A well-designed technology infrastructure is imperative for the successful implementation of any packaged software application. 

Visual Streamline has been designed as a user friendly, functionally complete and technologically sound suite of applications.

Visual Streamline Third Party Application Integration:

Crystal Reports - The Visual Streamline reporting tool of choice for our customers whose needs go beyond the dozens of out-of-the-box reports provided with the application. Experienced Streamline consultants will build reports to your exact specifications.

Palm Pilot Integration - Facilitates download of product catalogues, customer data, pricing data, from Visual Streamline to the Palm Pilot and uploads completed sales order data for validation.

Fax Integration - Fax integration is achieved through Zetafax network fax software. Users can fax important documents such as Quotes, Orders, Purchase Orders, directly from within the Visual Streamline desktop environment. Support is provided for both inbound and outbound faxing.

Shipping Management - Built within our Visual Streamline software package.         

E-mail Integration - Visual Streamline provides standard e-mail integration via the widely accepted Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Users can e-mail important documents directly from within the Visual Streamline desktop environment.

Allpriser - Allpriser Ltd provides an industry standard plumbing and heating pricing reference, used by contractors, wholesalers, retailers, purchasing agents, architects and construction estimators across Canada. Streamline provides the ability to import Allpriser product additions, price changes, and product deletions in order to maintain up-to-date accurate pricing information.

3M e-commerce Compatibility - Visual Streamline automates Point of Sale & Purchase Order information for industrial distributors, allowing them to quickly prepare & meet 3M’s e-commerce file export requirements. Not only does this level of software automation create tangible labour savings, but also provides a fast and efficient way to gain best pricing for their 3M products purchases.

Standards and Features:

  • Easy to use, intuitive, graphical user interface to increase user acceptance and reduce training costs.
  • Comprehensive on-line help.
  • Drill down to source level documents.
  • Secured access to data and application menus with user definable group and individual rights.
  • Flexible configuration via business rules to reduce implementation costs and provide a seamless upgrade path to new releases.
  • Customer specific business rules to provide unique functionality for your business, while ensuring upgradability.
  • System auditing of changes to key documents.
  • Laser forms reduce costs eliminating the need for pre-printed forms.
  • Visual Streamline is supported on a fully-functional RDBMS database platform, conforming to industry standards for scalability, open connectivity and integration.
  • Application developed in Magic eDeveloperTM, an object oriented point-and-click programming environment, which dramatically reduces the effort and time required to build new applications and add new functionality to existing applications.
  • All forms e-mail and fax easily.

Workflow Management:

Integrated workflow provides management-by-exception capability through automated e-mail notification of key business events and thresholds exceeded.

  • Credit alerts.
  • Rush order processing.
  • Customer buying pattern changes.
  • Pro-active customer notification of shipment confirmation or delays.
  • Expediting/purchasing notifications.