132 Virginia Ave, Hawthorne, QLD 4171
Phone: 07 3395 7733, Fax: 07 3395 7732
http://www.lennox.com.au eMail: doug@lennox.com.au
Intended Uses
Distribution, Wholesale, Retail, Warehousing, Construction, Contracting & Manufacturing
Operational Efficiency
Transaction Based Data-Capture
Transactions such as purchases, sales, orders, stock transfers, etc, are processed with a WYSIWYG document orientation, which means that the need for re-keying duplicate entry of data for multiple purposes is completely eliminated.
Document Presentation
Windows Graphical User Interface
Very high quality document formatting is implemented with multiple fonts, text & graphics, line drawings, rendered 2D & 3D images, all sorts of bit-mapped images, including Internet graphics and digital camera shots. These are all available for the production of orders, invoices, statements, reports and much more WYSIWYG documentation on Video, Laser and Ink-jet printers.
Integration
Multi-Ledger Automation
Subsidiary ledgers such as debtors, creditors, stock, payroll, balance sheet and trading ledger are automatically posted in real-time as a natural consequence of the processing or creation of source documents such as invoices, credit notes, time costing, requisitions, etc.
Flexible Accounting Periods
Financial Reporting
Profit or loss & balance sheet reports are available in real-time as a direct consequence of transaction processing.
Simultaneous Multiple Accounting Period Operation
LILAC permits the simultaneous operation in many accounting periods and multiple financial years within the same database. Accounts staff may continue to operate in past periods for finalization and revision purposes while sales staff proceed unhindered in later periods.
Multi-company Operations
Unlimited Numbers of Companies
Within a single database as many individually balancing company (branch, subsidiary, dealer, etc) ledgers may be maintained with automatic real-time "loan account" posting generated by the software to reflect inter-company transactions. "Head-office" debtors & creditors provided at multiple levels if required.
Standard Equipment and Networking
Intel Pentiums running Microsoft Windows
LILAC is used on networks of Intel Pentium based computers running Microsoft Windows 2003 on the server and any current version of Windows on additional workstations. LILAC is fully and dynamically integrated to Microsoft Office - Excel.
LILAC is a broadly based commercial software package, which provides all the commonly required modules in a fully integrated balancing double-entry database. LILAC maintains a long-term electronic document database for all commonly required commercial and accounting transactions. It provides a comprehensive reporting system, for accounts, stock, sales analysis, and other topics through to full financial results.
No Hidden Costs
Training Document- ation and Support Costs Included
The per module pricing quoted for LILAC is all inclusive, covering installation, training and the first month of support for the phasing in of multiple applications in a well ordered manner with no cost penalty.
Local Software Development and Support
Lennox Computer is a wholly Australian owned software development & support enterprise.
All aspects of the LILAC software product have been designed and programmed at our Queensland office. Lennox Computer provide high priority software and system support to customers in all Australian cities and many major provincial centres. Software corrections and adjustments may be downloaded from our Internet server within seconds of becoming available.
Ten to twenty year projected product life
Our LILAC II software product was in service for more than fifteen years, and we fully expect LILAC 3 to enjoy a development life exceeding this. The modern operating system and network environments used by LILAC 3 lack the constraints and design flaws of the older DOS/UNIX based systems. Lennox Computer's adherence to the best of Microsoft and Intel standards ensures a product viable in the long term.
Long Term Support
Long Term support service from Lennox Computer
Some of our existing customers have been on continuous support contract with Lennox Computer for nearly twenty years. Support terms provide for corrections, consulting, and most importantly rights to new versions of the software product(s). See our "Terms & Conditions of Support" document for full details.
Proven Software
More than 8 years field operations
LILAC is a new technology product, designed for the latest windows user interfaces, and modern local and wide area networking (LAN & WAN). Even so it enjoys a proven track record of more than a six years' use by real world commercial users.
Flexible Tailoring
Visual Presentation Language
Lennox Computer's multi-level language approach allows the tailoring of document and report formats in our VPL "front-end" Very High Level Programming Language (VHLPL), without compromising the robustness or security of the underlying data-base and audit structures.
LAN - WAN Connectivity
Intranets & the Internet
Lennox Computer has designed LILAC to use Internet network protocols from the very beginning. This gives customers the choice of operating a purely private Local network (single Ethernet), or using DSL Internet service to connect to the public Internet to implement a cheap, fast and reliable Virtual Private Network between remote locations located anywhere in the world, plus the option of permitting secure public access.
Nation-wide Client/server operations at the cost of local calls
LILAC provides very natural and powerful support for a Head Office, Branch Office hierarchy with all data maintained on a central server, thus facilitating multi-branch access to stock levels, accounts and product data from any location.
Hardware Integration
Lennox Computer manufacture and supply suitable hardware
Quality standards for cheap PC hardware are extremely variable throughout the industry. Lennox Computer offer carefully selected Intel Pentium based computer systems, manufactured to high quality standards, and guaranteed to provide reliable, robust and high-speed commercial operation of our software.