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Superminisfor small businesses
are greater than 100 terminals at $4000 per terminal. This, it says, is lower than an industry average of $6-7000 per terminal. MA1 also claims that its new machine is faster than the DEC VAX 111730, and the VAX 111750, the Data General MV4000 and MV6000, the HP3000 and others in the same range. MA1 markets worldwide through its own offices and distributors. It manufactures in the USA and Holland.
MA1 has launched a series of uperminis aimed at the medurn size business of 200 or nore staff. There are three nodels in the series, with one, wo and three processors; reslectively, fitting in at various evels of the MA1 Basic Four lroduct range. The 8030, with hree processors and 1536
(MAZ, New
januaryifebruary
NY
United
Black
Arrow
UK.
~0126 no 1
Lexington
MAZ Road,
mum memory for this machine IS 6 Mbyte, and maximum number of terminals is 96. The three models are compatible with the rest of the MA1 range, running under BOSS, the proprietary operating system unusually written m Pascal. Currently only Business Basic is supported for running applications. COBOL is to be available in summer 1984, and there are plans for offering Pascal. Software options include a modular Office .Management System, and a recently launched applications generator called Origin. Basic prices range from $55000 for the 8010 (single processor) through $134 000 for the 8020 (double processor) to $210000 for the 8030 (triple processor). Terminals and disc storage will increase these prices. MAI puts the cost of an 8000 installation where there
560 York,
Avenue,
10022,
USA.
Kingdom House,
London Tel: 01-965
Ltd,
Chandos
NW10 9731.)
6NF, 0
Financial decision support A financial management system for personal computers has been announced by Fox & Geller, a US company which has until now concentrated on dBase II enhancements. This is not another spreadsheet argues company chairman and cofounder Dr Jacob Geller: ‘It is a new category of software . a step beyond spreadsheet.’ The package, called Oz, allows a user to enter and report upon financial data of a company in five categories: budget, forecast (which is constantly revised), actuals, last year and next year. From this
1984
data the perform: l l l l l
manager
can
then
profit and loss forecasting variance analysis 3D financial graphics business graphics monthly financial reports
The variance analysis capability lets the manager work back through a report to find out why actual figures vary from budget. Every time the user makes an entry in the financial data he or she can add a reason e.g. the monthly salary bill is increased because extra staff were taken on. This information can be retrieved later to help answer questions on budgets versus actual. The 3D financial analysis means that a business can be viewed by line items, time and departments. For example, you can look at the revenue and expenses of a certain department over a year, or at the costs of all departments for one month, or the cost of salaries throughout the organization over time. The package works best on a colour monitor with graphics capability, as most of the figures can be turned into various kinds of graphs with a keystroke. It costs $495 in the USA and &350 in the UK. Languages available are German, French, Japanese, Dutch
and English. The software includes a facility for swopping currencies. At present the software runs under MS/DOS. Soon available will be a CPiM-86 version, and a version for the Sirius, which Geller is keen to produce quickly. The package will interface to popular databases and spreadsheet programs. (Fox & Geller (UK) Ltd, I7 Wigmore Street, London WlH Tel: 01-580 Inc.,
5816.
604 Market
wood Park,
9LA,
Fox&
UK. Geller
Street,
NY 07407,
ElmUSA.) 0
LANthrough telephone cables A local area network aimed at the nontechnical user has been launched by Micom-Borer in the UK. Instanet uses the twisted pair cables already connecting telephones to carry data around a building. The LAN has X.25 links for packet access, concentrator links for remote terminal clusters and 1.544 Mbit/s links for wide area networking. The network is managed by Micom’s Micro 600 data FEY. Co~~icom-Borer Ltd, IS Road,
Reading,
QYT, UK.
Craddock Berks
Tel: (0734)
RG2
866801.) 0
47
Superminisfor small businesses
are greater than 100 terminals at $4000 per terminal. This, it says, is lower than an industry average of $6-7000 per terminal. MA1 also claims that its new machine is faster than the DEC VAX 111730, and the VAX 111750, the Data General MV4000 and MV6000, the HP3000 and others in the same range. MA1 markets worldwide through its own offices and distributors. It manufactures in the USA and Holland.
MA1 has launched a series of uperminis aimed at the medurn size business of 200 or nore staff. There are three nodels in the series, with one, wo and three processors; reslectively, fitting in at various evels of the MA1 Basic Four lroduct range. The 8030, with hree processors and 1536
(MAZ, New
januaryifebruary
NY
United
Black
Arrow
UK.
~0126 no 1
Lexington
MAZ Road,
mum memory for this machine IS 6 Mbyte, and maximum number of terminals is 96. The three models are compatible with the rest of the MA1 range, running under BOSS, the proprietary operating system unusually written m Pascal. Currently only Business Basic is supported for running applications. COBOL is to be available in summer 1984, and there are plans for offering Pascal. Software options include a modular Office .Management System, and a recently launched applications generator called Origin. Basic prices range from $55000 for the 8010 (single processor) through $134 000 for the 8020 (double processor) to $210000 for the 8030 (triple processor). Terminals and disc storage will increase these prices. MAI puts the cost of an 8000 installation where there
560 York,
Avenue,
10022,
USA.
Kingdom House,
London Tel: 01-965
Ltd,
Chandos
NW10 9731.)
6NF, 0
Financial decision support A financial management system for personal computers has been announced by Fox & Geller, a US company which has until now concentrated on dBase II enhancements. This is not another spreadsheet argues company chairman and cofounder Dr Jacob Geller: ‘It is a new category of software . a step beyond spreadsheet.’ The package, called Oz, allows a user to enter and report upon financial data of a company in five categories: budget, forecast (which is constantly revised), actuals, last year and next year. From this
1984
data the perform: l l l l l
manager
can
then
profit and loss forecasting variance analysis 3D financial graphics business graphics monthly financial reports
The variance analysis capability lets the manager work back through a report to find out why actual figures vary from budget. Every time the user makes an entry in the financial data he or she can add a reason e.g. the monthly salary bill is increased because extra staff were taken on. This information can be retrieved later to help answer questions on budgets versus actual. The 3D financial analysis means that a business can be viewed by line items, time and departments. For example, you can look at the revenue and expenses of a certain department over a year, or at the costs of all departments for one month, or the cost of salaries throughout the organization over time. The package works best on a colour monitor with graphics capability, as most of the figures can be turned into various kinds of graphs with a keystroke. It costs $495 in the USA and &350 in the UK. Languages available are German, French, Japanese, Dutch
and English. The software includes a facility for swopping currencies. At present the software runs under MS/DOS. Soon available will be a CPiM-86 version, and a version for the Sirius, which Geller is keen to produce quickly. The package will interface to popular databases and spreadsheet programs. (Fox & Geller (UK) Ltd, I7 Wigmore Street, London WlH Tel: 01-580 Inc.,
5816.
604 Market
wood Park,
9LA,
Fox&
UK. Geller
Street,
NY 07407,
ElmUSA.) 0
LANthrough telephone cables A local area network aimed at the nontechnical user has been launched by Micom-Borer in the UK. Instanet uses the twisted pair cables already connecting telephones to carry data around a building. The LAN has X.25 links for packet access, concentrator links for remote terminal clusters and 1.544 Mbit/s links for wide area networking. The network is managed by Micom’s Micro 600 data FEY. Co~~icom-Borer Ltd, IS Road,
Reading,
QYT, UK.
Craddock Berks
Tel: (0734)
RG2
866801.) 0
47