Pegasus Chooses Crystal Reports For Its Accounting Software.LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 1996--Pegasus Software Ltd., one of the leading suppliers of accounting and business software in the UK, today announced an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and (original equipment manufacturer) agreement with Seagate Software Seagate Software was an international software corporation headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. It was a majority owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology, the largest independent disc drive and related components company in the world. , Information Management Group, based in Vancouver, Canada, to bundle Seagate Software's market-leading report writer, Crystal Reports, in Pegasus Capital 32-bit. This agreement establishes Crystal Reports, the number one award winning report writer, as the 32-bit reporting engine for the forthcoming Pegasus Capital 32-bit accounting package. The new release of Capital will be the first true 32-bit accounting solution from a major UK vendor. "We chose Crystal Reports after evaluating all the major reporting engines available," said Stuart Anderson Stuart Anderson (born October 9, 1974) is an Australian rules footballer. He comes from the Victorian town of Sale. In 1994 he was drafted by the Kangaroos where he played 61 games as a midfielder/half-forward, including the 1996 premiership. , marketing Manager at Pegasus. "Crystal Reports allows tight integration into accounts, gives our users a simple, easy-to-use interface and is quickly becoming the de-facto industry standard for accounting reporting in the UK." Crystal reports has all the functionality and features to fully complement Capital 32, Anderson added, stating that the agreement would "free Pegasus to concentrate on extending and enhancing Capital 32 in the knowledge that Crystal Reports will meet the exacting requirements of Pegasus customers." Pegasus customers now have the ability to design their own invoices, statements and user definable reports from within the software. The bundle also gives Pegasus' reseller channel the ability to add value to the product and provide their customers with the reporting flexibility lacked in previous products. Sue Yu, international strategic relations manager at Seagate Software, said: "Reporting is a critical function in the accounting arena and Crystal Reports, with its open architecture, can be easily customized for vertical specialties. We're very pleased to partner with Pegasus to provide robust, easy-to-use accounting reporting to small businesses." Crystal Reports provides broad data access, report and query capabilities for creating presentation-quality reports and distributing them to end-users via popular communications Popular Communications is a magazine with content relating to the radio hobby, including scanners, shortwave radio, CB, and amateur radio. The magazine includes articles, schedules of shortwave stations, and logs of pirate radio communications sent in by readers. infrastructures, such as e-mail and the World Wide Web. It has an API (application programming interface) that allows OEM partners to add vertically specific reporting functionality to their products. Crystal Reports has more than two million units shipped worldwide and is bundled in more than 135 shrink-wrapped products from leading companies, now including Pegasus Software Pegasus Software is based in Kettering, England and develops accounting and financial management and payroll software applications for small and medium sized businesses. The company was founded in 1981 and was among the first software houses in the UK to launch its applications for . Pegasus Capital 32 users can upgrade to the latest version of Crystal Reports Professional by calling Pegasus in the UK on 01536 495000 or Seagate Software on 1-800/877-2430 or 604/681-3435. Seagate Software, Information Management Group's data access, analysis and delivery product line also includes Crystal Info (three-tier reporting system), the Crystal 101 Reports for Microsoft BackOffice See BackOffice. CD and now the Holos Holos is an influential OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) product of the 1990s. Developed by Holistic Systems in 1987, the product remained in use until around 2004. Conception The Holos product succeeded an older generation of mainframe products such as System-W. suite of Business Intelligence tools, following the acquisition last month of UK-based Holistic Systems. For more information or an online product demo, visit Seagate Software's Web site at http://www.img.seagatesoftware.com. About Pegasus Pegasus is one of the UK's leading developers of business and accounting software. Based in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, the company has been at the forefront of software development since the late 1970's. Pegasus products are backed up by a highly trained dealer network. The flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. is Pegasus Opera which integrates both financial and management information. It is written in FoxPro and has a high degree of tailorability and extensive use of data retention and drill down techniques. Opera is complemented by a number of other products -- Connection, a contact management system, Operations, a full manufacturing system, Edition, integrated Electronic Data Interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. (EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. ), and Paypoint, integrated Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS (Electronic Point Of Sale) See point of sale. ). Pegasus Capital is the entry level, integrated accounting solution for small businesses. Written in Visual Basic and already established in the 16 bit form, Pegasus is currently re-writing Capital in 32-bit. Both Opera and Capital link to office products using OLE and DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) A message protocol in Windows that allows application programs to request and exchange data between them automatically. DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange technology. Seagate Software Seagate Software, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology (company) Seagate Technology - A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. , Inc., develops tools and applications in the area of information management and infrastructure management, including network, systems and storage management. Its industry leading software solutions are developed as integral components of a total data management product strategy supporting all major operating environments. Seagate Software has established strategic relationships with Microsoft, Novell, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , HP, and other industry pacesetters, and markets its products worldwide, through distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators, retailers, OEMs and large corporate users. -0- Note to Editors: Pegasus and Pegasus Capital 32 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pegasus Software, Ltd. Seagate and Seagate Technology are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology, Inc. Seagate Software is a trademark of Seagate Technology, Inc. Seagate Software Information Management Group, Crystal Reports, and Crystal Info, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology Inc., or one of its subsidiaries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Seagate Software, Inc., Vancouver Janine Crawford, 604/893-6392 janinec@seagatesoftware.com or Pegasus Software Ltd. Stuart Anderson, 01536 495000 email: marketing@pegasus.co.uk http://www.pegasus.co.uk |
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