A day in your life with QBCon We all go though life oblivious to the ways in which the world is interconnected and how people we may never have met and companies we may never have heard of affect our lives. Think of any product you use. Regardless of the brand name on the label it requires testing, management and control during its manufacturing.  Everything that is produced follows a long and complicated path from producer to consumer.  Every product, no matter how seemingly insignificant, depends on the company that produces it.  Companies, in turn, depend on systems to keep the profits rolling in.  Now think of a company, like QBCon, and how it plays a part in your life every minute of the day. Read more… Client’s trust in QBCon sees it survive crisis In 2000, a QBCon client chose an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution called QBCon Enterprise.  QBCon Enterprise is custom-produced according to customer needs by Centurion-based Quality Business Consultants (QBCon).  The client’s decision paid off, with the retailer now operating 25 outlets, ranging from family grocery outlets to supermarkets and massive wholesale trade shops staffed by 250 users. Read more... AFGRI expands functionality with branch server deployment Afgri, the diversified agricultural supplier with an income of R5,5 billion a year, is changing the way it manages its enterprise resource planning (ERP) in its flagship retail outlets.  This is to gain greater business continuity in areas with poor or unstable connectivity. Read more... Dries Louw says LIMS is critical for Labs Dries Louw, Executive Manager of Laboratory Services for ERWAT, has sung the praises of LIMS systems in laboratories at a QBCon industry breakfast session held at Emperors' Palace on 17 October. LOUW'S knowledge of water and wastewater management made it clear that the right skills and highly developed technologies, such as an effective laboratory information management system (LIMS), will aid in ERWAT’s success in improving quality services in the industry and environment. LOUW said that "Effective equipment can be used to obtain results and better analysis." Read more... ERWAT signs up QBCon for URS The East Rand Water Care Company (ERWAT) has recently signed up QBCon, a business software solution provider to complete a User Requirements Specification (URS).  The Centurion-based outfit beat some industry heavyweights to win the contract. The deal follows an earlier announcement this week that QBCon will deploy the business intelligence tool, EasyAsk, for Europe Assist. Read more... United National Breweries Partner with QBCon South Africa’s largest brewer of sorghum beer, United National Breweries has partnered with QBCon, IT software Solution Provider for the implementation of QBCon’s Laboratory Information Management System, QBCon Lab-i, that will realise substantial cost savings as well improved productivity and operations. Read more... AFGRI goes live without Telkom They say a Boer maak ‘n plan and this is the perfect example. When the phone lines aren’t there it doesn’t mean the earth has to stop turning and you can’t open your retail store. It just means you have to have a little ingenuity. This is the story of how one of SA‟s largest co-ops and an IT company from Centurion did just that. Read more... QBCon signs biggest agricultural Co-op in South Africa Quality Business Consultants were contracted to supply AFGRI Producer Services’ with an ERP solution. The brief was to integrate the newly acquired business (Natal Cooperative limited and Lowveld Cooperative) with the current business, traditionally known as OTK. One of the main objectives was to ensure that total integration was done, and to ensure that the system could provide solutions from purchasing and inventory management, to retail solutions that include barter deals. The brief also involved having to replace outdated mainframe system and cut IT costs significantly. Read more... ADSL and Business ADSL has not yet taken off in South Africa to the extent that it has in other parts of the world. There may be compelling cost reasons for this, as we very well know, South Africa is known as early adopters when it comes to new IT developments, yet here it has not grown as expected. (See the statistics below to see how far behind Africa and the Middle East actually is). Yet, there are signs that costs are decreasing and due to decrease even more rapidly in the foreseeable future. Read more... QBCon Lab-i Causes Uproar The first commercial version of QBCon Lab-i, released during the last quarter of 2005 is reaching new heights. Local Laboratories are welcoming QBCon Lab-i into the market because it set out to solve many paper trail headaches within this sector. Read more... Branding and Corporate Identity: Demand a Return on Investment The words Corporate Identity and Branding have became buzzwords within the marketing industry. These two concepts must not be disregarded and should be given thorough consideration, but ought to still to report a sound return on investment in the long run. Read more... Natural Language Processing (NLP) becomes a reality for e-commerce retailers with launch of EasyAsk 10 EasyAsk 10, the latest version of Progress Software's business intelligence tool, is available from QBCon. EasyAsk is the only system that processes all your company data and answers your questions without backroom involvement, by searching with natural language processing (NLP). Read more...