Award Winning DSCallards Celebrates Ten Years in Business

Monday, 06 June 2011 00:00 Last Updated on Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:19 Written by Adriane Gillies

Award Winning DSCallards Celebrates Ten Years in Business

1st September 2011 – Wikipedia launches on the Internet; Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal kills his father, the king, his mother and then shoots himself; the 2001 foot and mouth crisis begins; Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; almost 3,000 are killed in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center; the United States invades Afghanistan and DSCallards, award winning software specialists, sets up home in Devon.

DSCallards celebrates its tenth anniversary today. With quality at its heart, DSCallards brings together and harnesses the power of some of the world’s leading software technologies and since its inception in 2001 has gone from strength to strength. In the past twelve months DSCallards has won a number of prestigious awards which include:

•   SAP Best Performance Challenge UKI Winners 2011
•   Outstanding Sales Performance 2010, Crystal Reseller
•   SAP PartnerEdge Social Media UK Champions
•   SAP Best Run Business, EMEA Runners Up

“We believe that celebrating ten years of DSCallards also means we celebrate ten years of evolution, learning and training, to become one of the UK’s most dedicated and successful providers of business software solutions”, stated Ray Kemp, co-founder and Technical Director, DSCallards.

Recently, Phil Roylance, EMEA Partner Enablement, SAP, commented, “DSCallards value propositions and return on investment proposals for customers are excellent and will clearly help companies who are looking to invest in a Business Intelligence solution in the future. It has been a pleasure working with them over the last six months”.

Adrian Handley, co-founder and Managing Director, DSCallards, commented, “Being in business for ten years is a great achievement for us. Even better is what we plan to do over the next ten. We will change the way businesses see, use and benefit from Business Intelligence; the best businesses know their business.”

DSCallards "SAP Crystal Reports and Dashboard Masterclass" Attracts Over Eighty Delegates

Monday, 06 June 2011 00:00 Last Updated on Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:22 Written by Adriane Gillies

DSCallards "SAP Crystal Reports and Dashboard Masterclass" Attracts Over Eighty Delegates

31st August 2011 – DSCallards, the number one reseller of SAP Crystal Solutions in the UK, will be holding its fourth 2011 seminar, “SAP Crystal Reports and Dashboard Masterclass”, at SAP Business Objects UK Head Office in Maidenhead, UK, on Wednesday 7th September 2011.   So far DSCallards has received over eighty delegate registrations from organisations that include Sussex Police, BUPA, Caterpillar UK Ltd, Thales, BBC and Motorola.

Since the early 1990s, SAP Crystal Reports from SAP Business Objects has been the leading Business Intelligence (BI) reporting application with over twenty-five million copies sold, in over one hundred countries and in eight different languages. DSCallards has been working with the world-leading reporting solution and helping organisations across the UK to benefit from its rich features and functionality for over fifteen years.

“This is the fifth year in a row that we’ve been running these extremely popular, technical seminars for SAP Crystal Reports, and this month’s event is no exception with another record number of registered delegates”, commented Lee Grogan, Sales Manager, DSCallards. “It’s a great opportunity for our award-winning consulting team to share their experiences and product knowledge with many existing and future customers.”

As well as a practical approach on how to make the most of SAP Crystal Reports 2011, DSCallards Business Intelligence experts will provide a snapshot into the next generation of reporting software and share its understanding of how this could positively impact your business. Discussion topics will include:

SAP Crystal Reports

•   Crystal Reports for those who have never seen it before
•   New features in SAP Crystal Reports 2011
•   Time Saving Features – Templates
•   Formulas and calculations
•   Methods of comparing this year with last year
•   Group by Financial Year using your financial periods
•   How to choose columns at runtime
•   Hybrid charts
•   How to build a Month End Report Pack

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design

•   Building Dashboards with Live Data
•   Multi-Dimensional Dashboards
•   Build a Dashboard from scratch

To register for the event, visit www.crystalreports.co.uk.

DSCallards4bi Sign Business Intelligence Partnership Deal with Yellowfin

Monday, 06 June 2011 00:00 Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 August 2011 08:43 Written by Adriane Gillies

UK BI DSCallards Partner with Global BI Vendor Yellowfin

25th July 2011 – Leading UK Business Intelligence (BI) provider, DSCallards (www.dscallards.com), has partnered with Australian-based BI vendor, Yellowfin (www.yellowfinbi.com). The partnership will see DSCallards make Yellowfin’s world-class BI solution available to its broad range of corporate and government clients and develop a large reseller and partner community within the UK.

Yellowfin is a global BI software vendor that offers a single-integrated 100% Web-based reporting and analytics solution, and is the market leader in BI ease-of-use.

Yellowfin CEO, Glen Rabie, currently in the UK to launch the partnership with DSCallards, said: “We are delighted to announce this partnership. DSCallards has a wealth of experience in delivering BI in the UK and we look forward to working with them to develop our presence in the UK.”

DSCallards Managing Director, Adrian Handley, said: “We believe Yellowfin’s easy-to-use, cost-effective and innovative approach to BI will prove to be a popular choice for our existing and future client-base.”

Yellowfin is fast becoming a new BI vendor of choice, with over 500 end customers, more than 100,000 end-users and a rapidly growing international partner network. Yellowfin’s mission is to build highly intuitive software that is easy to install, even easier to use, can respond to changing client reporting and analysis needs and that offers superior return on investment through widespread end-user adoption. For more information, visit www.yellowfinbi.co.uk.

DSCallards4bi UK Winners of Best Performance Challenge for SAP Partners 2011

Monday, 06 June 2011 00:00 Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:20 Written by Adriane Gillies

DSCallards4bi UK Winners of the prestigious Best Performance Challenge for SAP Partners 2011

12th July 2011 – DSCallards4bi (www.dscallards4bi.com), a division of DSCallards Ltd, leading UK Business Intelligence provider, has taken top UK place in the Best Performance Challenge for SAP Partners 2011.

With over seventy SAP partners across Europe, Middle East, Africa and India, signing up for the initiative, the Best Performance Challenge is a unique enablement program which has been designed to improve sales win rate and benchmark performance. DSCallards4bi came top in the UKI category scoring highly on areas such as Business Planning, Demand Generation and Sales Cycle.

“We thoroughly enjoyed the Challenge and it encouraged us to really think about our key differentiators and positioning strategies when pitching for VAR business”, said Adrian Handley, Managing Director. “We produced some excellent videos including an Elevator Pitch, Solution Overview and a Customer Engagement Video explaining how DSCallards4bi can help organisations to implement a clear Business Intelligence strategy using our Value Management Methodology and SAP Business Objects technologies”.

Lee Grogan, Sales Manager, DSCallards, went onto say “We’re very proud to have come first in the UK, in what was an intense process of education, development and delivery of our Best Practice driven ‘go-to-market’ strategy. This competition focused our minds in new ways and has become the foundation of our Sales and Marketing activities, helping us to drive our SAP business forward and upwards”.

John Antunes, Director of SME and Channels, UK & Ireland, SAP, commented, "I would like to congratulate DSCallards on winning the SAP Best Performance Challenge for the UK. I’m delighted that they have won as they were up against some tough competition from the other VARs that were taking part. They did a fantastic job on creating videos for their website and social media sites and this is something that is really important to marketing and demand generation for SAP and our VAR community. I look forward to seeing the results for DSCallards and SAP as we progress through the year".

Phil Roylance, EMEA Partner Enablement, SAP, went on further to say, "DSCallards are deserved winners of this award as they have been fantastic participants in the SAP Best Performance Challenge. The effort and diligence shown by DSCallards has resulted in some fantastic videos which should be viewed by anyone looking at creating awareness of their company via social media. DSCallards value propositions and return on investment proposals for customers were also excellent and will clearly help companies who are looking to invest in a Business Intelligence solution in the future. It has been a pleasure working with them over the last six months".

To view the videos visit www.youtube.com. For more information visit www.dscallards4bi.com.

DSCallards4bi Showcase Value Management Methodology in Business Intelligence Seminar

Monday, 06 June 2011 00:00 Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 June 2011 08:58 Written by Adriane Gillies

17th May 2011 – DSCallards4bi (www.dscallards4bi.com), the Business Intelligence (BI) division of DSCallards, ran its second 2011 seminar, “Defy the Times: Business Growth in a Weak Economy” at SAP Business Objects offices in Maidenhead, UK, on Wednesday 11th May 2011. Project Managers, BI and Reporting Specialists and Solution and Strategy Managers registered for the event from organisations that included Capita, Reed Business Information Systems, Wolters Kluwer and Orange.

Angus Menter explains the Value Management Methodology

Angus Menter explains the Value Management Methodology

The session was underpinned by DSCallards4bi Value Management Methodology which took the delegates through a stepped process on how to gain real value from the implementation of Business Intelligence technologies. The team also explored how to become a best-run-business using Business Intelligence on three core strategies:

•   Cut operating expenses and discretionary spending
•   Use technology to eliminate inefficiencies
•   Give first priority to existing customers.

Lee Grogan, Sales Manager, DSCallards, commented “Our focus on the bottom-line impact that can be achieved through BI, such as identifying over spending and increased customer retention, had a big impact on those attending and we received very positive feedback from all who attended on the day."

DSCallards hold regular seminars and the next event, entitled “SAP Crystal Reports and Dashboard Design Masterclass”, is scheduled to be held on 7th September 2011, Maidenhead, UK. To register, visit: www.crystalreports.co.uk

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