Pastel Evolution v5, available now, is focused on boosting customer productivity through time-saving and efficiency-creating features as well as multi-level security and greater integration with third party applications that provide industry-specific and niche functionality.

According to divisional director of Pastel Evolution at Softline Pastel, Mohammed Mosam, Pastel Evolution v5 is geared to address the growing requirement by SMMEs for enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. “The 2006 Gartner/Dataquest Insight: EMEA ERP Market Review says that South Africa and Turkey are experiencing solid growth at just over 13%. Pastel Evolution sales bear that out – up 31% year on year, off an established customer base over 5 000 South African businesses.

“Part of the reason for our success is that all our upgrades and new releases are based on customer input – and in the case of Pastel Evolution v5 we’ve addressed quite specific requests from customers in Evolution’s target markets – manufacturing, engineering, retail, wholesale, and the public sector.

“With many of our customers moving to Microsoft Vista, for instance, we’ve ensured that Evolution is Vista compliant and therefore extends our ERP and accounting functionality into Vista’s increased security capabilities. We’ve also incorporated rules-based security into Evolution so that customers can impose multiple levels of security per user rather than having a blanket system that limits their operational flexibility.”

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