Self-proclaimed e-commerce enabling ERP vendor, Geac, has unveiled a new corporate identity as it seeks to snare some mind-share as one of very few profitable ERP vendors.
According to the recently appointed managing director for Geac Asia Pacific, Graeme Riley, the bulk of Geac's global growth has been by acquisition of companies that were in serious financial difficulty.
"From becoming a 75 per cent ERP vendor in 1999, ERP solutions will account for 100 per cent of our business in the future," Riley said.
While acknowledging that all ERP software vendors will do the job, few customers are willing to change from one vendor to another, Riley said. So it is to those existing Geac customers -- and Riley reported that Asia Pacific represents 12 per cent of Geac's 10,000 installed solutions -- that the Canadian based software company is focusing its attention.
Riley said that the plan is to offer complementary applications such as its newly announced Mainpac Solo, which is described as a single user computerised maintenance management system.
Customer services manager for Geac's Mainpac division Steve Sydenham said that the single user version of the Australian designed software is primarily targeted at small to medium organisations that may not have the scale to operate ERP applications.
He said that larger enterprises can use the software for management of discrete departments or projects where an asset registry and maintenance management system is required.
The application can be downloaded on a free trial basis for 30 days and has an annual subscription cost of AU$730.
Targeted industry sectors for Mainpac asset management offerings include finance, mining, manaufacturing, utilities, health care, hospitality, facilities management, building and transport.
