Pegasus Software, one of the UK's leading providers of
business and financial management solutions, today announced
that it has enhanced its flagship Opera II suite with the
launch of Enterprise and Small Business. These flexible
and scalable solutions have been designed to effectively
meet the very different functionality needs of today's small
and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
Pegasus recognised that the existing software market serving
the SME customer base did not have a scalable solution that
could effectively bridge the gap in technology requirements
as an SME expands and the needs of its financial and business
management solution change over time.
Gary Turner, managing director for Pegasus, explained:
"Many of the traditional finance applications designed
for small and medium sized organisations either simply cannot
scale up as the needs of the business change or are prohibitively
expensive and difficult or impossible to upgrade. With Opera
II Enterprise and Small Business, SMEs now have a choice.
They can select world-class technology that comprises the
breadth of functionality their business needs at a cost
they can afford. Crucially, however, they can have the confidence
that as business grows and information requirements change,
the architecture and rich functionality of Opera II can
scale effectively and painlessly. Quite simply Opera II
Enterprise and Small Business grows with your business and
negates the need for customers to look to other solution
providers to meet their changing need. We believe that this
is a unique and progressive approach to software provision."
Testament to its rich accounting and management information
capabilities, Opera II is fast becoming the accounting and
finance system of choice for SMEs in the UK and is already
delivering quantifiable business benefits to over 10,000
users since its launch a little over two years ago. Indeed,
customers include household names such as The Eden Project,
Next Plc and The Daily Telegraph.
In addition to the comprehensive financial and business
management functionality offered by Opera II, the upgrade
path to Enterprise and Small Business is Wizard-based and
has been incorporated into the existing upgrade module.
This guarantees that existing Pegasus users and those using
Sage Line 50 can readily and painlessly upgrade to Opera
II and can therefore rapidly benefit from the functionality
of the solution with minimal interruption to business continuity.
The Pegasus Certified Partner network, which provides the
route to market for the Pegasus solution portfolio, is wholeheartedly
supporting this enhancement to the Opera II suite. Andrew
Burgess, managing director at jmc.it, commented: "As
one of Pegasus' leading partners we are hugely encouraged
by this development in the Opera II proposition. The functionality
of Opera II clearly positions it as one of the most effective
and powerful financial software solutions available to SMEs
today. Opera II Enterprise and Small Business provide a
unique opportunity to offer a totally new profile of customer
the choice of having this leading-edge software. For the
first time, we have the ability to offer users a choice
of relevant functionality, total scalability, an easy, pain
free upgrade path and significant cost efficiencies from
the one solution. This is revolutionary and will deliver
a real competitive advantage to today's SME."
Source: Pegasus
June 2004
