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Newsroom: 2007


Pastel makes online backup available to customers

November 2007

South Africa’s leading developer of accounting and business software solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Softline Pastel, is now offering all customers the ability to backup their data online to an independent, mirrored data centre infrastructure.... | more

 
Softline Pastel channel helps company grow at 35% year on year

November 2007

At its annual channel awards at Summer Place in Hyde Park, Gauteng, last night (Thursday 29th November 2007) Softline Pastel acknowledged the role its more than 3 500 business partners play in the company’s continued 35% year on year growth.... | more

 
Pastel makes performance management easy for SMEs

November 2007

Softline Pastel, leading South African developer of accounting, payroll, and business solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), believes that performance management, normally the preserve of the human resources departments of large corporates, is an essential growth-enabling.... | more

 
Dale Carnegie in South Africa uses ACT! by Pastel to improve sales

October 2007

The Gauteng franchise of the worldwide Dale Carnegie organisation, which provides motivational, presentation, and performance-based sales training to organisations and individuals, is using ACT!, the customer relationship management (CRM) application from Softline Pastel to help.... | more

 
Accountancy Olympiad: An opportunity for the disadvantaged

October 2007

Welkom High School does it again – and a disadvantaged learner benefits.... | more

 
Customers vote Softline Pastel contact centre best in SA

October 2007

The Softline Pastel contact centre, with 130 agents taking over 50 000 service calls a month, has received the Best Customer Service Award in the 2007 Business Process enabling South Africa (BPeSA) Awards, run by a non-profit association for call centres.... | more

 
Pastel celebrates 18 years of successful evolution

October 2007

In an industry in which changes in technologies and markets fuel one another in an often chaotic evolution - challenging the sustainability and profitability of even the global giants – South African accounting software company, Softline Pastel, will this year celebrate 18 years of steady, purposeful growth.... | more

 
Pastel seminar helps to dispel confusion about the National Credit Act

October 2007

Softline Pastel, a leading provider of accounting and business software to more than 180 000 businesses, has concluded a series of seminars that aimed to help small medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) cut through the confusion about the National Credit Act (NCA) and come to grips with what the Act means for their businesses.... | more

 
East Coast Radio continues nine-year commitment to Pastel Accounting

August 2007

Softline Pastel recently announced the successful conclusion of a software upgrade at East Coast Radio, which sees the radio station moving to Pastel Accounting version 9 and continuing its nine-year loyalty to the Pastel brand.... | more

 
SAICA and Softline Pastel make a positive contribution to South African education

August 2007

Both Softline Pastel and the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) were disappointed and saddened to read the article entitled 'No whites rule: parents see red' that appeared in some of the Independent Newspapers (i.e. The Cape Times, The Star and Diamond Fields Advertiser) this morning.... | more

 
Harley-Davidson dealer cruises on Pastel Evolution

July 2007

Pretoria - July 2007 – Soaring Eagle Distributors, the only Harley-Davidson dealer in the Pretoria region and one of the biggest in Gauteng, has used Pastel Evolution, the mid-market business solution from Softline Pastel, to integrate and streamline its operations and improve service to customers.... | more

 
Sports clothing supplier Hummel uses Pastel Evolution to get integrated view of the business

July 2007

Hummel South Africa, an independent licensee of the global sports and leisurewear organisation, has implemented Pastel Evolution, the mid-market business solution from Softline Pastel.... | more

 
Facilities management company uses Pastel Evolution to streamline financial operations

June 2007

Johannesburg,11 Diagonal Street - June 2007 – Domayne Engineering Services, South Africa’s only integrated and multi-disciplinary building maintenance management company to offer a 24-hour national service with guaranteed response times.... | more

 
CRM actually drives profitability for SMEs

June 2007

As with so much technology, there’s a tendency to over-complicate the point of CRM – particularly in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). There’s also a tendency to miss the point entirely.... | more

 
Softline Pastel contact centre leader finalist in international awards

May 2007

Tanya Miranda, director of Softline Pastel’s 123-agent support contact centre that handles more than 50 000 calls a month has been nominated as Best Contact Centre Leader for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) by ContactCentre World.com – the global conference, research and online magazine provider for the contact centre industry.... | more

 
Pastel Accounting creates entry level invoicing package

April 2007

Softline Pastel has launched an entry level software package, My Invoicing. The new product is aimed at enabling small businesses to automate the two most common business activities - production of accurate, timely invoices and control of customer balances, thereby saving the business time and money.... | more

 
Softline Pastel R&D delivers universal customer advantage

April 2007

As part of a strategic focus on continuous enhancement of the functionality of its popular SME accounting software, Softline Pastel has brought to market an intuitive drill-down feature.... | more

 
Pastel makes Point of Sale operations (POS) easier for SMEs

January 2007

In line with its strategy of letting business drive technology and going beyond accounting, Softline Pastel has brought to market a Point of Sale (POS) add-on module for its Pastel Partner accounting software range.... | more

 


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