Softline Enterprise, a Sage company, is set to benefit from the recent announcement that accredited Sage software developer Defacto Solutions has formed a strategic partnership with award-winning document management and imaging author Version One (www.versionone.co.uk).
Ashley Ellington, MD of Softline Enterprise, says one of the reasons behind the partnership is to fulfil the increasing demand from Sage Line 500 and Sage 1000 users globally for document management functionality.
Version One's solutions enable the electronic creation, storage, retrieval, management, delivery and authorisation of business documents such as invoices, purchase orders and statements.
Defacto provides robust solutions which extend the functionality of Sage Line 500 and Sage 1000. This partnership sees the adoption of Version One's enhanced bar code printing system, DbForm, which produces bar code labels and bar coded documents for use with Defacto's latest product, DefCapture. DefCapture provides bar coded data entry of a wide range of transactions within the Sage environment, including goods receipting, bin-to-bin transfers, stocktaking, order picking and dispatch confirmation.
With Version One's DbForm used in conjunction with DefCapture, Sage customers using DefCapture are able to capture data more quickly and accurately, improving efficiency while significantly reducing costs.
Alec Willis, Managing Director of Defacto Solutions, says: "We are very excited to form this partnership with Version One and can now provide our customers with best-of-breed solutions that are tightly integrated into Sage Line 500 and Sage 1000. Using Version One's DbForm software alongside our DefCapture system enables us to provide Sage users with high quality bar coded data capture.
"We have been so impressed with Version One's systems that we're currently integrating its storage system, DbArchive, into our Quality Management System and Supplier Portal," Willis adds.
Lynne Munns, General Manager of Version One, says that by joining forces with Defacto, considerable value has been added to Sage Line 500 and Sage 1000. "Due to the global demand for our integrated document management and imaging systems, we are always looking to partner with additional Sage developers and resellers," says Munns. "Our solutions are extremely functional, integrate tightly into Sage and provide end-users with considerable cost and efficiency savings as well as a typical return on investment of six months or less."
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