Progress
Software Application Platform
The Progress
Software Application Platform is the tool that allows our
system to become future proof. With many of our competitors'
products, every time you want to extend the system, you need
to buy a new and different product from a different vendor.
With our system you only deal with one vendor, TMS Solutions,
Ltd, who also happens to be the creator of the system.
With Progress,
we can extend your system from within the walls of your current
office to global coverage, if necessary. It provides user
interfaces in character (our favorite), GUI and browser formats.
It offers a sophisticated Internet messaging system, SonicMQ,
to extend control of your information system from distinct
separate offices to a side area database that can extend across
the country.
Every
receipt journal posted can be recorded on your corporate database
at day's end, no matter where it might originate. Every adjustment
over $1,000 can be noted at the manager's level and reported
to corporate headers for review. Every shop order costing
more than $5,000 can be identified in detail at month end
by an administrator reviewing repair cost, not locally but
at headquarters. It allows management to build and schedule
key indicator reports so that when the CEO comes in each morning,
he/she knows exactly where every division stands in terms
of profitability. Future-proofing by Progress does not extend
only to our application, but to your data as well.
Unix
Operating System
Unix
and its system utilities provided the platform for the Internet;
it runs the information system of major corporations in this
country and continually out-performs NT in reliability and
services hours without downtime. Now with the introduction
of Lynx, you have that all-important GUI interface to make
life easier for some. We simply want to install server support
systems that will run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Unix
is the only operating system that offers that security.
Double
Vision
We have
a small support staff and there are a few good reasons why.
First, our software is extremely reliable and designed with
strong user interfaces to stop erroneous data from being entered.
Second, we can support our customers no matter where they
are. DoubleVision is the tool that allows us to do great things
with a small staff.
Using
DoubleVision, we can attach to any user session through the
Unix server. We can then watch the keystrokes and actions
taken by the operator. Thus we can correct and train your
users where they may be having problems. Likewise, if your
organization is large and has its own MIS staff, wouldn't
you like to improve the performance of your Help Desk with
a tool like this? We can do in a few minutes what our competitors
can do only with an on-site visit.
Lone-tar
Every
system needs a good backup utility, preferably one that will
run and complete the backup process on its own and notify
the administrator that it was successful or had a problem.
With Lone-tar, we offer just that type of reliable backup
system. How often do you back up your data now: once a week,
once a month, and do you have to pay someone overtime to get
it done or hang around yourself?
With
Lone-tar, those days are over. Just load the tape each morning
and Lone-tar will take care of the rest that night. If you
forget to switch tapes, no problem; Lone-tar will still back
the system up and notify you that it had to use the previous
night's tape. By "tape" you are probably assuming
they are the 5" by 8" cartridges. We use a more
reliable tape that is only 2" by 3.5" and about
a quarter of an inch in depth. Easy to handle and store and
it holds up to 24 GB of data compressed.
And you
will now have a complete backup every night, and every file
backed up is also verified. With this procedure, if there
is a problem with your tape, you know about it the next morning,
not when you have to restore that file. We recommend that
our customers back up their systems every night. We also recommend
that you use a different tape for each day of the week, and
an additional tape for each month end date. This is extremely
cheap insurance to protect your most precious asset, your
customer and vendor data.
A truck gets taken off the road and repaired when something
breaks, but your information system must be up and running
as close to 100% of the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
52 weeks a year. How does your current procedure compare to
ours? We simply will not take chances with your business.
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