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Business Software
Meet one of the team behind our business software
Phil Hawkes is a Senior Software Consultant here at OGL and is one of the key masterminds behind our business software – prof.ITplus. Phil joined our Company in 1983 and has had an instrumental role in developing our software ever since. Of course, Phil’s work has been supported by many colleagues over the years, in particular Sue Bullock and Andrew Dav...
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£100,000 raised for good causes in the last three years
We’ve had another successful year of fundraising here at OGL, having raised almost £30,000 for over 50 charities and local community organisations during 2016. Together with similar sums raised in 2015 and 2014, we have now raised just shy of £100,000 over the past three years. We’ve helped all kinds of organisations – many close to ou...
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New offices for our 100-strong Technical Team
This week our Technical Team is settling into brand spanking new offices, following their move at the weekend. The team has grown rapidly over the last few years and their previous office at our Kidderminster site was bursting at the seams. The new offices at our Stourport office are spacious, light, modern and full of mod cons. The Technical Team encompasses our S...
Business Software
Taking control using business software
What is the main thing that prof.ITplus provides to the businesses that use it? Control . That’s right, control . Of course, as a business owner or manager, you have control now; you say what happens, when and how at a strategic level. But what about control of critical aspects of your business, such as pricing, discounts and profit margins, which you ma...
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OGL Dinner & Dance
OGL held our second Dinner & Dance at the weekend at the Chateau Impney in Droitwich. The event was a huge success and the atmosphere on the night was buzzing after celebrating individual achievements across the business in our Staff Awards. The drinks were flowing and when local band, Soul Town, took to the stage there were some very nifty shapes being thrown on ...
IT Solutions
How to achieve a good IT infrastructure that “just works”
The four cornerstones of an IT infrastructure that allows you to focus on running your business Our infrastructure architects have vast experience in the design, configuration and implementation of infrastructures that “just work”. We use this phrase “just work” as over the years we have found that very often businesses simply want an IT set...
Business Software
OGL Software: curing the headache of stock-taking
Of course, a company needs to know the value of their stock in order to generate accurate year-end accounts and establish how the business is performing but for many companies it means significant down-time whilst the stock-taking is being carried out. Our customers (before using OGL Software) typically report losing a week’s trade due to the annual stock-take. ...
Business Software
5 ways OGL Software improves staff morale
We’ve noticed over the years that not only does our business software make the CEOs and MDs of businesses that use OGL Software happy (because of the boost to the bottom line), it also has a positive impact on the morale of staff using OGL Software for their day-to-day work. We’ve compiled our top 5 examples of how OGL Software can help to boost morale ...
Business Software
The power of Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
The better a business can manage its customer relationships, the more success the business is likely to have. The term given to this idea is Customer Relationship Management (CRM). It’s the act of handling and recording customer communications, interactions and relationships in a structured, integrated manner with the goal of better serving those customers, bo...
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