IRIS
"Pervasive has consistently proved to be resilient specialists in database development, from which IRIS has profited for the past 16 years. Pervasive PSQL™ has enabled us to build an award-winning product which doesn't just have users – it has fans!"
Eduardo Loigorri,
Technical Director
IRIS
About IRIS Group
Headquartered in Bournemouth, United Kingdom, IRIS Group – which includes IRIS Enterprise Software – is a leading developer of mid-range accounting systems designed to maximize productivity within any business needing to produce management accounts. IRIS' typical clients have annual revenues of up to $50 million and employ between 100 and 200 people.
For years, IRIS Enterprise Software has won awards for its products. In 2005, Real Finance/ CBI FDS gave the company the Excellence Award as Financial Software Provider of the year for smaller implementations. In previous years, IRIS Enterprise Software's Enterprise accounting system won the Accountancy Age Award for Best Mid-Range Accounting Software; BASDA's (Business Application Software Developers' Association's) Best Mid-Range Package; and the European E-Commerce Association Award for Most Advanced XML Application.
More than 10,000 companies worldwide use IRIS' Enterprise Software to maximize the productivity of a company's entire accounting operation, including Team New Zealand, GMTV, HJ Heinz, Marks & Spencer Plc, Virgin Energy, National Express, The Samaritans, and Securicor.
Business Challenge:
Thirteen years ago, IRIS Enterprise Software needed to diversify from a bespoke software development house to supply off-the-shelf business automation applications that offered their target audience of small to mid-sized enterprise users a rare combination of lowcost-of-ownership, scalability, and reliability. Their challenge was to develop an accounting application that could scale from a single user to support several hundred users and provide control of mission critical functions, including sales and stock management, customer service, manufacturing, and project management.
Pervasive PSQL Business Solution
IRIS Enterprise Software started out developing Enterprise using the Pervasive PSQL's predecessor, Btrieveâ„¢, in 1990 and has continually evolved the product. Although IRIS has always been a big fan of Pervasive, the company regularly evaluates competitive SQL databases to compare performance levels, but consistently finds Pervasive to be far superior.
Running on Windows NT, Linux, and Novell, Enterprise is a mid-range accounting/ERP solution offering users the ultimate in reliability, speed, scalability and low-cost-of-ownership. As Pervasive is virtually maintenance-free, IRIS' corporate clients do not need to employ expensive database administrators.
"It's simply a case of install and forget," says Loigorri. "Because Pervasive enables us to use the same source code regardless of the installation size, this gives us a huge advantage over competitors, who, because they have to redevelop different product lines to suit different sized users, cannot supply applications that are as competitively priced as IRIS." IRIS estimates this cost savings at about 33% and passes it directly onto their customers.
Over the years, IRIS has found supporting Pervasive applications to be extremely straightforward. In one case, one of the company's users in New Zealand was experiencing reliability problems. Thanks to the ease with which Pervasive applications can be supported, the hardware causing the problems was quickly identified and the problem was solved remotely, causing minimum disruption.
Bottom Line
IRIS Enterprise Software continues to win awards and customers because the technology it provides meets the needs of today's business financial and accounting environments. The company is dedicated to developing high-quality, reliable, and robust business solutions that enhance the productivity of small to medium-sized enterprises worldwide, while providing the highest standard of after-sales support together with a forward thinking future development strategy.
To meet its objectives, IRIS Enterprise Software works with providers that offer the best solutions to them. "IRIS has won more consecutive awards than any of our competitors, and I attribute our company's continued success to the high quality of products, like the database engine from Pervasive, that form the basis of our business management solutions," concludes Loigorri.
For more information
To learn more about Pervasive Software and our solutions, please visit www.pervasive.com. To reach the North American sales office, call 1.800.287.4383, extension 2. For Latin, Central and South America, Australia and New Zealand, call +1.512.231.6000. In Europe, for Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, call +800.12.12.34.34. For any other European, Middle Eastern, African or Asian countries (excluding Japan), call +32.70.23.37.61. For Japan, please call +81.3.3293.5300, or visit www.pervasive.co.jp.
For further information on IRIS Enterprise Software, visit www.exchequer.com or call +01202.298.008.
