Company Overview

Vision/R4 Corporation is a private Canadian company founded in

• We are a computer software company that develops and

implements a financial, distribution, project accounting, activity based management and manufacturing software called Apogee, as well as, our SmartVision Tool Kit software that develops tools. We offer a complete turnkey solution including unique business procedures and software customization, implementation, hardware, networking and telecommunications. Our head office is based in Montreal with offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City, Los Angeles and Miami. Vision has a growing full time staff of over thirty specialists and is complemented by experienced programmers who are dedicated to every project. We are constantly committed to develop and improve our products with state-of-the-art technology in order to better serve our markets.

The Apogee software is built on a solid and flexible technological foundation. From its expanded (N-tiered) client/server processing, 4GL object-oriented programming application development framework, to its unique scalability attributes, Apogee is built on a technology that will support your organization through the decades ahead. But more important, the technology is hidden from the end-users: the OLE gives direct access to favorite windows and tools; the Windows desktop familiarity enables navigation through the software and performing operations; and the overall intuitivity of the application makes information easy to find and manipulate. Also available is the SmartVision Tool Kit, which is an integrated set of utilities designed to augment the power of your Progress based technological environment. The SmartVision Tool Kit forms the foundation of the Apogee system as well as an advanced infrastructure which your business can rely on.

Our products have 100% Canadian content and are competitively priced. They meet and exceed most functional requirements with modules that are seamlessly integrated at the lowest cost of ownership and by far the best value for money.

Vision markets its products through in-house representation, as well as a network of sales representatives throughout the world, with 80% of export sales destined to the U. S. and Europe. Exclusive representatives have not yet been appointed in other countries except for the United Kingdom.

While the company is interested in pursuing and developing sales worldwide, South America has been identified as a new market with good potential. This market has been given priority, with representatives actively sought at present.

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Legal Name: VISION/R4 Corporation

Number of Employees: 80

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Products

• Apogee: Distribution And Logistics

  Apogee: Distribution and Logistics

  The Distribution Logistics is the area that represents the most potential for improvement in the Enterprise Planning Resource Planning Integration. The powerful features of Apogees Distribution Logistics guide you to capitalize on the opportunity by addressing a wide range of product management issues, and enabling your organization to best deal with such daily concerns and challenges:

  • What products need stocking
  • When should you buy
  • How to determine total cost of inventory ownership
  • Where do sales come from.
  • Should you order-fill from existing stock
  • How much should you buy
  • How to manage best my distribution facilities and shipping

  processes

  • How much profit on this line of product

  To control your margins and transaction in this highly competitive world, our Distribution Logistics helps track an inventory turnover and increases the customer service level. The integrated cost accounting and inventory management can be performed on a board variety of methods, including serialized, lot control and weighted average, as well as a most comprehensive product kiting. The natural integration to your office automation creates a unique and homogeneous environment for the users.

  Modules: Inventory Management Order Processing Purchase Order Sales Connection Hot Line Help Desk Tracking

• Apogee: Financial Management And Accounting
• Apogee: Manufacturing

  Apogee: Manufacturing

  The Manufacturing family helps address your challenges, combining make-to-stock, make-to-order and engineered-to-order requirements in one complete solution. This manufacturing management software is equally beneficial for an MRPII or job shop operation, which combines the ease to manage both manufacturing philosophies under one application. Whether your production is driven by forecast, a master schedule, client orders or just on time, you will have a much easier job of better controlling the production activities. If you do custom manufacturing, you will have access to effective controls that will greatly enhance the production of engineered-to-order products. The integrated quality management and preventive maintenance applications will give your manufacturing environment that edge to beat your competition. The natural integration to your office automation creates a unique and homogeneous working environment for the users.

  Modules: Bill of Materials Production Activity Control Production Planning (MRP) Job Shop Planning Control Total Quality Management Total Preventive Maintenance

• Apogee: Project Management And Control

  Apogee: Project Management and Control

  The Apogee Project Management and Control is designed exactly to improve the efficiency of the service enterprises. It uses solid costing techniques and combine matrix accounting functions that tracks all human and material resources assigned to a project, external activities sub-contracted and those often forgotten expense accounts. The project billing assures a timely issuance of invoices following various billing techniques, in the format required by the client. The natural integration to your office automation creates a unique and homogeneous working environment for the users.

  Modules: Inventory Management Order Processing Purchase Order Sales Connection Hot Line Help Desk Tracking

• Smartvision Tool Kit

  SmartVISION Tool kit

  VISION's SmartVISION Tool kit provides an environment which structures development with a standard and consistent user interface using all the power of object-orientation development methodology, and which reduces the overall cost of maintaining your system. It is an integrated set of utilities that is designed to augment the power of Apogees Integrated Enterprise Solution applications.

  The enhanced window components, advanced widget properties and the user interface customization tool allow all the required latitude of software localization at run-time. The ActiveX, OCX and OLE integration assure that such global functions as the MAPI integrated messaging system, the graphic capabilities on inquiry, the document attachment and retrieval function, and the user definable tool bar and status bar, are coherent with the industrys standards. Incorporated third parties tools for version control, data schema architecture, form design and routing, workflow enabling and rule based activation, the SmartVISION Tool kit form an advanced infrastructure which your business can rely on.

NAICS Categories

• 541510 Computer Systems Design and Related Services

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