QBCon is a software development house situated in Centurion Pretoria.  QBCon had helped businesses increase productivity and profit since 1992. QBCon has provided a broad spectrum of organisations with pioneering software solutions. The company provides its clients with custom developed software applications driven by the client's requirements and business needs.

QBCon has built a reputation as a business solution provider with custom software applications for various industries, such as, the retail industry (QBCon Enterprise (ERP)), manufacturing, production and plant maintenance applications (QBCon Q-CMMS), laboratory management systems (QBCon Lab-i), import and export management applications (QBCon ProdX), query management systems (QBCon Query Desk) suitable for any organisation and business intelligence tools (EasyAsk®).

QBCon is a registered Application Partner of Progress.

Latest Media Releases: 

QBCon Identify Factors when Deciding to Implement an ERP

Horror stories of companies implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems unsuccessfully are found everywhere. These stories are tainting the world of technology and business solution companies. Companies are starting lawsuits against ERP implementers and vendors because these companies spent more money than they anticipated and still do not get what they paid for. Read more...

EasyAsk Empowers Frontline Staff

Business Intelligence (BI) is perhaps the most talked about technology topic at the moment. Businesses are getting a greater return on BI investments and new generation BI no longer only focuses on the decision-making needs of senior management. Read more...

Getting Information Systems Departments to love Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI) is often more expensive than it first appears, and the Information Systems (IS) department often has to foot the bill.  But it is only when you analyse the process that creates the reports that the reason for the cost burden of BI on IS departments becomes apparent. The main costs are due to the IS resources required to produce the reports that BI requires. Read more...

QBCon Ads Web Front-end to SAP Business One®

QBCon has designed a web interface for SAP Business One® that will allow users to remotely access the small business Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The development is part of a SAP Business One® implementation by SMB Solutions. The QBCon interface makes it possible for management to track  project status and staff activity in real time, for projects that take place off-site.  Read more...

QBCon Implements EasyAsk at Europ Assistance

We all know time is money, but for Europ Assistance time is often life. The company handles two million calls per month with queries from eight million consumers on issues such as health, travel, emergency services, professional consultations and cover, labour, education, and recovery. Each of these calls requires the operator to not only have access to the caller’s details, but also to be able to answer all the caller’s questions. This is a tall order when you consider that they have to scan through more than eight million records that come from various imported databases and that are written in various languages.  Read more...

Real Cost Versus the Ticket Price

Off-the-shelf, open source and rent to own are all variations on the same theme.  The idea is to get the client interested at a low price and to make money off them in some other way.  This is similar to buying an inkjet printer for R500 and then having to pay R600 every time you change the ink.  When you run a professional lab your LIMS is the heart of your business.  It is the key to your efficiency and regulatory accreditation.  Read more...

Midvaal Water Asks QBCon to write URS

Midvaal Water Company has signed up the Lab-i developer and vendor, QBCon, to complete a Business analysis and User Requirement Specification (URS). Lab-i is a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), which is developed by the business solution provider QBCon. Read more...

The Business Intelligence Irony

One of the ironies of business intelligence is that those who need information the  most have the least access to it.  In practical terms, this means that the CEO, sales director or CFO need an IT person to design a report before they can make sense of the company database.  In effect, the IT department regulates decision-making and access to data for everyone from customers to management.  The downside of this is the cost involved and the time taken to get a result..  Reports take between 24 hours and three weeks to produce.  By the time the report is finished, the requested report could well be useless. Read more...

Progress Software award for QBCon

Quality Business Consultants (QCBon) is the winner of the Progress Software New Technology Adoption/Innovation Award. The award was presented by Rick Parry, MD of Progress Software SA and Peter Jansen from the Progress UK office. QBCon’s Gustav Piater accepted the award.  Progress Software presents the award annually to the Progress business partner it recognises as the fastest to adapt new technology. Read more...

Environmental Auditor sees more Gains in greater Functionality

The greatest determiner of profitability in the service sector is the functionality, flexibility and the scope of your system.  This is the opinion of Gustav Piater, marketing director for QBCon, the business solution provider.  He should know.  QBCon has recently completed a functional expansion of the environmental consulting house, Green Gain Consulting’s, DigiLex system. Read more...

ERP systems not only for the big boys

It is a given that large retailers use enterprise resource planning (ERP) sytems to manage stock movements, payments and debt collecting. These systems make sense because they make it possible to run the operational and financial side of a retail business more efficiently while providing the type of business intelligence management needs to make strategic decisions. ERP systems reduce operating costs and make it possible to lower consumer prices. All this comes at a price. The barrier to entry is the huge cost associated with running and implementing these types of ERP systems. Read more...

QBCon cuts Business Intelligence costs

Even very sizeable businesses can now install a business intelligence tool in under three weeks – without having to make any significant changes to their current database systems.  QBCon, the business solution provider who makes this possible, has already accomplished the feat five times in the past two months.  Europ Assistance, Nedbank, IHD, and Matrix vehicle tracking have all benefitted from EasyAsk® installations by QBCon. Read more...

QBCon lubricates the wheels at Brent Oil

If billing and costing is at the heart of any operation’s profit then the oil and fuel reseller, Brent Oil, has made the perfect choice. QBCon, a business solution provider, is one of the few companies able to design the custom billing and costing ERP that can accommodate Brent Oil’s unique trading environment. Read more...

Bioindustrial tests new LIMS

Bioindustrial Services has a new laboratory information management system (LIMS).  LIMS was traditionally installed to improve the flow and tracking of samples in laboratories.  In recent years the focus has shifted as laboratories within large organisations that have evolved from cost centres to profit centres.  The added efficiency and business intelligence advantages that LIMS provide have become a competitive advantage. Read more...