Lennox Computer
Software Design
Installation & Support
Unit 8, 121 Newmarket Road
WINDSOR, QLD 4030
Phone: 07 3857 5588, Fax: 07 3857 6100
http://www.lennox.com.au
eMail: sales@lennox.com.au
Newsletter June 2008
Greetings to all our LILAC users and staff.

The end of 2007 - 08 financial year is approaching fast - Lennox Computer are experiencing a frantic level of demand for our products and services at the moment, and clients with special requirements over the turn of the financial year and into July are asked to book appointments in good time.
Lennox Computer - Fees & Charges
Web Content Managment
Lennox Computer now offer a "Web Content Manager" module as an add on to LILAC.

LILAC is a powerful web-server which allows web-sites to be created, edited and maintained by you, using the familiar LILAC user interface together with drag and drop inclusion of images for photos & diagrams combined with editable text.

An elegant two level hierarchical menu structure is implemented using a "Parent Page" relation in the LILAC relational database which is easily accessible and manipulable by the operator. A "cascading style sheet" interface is provided so that a corporate "look & feel" and colour scheme for the web pages may be pre-established and called down as needed as the web-pages are created. It's time the enterprise took control of it's own web presence.

Web Content may be managed from any LILAC workstation, allowing each section of the corporate web-site to be under the control of the relevant division of the enterprise.

LImited only by your imagination - daily web special pages, on-line catalogs, product specifications, installation details, manufacturer references and much more all dynamically updated in seconds.

No special skills required - established LILAC operators, are web-page authors overnight!

All businesses need a slick and dynamic web presence in these competitive days. You do not need to be at the mercy of third party web-site authors who take weeks to implement even small changes, and continually have your web-site "Under Construction."

(Note: Content Manager complements Active Server eCommerce, but eCommerce is not a pre-requisite).
It is more than two years since Lennox Computer have adjusted our prices, and in the light of much higher cost of money rates, and according to the RBA, burgeoning inflation, it is time for an adjustment. There will also be some restructuring and reorganisation of our products and services to try to achieve some economy, and in general the rises will be contained in 10 to 12% range.

Payment terms continue as before - 30 days from invoice for service and support, and cash on delivery for capital items, hardware, and pre-packaged software.
LILAC Integrated Freight Management System
In conjunction with OZtrail & Toll/IPEC Lennox Computer have developed a fully integrated Freight management and despatch system as an add on to LILAC and the LILAC Warehouse management module.

LILAC Freight Manager is oriented around fairly large scale warehouse and despatch environments, and achieves the full integration of the whole order processing, sales, despatch and freight manifesting.

Features include:

Weight & Cubic accumulation and calculation.
Consignment Label printing in Toll/IPEC approved layout (and other carriers).
Electronic upload of daily manifest data to Toll/IPEC.
Best Carrier selection based on geographic data and freight rate tables.
Per operator reporting of despatch achievement.

and more.

All captured from your exising and well established LILAC database with no re-keying or separate software operation required.
Doug Lennox
Ailsa Lennox
Ryan Lerch
Lennox Computer's Hardware Products
There is many hours work for Lennox Computer' staff in setting up and configuring a Microsoft Windows PC for optimal operation as a LILAC workstation, and much more in setting up a server - not because LILAC is particularly demanding, but because the complexity and generally flawed nature of the Microsoft product range requires careful management and attention to detail.
Lennox Computer supplied PC hardware generally has an up-market configuration well suited to modern versions of Windows, and supplied with all the appropriate software drivers for the various components, such as video, audio, DVD, modem, Networking, Printers etc, etc.

If you source low cost PC hardware from another party, Lennox Computer will undertake the setup and installation work for you, but it will cost you quite a lot more as generally we have to allow for about twice the work, as we will have to quality check and adjust the hardware configuration, find all the right drivers and download them from the internet, and generally diagnose and solve all the inherent problems of such an approach.
So please let us quote to supply and install workstation, and server hardware for your LILAC and Windows networking needs. You will find our base pricing quite competitive for comparable quality, and you will save money on installation and support costs, and you will achieve much higher performance as a consequence.
Note: Lennox Computer workstations are equipped with 2 Giga-bytes of RAM, and our servers have 4 Giga-bytes to ensure no-compromise performance running Windows Vista & Windows Server 2008
ADSL Internet Services
Lennox Computer offer our clients high performance Internet connections via the AAPT PoweTel network which are much more suitable for commercial operations than Telstra or Optus offerings.The Powertel network is relatively smaller in size and passes data through a lot fewer routers thus reducing latency "hops" which are the bane of the large unwieldy Telstra & Optus systems. Pricing is comparable for similar quality services, and Lennox Computer can conveniently provide the technical management for your ADSL services.
Remote File Server Networking
As an adjunct to LILAC Wide Area Networking Lennox Computer offer a WAN based File Server capability for fast and simple access to Word Processing, Graphics & Spreadsheet style documents by remotely located workstations to your LILAC server. Using old-fashioned fast & reliable FTP protocols files can be down-loaded, edited and up-loaded from within Office applications in a style quite similar to local file manipulation. This is a simple, cheap and reliable alternative to complex, expensive and trouble-prone VPN "solutions".
Backup Server Operations
Lennox Computer have developed a dual server concept for especially critical situations where continued system availability is crucially important. A secondary server PC is incorporated into the network and equipped with Lennox Computer software technology to routinely copy the database from the primary server, such that the backup server is ready to take over with a minimum of delay or data-loss.
LILAC Add On Modules
Many long established LILAC user may not be fully aware of more recent developments in terms of add on modules which may enhance their operations.

They include:

Manufacturing - Scheduling and Costing

Integrated Freight Management

Timber Tally - quantities units dimensions

eCommerce - Integrated Shopping Basket

Web Content Management - build & manage your own web-site

Warehouse Manager - geographic, barcode driven warehouse layouts

Labour Hire - automatic labour billing from payroll operations

Document Designer - advance page layout with database integration

Time Logging - remote barcode based time costing & payroll capture

File Master - Integrated VPN File server operations (see below).

Electronic Data Interchange - XML & PDF based trading partner commination