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CRD is a huge timesaver. By getting the reporting done outside of normal working hours it allows employees to be more productive and focus on more meaningful tasks.

The other reporting program [we tested] had a lot of complicated coding, but CRD had a lot of nice set-up wizards so anyone could pick it up and use it. CRD just did a much better job and the interface was much easier to work with.

SQL-RD is very intuitive and easy to use, and, because it was written specifically for a Microsoft SQL Server environment, it was also simple to integrate.

We use Crystal Reports so CRD (Crystal Reports Distribution) was a great fit. It was intuitive and easy to use and we soon had a successful pilot running. We started running our first live schedules shortly after that.

This is a key business process and SQL-RD has proved to be very robust, running in-line, in real-time with no major issues. Quotations are now automatically dispatched by email or fax as soon as the sales person clicks ‘send’, with invoices queued to be sent overnight.

Being able to automate reliable and relevant reports on time and to the people who need them makes all the difference in how we conduct our business.

MARS has easily paid for itself several times over in the few years we have been using the product. It has consistently ensured our Supply Chain team has the right information at the right time in order to operate efficiently, minimising stock holding and maximising sales by ensuring we meet demand. Plus we have saved a huge amount of money by not needing an army of administrators to simply churn out reports.

CRD has easily justified itself through our increased cash flow as well as the cost savings of electronically delivering our statements and invoices.

I am very pleased by how quickly we have been able to deliver tangible benefits for the business using the ChristianSteven Software CRD product.

Before adding CRD, generating reports and work orders took about four hours a day – that’s more than 1,000 work hours and 26 work days a year. It’s also saved Cessna lost time due to equipment problems because CRD has greatly reduced reactive maintenance and replaced it with a preventive maintenance strategy

CRD is incredibly reliable and stable which gives us the confidence to let it automatically deliver reports while we focus our efforts on other IT challenges. CRD is also intelligent enough not to swamp our management team with reports if there are no changes and nothing new to report on.

CRD has helped Revival extensively in all aspects of our business,” says Akselrud. “When I think of CRD I think of something that makes such an impact the results are immeasurable. It’s central to what we’re doing as a home care agency – giving us the data we need to really streamline the whole operation.

SQL-RD provides consistent, timely reporting of strategic business information to company decision makers. This information is used by executives to identify efficiencies and best practices in patient care

I don’t have many applications running on our system that I love, but this is one of them. It makes my job much easier – and more importantly it shares the knowledge we have within our databases, allowing us to tap into that information and use it to improve our organization.

CRD allows our employees to make sense out of data by giving them the information they want, in a format they like, exactly when they want it. Just set it and forget it – that’s what I do with CRD.

And the great thing is we are only just scratching the surface of what CRD can do for the SWWCN. We are already building other applications using some of CRD’s advanced scheduling types, such as events-based schedules, to, for example, ensure that chemotherapy treatment ordered on an individual patient basis is received on time. This will further extend the value of CRD as well as our return on investment in this unique piece of software.

Once set up and confi gured on a robust platform CRD runs unassisted, freeing up hours of resources every month. Without automation we would require a full-time informatics administrator, this alone has meant CRD has already paid for itself several times over

For example, our Children’s Social Worker team now has all its case information for the week waiting in their inboxes on Monday morning