Software giant helps Kiwis sell to the world

Enprise Solutions’ Mark Loveys.

Tiny Auckland software house Enprise Solutions is using global giant SAP to take its products to the world.

Enprise, which sells and implements SAP's Business One for small- and medium-sized businesses, has developed a job-costing module for the package.

"It was something customers here were asking us for - New Zealand and Australia are jobbing economies," said founder and chairman Mark Loveys.

The module allows users to create a hypothetical model of a job or project outside the core accounting system database, and then to track costs and profits throughout the life of the job.

Loveys said it was something many mid-market companies around the world needed.

"Businesses need smarter ways to track resources and jobs. Margins are getting tighter," he said.

Loveys said because of SAP's name and global reach, Business One could become the number one small- and medium-sized business accounting package.

"We see Enprise as primarily a development company. By developing for a worldwide platform, we can tap into the markets quicker. We don't have to go into a lot of different countries and set up our sales infrastructure."

That is a path Loveys went down before, as one of the original developers of exo-net, a product Enprise also sells.

"There will always be some companies that prefer a local product in accounting.

"There are also features of any product which will suit some businesses and not others," said Loveys.

Loveys demonstrated the module, which sells here for $995 a user, to resellers at an Asia-Pacific SAP event last month.

"There was a lot of excitement about it and I have a big list of contacts to work on," Loveys said.

Enprise has also developed a banking interface module for Business One, which will sell for about $300 a user.

Loveys has stepped aside as chief executive of Enprise in order to focus on product strategy and development.

His replacement is Neil Bell, who became New Zealand general manager of Solution 6 when that company owned exo-net.

Former Mi Services New Zealand head John Quirk, now a director of strategic investment and management company Howard & Company, has joined the board as a non-executive director.

Loveys said the company was on track to double its revenue from last year's $2.5 million.

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