The De Vere Group Plc Renews Commitment To KB Logic 

The De Vere Group Plc has once again signed up KB Logic as their preferred business partner to provide development resources to their on-going IT projects. Kerry Beswick, Managing Director of KB Logic is delighted with the endorsement - "This renewal is concrete proof that our commitment to producing highest-quality bespoke applications at affordable prices will attract and retain blue-chip customers". Ed Sygrove, Director of Information Services for The De Vere Group also has some very positive comments to make on the partnership.

A Good Company To Do Business With

KB Logic has established a very good working relationship with us over the years. They understand how we operate at a corporate level, and at an IT level. We have commissioned several applications over the past year and we have been consistently impressed with the finished products in terms of their quality, ease of use, and their robustness. We like the fact that KB Logic are a Microsoft Certified Partner who employ qualified staff. We use MS-Office on every desktop, with Windows-NT servers, and they help us to get more value out of these investments. They're a good company to do business with.

Cost Effective 

We used to consider bespoke developments to be an area of particular risk but we are now increasingly turning to bespoke development in key business areas. Take the Restaurant Bookings Diary that KB Logic produced for The Belfry as an example. We wanted a system that managed the hotel's restaurants that was potentially available to all staff within the hotel, but the content and presentation of the reservation information along with certain key features was important to us so we decided that the best option was to have the system specially written for us. Traditionally, this option would always have been discarded in favour of the less risky option of buying in whichever packaged system most closely matched our needs. We commissioned KB Logic to produce the system and to deliver an installation CD for the client and server components. We installed the product ourselves on over 70 workstations at The Belfry and since the go-live date in February we haven't once had to call KB Logic with support issues; the system just works! But the good news doesn't stop there for us. We intend to roll this solution out to other hotels within the group. Compared to the cost of buying packaged systems we only have to install this system at a small number of hotels for us to have paid back the initial investment in developing the system, each hotel we install after that is effectively free. It turns out that not only do we get exactly what we want, we also get it cheaper!

One-stop-shop

We particularly like the fact that KB Logic offer us a 'one-stop-shop' when it comes to solving our development based IT problems. Our Information Services department focuses on strategy and management issues related to business information, and we don't in principle get involved in the nitty-gritty of development projects. Because of this we tend to give high-level business requirements to KB Logic and we expect them to fill in the blanks for us, in order to produce the finished system. Typically, KB Logic will produce Requirements Definition documents, and Design and Architecture documents that we will review and amend with them until we are happy that we have defined the appropriate solution. KB Logic then implements the design and delivers a solution to an agreed fixed price. At all stages of the project we know exactly what is happening so we can manage it effectively.