New location for blueStar head office
June 2008

blueStar's head office is moving to a new location on 1st July,
please note our new contact details:

Our telephone number will remain the same:

1300 653 011

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Exciting changes at blueStar
January 2008

Effective immediately, Joanne Collinson is the Managing Director of blueStar Business Solutions. Richard Jones is off on an overseas adventure soon, but he will be staying on at blueStar as a senior consultant until 29th February 2008.

Richard and his partner Kathy have been invited to help set up and run a new eco-retreat centre and community in Costa Rica (in Central America). This is an amazing opportunity for Richard and Kathy and a complete life-change for them.

We wish Richard and Kathy all the very best in their new adventure.

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Positive Result for Greentree in UK Lab Test
Report by David Carter - accountingweb.co.uk
October 2007

Greentree is experiencing significant growth in the UK market. This is strongly supported by a review and lab test of Greentree's Financial Suite that has garnered much praise from the UK reviewer...

"Clearly, Greentree is a product of the first rank."

The overall standard of the software is very high, but certain features call for particular praise. Examples are: the use of coding hierarchies (“trees”) for reporting; different screen layouts for entering different types of transaction line; the ability to post to several companies within the one transaction; and the GL Enquiry screen being effectively a window onto the entire GL database.

Greentree offers a full range of modules in addition to the accounting ledgers covered in this review. The developer’s representative showed me the CRM module which looked extremely good, suggesting that a similar standard prevails across the rest of the range.

Greentree is little known in this country [the UK]. However, it should be stressed that it has an established track record as a premier supplier in Australia/NZ.

And as I have argued elsewhere, with the private equity industry now targeting software companies, buying from a long-established and well-known UK vendor is no longer quite the safe option it used to be.

UK reseller Prerogative says it is promoting Greentree to more experienced and therefore more discriminating customers. This makes sense.

"If you are the sort of user who is looking to work with a small supplier of top quality business software, then Greentree can be strongly recommended."

David Carter

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Greentree's super-integration clinches buy decision ahead of SAP, Navision & Pronto
July 2007

Estimating, calculating and quoting labour costs are core business activities for Armflame a gas and pipe Installation Company in Queensland Australia. With over 30 field staff covered by multiple pay and award agreements the calculation of labour is complicated. This being the case it’s not surprising that John Todd, Armflame CFO required any new software system to automatically calculate and charge back payroll costs to the job without having to re-key data. What was surprising for John was that only a handful of software vendors had actually figured this out.

Having experienced several software and systems implementations over the years, John knew exactly what he was looking for from a software supplier. The key attributes were the ability of the supplier to quickly grasp requirements and explain in plain-vanilla English exactly how the offering would meet those requirements. John and his team of eight ERP evaluators invited product demonstrations from Greentree, SAP and Pronto but the stand-out performer on a number of key factors was Greentree. Navision was looked at but eliminated as it did not have an integrated payroll system....

“Greentree will give us the ability to add value to our business, control our job cost and improve the way we do business over the long term, but also with some quick short term gains.”

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Greentree readies for growth spurt
The Dominion Post article by Tom Pullar-Strecker
30 July 2007

New Zealand's answer to SAP, Auckland-based enterprise resource planning software vendor Greentree, will invest $1.1 million on improving its software to help meet its ambitious goal of growing its customer base from 800 to 10,000-plus customers.

The company, which employs 42 staff, has received a $350,000 grant from the Foundation of Research, Science and Technology to develop a sophisticated testing tool.

Greentree chief executive Peter Dickinson says the tool will improve the reliability and compatibility of updates and enhancements to its software, making it safer to push these out more regularly.

"We already have very automated systems for deploying updates and we release them every night and that has the fantastic benefit that customers get new features quickly. The downside is if you 'break anything'.

"What we are looking to do with this grant is to put in incredibly clever testing tools so we can put out the most bulletproof software quickly."

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Gigantic innovation leap in store for Greentree
Scoop - Press Release:
Foundation for Research Science & Technology
30 July 2007

Financial and business management software company Greentree is developing unique technology that will provide automatic testing for new programmes so it can pump out software upgrades on a daily basis.

The technology would also smooth the way to ensure compatibility of add-ons and upgrades for customised and standard software packages.

The advanced capability means Greentree is set to take greater market share internationally with its business software which incorporates financial, distribution, supply chain management, point of sale, manufacturing, project costing, customer relationship management (CRM), services and asset management, HR, payroll and eCommerce options.

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Greentree - listening to your needs
May 2007

This year's Business Software Guide, released by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, features comprehensive coverage of Greentree and their Australian Greentree Business Partners.

View full advertising coverage here (2Mb PDF)

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MIS votes Greentree one of top 25 NZ ICT vendors
MIS NZ Magazine Article by Divina Paredes & Vikki Bland
May 2006

Greentree is delighted to have been voted one of the 25 most strategically important New Zealand IT vendors by MIS New Zealand magazine. They share this honour with Navman, TelstraClear and Weta Digital among others.

The ten judges hail from both the public and private sectors, and hold senior management & IT positions. They based their decisions on those vendors who have experienced exponential growth locally and internationally.

These 25 New Zealand companies have been deemed to be very important to NZ IT user organisations that value the advantage of working with companies attuned to the needs of the local business community, and are flexible and innovative at the same time...

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