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Pronto Software boosts Australian R & D effort

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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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