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. ' ——— ' . ■ I CONCEPT Data is J 9| -■ > t Following a recent major investment of funds into CONCEPT Data ■* ■ ■ , -.Systems Ltd by the Development Finance Corporation, two additional / -M jlalHldirectors were appointed to the board to act on their behalf. They were Wk £Rk IV MT BM 191 A /Jw W Ma*jMß,u.> Mr Max Bowden and Mr David Page. HH Rm .HR H HB HE HR ' ; ;>L z ! ~'’^H9fF^’!KffffffM99l9^ g • ■■ '. <■• Mr Bowden is the director of the American T’’■.*?:•. WE WH 9 Hr RH aHHH HE 9f HR »?'s i ‘i.Sn publisher of Main Report Chamber of Commerce in ■? WBu ■ 91 *9 ■ 9 n H » > W Publications Ltd and N.Z. JH. JMk. JhhL JaIRL w M .' • Global House Ltd, and is Mr Page, who has a '» .■ ‘. the proprietor of Max Bachelor of Science ■ CONCEPT Data Systems Ltd (formerly known as Business Computers Ltd) has not only R ' Bowden Racing and (H?ns.) from the ■ changed its name but the Christchurch Head Office has also moved into new office premises. BBHHH ■ 8 Recently Mr °Disttibution “We are well and truly sites, we are able to and already all company and built by Buildcrete ,' 'l|C < ■ Rowden was Manacine Manager for Canterbury -•■’Ffs39BlL moving into the future combine into the one, and advertising' product and Ltd, of which Mr M Doctor of Bowden International Ltd with the introduction of even more efficient site technical information Parmenter is the «• Communications Ltd, subsidiary of Lane ' our new ABC range of operation,” Mr Grainger leaflets, and stationery Managing Director. Walker Rudkin Ltd. aih BHbbßv commercials software said. has been changed to Bealey Park is several Mr Page has astrong packages, the change of “And we changed our reflect the new, futuristic acres of park-like background in computer David Pane name and our shift to new name to CONCEPT Data image. surroundings, with grass, Whardware and software premises.” said Mr Paul Systems Ltd to more CONCEPT'S new trees, and shrubs, and as he was previously the specialist software Grainger, CONCEPT’S accurately reflect our office premises are in the with ample car parking, Group General Manager developed by people with Managing Director. present, and future, hne new Bealey Park and, of course, the office of Datacom Group Ltd, the proper skills,” Mr n of business, namely complex, on the corner of buildings, with the two- Looking forward to the future — several of CONCEPTS Directors pictured here from and is still a director of Page said. “The new premises conceiving, designing and Bealey Avenue and storey building com- left, Stuart Columbus, David Page, and Geoffrey Ambler, with Managing Director, Pau! ' -S®K ’sZ Challenge Cnmnnters “And CONCEPT Data were needed because of developing only the best Churchill Street, pletely separate from each Grainger (seated). - Ltd a subsidiai? of the Systems Ltd certainly the drastic growth in our in modern and future- Christchurch. other. Government Life Cor- have a large number of ~ staffing which in turn was proof software systems,” Bealey Park is itself a According to Mr Street, Wellington’s approximately 8,000 light of our creative, ► I.giHc poration. some of the most highly due to the increasing he said. new concept in com- Parmenter, he originally Featherstone Street area square feet, made up of user-orientated method I' ) He is also Chairman of skilled people I have ever business-throughput, and The ‘C’ from mercial office buildings, intended to have only the and Auckland’s Short- the two storeys, with of software design Board of the seen in the computer now instead of being CONCEPT will be used designed and developed five separate office land Street area. access between floors by and development,” Max Bowden Christchurch Theatre software industry,” he spread over two different as the company’s logo, by Mr Peter Parmenter buildings, but demand CONCEPT Data way of a large stairway. CONCEPT’S Managing one of the South Island’s Trust which administers said. — has been such that the Systems Ltd’s building Lifts can be installed if Director, Mr Paul largest advertising the Court Theatre. “I am fortunate, and > X X area has been extended was the first to be required Grainger said. agencies. “I believe there is a pleased, to be associated I ! tM DPW further J our w,th ll ? e CONCEPT are using Our sales staff are Mr Bowden is a j so a tremendous market for with them,” Mr Page said. JL buildings are being building expected to be the bottom, or ground more often than not • 1 planned. completed and occupied floor for Reception, involved in software OT I Emphasis is on the by October. All nine Software Sales, design, especially since ||S —- - ■ X-FJL WIIIIIIVI. uVll ▼▼ <KJL V- . exterior environment, buildings are expected to CONCEPT PC Sales, they know the end- HHH just as much as on the be occupied by the end of Customer Services, market users in person,” Ifl Jy jg ll SLxk_.SF ffl y wLla aIL/U. A new range of commercial software packages, called ABC, has been interior, with all buildings 1987. Management, and Com- Mr Grainger said. .. A designed and developed by CONCEPT Data Systems Ltd, using the most featuring balconies and CONCEPT Data pany Administration. “Now, with everything A Ttiik ß up-to-date fourth generation language, INFORMIX-4GL, and is soon to outside terraces, all in Systems Ltd have also The various software under the one roof, and ffi glgj ITlg g II w. g| be released on the market. ' complete contrast to the taken a lease on a second design and development everything much more JiLHIJI ▼ xIbZkjUUsLjHL ||UfJWw The new multi-user powerful, flexible, and that affect the business multi-storey office block. building, to allow for divisions, along with the practical, we are in an JL JL ABC will eventually portable, than any other community, such as Mr Parmenter con- further future develop- conference and meeting even better position to get j n a time of most of CONCEPT Data the staff, feature up to 10 different software system already something that may ceived the idea of the merit and expansion and rooms are on the first, or down to the serious businesses being con- Systems Ltd maintain “There are many skilled and separate, but available,” Mr Thomson- happen in the future, Bealey Park complex in in the meantime will be top, floor. business of designing, rprn p(j nhmit whpfhpr that thpv arc* npnnlp- oeonle out there in the interactive, modules, but said. similar to when-the intro- opposition, to the multi- sub-letting the second “We were well-overdue developing, and selling J™ JompSter industry who initially only three will be “And when you duction of GST was an- storey office alley building, once it is for the shift and it had our own special kind of they are either capital, intensive or that their P bri n;^n t at available. combine all the benefits nounced,” Mr Thomson approach, such as in completed. got to the stage of being future-proof software,” plant, or stock first investment is in the des i en in£ software The first three modules and advantages of ABC said. Christchurch’s Hereford Each building is badly needed, especially in Mr Grainger said. intensive, the directors people who make up systems & but the big to be released early next withCONCEPT’sguaran- , •question’is whether they month are “Module No. teed support, the user is 'W' "wr J H "E are designing brilliant =• kc ===■? Hamilton office builds concept ranks No.l es™ and “Module No. 3 — he said. 'Wr "W" "T ©IE *■ "B <■? q ® -® Ujt j «H‘"S on Waikato devetopmem m independent survey “Invoicing”, “Inventory computer input com- M. software, and by best I Control”, “Job Costing”, mands to recall the infer- a fj me when other Hamilton computer companies are being forced out of business A recent survey on “Engineering Personnel” (1.7), “Supplier’s Business mean software that is “o' 11 ,‘LTwhME because of competitive pricing and lower profits, CONCEPT Data Systems Ltd’s Hamilton customer attitude to and “Hardware Main- Practice” (1.8), “Overall suitable for users’needs, Payrol 1, and Office virtually anyone whether forging ahead and growing from Strength to strength along with the whole Waikato five different computer tenance” did not apply to Support on Data then we only employ the Automation”, numbered they are the usual Ollice is lorgmg aneau ana growing irom sirengin to sireiigm aiung wnn me wnoie wamaiu „ nmnanipK Pflrr : P a CONCEPT, so they did Processing”J2.l), “Terms people who will produce as Modules 4to 10, operator or not, can area. " M»n«opm»nf not rate at * n l h ese an d Conditions of this type of software,” he accordingly. access to information. CONCEPT Data W r'" ” y i? ♦ aTh areas - Contracts” (2.0), and said. “We consider this to be Systems Ltd, with its ■| i „?? u, p nt ? Ar,nur But CONCEPT rated “Sales Representatives” “Our staff are not just the absolute ultimate in “And because it has highly expert staff led by ’ Hobie & Associates t ,j n the satisfaction (2.0). highly knowledgeable of future-proof software,” been written in local Manager, Doug ' BRRHb ?1 Ltd, clearly showed ratings in II of the computer languages, said Mr Darryl Thomson, INFORMIX-4GL, it is Hunt, operate from a CONCEPT as having a remaining 14 categories. “We knew we would operating systems, and Project Manager for the far easier to amend to suit unique position in the \ definite lead. The ratings were based rate top in price, and the different types of design, development and an individual user s Waikato, both geograph- g,- V- ■ The survey was on a score of Ito 5, with believed we would rate hardware, but they are installation of ABC. particular needs, and to ically and competitively. ..gj..' ■ ' conducted among Ac- 1 being “Very Satisfied” highly in many of the also highly knowledgeIt is far more alter to allow for changes They are centrally w ... counting and Legal users and 5 being “Very other categories, but it able of the user-market’s located to the 50% of New g'and sought their degree of Dissatisfied”, and those was rewarding to be rated needs,” said Mr John Zealand’s population that f sRMHkSR satisfaction to the five surveyed were allowed to so highly in the area Kelly, another of live within .only a 150 computer hardware and score anywhere in of satisfaction with our CONCEPT’S directors, kilometre radius, yet most software suppliers. between. sales representatives,” “Many of our staff also f i lAI company costs are lower, y ’ HWWiW ’ The survey included 16 Overall, CONCEPT CONCEPT’S Managing hold degrees in VA/1 X LFJL LF WO than if they were located . r ‘ specific categories, cov- was rated at 2.08, Director, Mr Paul Commerce, or Business 1— w |x-B.tTTTTTr i n Auckland, and in this 4 s ering the different aspects compared with the 2.45 of Grainger said. Administration, or IjODUIHI Wim iiIWVCrS day and age * any HHI * —• of hardware and soft- their closest rival over the Company Law, and this reductions in operating | . 1 t ‘"?.S IfrlßMtr?--' i. i ware supply, per- same 14 categories. “It is a form of final gives them the much- . . overheads give a S’ ’ J I formance, price, ease of CONCEPT rated confirmation of our needed inside edge when In the two years since it was first developed, company that edge. -" .Jr J use ’ reliability, training, exceptionally highly in policy of investing in only designing and developing CONCEPT’S CONTACs software system has Also they have a large, support, and the categories of “Price” the best people, and being systems for Accountants, proven highly popular with law practices throughout and growing, market maintenance. (1.7), “Ease of Use of people, or customer or Law Practices, or the New Zealand, and is now in use in a large number right at their doorstep in RH® -•-NLjjg Two of the categories, Applications Software” orientated,” he said. business world in of legal firms from Whangarei to Queenstown, the Waikato, especially KWI''^WW^^tt^iBiHRBHHRRHHHHRHBRi^^ -« ''——' — — — Beneral»”Useaccording to Mrs Brenda Ayers, one of CONCEPT’S fee University and IIMW IA fl flfl ® Product Manager,. fteuebmeat nature of rhe ! || — 001 XX^C 1 OISII iPOII Mrs Ayers was respon- and credit control Oth er competitive HHRIfCT H H lIH H W H H iTRbwT H W sible for the original through the Account aspects of CONCEPT’S ' //> ' design and development Rendered system. Hamilton-based business CONCEPT’S Service Department, or Systems Support Division, offers customers immediate troubleot the CONJ AC it October t just are that they offer a wider :> .«j shooting, either on the spot or with an on-site call, up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Sy an-i J mDort e am r fe e alure°of ° f I ' The staff of five, led by call, when, depending One of the hardest checking. CONTACs is a fullv CONTACs is that all including UNIX and i’L... . .awiariOl 'tWßHßllifcbw.. iff tfetwlW Manager Bruce Rees, upon the degree of the problems CONCEPT’S After checking integrated svstem esne- GST reouirements are f °nrth generation i Siui® spend much of their time problem, it may be able System Support team everything — the system, ciailv desioned tn easilv inherent m the svstem software, and they are: the Mr Q eorge Fraser (seated), Chartered Accountant, discusses a new system with installing customers new- to be solved immediately, ever had to solve reads the hardware, the disk handle all asnects of S In -.1 CBNTAO has only company not tied to CONCEPTS Hamilton staff, from left, Joy Black (Customer Services), Doug Hunt ly purchased CONCEPT then and there, on the like a high-tech spy novel. device - several times, “ring" 8 six n dt;krenTb^t CS ful" LX C re f br’and XPenSlVe and Aden Smith (Account!ng and reiated systems). and training phone. The/client’s JLblem they came to the The management func- integrated modules, “Our wide choice of them in how to get the If it can not be solved seemed to defy all the laws conclusion that there was tions within CONTACs giving applications for hardware options always offer our clients “And our software said. most effective use from immediately, then some- of computer science, and nothing wrong with allow total control of law Trust Accounting, Time together with our ability products which are at the enjoys an excellent “this means that carried out solve'the nroblem as soon common^ense 6 ° f nrobtem' stHl 1 exited firms’ clients’ trust Recording, Account run our software leading edge,” Mr Hunt refutation and is clients will often be able on T X ® a one to-one £ possible common sense. P^er I ’f accounts, investments, Rendered Investment products on MS-DOS, said. recognised the length and to keep both their Casis or Tn semfears A typical type of user- The CONCEPT there mortgages, as well as Control, Contributory UNIX, and the new “Single-vendor com- breadth of the country as software and their P.Cs which ever is the most probtem that might occur software system was practice time recording, Mortgages, and GST. fourth generation panics have to wait until being unsurpassed for when they grow to a su *? ta “ le and that can be handled installed and fe operation Finally, in near INFORMIX operating their hardware vendor quality value for money, . network into a mini But most of their time or solved on the telephone and sometimes ran desperation, a “last-ditch-flfl Court Document systems, mean that we are does the integration for portability from nard- computer, Mr Hunt is in trouble . is something like an I/O perfectly and sometimes attempt” effort was made Reporting system for the able to integrate third them, because they don t ware to hardware and said. shooting - solving users’ error on a disk device. didn’t. When it didn’t run by writing a special »l 111 Ilt3 Court of Queen’s Bench party products that are at use the standard being future-proof, he problems, as the problem The Systems Support perfectly, the system utilities program that . ,7“ in Alberta. he h forefront of operating systems, he said Apart from Mr Hunt, £ rises team member will help seemed to be would store the data in Protect Manager He was also instru- technology much easier said. This is most important with his extensive *. We are de fj n itely the user to isolate which “scrambling” the client’s sections — what they call hai wirfp ranw mental in designing, and quicker than single- Another of our major when you consider the experience in a wide range people orientated, and we part of the disk device is datafiles. “snap-shots”, deve loping, and installing L e " d 0" c g™P a ™ es ’ ~s aid strengths is that we are future of hardware, where of computer activities.and there to help faulty, and enable the user Over a period of about . of experience a Claims and Assessments CONCEPT s Hamilton able to provide clients you will have P.Cs hardware, CONCEPT s customers with their day to recover what data they two weeks, each time the And it was while one in 4GL system for the Workers Manager, Mr Doug with a viab e growth path replacing terminals on Hamilton office also to day problems, as well can, then help them repair CONCEPT team visited of these “snap-shots” was Compensation Board of Hunt from small and inex- minis to give the user local features Allen Smith, as anything major that the disk, and finally, help the site to check it out, being stored, that they Darryl Thomson, the Northwest Terri- In turn, this means pensive P.Cs to the larger specific options on the specialist in Accounting may go wrong,” Systems the user to reload the everything seemed to run found an error, and were CONCEPT’S Project tories ’ in association with fe a < ™ can always be mini computers, without P.C., but also be able to and related systems Su^rt Manager, Bruce data. perfectly. As soon as they able to trace it to one of Manner for the personnel from Currie, right up to date with the haying to change do system-wide work software, and Joy Black, Re ; s P said . 5 ’ A typical problem that left, files would be the client’s employees, JpvAlnnmpnt nf the Coopers & Lybrand. technology and can software, Mr Hunt said. through the mini, he Customer Support. There is always at least would involve a site visit “scrambled” again. who, using another JLp f — ” ———————— one of the service/ is something like a file It seemed to be one of terminal, had been new ABC range o support staff on hand to corruption due to those insoluble problems, deliberately sabotaging commercial jSOitvv are jL 3 CUSt ° mer ’ S P^ one operator error. but the team kept on the input material. experience, both here ’ and overseas, in CONCEPT Data Systems Ltd have released a new general purpose program, called GSTPAC, ■ developing user- to handle all the special matters arising from the introduction of the Goods and Service Tax at the I/'’”™C™*° friendly business beginning of October, this year. I software in fourth j GSTPAC has been “Provided they run- of the new program is that exclusive of GST, and generation languages. especially designed for CONCEPT’S ‘Private where transactions corresponding GST SA After graduating from JRk / use by Chartered Ledger’ module, include GST, either debit amounts. HSR mH HMEWw" —y the University of Darryl Thomson Accountants and com- GSTPAC provides an or credit, GSTPAC Separate totals are 9s* iRR WHR 9| Canterbury with a Other systems orig- mercial businesses to easy, economical system calculates l/llth of the shown for sales and gU Wl M flht 9 wk 111 Bachelor of Commerce in inated by Darryl include prepare GST returns for to prepare their clients’ amount and generates a purchases, together with a HS| Ba 19 9 Iff Accounting and a specialised general the Inland Revenue GST returns,” he said. transaction to subtract summary report. WA jßHHlHß Umhhihw&smi Economics, Darryl went ledger package, a rental Department. “This means there is no the GST content from the |K RH to Canada, where he unit invoicing system, a GSTPAC can be used need to change inclusive amount, and The other report is a Iffl xHH Hi BB wn 'WRHHMB spent several years as nationwide system for in conjunction with either procedures or introduce simultaneously posts a reconciliation report,. Software Development auto wreckers to buy and the “Private Ledger”, or complications, just corresponding contra summarising values -&^kßß^R^Ow ; C? | a al n j Manager for Northwest sell auto parts, a the “Accounts Payable” because GST has entry to the relevant GST calculated from both kzOlf i Computer Services. membership system for a modules of CONCEPT’S arrived,” Mr Grainger suspense account. exclusive and inclusive j n During this time, trade union, a stock ACCOUNTAC software said. It is these GST transactions, the values F | Darryl was responsible control system for a system. “A main feature of the suspense accounts that held in the suspense liDT* for designing and timber mill and an on-line “By being able to have new GSTPAC is that it provide both an audit account and the IUTTJViu developing several new network auto rental input via the ‘Private is totally hardware trail and the data for the differences. O j—rwwr programs for unique reservation and invoicing Ledger’ module, independent, which GST returns for the applications, ranging system. GSTPAC is ideally suited means that users only Inland Revenue Depart- These reports can be z ||| from an entry and Darryl’s range of for Chartered Account- need to have the hardware ment. run at any time, and as BSf ||| analysis system for a programming languages ants who do not run a suitable to their needs, Two reports . are all transaction files ‘complete with “pledge” programme used include BASIC PLUS, computerised Accounts rather than have to buy generated, on request, by present are read by the ® extended GS.T. features in a Telerama event to BASIC PLUS 2, and the Payable system for their in special hardware to suit GSTPAC. One is a GST report function, it is not jfl ft CONCEPT DATA SYSTFMS lIMITFD raise funds for the two main fourth gener- clients,”. CONCEPT’S the needs of the report showing exempt necessary that transac- |gf Bealey Park. Cnr Bealey Avenue & Churchill Street. RO. Box 13-309, Telephone (03) 791-427, Christchurch disabled people of ation languages USER- Managing Director, Mr software,’ he said transactions those tions be posted before 3 TYistram Street. Cnr Collingwood Street. RO. Box 963, Telephone (071) 80-198, Hamilton. New Zealand Alberta, a 11 and INrORMIX. Paul Grainger said. pother major feature inclusive of GST, reports are run. HL- ; — • - - - —-, %