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Your whole team working together, using one reliable source of information, no double entry and confusion caused by disparate systems, no clumsy breakable interfaces - that's complete integration.

Greentree achieves this both by total integration and intelligent design and with the breadth and depth of it's business functionality. From customer service to manufacturing, from purchasing to warehouse, from all business activity to the financial results Greentree provides the ultimate seamless business-building environment.

The Greentree Product

Greentree delivers a completely on-line, real-time business solution, with all business functions totally integrated. A single point of data entry updates all relevant areas instantaneously, with no "inter-module" posting or updating required. Greentree also integrates seamlessly with common desktop tools for business reporting, budget modelling, transaction entry and mail merge. Along with its partners, Greentree provides business-building software and implementation services to help customers with rapid, low-cost, low-risk deployment and ongoing support.

The Greentree Difference

Greentree business building software has several key advantages that set it apart from competitive offerings. These 'differences' serve to deliver additional function, form and value to the market. The difference Greentree can make to your business is summarised below...

Key Benefits

Flexible adaptation to prevailing business challenges
Simple real-time remote connectivity
Rapid implementation and responsive support
Instantly familiar desktop tool integration
Business-wide system integration
Powerful productivity driver
Continuously updated software

Greentree will help streamline your internal processes resulting in increased productivity across all areas of your business. It is designed to adapt to your changing needs and grow with your business into the future. Greentree’s main users are medium sized businesses, but it is also successfully used by many larger organisations.

The Greentree product is able to support from a small team to many hundreds of users. It is suited to a broad range of industries and business types and includes customisation options that take into account individual user requirements. The core components are highly flexible and designed to be used within any industry.

Continuous Deployment

One key tenet of the Greentree Difference is our Continuous Deployment Strategy that optimizes business's via daily access to the latest and greatest enterprise software with low cost and rapid deployment.

Ever wondered what it would be like to always have access to the latest and greatest business software at low cost and minimal impact? To be able to effectively match latest business practice and technology to help optimise all activity across your organisation?

With Greentree’s Continuous Deployment software strategy this has become a reality. A unique approach that breaks through current restrictive market practices for software delivery. Welcome to a new paradigm of best practice software deployment and maintenance. Always up to date – this is what Greentree means by very, very responsive.

Key Benefits

Ongoing cost of enhancing and maintaining software is dramatically lowered
Single point upgrade capability
Minimal business impact
Changes are released progressively and managed in sequence
As soon as the new software feature is developed it’s available
Customisations can be seamlessly included
Automated testing tools to reduce manual effort, increase test throughput, and ensure consistency
Over 20 years of industry knowledge ensures proven product quality

Product Overview:
Greentree Business Management Suite

Greentree’s main users are medium sized businesses, but it is also successfully used by many larger organisations. The Greentree product is able to support from a small team to many hundreds of users. It is suited to a broad range of industries and business types and includes customisation options that take into account individual user requirements. The core components are highly flexible and designed to be used within any commercial industry. Greentree supports full inter-company accounting functionality, meaning a single system can be used to keep track of diverse business units or related companies.

Financial Management
At the heart of Greentree is a robust, reliable and secure financial package, built for Windows. The Financial Management suite will provide you with the essential bookkeeping functions and the ability to easily create a variety of sophisticated financial reports. Read brochures for:

FREE (Financial Reporting Engine in Excel)

Supply Chain & Distribution
Greentree enables the efficient management of your sales order and purchasing functions with full on-line integration to the inventory management system. Greentree's Supply Chain Management (SCM) suite of modules assures precision execution of the supply process, from request through to delivery, is achievable. Read brochures for:

Job Costing
Greentree includes tools to assist with your budgeting, cost break down and timesheet recording on jobs or projects of any size. These tools help provide you with crucial project management information. Read brochures for:

Job Cost

Manufacturing
The ability to respond quickly to customer requirements is key in today’s market place as time is money. Greentree’s Manufacturing Suite, is designed to allow you to easily and accurately manage the assembly of products for make to order and make to stock manufacturing requirements, ensuring you know exactly what materials are required, at what cost, ensuring responsive customer delivery at appropriate pricing and profit margins. Read brochures for:

Bill of Materials & Factory Orders

Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) & Forecasting

Workflow
Greentree Workflow Suite With information being entered and maintained in your system constantly, obtaining the real time status of key business components can be difficult. The Greentree Workflow module provides a dynamic desktop view with information updated to all relevant desktops across the organisation as soon as it is entered. Information may be selected, rerouted and “drilled into” for immediate access to key data. Read brochures for:

Workflow Designer

Approvals & Alerts

Data Import Manager

Customer Relationship Management
As organisations constantly look for competitive advantages in today’s rapidly changing business world, managing your customers and sales processes effectively has become essential. Our CRM suite provides a solution that can be easily tailored to suit most businesses, with seamless integration into the core Greentree financial and distribution modules and secure workgroup-based access to sensitive information. Read brochures for:

Sales & Marketing

Contacts & Relationships

Bookings Management

Service & Asset Management
Greentree's service-related modules provide a range of powerful tools to better manage this area of your business. These tools range from intelligently addressing calls to the support/help desk, to managing field-service requests and the maintenance of assets in multiple locations. Read brochures for:

Asset Management

Customer Support

eBusiness
Greentree provides flexible and secure on-line solutions that allow your customers and staff to easily access their account details, place orders, check on stock availability and pricing, plus access to a whole range of on-line functions. Read brochures for:

eTimesheets

eService

Human Resources
Greentree provides flexible and secure on-line solutions that allow your customers and staff to easily access their account details, place orders, check on stock availability and pricing, plus access to a whole range of on-line functions. Read brochures for:

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment

Retail
Maximise your customer’s experience, take control of inventory and secure your POS system at every level and point of access. Create an audit trail for ‘track and trace’ so you can see who, when, where and how access took place, what was sold and to which customers. Read brochures for:

Point of Sale (POS)

Business Intelligence
Businesses thrive on access to and the quality of, their data. QlikView for Greentree will gather and analyse data for the purpose of helping enterprise users adapt and make better business decisions. Effectively the organization is energised and empowered by having a comprehensive knowledge of all of the factors that affect the business. Read brochures for:

QlikView for Greentree

Analysis & Reporting
Having the best possible information available to empower your team to make the most business effective decisions – that’s what Greentree Reporting delivers. Get a 360° view of information and, with real time updates across all fully integrated modules, this information is as up to the minute as you can get… Read brochures for:

Analysis & Reporting

Mobility & Interoperability
Greentree Mobility Today’s business community demands high speed and low cost ways to capture information and disseminate it among staff, customers and business partners. Greentree invested early to ensure we are enabled to support customers adopting this emerging platform for Interoperability and Mobility and our eXchange suite of software is the means by which we deliver this capability. Read brochures for:

Mobility & eXchange

Customer References

Greentree has demonstrated its breadth and depth of functionality across a range of industry sectors in New Zealand , Australia , Asia-Pacific , UK and USA , providing a powerful yet simple, easily customised, extremely cost-effective business system that is flexible enough to grow with all businesses.

This is what our Customers are saying...

"Greentree has taken us that next step further. The system is flexible and offered improvements and efficiencies without forcing us to re-engineer."

Paul Italiano, General Manager - Maria's Pasta

"It has been really good working with the Greentree team. The support has been flexible and helpful when meeting our needs. So far the overall Greentree experience has been really positive."

Kim Crosher, Manager, Accounting & Finance - Toyota Technical Center Australia

"Key attributes of success are Greentree's reliability, remote access and its ease of use. To top it off I can access the system from wherever I am."

Jay Westor, Managing Director - Leap Australasia

"An outstanding positive about Greentree is that, despite the complexity of our business, it presented little need for customisations."

John Howard, Finance & Administration Manager, Stahmann Farms

"We can now do everything we want in one system. We have complete integration without having to trade off the flexibility."

Greg Johnston, Accountant - Newfishing Australia

About Greentree International

Greentree International is a local company that specialises in developing effective financial and business management software for medium sized enterprises. For over 20 years, through a widespread, dedicated Greentree Business Partner Network, our products have been chosen by and successfully enhanced the operations of more than 10,000 organisations in Australia and New Zealand.

''It's quite simple. We listen hard, we work hard and we run a totally focused business - and because of that we offer the smartest, most flexible solutions to help build your business.''

Don Bowman, Founder
Greentree International Ltd

Greentree has been developed by the authors of CBA, arguably the most successful accounting package for small to medium sized businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Greentree has around 50 staff and offices in Australia and New Zealand and has a network of 40 authorised Business Partners across Australia, New Zealand, Asia-Pacific, USA, Canada and the UK.

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Email: graham.hill@greentree.com
Phone: 1800 000 737
Fax: 1800 090 487

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Case Studies

Oz fishermen weigh-in new ERP
When two of Australia's larger fishing companies decided to work more closely together they went fishing for an ERP system. Greentree (who were recently recognised as one of 25 global rising stars by MIS magazine) facilitated their integration and flexibility needs without blowing the quota... READ MORE >

APC takes control with Greentree GST and reporting capabilities
The largest Australian-owned pest control company, Amalgamated Pest Control Pty Ltd (APC) has decided Greentree is the software that will support its business growth... READ MORE >

Greentree update helps Health Fund
Greentree was the software of choice for one of Australia’s Hospital Benefit Funds, GMHBA Ltd, when it decided to upgrade its CBA Financial system. Streamlined reporting via the ‘impressive’ integration between Greentree and Excel made the decision to change easy... READ MORE >

Australian property developer sees the potential in Greentree
JLF Commercial Pty Ltd has been a long term user of CBA. As its property development business grew, and with the introduction of compliance reporting of GST in Australia, JLF felt it needed a new financial system to better manage growth, the high volume of intercompany transactions and GST functions... READ MORE >

Kenneth Ayres Australia puts entire IT function into one package
When retail presentation, packaging and display company Kenneth Ayres decided to ditch its DOS-based accounts package, it went looking for a single solution that would satisfy all its IT needs. Greentree provided the answer… READ MORE >

Greentree clear choice to power up wholesaler’s expansion
As Lecky’s Electrical and Data's growth put its existing hardware and software solutions under strain, the company turned to Greentree to assist it with its expansion... READ MORE >

Greentree leads the poll in financial systems
The requirement to migrate its data had Newspoll on the lookout for new financial software - then Greentree came up with the numbers... READ MORE >

Toyota’s regional focus, global ambition
Toyota Motor Corporation has invested heavily in automotive engineering design through the creation of a Technical Design Center for the Asia Pacific region. It chose Greentree to help it breathe life into its vision... READ MORE >

Greentree improves climate at air-conditioning company
Gold Coast-based electrical and air conditioning company JGP used to spend almost a week getting its end-of-month accounts out. Now the company is using Greentree, regular financial statements are produced in an automated and painless process… READ MORE >

The solution behind the style
As it continued its Australian success story, European appliance importer and distributor Technika found its progress being restrained by its ageing ERP system. Incoming financial controller Trevor Porter, decided it was time to look for a new solution... READ MORE >

Greentree makes the right connection for Leap Australasia
When Leap Australasia’s managing director, Jay Wester, purchased his company in 2002, he went in search of a flexible solution that would support his ‘remote office’ strategy – and would also be easy and cost effective to sustain... READ MORE >

Greentree integration helps navigate ship builder to calmer waters
It’s been plain sailing for ferry and tour boat builder Incat Tasmania since the company swapped a 16-year-old DOS-based ERP system for a new Greentree solution... READ MORE >

Pacifica Shipping streamlines multi-mode transport solutions
The logistics company needed to upgrade its 20th Century technology with little, if any, disruption to business continuity. It turned to Greentree... READ MORE >

BiGA gleans valuable strategic insights using Greentrees tree analysis
One of Australia’s largest construction and allied industries apprentice training and education organisations turned to Greentree for a ‘best fit’ accounting system... READ MORE >

Greentree’s Workflow is a cool tool for hiPP.com.au
For packaging and social stationery company hiPP, Greentree’s dynamic desktop tool has provided users and managers with exactly the information they require, instantly... READ MORE >

Gerrard Murphy Plumbing taps business opportunities and workflow efficiencies
Moving to a central CRM hub using Greentree has allowed this service-focused business to overhaul its systems with dramatic results... READ MORE >

Greentree drives financial process improvements at Hydrosteer
Greentree was the best fit when this specialist steering and technical service company needed to upgrade its financial systems... READ MORE >

The Davey Group automates up to 60% of manual processes using Greentree
Queensland's vibrant mining, transport and agricultural sectors continue to drive growth and change in companies like The Davey Group where the incumbent business system could be ‘patched’ no longer... READ MORE >

Greentree simplifies Alucobond Architectural’s workflow
Greentree's solutions have given this importer and distributor high data visibility and valuable insights across its business... READ MORE >

Improving profitability – tracking job costs through to invoicing does the trick for C & G
Greentree has provided Colbeck & Gunton (C & G) a modular approach to the integration of its financial system ensuring that every transaction at the marine and industrial insulation company is recorded only once and can be accessed, shared, analysed, reported and, most importantly, invoiced - by authorised users anywhere at any time... READ MORE >

Greentree measures-up for Crosby Tiles
The ceramic tile company had a significant need for flexible unit-of-measure calculation within inventory management. The only offering that had all the angles covered was Greentree... READ MORE >

Palfinger lifts their game with Greentree automation
The giant crane company has lifted its game Down Under by automating accounting for its huge parts distribution business for the first time... READ MORE >

Greentree underpins Valley Longwall’s growth-by-acquisition strategy
As this Australian mining company taps into the potential of China, Greentree continues to support its forward momentum... READ MORE >

Greentree enables multi-national to slash admin costs and double growth
Sun Engineering (QLD) Pty Ltd has an ambitious international growth strategy which bucks global trends. To ensure this wasn’t constrained by an antiquated accounting system, the company installed a fully integrated high-performance business solution... READ MORE >

Greentree empowers installation company to compete for more lucrative tender opportunities
Since implementing Greentree almost 18 months ago, management at Armflame Pty Ltd, a gas & pipe installation company, has consolidated several quick returns on investment. With much greater data accessibility, the company now competes for more sophisticated and thus more lucrative, tender opportunities... READ MORE >

Greentree drive online efficiencies for No.1 Australian wholesaler
With several hundred stock items being updated each month, this entirely online business turned to Greentree’s WebStore and inventory management capability to streamline the web sales process. In less than 12 months, the company has achieved some significant efficiency gains... READ MORE >

Greentree continues growth of on-ground environmental restoration in Northern NSW
If ever the expression ‘can’t see the forest for the trees’ was more apt, it’s in this case. When the efficient management of environmental projects got bogged-down in 3,500 general ledger codes, Greentree showed the way... READ MORE >

Greentree steers UK Highways towards improved accounting and office efficiencies
Traffic flows on two of the UK’s busiest arterial roadways was arguably, more manageable than office workflows until Greentree got behind the wheel... READ MORE >

Road surfacing company covers more ground with Greentree
The lack of a coherent job costing process in an old DOS-based system necessitated several experts in laying asphalt and other specialised road coatings at Roadways to seek deliverance via a new Business Management Suite. Salvation came in the form of Greentree’s fully integrated modular solution... READ MORE >

One of the UK's top best-selling magazines still growing into Greentree
It was almost a done deal until a showstopper phone call from the local Greentree Business Partner changed everything... READ MORE >

Bidwells takes account of modern system from across the world
The UK accounting bureau had lots of customers but managing them was becoming a huge headache until an antipodean system, Greentree, showed the company a quick and easy Windows route to successful client management… READ MORE >

Publishers Association discovery of Greentree efficiencies a revelation
A challenge to the status quo helped uncover Greentree’s remarkable potential for efficiency gains at the UK’s largest representative body of publishing industry participants. READ MORE >

Sun Engineering sees the light with Greentree suite
Sun Engineering is bucking the global trend with its ambitious growth strategy, but it found it was being constrained by its antiquated accounts system that badly needed an upgrade. It found a new, integrated solution with blueStar’s help… READ MORE >

Greentree is the catalyst for growth for Centacare
Centacare, a large non-profit community care organisation in South Australia, has selected Greentree as its new financial system to support the organisation and its 220 staff... READ MORE >

Achieving maximum control of their lives
An interdependent community where all people can participate to their potential and achieve maximum control of their lives is the vision of Community Based Support South Inc (CBS), which provides in-home and community based personal support and respite care for frail older people, people with a disability and their carers in Southern Tasmania... READ MORE >

A first for First Nonprofit
Based in Chicago, First Nonprofit has been dedicated to serving nonprofit organisations through innovative insurance and financial services for more than 25 years. First Nonprofit entered into the unemployment insurance field in 1995 to develop a product to help their nonprofit policyholders reduce the rising costs of unemployment insurance... READ MORE >

Greentree unearths exploration and mining potential
Flexibility, integration and remote access are the cornerstones of the Greentree business management solution making it a competitive choice for the mining industry. Gallery Gold’s business focus was changing from being an exploration company to becoming a gold producer, and the final catalyst was a company merger which bought about the need for better accounting and business management... READ MORE >

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