Pitmans are the largest law firm in the Thames Valley, with offices in Reading and in the City of London. With national expertise, Pitmans are a full-service law firm and can assist with both business and personal legal requirements.

Building on existing successes, Pitmans chose to utilise Qtier-Rapor to improve the business critical area of Performance Management.

With key information dispersed across multiple databases, Pitmans needed a solution that would deliver real time analysis without the need for modification of core legal systems. Ease of use again being high on the list of prerequisites. Prior to roll out, managing this key area was labour intensive and untimely with a heavy reliance on key individuals.

Since going live with the Qtier-Rapor Performance Management solution Pitmans have benefited from improved user buyin and resultant reductions in ‘time to close’.

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Our client, an international shipping company has many operational systems across multiple platforms. To improve strategic and tactical decision making, our client required a cost effective and responsive business process automation solution that would allow improvements in key areas of cargo tracking and management.

The solution had to have the capability to coexist with a number of existing disparate systems without the need for modification of these core operational systems.

The Qtier-Rapor solutions architecture enabled existing infrastructure and resources be utilised in the delivery of the required solution.  Qtier-Rapor’s easy to use, structured control environment ensuring all development standards could be met whilst minimising the need for technical IT support. A familiar and easy to use interface negated the need for end user re-training and ensured rapid user acceptance and take-up.

The purpose of wmhive is to encourage and foster collaboration between businesses, universities, local, regional, national and transnational agencies and organisations by greatly increasing the speed and ease by which organisations can easily identify potential partners and business opportunities.

The wmhive project collects information – contact details and information concerning products and services offered – about participating organisations and makes that information available to other participating organisations as well as the general public. The initial data set comes from importing existing data, but it is expected that organisations keep their data up to date themselves through the wmhive web interface.

Unregistered (anonymous) users are able to search for key words and will be shown a list of matching organisations as a result. Access to organisation data will be very limited. Registered (logged-in) users can perform the same search tasks but they will be able to see more data, especially contact details.

ICT West Midlands Annual Conference 2010 will take place on 25th November 2010 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham. Representatives from Qtier will attend this event which offers delegates a new business networking opportunity, enabling you to make valuable connections that will make the difference to your business.

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Softworld Autumn 2010 takes place on 19-20 October at ExCeL London. It is the only exhibition where you can discuss your business needs with leading providers of accounting and finance systems. You will also benefit from an independent masterclass programme designed to guide you through the selection and implementation process and keep you up to date on the latest reporting regulations. It offers you everything you need to make a fully informed decision on which system is right for your business. Softworld makes system selection simple.

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Qtier software are proud to release version 3.0.9 of the Qtier-Rapor software product.

This version marks the forteenth major release of Qtier-Rapor, the affordable, easy to use BI solution.

Included in this release: -

- Segregation of Activity (design and build, user acceptance test, live usage).
- Segregation of Data Sources (work in progress \ live).
- Enhanced security around Qtier-Rapor’s multi-environment database model.
- End-user Instant Report generation functionality has also been enriched.

Qtier-Rapor’s extensive spreadsheet Automation features continue to be developed with the addition of further automation step types and enhancements being made in the area of dynamic interactive enquiry generation.

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The Board for Actuarial Standards (BAS) has today issued its technical actuarial standard on modelling (to be known as TAS M), which continues its series of new outcome-focused standards. The standard will take effect in April 2011.

Jim Sutcliffe, Chairman of the BAS, commented:

“The new standard builds on our recent standards on reporting actuarial information and on data used in actuarial information, by addressing the models which underpin much of actuarial work. It aims to ensure that models used to develop actuarial information are fit for purpose, are suitably checked and documented, and that any limitations in their use and the results they generate are fully understood by users.”

The standard, which is one of the BAS’s generic standards applying to a wide range of actuarial work, includes principles on the checking and documentation of models, and of the data and assumptions which are used as inputs. It follows TAS R, the generic standard on reporting actuarial information, which was issued in September 2009, and TAS D, the generic standard on data used in actuarial work, issued in November 2009. This completes the set of generic standards. Targeted standards on actuarial work for insurance and pensions will follow.

The standard is accompanied by a document setting out some of the significant considerations in the development of TAS M.

Click here for copies of TAS and other documents from the BAS.

Local authority solutions from partner CSI are a portfolio of business intelligence solutions designed to meet the specific needs of Local Authorities. Powered by Qtier-Rapor, they can be implemented as seperate modules or as an integrated solution.

Crucially, the solution can also integrate with transactional accounting and ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle and many more to ensure reporting is consistent and controlled, reducing the need for complex interfaces and potential for user error. As well as key reporting functionality, the solutions also include data capture functionality to facilitate key processes such as forecasting or automation of accruals.

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Due for general release during Q1 – 2010, version 3.0.9 of the Qtier-Rapor software product will include a number of customer driven functional enhancements.

Two major enhancements being Segregation of Activity (design & build, user acceptance test, live usage) and Segregation of Data Sources (work in progress \ live) have been introduced into Qtier-Rapor’s multi-environment database model. End-user Instant Report generation functionality has also been enriched.

Qtier-Rapor’s extensive spreadsheet Automation features continue to be developed with the addition of further automation step types and enhancements being made in the area of dynamic interactive enquiry generation.

Please visit our Contact Us page or click the link below if you require further details.