Software solutions provider & distributor Blue Rock Systems Ltd has purchased the Nottingham based IT software company Sense Computers Systems from the Sense Group for c£670,000.

The Southampton based Blue Rock sees the addition of Sense as a logical expansion that increases its geographic spread and gives it access to experienced staff, a wide customer base and new software.

Blue Rock is purchasing Sense Computer Systems from the Sense Group, who will now concentrate on its Sense Enterprise Solutions Division.

The managing director of Blue Rock, George Troullis, said: ‘This is an excellent opportunity for Blue Rock to expand into the Midlands with an existing, happy client base with a first class team of engineers and support staff.

‘Having a base in the Midlands is a key requirement of our expansion road map and Sense’s excellent offices really fit the bill. I know Sense’s high quality engineers will enjoy being stimulated by working with the Blue Rock team.

‘This is a big expansion for Blue Rock and we will now concentrate all our efforts to ensure a seamless transfer and guarantee the excellent customer service that Sense’s customers have enjoyed continues and even improves! In addition Blue Rock will establish a new business sales team in Nottingham which will increase our turnover to approximately £ 4 million within 12 months.’

Michael Blatherwick, the Managing Director of the Sense Group said: ‘We took the strategic decision to focus on our Enterprise Solutions business- but wanted to make sure we found the right owner  for our Computer Systems division and one who would maintain the high levels of customer support and drive the business forward.’

‘All of our customers purchased from us because they trusted us to offer excellent ongoing support and we are confident that Blue Rock will deliver that – their track record with their own customers support my confidence in the company.’

Enquiries:

Blue Rock
Glen Jewell/George Troullis    +44(0)23 8083 9800

Johnquinnconsult
John Quinn    +44(0)7736 149410

Sales-i’s Reseller Channel Gets Underway with the Appointment of Blue Rock Systems

- Blue Rock adds sales-i to its product portfolio to plug the gap for portable sales intelligence and CRM solutions –

Sales-i, (www.sales-i.com) the sales intelligence service for front line sales people today announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with IT Solutions provider, Blue Rock Systems. Blue Rock is an established, highly regarded IT Solutions Company with a reputation for delivering and implementing sales intelligence, accounting, CRM and wholesale distribution systems to companies across the UK and Ireland. Blue Rock will now extend its offerings to include sales-i’s on-demand sales intelligence and CRM system.
“sales-i is low cost, ready to use and easy to deliver and most importantly it is exactly what our customers are looking for in a climate where clever sales and customer know-how can really make a difference to the bottom line,” commented Glen Jewell, sales director at Blue Rock. “sales-i fills a gap in our product portfolio by offering our clients a portable, on-demand sales intelligence and CRM solution with a very low cost of ownership.”

Blue Rock is a rapidly expanding software house based on the south coast of England. Its primary business activity is in the supply and support of financial, logistic, warehouse and service software applications for small and medium sized organisations throughout the UK. The company offers a choice of solutions including Microsoft Dynamics™, Intact Software and QlikView™ and works closely with its clients to thoroughly understand their requirements and to deliver a solution that meets with their current and future expectations.
sales-i is a very natural and complementary extension to Blue Rock’s solutions and expertise. Both companies target their products at small to medium distribution organisations with large product lists and hundreds of customers managing office and field based sales forces. sales-i is an easy to use, on-demand sales intelligence and CRM system that empowers these sales organisations and sales teams by providing them with up to the minute sales and gap analysis alerting them to upselling and cross selling opportunities. sales-i also offers a portable CRM solution integrating sales call outcomes and customer contact management thereby giving increased sales and customer buying visibility. sales-i works on any browser including mobile devices.

The Software as a Service (SaaS) model further increases sales-i’s appeal as Glen explains, “ Our customers can be up and running with sales-i in such a short time because there is no need for installation or infrastructure investment. The service is hosted and delivered by the sales-i team and once our customer data is uploaded they are good to go; immediately receiving sales alerts and customer buying information. This coupled with a low monthly fee really does make it an easy decision and we are already enjoying significant interest from our customers.”
Kevin McGirl is co-founder of sales-i and very upbeat about the new partnership. “The Blue Rock team understands the market for sales-i. They have an established footprint with the kinds of organisations that sales-i targets and they have strong expertise in sales technologies, so there is a natural synergy between our companies. We are delighted to welcome them as our first reseller and we look forward to working closely with them to boost their sales intelligence solutions sales.”

Sales-i is a real-time sales intelligence service for front-line sales people. Through sales-i, sales professionals are equipped with real-time customer buying behavior alerts which are delivered by email and text messaging, empowering them to make better informed, personalized and faster decisions which maximize repeat sales and reduce customer slippage.
Sales-i is a true Software-as-a-Service solution charged on a per-user, per-month, basis.
Sales and marketing organizations rely on sales-i to maximize their sales intelligence. This delivers protected customer share, better margins, visible cross-sell and up-sell opportunities and increased customer buying behaviour know-how resulting in more intelligent, profitable selling.

We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a open day on March 19th to present the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, CRM and other facilities. This is customer focused day (with a few potential clients attending). Invites will be sent out shortly via post and email but you may care to download the attached PDF and beat the rush!

Customer Open Day Invite 

After months of fruitlessly scouring the Internet for a competent document scanning solution Blue Rock gave up – and wrote their own. Blue Rock have been able to provide our customers with the facility to barcode their delivery notes which, when signed and returned, can be scanned en mass and stored against transactions in their back office systems – enabling the customer to retrieve POD’s instantly, save paperwork and improve the effectiveness of debt collection and cash flow. However the generic scanning software never allowed for subsequent delivery notes to be scanned along side the originals (appending the files). In addition the scanning software was relatively expensive and complicated to use.

Now, however,we have developed our own application which resolves the issue, is far simpler to operate, scans at a faster rate (approximately 50% faster) and reduces the image size of the POD therefore reducing disk space requirements and improving the rate at which the image can be loaded. As we own the software we are able to reduce the cost of multiple scanner installations which up until now needed separate licences per scanner.

For further information please get in touch with the sales team.

Even though the company is only 3 years old it has been very gratifying to discover that Bluerock have been ranked amongst the top 20% of UK Microsoft Dynamics-NAV resellers (based on volume of new clients).

Commenting on the news, George Troullis, Managing Director stated ” We have achieved enviable growth levels since the incorporation of Blue Rock and Microsoft’s confirmation of our status comes at a time when we have ramped up the Dynamics Navision installation and sales team to accomodate our plans for the next three years “.

Blue Rock have been a Microsoft Gold Certifed Partner for the past 2 years.

We are pleased to announced that VT Flagship, based in Portsmouth, has recently placed an order for a 9 mess, 33 user installation of BlueRocks Win Mess solution for the management of accomodation booking, accounts and EPOS activities.

The installation takes place in the 3rd quarter of 2008 with a predicted live date of November 3rd. This exciting project includes all the modular features of WinMess (which is based on world class Microsoft Dynamics-Nav) and the project incorporates some new features for the system

Phase 2 of the project, due to go live in January 2009 will include 3 additional messes in the South West.