such as Add Preferred Items and Amend Stock Item Prices available when entering a quote, improving the user experience as well as being a considerable time saver!

Download the latest version here.

For more information please call our head office on 01355 581 960 or email development@eurekasolutions.co.uk.

Out of over 900 Sage developers in the UK, Eureka Solutions is the only one to have been recognised by Sage for 3 years running, winning the same prize in 2010 and Sage Developer of the Year in 2009.

On presenting the award to Eureka Solutions, Darren Liddell, Manager of the Sage Developers Programme states, “We are delighted to present this award to Eureka Solutions and my congratulations go to all involved.  They have shown excellent growth by meeting their customer needs and delivering innovative solutions efficiently and effectively. Our developers are immensely important to us and companies such as Eureka are leading the way in their field.  We look forward to working together with them in the future for mutual benefit and growth.”

Eureka Solutions Managing Director, Alistair Livingstone says, “We are delighted to win this award, the 3rd in a row for us.  Not only is it recognition of all the hard work the team has put in, but it is great to receive this type of endorsement from Sage. Our team have done well, but we won’t stop there. We already have our eye on next year with some really exciting developments coming in 2012. We look forward to building upon this success in the future.”  

About Eureka Solutions

Eureka Solutions is a software company working with leading ERP, Business Intelligence and CRM software solutions. The company has over 15 years’ experience in supporting & delivering business projects in a range of industries throughout the UK.

The company has a range of modules that enhance the Sage 200 Suite including retail, telesales and e-commerce integration.

About Eureka Solutions

Eureka Solutions is a software company working with leading ERP, Business Intelligence and CRM software solutions. The company has over 15 years’ experience in supporting & delivering business projects in a range of industries throughout the UK.

The company has a range of modules that enhance the Sage 200 Suite including retail, telesales and e-commerce integration.

One of our clients required an internal requisition system for their Sage 200 system which would eliminate the need for staff to move around the building searching for items. On request, they would be delivered by the Stores/Shipping department instead. On an internal requisition, the client required an email of the requisition to be sent to a generic store address and a copy to the user who submitted the request. It should also be possible to store a status against a request so the user can check its current status. The status should be requested, allocated, picked and despatched. It was also required for the system to hold a collection of departments so the request could be submitted against the correct department.

Solution

The solution developed by Eureka Solutions was to create the new screen below which is similar to our sales order entry screen in the Sales Order Plus. It allows users to enter the relevant details for the header of the requisition to a member of staff or department. The department is populated by default from the collection associated with the user making the request. However, it is possible to manually change the department and a “priority” can be selected from a drop down of predefined values.

A grid has been provided to allow quick entry of the stock items and quantity required. It shows the free stock in the main warehouse regardless of bin locations. It is then possible to either save the requisition or to save and request. If only saved, it can be amended at a later date and then requested. On selecting the save and request button, a standard sage report is produced which can then be emailed or printed as a requisition.

The second screen below was created to show any outstanding requisitions. Each requisition is given a status which is set to “requested” on creation. Once requested, the main store can then allocate the goods. This forces an internal allocation and sets the line status to be either “Part Allocated” or “Allocated” depending on the quantity allocated.

The staff in the main warehouse can then print a pick list for a requisition by clicking the “Print Pick List” button which provides details of all the goods to be picked and the amount required. The option to “Despatch” is then available and this will set the picked goods to be dispatched. Only once the total quantity on the requisition matches the quantity required, the requisition can be marked as completed.

To find out more our bespoke customisation for Sage, please call 01355 581 960 or email development@eurekasolutions.co.uk.

Eureka Solutions, the leading independent IT company, has secured two key partnerships that will help it to deliver market-leading Business Intelligence (BI) and information distribution services to its clients.

The deals were cemented at the successful recent business event, Eureka360, attended by dozens of Scottish small and medium sized enterprises as well as public sector agencies at East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, on 27th October 2011.

Eureka is acknowledged to be one of the UK’s leading Sage software vendors, with a long record of implementation and support for Sage products such as Sage 200 and Sage CRM. The new partnerships – with fast-growing international business QlikTech and Dublin-based Inspired Software & Services – allow Eureka to expand its range of services as client needs become increasingly sophisticated.

“At Eureka we have built a considerable reputation for providing reliable business control systems for a range of clients in the SME sector, as well as the public sector,” explained Eureka Solutions’ managing director Alistair Livingstone.

“These partnerships with QlikTech and Inspired have been agreed so that we can build on that success by ensuring that we stay ahead of the market in being able to provide the latest Business Intelligence and collaboration tools to our clients across Scotland.”

The deal with Inspired enables Eureka to add a key capability in Microsoft SharePoint to its range of IT services, currently led by Sage.

”Inspired is a key provider of Microsoft SharePoint, which is an excellent media for displaying and distributing information across an organisation’s network. SharePoint works well alongside our existing capabilities in Sage, so with this partnership we can deliver a solution to clients within a few days,” added Alistair Livingstone.

QlikTech, founded in Sweden and listed on the US NASDAQ market, is a fast-growing global software business whose Business Discovery platform, QlikView, provides fast business analysis to support decision making. “QlikView is extremely well placed in its market. BI will dominate the marketplace over the next four or five years. Companies need to get really good quality information from their existing enterprise systems,” explained Alistair Livingstone.  “QlikView links to SharePoint, as well as all the Sage products, so that completes a vital ‘triangle for us at Eureka.”

Inspired, formed in Dublin in 2008, has grown across the UK and Ireland by developing partnerships such as this latest one with Eureka. “The fit with Eureka made sense as soon as we began talking to each other,” commented co-founder William Connor. “We have a network of partners and we have no doubt that we will have something to offer Eureka’s very high quality range of clients in Scotland, as well as to new customers seeking integrated support of this kind.”

For QlikTech, Pre-Sales Team Leader John Sands believes their technology will enhance Eureka’s service offering. “QlikView allows the combination of data from numerous sources, such as Sage, Excel and Access. Users can view data in a really meaningful way as a result. BI analysis tools are no longer for the chosen few. The technology gives access to all those users within an organisation who need the best quality data in order to make better business decisions.”

Both Inspired and QlikTech attended the recent Eureka360 event, alongside various Eureka partners including Datalinx, Draycir and Energise2.0. “We have received very positive feedback from those attending the various seminars, which covered everything from BI to the use of social media in business. There’s a real hunger for this sort of information,” observed Alistair Livingstone.

About Inspired Software & Services

Inspired was created in 2008 by a group of Microsoft managers who saw an opportunity to take their knowledge and experience to  deliver business productivity solutions based on the Microsoft technology that are affordable, quick to implement and easy to use. Inspired has created a number of business solutions to help organisations to improve organisational and individual productivity. It helps organisations improve business process, reduce cost, improve decision making and help maintain or improve competitiveness.
The Inspired team has a wealth of Application Development, Business Management and Channel Sales Management experience.

About QlikTech

QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in Business Discovery — user-driven Business Intelligence (BI). QlikTech’s powerful, accessible Business Discovery solution bridges the gap between traditional business intelligence solutions and standalone office productivity applications. Its QlikView Business Discovery platform enables intuitive user-driven analysis that can be implemented in days or weeks rather than months, years, or not at all. The in-memory associative search technology it pioneered allows users to explore information freely rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions. QlikView Business Discovery works with existing BI applications and adds new capabilities: insight for everyone, zero-wait analysis, mobility, an app–like model, remixability and reassembly, and a social and collaborative experience. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, QlikTech has offices around the world serving more approximately 22,000 customers in over 100 countries.

For more information on these new partnerships please call our head office on 01355 581 960 or email enquiries@eurekasolutions.co.uk.

Sage 200 R&D have worked hard over the past couple of years to really improve the analytics tools available as well as the usability and the ease of extracting information from Sage 200, and this award, won against BI specialists, is recognition of this.

See a full list of the 2011 winners here.

This is the first award the product has received in this category

Many of our customers have major issues with reporting, not just from their Sage products but reporting on information held in other systems, including manufacturing, warehouse, EPOS etc, and most importantly cross referencing data in these systems.

Although Sage has its own Business Intelligence product this focuses on Sage data alone and doesn’t give the flexibility we are asked for. We’ve taken this on board and after much research over the past year we have taken on QlikView, the fastest growing Business Intelligence product in the world.

Qlikview isn’t just a mid-market Business Intelligence (BI) product, it competes at the highest levels against Business Objects, Oracle and SAP offerings. It is a really stunning product and the more we use it internally the better it appears. Our Eureka360 event later this month will offer the opportunity to see the product (on an iPad as well!) and speak to the experts.

New products, new people

We have also brought in our own expert, Carolyn Clark (pictured), who will focus on Business Intelligence and Qlikview in particular.

Carolyn comes to us with many years’ experience in software. With a degree in Management Science and several years working for Simul8 she understands the process and the need for information. We welcome Carolyn and hope she will meet as many of our customers as possible in the next few months. In the meantime if you are having any reporting issues speak to Carolyn, she will be happy to discuss how we can improve your reporting.

Carolyn explains, “I am really excited to be working with Eureka Solutions and to be championing the QlikView Business Intelligence software. QlikView’s product offering is unique; they are pioneers in what they call Business Discovery. Unlike traditional Business Intelligence tools, with QlikView, you define your own path through the software, analysing data interactively and making new discoveries. Business Discovery is the next generation of Business Intelligence.”

If you would like to contact Carolyn please call our head office on 01355 581 960, or alternatively you can email Carolyn directly.