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Testimonials
Leading companies throughout the world are using applications written in PROIV to power their business processes.
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"PROIV Multilingual will make a huge difference for our users. They'll understand the software more easily which will lead to far fewer operator errors. It will also help with training and implementation. For us, Multilingual represents a significant competitive advantage."
Anne Alp - Managing Director, CICS, South Africa.
CICS is a South African developer of Munsoft Classic, a municipal billing application used by numerous local government organisations within a country that has eleven official languages.
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"PROIV mirrors our culture of continual process improvement and cost cutting. Successive product releases have made the development process faster and more efficient, and it looks like Version 6 will be no exception. We're looking forward to trying out PROIV Developer, the fully integrated version of a development environment that has already improved our productivity."
Tony White - Group Systems Development Manager, Sertec Group Holdings Ltd, UK
Sertec is a British engineering company that competes in the tough automotive parts market. Sertec writes all its business applications in-house using PROIV. In 2003 Sertec became the first UK company to be named as one of Ford's worldwide top 40 suppliers.
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"The beta version of PROIV Version 6 exceeded our expectations in almost every respect. In particular, the multilingual capacity allows us to position ResourceLink for a wider international market. It's a feature that makes a huge difference to our growth prospects."
Martin Mann - ResourceLink Development Manager, NorthgateArinso
NorthgateArinso is a leading global Human Resources software and services provider, offering innovative HR business solutions to employers of all sizes, including Blue Chip companies, Public Sector organisations and many small to medium enterprises.
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"PROIV Developer is a much more modern environment within which to develop. It has features that we couldn't get elsewhere, plus it's a lot easier to train new staff - anyone with experience of Visual Basic or Java will pick it up in no time."
Peter Balt - CEO, CICS, South Africa
CICS is a South African developer of Munsoft Classic, a municipal billing application used by numerous local government organisations within a country that has eleven official languages.
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"For an ambitious company like ours, the Multilingual component is crucial for expanding our market. None of our competitors offer multilingual applications, whereas we can now look at selling applications in Poland, Rumania and Spain."
Frédéric Boudineau - Product Manager, Thelys, France
Thelys is the French company behind i3, a project management application widely used by public utilities such as Gaz de Strasbourg. Thelys is keen to build a Europe-wide market for i3.
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"The ability to run multiple sessions within a single licence fee will make life much easier for us and for our users. It helps those municipalities that buy a limited number of licences to keep costs down, but still need the ability to run numerous routine enquiries."
Anne Alp - Managing Director, CICS, South Africa
CICS is a South African developer of Munsoft Classic, a municipal billing application used by numerous local government organisations within a country that has eleven official languages.
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"PROIV gave us cradle-to-grave fleet-management software. For example, a request for a new car instantly raises an order at the Citroën factory, while vehicles that have reached the end of their fleet life transfer directly to our Vehicle Remarketing Operations, such as our online auction site."
"PROIV's hosting performance is excellent. I've not lost a single night's sleep worrying about application availability; I know we're online day and night."
Emlyn Witchell, Divisional Support Controller, Citroën UK.
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"PROIV gives our product, Spectrum Construction Software, the platform- and database-independence that its competitors lack. He says: "Our customers enjoy long-term stability. Forefront has supported them through all their server upgrades, their changing choices of database, and all of the platform developments that have occurred over the past 20 years. At no point during that period of technological upheaval did we have to rewrite the basic logic or code of Spectrum Construction Software. PROIV took everything in its stride."
Life isn't quite so easy for DCI's competitors. They have to go back to basics each time there's a shift in technology.
"Our competitors take a couple of years out to rewrite their applications for each new environment," says Mark, "whereas we've been able to devote development resources whole-heartedly towards the broadening of functionality. PROIV's platform-independence gives us the freedom to work on customers' business issues without the distractions of changing technology."
He adds: "I know of one competitor that right now is having to recode for thin client. But not us, we're eight years ahead. With PROIV, it was straight out of the box and that was way back in 1997."
Mark Dexter, Dexter & Chaney
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"We use PROIV because of the tremendous productivity it provides. Even as technology has moved on, PROIV continues to give us the ability to deliver software at a rapid pace."
"PROIV provides Wall Street Systems with a quick and easy development environment, enabling us to stay on top of the market and in step with our clients' needs. PROIV continues to be one of our primary server development tools."
Mark Tirschwell, Chief Technology Officer, Wall Street Systems
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"PROIV continues to give us an edge over our competitors. We can build applications faster than they can and, because so much of our system is supported by PROIV, our portfolio remains viable longer."
"New features in PROIV version 5, such as the graphical user interface, ensure that we can continue to adapt to the needs of our users and customers. When change comes, we're ready for it."
Roger Peterson, Vice President of Information Systems, Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A.
"During the upgrade to version 5, we had tremendous support from PROIV. Their staff were with us on-site for three weeks, after which we ran our own testing for an additional three weeks."
Kevin Coombs, Senior Systems Analyst, Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A.
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"We are required to maintain applications for ten years, so we need a reliable partner with the commitment to support us for the long term. I'm convinced that we have that partner in PROIV."
Jan Arne Bergundhaugen, Deputy IT Director, Skattedirektoratet
"People are surprised when they learn that there are only ten people in the development team. If it wasn't for PROIV, we'd need many more hands to absorb and implement the annual round of fiscal changes within the timescales set by the Directorate of Taxes."
Hans-Petter Hagen, Technical Development Manager, Skattedirektoratet
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"Concerto Universal gives us better throughput and faster development With this single, easy technology we reduce data entry and avoid replication - not just here at Tower Hill, but also at our agencies."
Brian Elsmore, Chief Information Officer, Tower Hill Insurance Group Inc
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Brad Mathews, DCI's Vice President, Sales and Marketing, believes that PROIV's other big benefit is speed of application build.
"We tend to release a major upgrade once every eighteen months," he says, "yet customers never have to pay. Each new release comes free as part of the annual maintenance contract. The economics are simple: PROIV gives us faster delivery from a smaller investment � savings that we can pass straight on to the customer.
He too likes to recall the ways that Spectrum Construction Software caught its competitors out: "This is a great example of PROIV at work," he says. "We were the first in the industry to offer document imaging. We introduced it six years ago, yet our competitors are only now managing to bring it in."
Service like this inspires loyalty. So when the US Construction Financial Management Association polled the industry for its 2004 Technology Survey, Spectrum was ranked overall number one* out of 54 construction software packages.
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"PROIV provides the go-anywhere platform independence behind The Wall Street System. There are no constraints: customers choose it because it's the best on the market. That platform independence works for us too: 70% of Wall Street Systems clients opted to run their treasury applications on HP equipment."
Mark Gorham, Vice President, OpenVMS Division, Hewlett-Packard.
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"I've been involved with PROIV for many years: for portability and speed you can't beat it. Version 5.5 broadens the scope. It empowers us, it lets us develop creative solutions to everyday tasks."
Mark Evans, Managing Director, MSA Focus
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Brad Mathews, DCI's Vice President, Sales and Marketing, believes there's no let up in the pace of development of Spectrum. If things look exciting in the short term, they're wide open in the long term.
"With PROIV, we can develop in so many ways," explains Brad. "We'll have a Linux version out towards the end of the year � none of our competitors support more than one platform � and we're looking forward to exploiting the web services in the forthcoming PROIV Version 6."
He adds: "Of course it helps that we have such a close working relationship with PROIV. They're a fine organisation and we appreciate the partnership we share with them."
* Statistics excerpted from CFMA's 2004 Information Technology Survey for the Construction Industry, fifth edition, with the permission of the Construction Financial Management Association, Princeton NJ, 609-452-8000. CFMA neither evaluated nor ranked software in terms of performance. The survey should not be construed as the advice or opinion of CFMA.
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