Agresso ERP Software Australia

Privacy Policy

Agresso Pty Limited Privacy Policy

This is the Website of Agresso Pty Limited.

Our postal address is: Suite 5, Upper Deck, Jones Bay Wharf. 26-32 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont NSW 2009.

We can be reached via e-mail at sales@agresso.com.au or you can reach us by telephone at +61 2 8570 9000.

We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm and continuing commitment to the privacy of personal information provided by those visiting and interacting with this Website. We hold the privacy of your personal information in the highest regard. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Website.

We recognise the importance of protecting your privacy and our policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site. This policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs.

What information do we collect?

When you visit this Website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Website.

Personal information you choose to provide

1) Registration Information

When you register for our downloads, contests, or newsletters, you will provide us with information about yourself. If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive the information for which you requested. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line may receive a telephone contact from us with information regarding new products and services or upcoming events! If you do not wish to receive such telephone calls, please let us know by sending us an e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address.

2) Website use information

Similar to other commercial Websites, our Website utilises a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "what are cookies?") and web server log files to collect information about how our Website is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Website, and the Website visited just before and just after our Website.

How do we use the information that you provide to us?

Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing the products and services you requested, to process your payment, to monitor the use of the service, our marketing and promotional efforts and improve our content and service offerings, and customise our site's content, layout, services and for other lawful purposes. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.

Furthermore, such information may be shared with others on an aggregate basis. Personally identifiable information or business information will not be shared with parties except as required by law. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable.

You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive notices from Agresso Pty Limited by emailing us or calling us at the information above.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Website, that site's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies! Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Browsers are usually set up to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you may alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our site will not function as effectively when viewed by the users. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on computer viruses.

How do we use information we collect from cookies?

As you visit and browse our Website, the site uses cookies to differentiate you from the other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from having to fill in your information for downloads more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Website and which parts of the site are most popular.

This helps us gather feedback to constantly improve our Website and better serve our clients. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not intentionally store any personal information that your browser provided to us in your cookies. We also use Google conversion tracking and Google Analytics tracking to see how well our products are being received by our customers.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us email at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number or writing to us at the above address.

IP Addresses

IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as traffic data so that data can help Agresso Pty Limited determine the appropriate content for the Website.

Sharing and Selling Information

We do not share, sell, lend or lease any of the information that uniquely identifies a subscriber (such as email addresses or personal details) with anyone except to the extent it is necessary to process transactions or provide services that you have requested. With respect to Ad Servers: we do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

What about other websites linked to our website?

We are not responsible for the practices employed by Website linked to or from our Website or the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Website.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Website to another Website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including Websites which have a link on our Website, is subject to that Website's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Your consent

By using our Website you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy policy. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without notice

Choice/Opt-in/Opt-out

This site allows visitors to unsubscribe so that they will not receive future messages. After unsubscribing we will will discontinue sending the particular messages as soon as technically feasible.

Surveys and Contents

From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as postal code, age range). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site

Community

Variety, the Children’s Charity is the world's leading international children's charity.

With operations in 14 countries around the world, Variety has raised over $2 billion to help sick, disabled and disadvantaged children.

Variety in Australia is dedicated to “Empowering Australian children who are sick, disadvantaged or have special needs to live, laugh and learn”.

As National Deputy Chairman and a director of Variety Australia, John Catarinich and Agresso Pty Limited have been making a contribution to transforming the lives of Children and their Families, delivering on this mission.

Bruce Wood

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Bruce Wood brings to Agresso Pty Limited 40 years of IT experience, starting in the early 70's he has witnessed the growth and change that technology has under gone from punch cards through to the advanced systems of today.

He has run his own Software companies and in two instances Bruce ha established subsidiary companies in Australia and Asia for Scandinavian software companies, growing them both to successful business in their own right.

Bruce's strong business acumen and experience allows him to `see through` many issues and sort out customer requirements as they appear.

He is performing the roles of Marketing, New Business development and Account manager for Agresso Pty Ltd.

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Agresso Customer Support

Agresso Support Brochure

Service and support is provided to all customers in Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific who are using Agresso software in accordance with our maintenance and support agreements.

If you experience problems while using Agresso, you should first inform the Customer Contact in your organization.

If the problem cannot be solved, please contact the Agresso Australian Customer Support Center at:

Agresso Pty Ltd Support Center

Upper Deck, Suite 5, Jones Bay Wharf

26-32 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont 2009 NSW

Support Tel: +61 2 8570 9000

Support Fax: +61 2 9518 8055

Support Email: support@agresso.com.au

Support Website

Customers can log into Support Center to get product support. You will be given a username and password as part of your Agresso contract.

Hours of Operation

8.30 am - 5.30 pm (Sydney Time), Monday through Friday except public holidays

Online Agresso Customer Portal

Agresso Support Brochure

We provide service and support to all customers in North America who are using Agresso software in accordance with our maintenance agreements.

If you experience problems while using Agresso, you should first inform the Customer Contact in your organization.

If the problem cannot be solved, please contact the Agresso Australian Customer Support Center at:

Agresso Pty Ltd Support Center

Upper Deck, Suite 5, Jones Bay Wharf

26-32 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont 2009 NSW

Support Tel: +61 2 8570 9000

Support Fax: +61 2 9518 8055

Support Email: support@agresso.com.au

Support Website

Customers can log into Support Center to get product support. You will be given a username and password as part of your Agresso contract.

Hours of Operation

8.30 am - 5.30 pm (Sydney Time), Monday through Friday except public holidays

Welcome to Agresso

NEWS FLASH!

Agresso Pty Limited announced today that it has signed a landmark education sector deal with the Queensland Government - Department of Education and Training.

Press Release

From left to right :

- John Catarinich, Chief Executive Officer Agresso Pty Limited

- Ab van Marion, Chief Operating Officer UNIT4

- Dr Richard Eden, Deputy Director - General Corporate Services, Queensland Department of Education and Training

- Bruce Wood, Director of Sales and Marketing Agresso Pty Limited

Agresso Pty Limited provides a set of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, Agresso Business World for companies that are either people or service oriented.

Whether or not these people are in Public Sector, Professional Services or any Service Delivery Environment, they know their greatest asset is their people.

Over 2,900 private and public sector organisations, in over 100 countries, deploy Agresso Business World for both operational support and strategic management.

Agresso's unique ability to change as a new requirements appear, without incurring expensive programming costs, is its main competitive differentiator.

We call this unique approach post-implementation agility and it allows our customers to be on the top of the constant business changes that happen to all People and Service Oriented companies.

It ensures our system can keep pace with your evolving requirements.

Agresso offers its customers systems that are based on latest .NET (Microsoft) and SOA technologies.

Agresso is a Microsoft compliant product.

Our uniqueness is also represented by our solution for complex business solutions.

We enable organisations to replace multiple disparate third-party and internal systems with a single centralised and fully integrated environment.

Agresso provides its customers a workflow engine that is sophisticated, graphical and tailorable by the users. Rules are maintained to understand the Agresso data structures and so are easy to maintain and configure.

Business Alerts and messaging are catered by Agresso's IntellAgent, which automatically monitors data and events in Agresso for critical and time-sensitive conditions, generates alerts through a variety of media/devices and takes other "IntellAgent" action.

Agresso is not just another ERP provider, we also are a specialised system that is suitable for businesses that are people centric.

These particular markets are in the public and private sectors:

- Government

- Higher Education

- People Centric companies (service centric enterprises which leverage human capital, ideas, personal and professional services - delivering value adding services for their stakeholders, customers and clients. This sector includes organisations which provide: professional services, financial, banking and insurance, health care, training, education and learning services, travel, energy, water and utilities and many more.)

Agresso Business World is a set of fully integrated modules for:

- Financials

- Sales

- Procurement

- Budgeting and Forecasting

- Project Costing and Billing

- HR/Payroll

- Field Force management

It allows our customers to track financial performance, net financial asset, grants, budget, financial statement, fiscal accountability, procurement process, consultants, customer support, productivity, cost reducing, core operational areas, service delivery, revenue management, fleet maintenance.

Colleges and universities can maintain student portals through the Self Service environment: admissions, registrations, financial aid, fiscal management, efficient use of resources, scalability, complete automation, school management, teachers and student reports, institutions, successions, faculty and storage, janitor management.

Advanced HR and Payroll functionality is included in Agresso. e.g. Talent Manager is a web based software suite used for appraisals, course administration & competence management. E-Recruiter is an online recruitment portal that our customers can interface into their corporate websites.

Salary Review offers our customers the methodology to manage the process of salary reviews and changes. These advanced systems, together with the Agresso HR & Payroll, allow our customers to manage their employees information, recruit and retain them, administer the solutions, control timesheets, expense management and holiday and leave allowances.

Agresso also has fully integrated Field Force Service management software that allows the customers to gather their asset maintenance and field service requirements in one system.

Project Costing & Billing is an important set of modules that allows our customers the availability of a wealth of functionality to meet the needs of a Project and People environment.

The project modules are tightly integrated with other modules in the Agresso suite and can offer functionality to support the business process from project estimated, budgeting and planning to resourcing, costing and billing with links to purchasing, expenses and payroll, contract administration and sales orders.

Billing includes time, fixed price or T&M and product.

ERP... With No Expiration Date™

Press Releases

OneSchool announcement - June 21, 2010

Agresso offers a uniquely integrated architecture designed specifically for Businesses Living IN Change

Agresso ERP systems are specifically designed for the needs of fast growing, dynamic, people-centric organisations. Spanning a range of industries, these types of business share a common characteristic – an ongoing requirement to respond to change The very nature of service-oriented companies is setting up and dismantling individual projects and teams, and constantly needing to readjust to improve quality of delivery.

Agresso has coined the term BLINC™ – or Businesses Living In Change to describe these service oriented organisations that have a continual need to execute projects and deliver new service offerings.

Being one of the few ERP providers that has integrated Payroll and HR together with fully integrated Financials and Project systems allows Agresso to specialise with companies that are people centric e.g Project Management, time billing, professional services, accountancy, Utilities .

These companies typically market services as their main product and need functionality like Project costing, timesheet, Expense Entry as well as all the Financial applications, some also need Field Force and Service managemnt.

In Australia the SKILLED Group, Australia's leading Staffing Services enterprise leverage the power of AGRESSO Business World (ABW) across their range of business in their Group portfolio, using Core Financials, Human Resources, Payroll, Project Costing and Billing and Project Management.

The transformation SKILLED GROUP have embarked upon leverages heavily AGRESSO's underpinning easy-change VITA ™ architecture as a Business Living in Change (BLINC ™).

SKILLED Group's comprehensive payroll solution allows for the full range of industries and accompanying industrial instruments, to be seamlessly accomodated as part of their business platform.

This scale ensures the Group can service all industries through more than 25,000 employees in Australia, New Zealand and other offshore locations using the AGRESSO Payroll.

Challenges Facing People and Service-Centric Businesses

Whether the pressure to change comes from within or externally, one thing is certain: change is inevitable.

80% of finance executives in a CFO Research Services survey reported that they had to moderately or extensively customise their ERP system to adapt to their specific business requirements.

Agresso is uniquely suited to support and facilitate the changes facing your business. Our business process automation software solution enables trained and authorised business users to modify the system directly from their graphical user interface (GUI) – no expensive re-programming or external IT intervention is needed. Technology Evaluation Centers compared how different ERP vendors’ architectures address change; their findings confirm that change management is faster and less expensive with Agresso.

Agresso has surveyed our customer base and can compare our results against the benchmark data of the CFO Research Services report on how companies are able to respond to change:

How are changes accomplished, post-implementation?	Agresso (GUI = Graphical User Interface)	Competitors
Business Process Changes 48% less impact	GUI Business users make changes right from their desktop Only 32% of customers report expending ≥ moderate effort	Application Reprogramming External consultants/ IT resources 61% of surveyed finance executives report expending ≥ moderate effort
Financial Management - Driven Change 55% less impact	Primarily GUI Other than integration with other software, business users make changes Only 22% of customer report expending ≥ moderate effort	Application Reprogramming External consultants/ IT resources 49% of surveyed finance executives report expending ≥ moderate effort
Mergers and Acquisitions 71% less impact	Primarily GUI Other than integration with other software, business users can make changes Only 11% of customers report expending ≥ moderate effort	Application Reprogramming External consultants/ IT resources 38% of surveyed finance executives report expending ≥ moderate effort
New Regulatory Requirements 23% less impact	GUI Business users make changes 30% of customers report expending ≥ moderate effort	Application Reprogramming External consultants/ IT resources 38% of surveyed finance executives report expending ≥ moderate effort
Re-organisation & Restructuring 23% less impact	GUI Business users make changes 30% of customers report expending ≥ moderate effort	Application Reprogramming External consultants/ IT resources 39% of surveyed finance executives report expending ≥ moderate effort

How are changes accomplished,
post-implementation?

Agresso
(GUI = Graphical User Interface)

Competitors

Business Process Changes

48% less impact

GUI
Business users make changes right from their desktop

Only 32% of customers report expending ≥ moderate effort