Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 23 June 2009 17:31
Business IT -
Technology
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Australian software vendor, Pronto Software, has appointed a new head of its research and development team to spearhead its Australian market expansion as well as a push into international markets with its Pronto-Xi ERP solution.
Coinciding with today’s release of a new version
of its ERP software, Pronto’s managing director, David Jackman,
announced the appointment of Chad Gates as research & development
manager to spearhead the strategic development of its flagship
enterprise solution.
Jackman said Gates would assuming leadership of the company’s R&D
team based in its Melbourne development centre, and would be
responsible for driving product innovation and overseeing the entire
product lifecycle encompassing application and infrastructure
development, maintenance and quality control.
Gates said today the Pronto-Xi solution could significantly improve
business processes, boost productivity and achieve rapid ROI on IT
investment.
“Pronto Software has always maintained a strong focus on providing
practical innovation, which includes anticipating and responding to
changing customer needs. Customers are dealing with ever increasing
volumes of data. Our enterprise intelligence suite, included in our
latest (Phase 6) version, is prime example of the practical innovation
we’ve built into the product to help customers manage data in a
pragmatic way.”
According to Gates, software is becoming simpler and “more
personalised” and he says, in his new role, it is a key objective to
“look at ways to re-engineer our solution to empower customers so they
can use the technology the way they want, when they want, to support
their business requirements.”
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