Testimonials
Brown Brothers Wines and SystemLink
Located in Victoria South East Australia, Brown Brothers have been producing fine wines since 1889. The Brown Brothers vineyards are as varied as the wines and wine styles. Within a 50km radius of Milawa, climatic conditions range from cool alpine areas to lush temperate valleys to sun drenched plains. Each of the vineyards have been selected on the basis of their suitability for the variety or wine style. Varietal diversity through the Brown Brothers range provides a point of difference and offers consumers the ability to experiment across a range.
Distribution of Brown Brothers wines is facilitated from offices in the UK close to London. For many years, SystemLink have provided support of both their IT infrastructure and back-offices systems, with seamless integration to third party EDI, warehouse and bonding systems. Business intelligence is gleamed from extensive reporting and customization written exclusively by the SystemLink team.
GlobeCast London Chooses ERP Solution for Platform Flexibility and Superior Accounting Capabilities
A subsidiary of France Telecom, the company is present on five continents, accessible through 15 teleports and technical operation centers in the world’s leading media hubs. More than 700 employees worldwide support a diverse range of clients who use satellite for content distribution, including leading broadcasters, corporations, government, sports rights holders, news organizations, program producers and production companies, among others.
Their global network supports full-time and ad-hoc content delivery via satellite and fiber for TV and radio channel distribution, news and sports events, corporate television, desktop media, data file transfer, Intranet Overlay, Internet backbone and other information, data and entertainment content services. GlobeCast starts with its worldwide ground and space segment assets – company owned and operated – and layers intelligent upstream and downstream applications, creating a network of managed satellite platforms to distribute diverse content across all major entertainment and enterprise media sectors.
By 2001, the GlobeCast London office had outgrown the capabilities of their existing accounting system. They needed a fast, efficient way to import financial information into Excel reports, the ability to run their accounting system on Linux-based servers and support for financial transactions with international clients. Graham Knights, GlobeCast Senior Financial Accountant, was responsible for finding an accounting system that could run on Linux and also provide advanced accounting capabilities.
”We wanted a totally flexible accounting solution that would enable us to easily produce management reports,” explains Knights, “For example, more and more of our staff are using financial information in sales meetings, so we need to be able to provide this information as quickly and easily as possible. We wanted a totally flexible accounting solution that enabled us to export financial information into MS-Excel journals to easily produce management reports. As a leading provider of multi-national satellite and digital services, we also needed multi-currency capabilities."
GlobeCast returned to SystemLink, the company that implemented their original accounting solution, for help in finding a system that offered the end-to-end accounting capabilities they needed, on a platform that supported their current and their future technology strategies. After analyzing GlobeCast’s requirements, the consultants at SystemLink proposed an ERP system on Red Hat Linux. This robust solution delivers the specific business management features needed by GlobeCast London today, while providing the flexibility to support future growth.
Graham Knights adds, "Another key requirement was a smooth migration, with the least disruption to our workforce. The proposed solution gave us this, and also gives us flexibility for the future, an easy upgrade path that is fully scalable."
Asterand Plc meet the challenge with SystemLink
Asterand is a leading supplier of high quality human tissue and tissue-based services. Their comprehensive approach to human tissue and research services offers pharmaceutical, biotech and diagnostic companies the unique opportunity to have one company meet all of their human biomaterial needs along the continuum of drug discovery and development. Asterand’s services, are offered out of laboratories in North America and Europe. Their European laboratories operate 24 hours a day seven days a week in order to provide time-critical research services.
