Testimonials
“With Cognos, we’ve been able to adopt an enterprise management strategy that enables us to understand our market better, helping us to improve the way we target our customers and analyse and optimise performance.”
Pat Brennan - Business Support Manager (Sales), Britvic Ireland
“As our business continues to grow, the complexity of our processes and supplier relationships will no doubt continue to do so, as we face new logistical and business challenges. With Inovis technology in place, we have complete faith that we can face these issues head on, meeting our customer’s demands, and ultimately making our business work smarter to increase sales.”
Jimmy McHugh - Business Systems Analyst, Bulmers
“Processing orders and getting stock to our customers on time is crucial, especially in today’s competitive market. We rely heavily on technology to exchange supply chain data electronically, not only with our customers but with our partners too. With TrustedLink and BizConnect, we have the peace of mind that not only can we automatically process orders 24/7, but also that we can better manage our outsourced business functions, such as pallet rental and logistics, to drive down costs and improve efficiency.”
Jimmy McHugh - Business Systems Analyst, Bulmers
“We selected Microsoft Dynamics NAV from Colman because of its ability to provide the accurate information that we needed around product and employee profitability. Microsoft’s commitment to investing in the product going forward gives us confidence that our investment will have long term benefits and that the solution will develop in line with our business.”
Lance O’Riordan - Managing Director, Glanworth Tyres
“I had a look at the roadmap and I saw Dynamics NAV at the beginning of its lifecycle. It’s going to grow and I wanted to get on that. I could see what the plan is from Microsoft so the product will get better and better with the integration with the Microsoft suite of software. I like the integration with Office; the ability to bring anything you want into Excel with a few clicks. I still smile when I do that and think ‘this is easy’ whereas with the old system you literally had to print off reports and type everything into Excel.”
Gerard Carroll - Managing Director, Masonry Fixings
“I’d say we always offered our customers excellent service but now with Dynamics NAV it’s easier for us to manage a lot more business and we’re able to perform at a much higher level without any deterioration in service to any of our customers.”
Gerard Carroll - Managing Director, Masonry Fixings
“The package itself is very Microsoft Office-friendly. It’s easy to use: if you open Dynamics NAV, it looks exactly like Outlook and all of our company use Outlook so it wasn’t a big thing. The compatibility with Microsoft’s Office productivity suite means that exporting data into Excel is another welcome function.”
Paul Lyons - Operations Director, M. Drummy (ECCO Footwear)
“ProClarity sits on top of Dynamics NAV and tracks all the movement we want within the company. That is a reporting tool that allows you to pluck pretty much any piece of information that you want out of the system. The information was always in the system but we always struggled to get our hands on the information we wanted. Once we know what information you need, this tool allows us to get it. It gives us unlimited access in reporting.”
Paul Lyons - Operations Director, M. Drummy (ECCO Footwear)
“Before, there used to be an issue where the system may not have been right or accurate. Now that’s not an issue so we can get on with business. We don’t have to second-guess what it’s doing and that is key. Having a more efficient business model supported by IT is crucial in the current economic climate. I think in the environment we’re in at the moment we would have been under a lot more pressure if we did not have the package we have today, that’s for sure.”
Paul Lyons - Operations Director, M. Drummy (ECCO Footwear)
“Premier Foods (now incorporating Chivers & RHM) have consolidated all the benefits to be derived from their new handheld-based sales order taking system and are now in a position to add to their current product portfolio with an ease that would not have been possible prior to the implementation of CIMS.”
Dave Brady - IT Manager, Premier Foods Ireland
"Colman's Business Intelligence expertise and business knowledge have been of great benefit in helping the C&C soft drinks business understand customer profitability."
Paul Rainey - IT Manager, C&C Ireland
"Cognos Business Intelligence provided us with in-depth analysis of critical information across core sectors of our business."
Coillte Panel Products
“Cognos Business Intelligence has greatly improved our ability to monitor performance while also meeting both the high level reporting and in depth analysis requirements for the Group."
Bulmers
“Using Cognos Express Xcelerator to build both Sales and General Ledger Analysis cubes. Cognos Express Advisor is used as a Self Service reporting tool allowing users to cut slice and drill on data and saved reports to Cognos Connection. Cognos Express Reporting is used to build more complex reports over Sales data and create dashboards combining data from multiple sources. The in memory technology provided by Cognos Express Xcelerator means cube build and exploration times are extremely fast”.
Bio-Medical Research (BMR)
“Thanks to Colman's Business Intelligence expertise and business knowledge we’ve been able to adopt a genuine enterprise management strategy, our business intelligence project now allows us to analyse the key performance indicators (KPI’s) rather than just generate the reports”.
Premier Foods Ireland
"Colman have been providing iSeries development and support services for over five years and have provided first rate quality customer service & flexibility as our iSeries service provider across a number of projects."
Schering Plough
"From CIMS (FSS solution) through iSeries ERP and systems management to Cognos reporting, Colman have provided a complete solution. Their flexibility and adaptability has greatly eased the management of IT in Chivers/Premier for over a decade.”
Premier Foods
"For a long number of years we have used Colman’s varied resources for development and implementation projects on the iSeries whether for internal or B2B functionality. We have benefitted significantly from Colman’s extensive knowledge and experience.”
Sean Quinn Group
"We chose Colman to work with us on a number of key projects around the iSeries on analysis, development and training. We have been impressed by their professionalism, business awareness and cross platform knowledge. Their dedication to ensuring a smooth implementation is very much in evidence through their approach and delivery on our iSeries projects"... “Data Exchange is a critical component of the C&C Group IT infrastructure. Colman have successfully managed the Data Exchange rollout for C&C Group in the Republic and Northern Ireland, whether that be over FTP or AS2, and covering traditional EDI, XML, Revenue and CHEP formats or straight flat files, for example, outsourced printing.”
C&C Group
"Colman have worked with us on a number of iSeries projects and we have been extremely impressed by the professionalism and the quality of the development work undertaken by Colman".. “Cutting costs is hugely important in the current environment and implementation of an automated data exchange solution for outsourced printing is one of the ways in which Colman has helped us to achieve savings.”
Nash Beverages
"We'd like to express our gratitude to the Colman team for providing such a high level of business & product knowledge in addressing some very specific requirements on a number of projects around development and training on the iSeries."
