Danielle Middleton becomes MD of Vital IT Systems
Vital IT Systems of Manchester have appointed Danielle Middleton as their Managing Director. Danielle will take a hands-on role in the development of Vital IT Systems using the experience and knowledge she has gained through 25 years of selling, installing and supporting business management software systems.
Data Backup: Disks vs. Tapes
Having a reliable and speedy backup solution is important, which is why we have now stopped providing tape backup solutions and are now providing backup solutions using disks, which offer many advantages over disks.
Sophos Virus Clinic – It’s a scam!
Sophos customers: if you are contacted by a group operating under the name ‘Sophos Virus Clinic’ please do not disclose any information about your organisation/payment details. They will tell you that they have found an infection on your workstation and for a fee they will remove it for you.
This is a scam and there is no Sophos Virus Clinic. If you have Sophos installed, you’re already protected and do not have to worry.
We are unaware of any HBP Group customers that have been affected by this but if you have any questions please call the HBP Group IT Support Team on 01724 400304 or alternatively you can email them on itsupport@hbp-group.co.uk.
Our Sage CRM website goes live!
We have now launched a website dedicated entirely to Sage CRM.
The site covers the key areas of the Sage CRM system - sales management, marketing control and customer service - and has a host of videos and case studies showing how the system can improve communications, efficiency and the quality of relationships a business builds with their customers.
You can see the site at www.crm-solution.co.ukÂ
Download the latest versions of Opera II, Opera 3 and XRL now!
The latest versions of Pegasus Opera 3 (1.30), Pegasus Opera II (6.92) and Pegasus XRL (1.47) are all available to download from the HBP Group Support website.
Pegasus Opera 3 (1.30) & Pegasus XRL (1.47) - Download now>>>
Version 1.30 of Opera 3 includes the Landed Costs and Retrospective Debtor & Creditor Reporting as well as updates to the scheduler, stocktake, notification services and a number of general updates across the system. Pegasus XRL provides support for the new database tables and fields relating to Landed Costs and also has a number of smaller enhancements.
Less than a month to go until educate2011: Free Seminars For CRM Users!
With less than a month to go, have you booked your place at educate2011? Taking place on the 18th November, there will be FREE seminars on a variety of subjects including how you can discover new ways to improve your email marketing as well as an excellent seminar on social media marketing and how you can use it to improve your customer strategy.
Online Data Backup from the HBP Group
Solutions providing powerful, reliable and secure data backup for all business sizes powered by Zen
How much would the loss of company information and records cost your business, both for you and your customers? Whether through hardware failure, human error, fire, theft or accidental damage, data loss can have a catastrophic effect. Imagine the impact on your business if you were to lose all your company accounts, sales records, correspondence, customer records and emails. Our Online Data Backup solutions provide you with the peace of mind that, in the event of data loss, your data is fully backed up and recoverable within minutes. On schedule, or on demand, your data is automatically compressed, encrypted and sent to a secure primary data centre. Your data is then mirrored to a secondary geographically diverse data centre for extra protection. To retrieve your data you simply launch the Online Data Backup application on your PC, laptop or server and select the files that you need.
HBP Group 20% Opera 3 Discount
From November 1st we are offering a 20% discount on upgrades from Pegasus Opera II to Pegasus Opera 3 - that's 20% more off the already discounted prices from Pegasus from the HBP Group! This means that when upgrading the Pegasus discount price of £400 per user and £300 per application is reduced to just £320 per user and £240 per application.
For example, a five user, four module system upgrade from Opera II to Opera 3 would look like this:
Pegasus Opera 3 (1.30) Now Available!
The latest version of Pegasus Opera 3, version 1.30, is now available and adds further functionality and added value to the software making it a big step up from Pegasus Opera II if you decide to upgrade. The future development schedule and continued support of Opera 3 will continue in 2012 so there will be more to come as well!
The key new features in 1.30 are Landed Costs and Retrospective Aged Debtors & Creditors Reporting which offer the ability to automatically calculate the total costs of imported goods (including freight, customers, insurance etc) and the functionality to report on your levels of debtors or creditors on a past date - a very useful tool for auditing purposes at period-end or year end.
Sage Helpsheet: Distribution Journal Posting
The new helpsheet from our Sage 200 Support team will help you to learn how to create journal templates in Sage 200 based on a percentage split between other accounts. For example, if you have costs which get posted to a main account and you want these to be split using a given percentage over several cost centres then you can set up Journal Templates to do this for you.
Copier Systems Ltd [Barnsley]
HBP Systems Ltd [Scunthorpe]
Kamarin Computers [Peterborough]
Monpellier Ltd [Carlisle & Newcastle]
Vital IT Systems [Manchester]