Peckinpaugh & Associates, Inc.
COMPUTER
SYSTEMS CONSULTANTS
SINCE 1972
E- Mail our consultants:
Walt Peckinpaugh
wsp@peckinpaugh.com
Dick Reierson
rar@peckinpaugh.com
Marilyn Peckinpaugh
mbp@peckinpaugh.com
Eric Kliskey
ekliskey@peckinpaugh.com
Christine Kocsis
ckocsis@peckinpaugh.com
Products Supported
The marketplace offers a multitude of solutions for end-user needs. We have chosen the following network and application products to support our clients' accounting and office needs:
In 2009 we added the SonicWALL® product line to the front-end of our client support needs. This high-end internet appliance is primarily directed at content control and network security. These include devices providing services for network firewalls, UTM's (Unified Threat Management), VPN's (Virtual Private Network), backup, recovery and anti-spam for email. The company also markets information subscription services related to their products for total 24/7 protection. A "must have" addition to our client support service. More information is available at www.sonicwall.com.
Also in 2009, we changed our office telephone to a Panasonic®
switch with VOIP capability. In addition to standard digital phones at employee
desks, we can now install VOIP phones anywhere that we have a SonicWALL® that
is programmed to interface with our SonicWALL®. We already have this technology
working at three client sites. For more information, visit www.panasonic.com.
We
have been installing and supporting Novell® networking almost exclusively since
the first release in the mid-80s. While Microsoft Windows Server® has made a
strong bid for Novell's network base, Novell is still our preferred server
operating system. Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small
Business Edition® is very affordable and is bundled with GroupWise®. NetWare®
continues to be a reliable, stable and efficient product for
the small to large user. NetWare® is actually installed on Novell's Suse® Linux
platform providing all of the Linux operating system capabilities as well. For more information, visit their web site at www.novell.com.
Novell
GroupWise® 8.0 - a member of the Novell Enterprise® family of solutions - is a premier communication and collaboration
tool. It provides an effective and innovative approach to collaboration
services - an approach that delivers security, control and mobility, while
reducing the cost of managing and maintaining essential communication and
collaboration services. By installing the mobile server application, you can
receive not only your email on your cell phone, but also your calendar,
contacts, and soon, your tasks and memos.
Where required, we also install and support Microsoft SQL Server® applications. Of course, we support all of the workstation Windows®-based operating systems and Microsoft Office® application products. Microsoft Visual FoxPro® has long been our database solution for special applications development. Also, we have developed several solutions for clients using Microsoft Office Access® and Microsoft Office FrontPage®. More information is available at www.microsoft.com.
We
no longer support RealWorld software, but we would be happy to help you convert to
Passport Business Solutions.
Passport Software, Inc.™ started much like Peckinpaugh and Associates as a software solution provider using RealWorld. In the mid-eighties this company ported the RealWorld code to a different platform under agreements with RealWorld. A few years ago, they chose AcuCOBOL as their platform and converted their solution to this Windows® compliant interface.
Passport
Business Solutions™ provides the same look, feel and functionality of RealWorld
in a Windows® environment including mouse control, printing capabilities
and better pop-ups. Most importantly, the product will continue to be
improved and supported. We are licensed to use their
source code, we have the capability to port and expand all of the specialized features
that we have developed for our customers over the past 25 years. For more
information visit their web site at www.pass-port.com.
TeleMagic®
is still our choice for contact management solutions. The customization available with
this product exceeds that available in most contact management systems. The
product is written in Microsoft FoxPro®, our chosen database solution. This
allows us the ability to interface TeleMagic® with custom applications.
TeleMagic® allows the user to completely customize specified fields and how
they are seen. This flexibility allows TeleMagic® to grow with your company so
that your company does not outgrow the very tools that helped achieve that
growth. TeleMagic® allows for easy integration with industry standard word
processors like Microsoft Word®. Email and other electronic communications capabilities as well as
phone and mail merge make it an excellent choice for maintaining connections
with customers, vendors and any others important to the success of your
company. Now sold by Sage® and no longer being supported by them, we still think
it out classes others like Act® and Goldmine®.
Microsoft®, RealWorld and Microsoft Visual FoxPro® are trademarks of the Microsoft® group of companies.
Windows® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation® in the United States and other countries.
TeleMagic® is a
registered trademark of © Sage Software, Inc.
Novell® and NetWare®
are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc.®
Passport
Business Solutions™ is
a registered trademark of Passport Software Inc™.