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Distinctly Greentree

The Greentree Product Greentree delivers a completely on-line, real-time business solution, with all business functions totally integrated. Greentree also integrates seamlessly with common desktop tools for business reporting, budget modelling, and transaction entry and document management. Along with its partners, Greentree provides business-building software and implementation services to help customers with rapid, low-cost, low-risk deployment and ongoing support.

The Greentree DifferenceGreentree will help streamline your internal processes resulting in increased productivity across all areas of your business. It is designed to adapt to your changing needs and grow with your business into the future. Greentree’s main users are medium sized businesses, but it is also successfully used by many larger organisations.

• Flexible adaptation to prevailing

business challenges

• Simple real-time remote connectivity

• Rapid implementation and

responsive support

• Instantly familiar desktop

tool integration

• Business-wide system integration

• Powerful productivity driver

• Continuously updated software

Greentree International specialises in developing outstanding financial and business management software for medium sized enterprises. For over 20 years, through a widespread, dedicated Greentree Business Part-ner Network, our products have been chosen by and successfully enhanced the operations of more than 10,000 organisations.

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The Greentree product is able to support from a small team to many hundreds of users. It is suited to a broad range of industries and business types and includes customisation options that take into account individual user requirements. The core components are highly flexible and designed to be used within any industry.

Greentree Customer SatisfactionGreentree has demonstrated its breadth and depth of functionality across a range of industry sectors in Australia, New Zealand, Asia-Pacific, UK and USA, providing a powerful yet simple, easily customised, extremely cost-effective business system that is flexible enough to grow with all businesses. Greentree is well matched for SME business conditions and has been successfully applied to businesses throughout these regions. Our customers tell us it is just the solution to their business-building aspirations.

‘’very, very, flexible’’The only constant in business is change, and with this in mind, Greentree has been developed to easily adapt to meet prevailing challenges within your business. Our

unique modular design enables you to implement the simplest solution, through to a total business manage-ment package. Simple, smart thinking that offers the flex-ibility to grow with your business. Configuration param-eters enable your system to become as comprehensive or as simple as you need, with a unique profile for each user providing secure access to authorised areas only.

The Greentree system is so flexible you can customise screens for individual users, configure personal desktops and easily build graphics for key information that is im-portant to you.

‘’very, very, familiar’’Greentree’s flexible design and seamless integration with common desktop tools, such as Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook provides extreme accuracy in business performance measures and information. Its powerful features mean you have quick and easy access to key information, in the format you require.

‘’very, very, integrated’’Your whole team working together, using one reliable

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source of information, no double entry and confusion caused by disparate systems, no clumsy breakable inter-faces - that’s complete integration. Greentree achieves this both by total integration and intelligent design and with the breadth and depth of it’s business functional-ity. From customer service to manufacturing, from pur-chasing to warehouse, from all business activity to the financial results Greentree provides the ultimate seamless business-building environment.

‘’very, very, accessible’’Remote users can easily connect to Greentree via a local area network, intranet or over the internet – accessibility where and when you need it! This provides an effective and extremely cost effective way of providing remote users with complete on-line access to Greentree, removing the need to have highly configured workstations on every user’s desk.

‘’very, very, alive’’Greentree is a completely on-line, real-time, integrated system - live information at your fingertips, always! A

single point of data entry updates all relevant areas instantaneously, with no “inter-module” posting or updating required. Now you truly can have your finger on the pulse of your business.

‘’very, very, responsive’’It is the combination of many powerful attributes that makes Greentree so responsive. With total real-time integration of all functions you achieve a 360o view of your entire operation. Using Workflow and Approvals & Alerts you can proactively manage your business. Dynamic reporting tools enable you to truly have your finger on the pulse of finance and operations.

Best of all, Continuous Deployment (see next section) ensures you are not only implementing the best system available today but will also have the best system tomorrow.

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GREENTREE CLIENT SPOTLIGHT:

MeyercordRevenue Inc.

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Greentree’s Continuous Deployment advantage

With Greentree’s Continuous Deployment software strategy this has become a reality. A unique approach that breaks through current restrictive market practices for software delivery. Welcome to a new paradigm of best practice software deployment and maintenance. Always up to date – this is what Greentree means by very, very responsive.

ERP software suppliers typically offer an annual enhancement upgrade and periodic “fix” releases. This traditional approach not only means a long wait for enhancements but for users these annual releases have created an expensive and invasive process often requiring extensive testing and downtime, business re-engineering, potential retraining and lots of problems with any customisations.

Worse still these barriers and costs have caused many companies to stop or delay upgrading, creating rapid obsolescence in their critical support systems. Over

time the effort and cost required to “catch-up” becomes prohibitive, leaving the organisation languishing on old systems with ever increasing lost opportunities and increasing support costs.

Forget all that because with Greentree’s Continuous Deployment approach you have the ability to apply updates and changes to standard and custom software solutions, on a regular basis, at low cost and with minimal business impact.

No other software supplier in Greentree’s market space offers or supports this strategy. No other vendor offers a single point upgrade capability combining standard product enhancements working cohesively with customisations.

With Continuous Deployment the ongoing cost of enhancing and maintaining your critical business software is dramatically lowered and you are automatically

• Ongoing cost of enhancing and

maintaining software is dramatically

lowered

• Single point upgrade capability

• Minimal business impact

• Changes are released progressively and

managed in sequence

• As soon as the new software feature is

developed it’s available

• Customisations can be seamlessly

included

• Automated testing tools to reduce manual

effort, increase test throughput, and

ensure consistency

• Over 20 years of industry knowledge

ensures proven product quality

Ever wondered what it would be like to always have access to the latest and greatest business software at low cost and minimal impact? To be able to effectively match latest business practice and technology to help optimise all activity across your organisation?

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provided with the latest and greatest tools for competitive advantage and business growth.

Continuous Deployment In actionThe “Package” ApproachOnce a customer’s Greentree system has been imple-mented the Greentree update and maintenance plat-form can be deployed. Greentree provides it’s customers with a software packaging application (Packman) that enables all Greentree and JADE provided software updates to be applied to their systems through a single automated application.

Greentree also embraces an open source approach to our standard Greentree software with our community of authorised Value Added Developer partners (VAD’s). To support this approach, and maximise the effectiveness of this extended development community, we have evolved a sophisticated development framework that allows Greentree and our VAD’s to build custom functionality as discrete add-on components and apply these easily to a standard Greentree environment.

To overcome the challenge of multiple updates being applied via different methods to customer systems, we have designed and developed this unique package release process that supports use by many developers, applying updates to a single customers system without conflict.

This provides customers with a low cost packaged approach to the deployment of their Greentree software and offers considerable advantages - both in speed and frequency of deployment of new software versions, as well as stability of product and platform.

The advantages this provides for customers are:

• All updates to the software are to the current version resulting in responsive delivery and rapid turnaround of software upgrades, fixes and customisations

• Customisations can be seamlessly included in the package process

• There are no old versions or individual patches or fixes. Changes are all released progressively and managed in sequence.

• Customers do not have to wait for a new version release at a later date to get changes to the software. As soon as

“I don’t even really know it’s happening. We get the benefits of having always up to date software and really useful new capabilities without all the pain and cost. Greentree and their service partner have got this working so smoothly.”

Andy Thomson, Commercial Manager - Gallery Gold

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the new software feature is developed it’s available. This represents a time saving of many months or even years over conventional methods.

Key features of the packaging system are:

• No service pack can be applied out of sequence• All packages can be implemented at all sites• Customised site releases are managed the same as

production releases• One production version to support and maintain

Getting Technical - our Object Orientated advantageOur competitors develop in languages and across databases that are not integrated development environments, where the database and program layers are typically independent of each other. As a result, they are forced to release new updates or versions as entire replacements to existing programs. This can result in large scale change even for the smallest software modification.

Greentree’s Object Orientated development and deploy-ment platform (JADE) provides a development toolset

and database within the same technical IDE environment, where all programs and data are stored within the one Object Orientated database.

As a result program and database components can be managed down to the smallest possible elements and when a change is made only that element is required to be issued via our release process.

Quality, Quality, QualityGreentree has been developing business solutions for over 20 years. Drawing on that experience, and through harnessing the best innovative technology, we have developed numerous quality processes and employ a multi layered approach to ensuring the delivery of highest quality software to our customers including:

• An integrated testing methodology at both code and application functional levels. This is driven by the design of comprehensive test plans which are continually updated as functional changes are applied to Greentree to ensure consistent and easily repetitive testing can be applied during the quality assurance cycle.

• Use of code/class change management systems to provide source library management and change specific

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test platforms. This ensures that changes are not “lost” across releases and that testing is undertaken against the current production version of Greentree.

• Automated testing tools to reduce manual effort, increase test throughput, and ensure consistency.

• Automated process checklists within the central development environment to monitor the development life-cycle and continually check that quality review processes are adhered to.

Documentation that Matches FunctionalityAs each Greentree change is released, we provide detailed release notes and these automatically update the Greentree Online Help system. Customers are advised of changes applied to their system immediately they log in and can go directly to the detail of changes or review these at a later time within the online help. This information can be viewed by release as well as functional area.

Greentree’s Connection ManagerGreentree’s Connection Manager enables you to centralise the administration of user connections. This minimises the requirement for IT support when new users are added to the network, and offers the security of knowing all users are using the most up to date version of the software.

Centralised Administration & User Synchronisation – The primary benefit associated with Greentree’s Connection Manager is that server settings and files only need to be maintained in one place. Each time a user connects to Greentree, the connection manager performs a check and refreshes user files from the server if they are out of date. This ensures each user is using the most up to date version of the software. For example, if a new version of FREE, our Excel reporting tool, is released, the user will automatically receive any new files required to run the updated version of FREE next time it connects to Greentree.

Load BalancingUsing the Greentree Connection Manager guarantees that new users always automatically connect to the application server which has the least number of users currently connected to it. This works for any number of application servers, running on different machines. The ability to load balance in this way means you can maximise network efficiency in terms of connection and response times.

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Greentree is built using JADE, an advanced technology platform purpose-built for the development and deployment of transaction-processing software systems. JADE has an integrated application-development environment (IDE), its own language, an object manager and a high-performance, object-oriented database.

What this means to you:

RobustThe JADE platform is highly robust, a result of a single technology across all layers from the GUI to the database, which removes any technology seams – making applications stronger and totally integrated.

It is designed for mission-critical requirements and the full rollback or crash recovery and archival recovery allows roll forward through database journals for point-in-time recovery.

Efficient Greentree’s JADE architecture is based on the thin client model, which operates far more efficiently than the industry norm.

High PerformanceJade is a highly resilient technology, powered by an industrial strength database. This capability ensures enhanced performance and security.

Cost-EffectiveThe total cost of ownership is significantly lower than those systems utilising other technology. The cost of these tools and the software licensing for the JADE database, including upgrades, is included in the price of Greentree.

Scalable and proven The JADE platform has the ability to manage the Greentree systems of our largest clients. Worldwide, JADE is being used by thousands of organisations that place significant demands on the system’s capacity. These organisations include Mitsubishi Motors, World Vision, Air New Zealand and Skipton Building Society, one of the UK’s largest financial lending institutions with over 1,000,000 customers.

JADE Website: www.jadeworld.com

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What makes Greentree so very, very, responsive?A new system is only as good as the skill and reliability of the support behind it. Just like the product, Greentree’s Partners are ready and able to respond to your needs!

Greentree has a dedicated Business Partner Network focused on understanding your business to help you with rapid, low-cost, low-risk deployment of effective business management software.

Your local support team will work with you to tailor a solution that will respond to your needs today and grow with you into the future.

Greentree Business Partner Network

Greentree is modular, with all business functions totally integrated. This provides you with a wide variety of modules and sub-modules that afford options rarely found in other packages. You purchase the pieces that you need, effectively matching the system to fit your business. Choose from: Financials, Job Costing, Supply Chain & Distribution, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Service & Asset Management, Business Intelligence, Retail, Workflow-Business Process Management and eBusiness.

Greentree is a solution, readily adapting across a broad range of industries and business types. Businesses are provided with a powerful, extremely cost-effective system that has consistently proven itself capable of managing change and growing business potential.

With simple, smart thinking at your fingertips, Greentree provides the ultimate seamless business-building environment. Exploit it’s accuracy in business metrics, challenge it’s capability to deliver empowering information. Rely on the one highly responsive solution to efficiently streamline your internal processes resulting in increased manageability and productivity across all areas of your enterprise.

What’s the difference to any other software solution? Greentree is the most responsive business software product available, providing a source of competitive advantage to help you drive your business to the next level!

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