Breaking the Bank with Pervasive Software 

Breaking the Bank with Pervasive Software

“The financial industry has specific needs and requires full efficiency in its processes. With Pervasive Software, we offer our customers a powerful, scalable and easily deployable solution, which delivers a very quick ROI. In fact, our customers have seen how their investment was returned in just eight months!”

Victor M. Juidiaz, Development Manager, PROSS

About PROSS

Pross, S.A. (Promotora de Ingenieria Sistemas y Software) is a Spanish software engineering company, founded in 1984. Since its creation, its goal has been to deliver organisational computing solutions focused on achieving cost savings and productivity improvement.

The company’s software solution is designed to meet customer requirements for billing, distribution, purchases, storage and asset management. Pross has a solid customer base across financial entities. Nowadays, 30% of the minor banking institutions that operate in Spain rely on Pross, including Banco Sabadell, Barclays Bank, Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada and Caja de Ahorros de La Rioja. These and other organisations use Pross’ solutions to manage their product storage, purchase orders and distribution of stationery items.

With headquarters in Madrid, the company is currently developing agreements with several entities in South America.

Business Challenge

Banks require customised systems to manage their specific logistics needs. Tasks such as purchase orders or delivery of stationery items to employees, cannot be managed in an ordinary way with traditional automated processes. They need tailored solutions that offer a high level of performance and quick response. Currently, more than 20 financial entities use Mambank, the specific solution developed by Pross for banks.

Basically, Mambank consists of the codification of elements, goods or services that could be purchased, according to the following structure: storable, services and fixed assets. The expense control system is one of the more significant features of the application, since it contributes to customers saving money. In addition, this application is able to manage purchasing processes for centralised organisations as well as for organisations that allow their departments to manage purchase orders.

Mambank is an open solution that optimises the management process through departmental applications rely on a common directory. Mambank has built-in functionality to avoid errors or redundancy in data entries in all of the processes from purchase order to payment to providers. Mambank delivers budget and expense control applications for all kind of departments across the organisation, connecting them with the company's central system and with providers. Mambank runs over Novell and Windows and uses Pervasive in combination with the programmer language Cobol Visual Age. Pross is currently also experimenting with Linux on the client side, using a Tomcat application server in combination with Java.

Pervasive.SQL as the Business Solution

Pross and Pervasive Software maintain a solid partnership, which dates from the beginning of the ‘90s. Today, Pross operates as a end-user developer. “We chose Pervasive over other competitive products because of its speed in performance, easy installation and low administration,” said Victor Juidíaz, development manager, Pross. “With Pervasive.SQL our developers are able to implement our applications in just one or two months, providing customers a very fast Return on Investment (ROI).”

When Pross made the selection of products to be embedded in its solution, they valued above all the low total cost of ownership and speed in performance. They found an excellent transactional component in Btrieve to develop their Mambank application solution.

Nowadays, they use Pervasive.SQL since most corporate networks run on NT/2000 servers on TCP/IP protocol. Pervasive.SQL allows users to concurrently access the database from different workstations. “Pervasive.SQL delivers a lot of benefits to our clients, allowing them to save money and get the best performance for their mid-size applications,” explains Javier Castilla, project manager, Pross. “The low total cost of ownership, its capacities of scalability and easy deployment make Pervasive.SQL the perfect tool to meet our customers’ requirements.”

Bottom Line

Pross customers require an integrated and reliable solution, which allows them fast access to the database. “We have found in Pervasive solutions the perfect partner for our software. Excellent price-performance, reliability, easy deployment and low maintenance are the reasons why we have chosen Pervasive.SQL as the best option. In the last decade, we have been collaborating with Pervasive and we can say that our customers are completely satisfied with our choice,” Juidíaz concluded.

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.