Visual CUT Testimonials

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to tell you how Visual CUT has changed my life. The most noticeable change is at the end of each sales & financial reporting period (month end, quarter end, year end...). 

Before we started using Visual Cut it would take me about three to four hours (my backup person would take at least four hours) to: 
1) run and export the reports to the correct directories for our intranet and internet; 
2) run and print the reports for people who do not like electronic copies of the reports; 
3) email the specific pages of the reports to appropriate users ('electronic bursting' as you call it). 

I set up all of the reports and their destinations in 'Visual Cut' in about two hours a few months ago and now I start the job stream and let it run and distribute the reports as I would have done manually. 

This time saving does not even take into account the daily and weekly reports that we are now generating and distributing from our Factory automation system, CRM database, SOP database and Financial database (many of which would not have been possible without some of the power that Visual Cut gave me). My marketing department is also looking now at distributing some reports via email to our customers (something that we would not have been able to do before). 

In short, the money that we spent was rapidly re-cooped from time saving for myself or other members of the company and we would never dream of going back to before using 'Visual Cut.' 

Thanks for writing such a wonderful utility and making it so affordable. 

Jim Woodin 
Application Systems Developer 
Diamond V Mills

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I have completed an analysis of several third party Crystal add-ons, and I think that your product is head and shoulders above any other I have seen, both in features and ease of use. 

Dave Hawkins 
Interactive Business Systems

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I installed Visual Cut on Friday and my customer and I were both impressed with how well it worked... You did a great job. This is much simpler than the CUT process. 

This customer was printing out 60 expense reports and mailing them out to employees each week. That was an hour of work, not counting postage and supplies. With Visual Cut, and a custom report, it takes less than 5 minutes.

Ken Hamady, 
www.kenhamady.com

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Prior to using Visual Cut, we had to manually execute and print dozens of Crystal Reports. This process took hours. Visual Cut, with its intuitive user interface, provides a quick, easy, and powerful service. We evaluated other programs that cost thousands of dollars and Visual Cut did everything we needed at a fraction of the price. 

Using SQL Server database tables containing report and recipient information, we are able to dynamically create batch files, which utilize Visual Cut to print and export reports based on the recipient. We automatically generate a coversheet with the recipients' address located to fit in an envelopes window (directed to a printer drawer with blue paper), a report listing all the reports the recipient receives, and all of that recipient's reports. The only thing we need to do is separate the reports based on the blue coversheets and stuff them into envelopes. Visual Cut has saved us many hours every month. 

Plus, Visual Cut's support is amazing. If only all software companies were so responsive to suggestions. 

Visual Cut is a fantastic product! Thanks Ido!

Mike Marsten
University of California - San Francisco
Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute

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Each month we send hundreds of invoices to our clients and many more reports to our staff and customers.  Before we purchased Visual Cut, we would spend several hours each month preparing those invoices and reports through the mail merge features of MS Word. This process proved very cumbersome and problematic due to end recipient compatibility and version issues which too often caused the reports to not “look” right. 

By using Visual Cut, we’ve reduced our processing time to just a few minutes each month and by formatting and delivering in PDF format, we ensure that our customers and staff receive professional looking documents. 

Implementing Visual Cut was very simple and the couple of questions we had were answered very promptly and courteously by Mr. Millet.  This package by far is one of the most useful tools we’ve seen and we would not hesitate to recommend it to any of our clients. 

David C. Ogles
President 
Digitech Services Inc.
www.digitechservices.com

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I just wanted to let you know I've used your software for a month and it has worked beautifully.  We only have a handful of people that get month end reports and a few that get daily reports from our Great Plains system using Crystal reports.  Your software worked incredibly well to automate all of that. 

I have recommended your software to the consultants that work with us on Great Plains and the Crystal User groups that I belong to.  It is superb software and I was impressed with the help you gave me when I had problems.  Thanks! 

Mike Thomson
IT Manager
Weddingpages Magazine
www.theknot.com

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Just wanted to let you know that Visual Cut is great. We've done a preliminary email bursting to our top 100 wholesalers, and this month we're going to do it for all, and progressively to our other types of customers. 

This is saving literally over 5000 printed pages per month and thousands of dollars per year, not only in mailing costs, but also in a quicker settlement of our accounts. The credit department also finds it easy to respond to invoice queries, as the customer simply highlights the ones in questions, attaches it and hits the reply button. 

The email bursting process was smooth and error free. I also appreciate all the effort and time you spent in ironing out any problems we had initially due to our particular environment at the office. I would highly recommend this software to anyone. 

Bernard Paes
Business Analyst
Flag Choice Hotels, Melbourne.

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Visual Cut has really established a new paradigm in timely reporting at Pak West. 

We have an audit report that runs every night and is emailed to my assistant and myself every morning, telling us if our GL is out of balance.  I used to have Karen run this report daily -- now Visual CUT takes care of it. 

Another example is a "Total Exposure" report for specific customers. It includes subreports displaying: 1) A/R Aging & Open Orders, 2) Customer's Inventory On Hand, On Order, and Committed, 3) Perpetual Inventory Activity, and 4) A/R billing and payment activity.  This report runs daily at 4:00AM and requires no manual intervention once scheduled for Visual Cut processing. 

And we are just beginning to scratch the surface of what's possible with this software… 

Serge G. Poirier, CFO 
Pak West

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Just want to let you know that the new bookmark feature for report exports to pdf is a great addition to an already great product.  Ames produces many reports for its intranet site and the reports are broken down by 10 regions and 180 stores.  The bookmark feature will allow users to quickly find their sections in these rather large reports. 

Your help with Visual Cut has been terrific and I recommend this product to any Crystal user. 

Bill Rowe, Consultant

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Thank you Ido! Visual cut made it through 2 weeks of unattended processes. The time savings alone is worth the price. Thanks also for the excellent support. 

Blaise Masse, Information Technologist
University of New Hampshire

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I have been evaluating your product for the past few days and I must say I am impressed!  I immediately put it to the test against one very time consuming task that has been handed to me.  I wrote a Crystal Report that needs to be run and exported to Excel as 18 different inventory reports for 18 different executives.  This meant running and exporting my report 324 different ways using 3 parameters, one at a time. This was previously a 5+ hour task! 

I was delighted to discover that by using one scheduled batch file with Visual Cut I was able to accomplish the same results in only 14 minutes with no user intervention, and it even sent an unattended "Reports are Ready" email after exporting! 

Jim Shea 
IT Systems Analyst 
Danka Office Imaging 

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I have been using visual Cut for about a month. Visual Cut gave us a huge boost in the responsiveness to our daily exception reports. Previously they were being posted to a public folder where no one would look at them. Prior to that we emailed them out but everyone got an entire copy of the report and would be overwhelmed and just ignore the report. Now everyday each person gets the data that applies only to them. No brow beating necessary. This has helped us most in clearing up open orders that have been causing errors in our inventory management. 

The greatest boost we have gotten is in the automation of our monthly customer reports. We used to need to run 5 reports for each of 50 divisions. Each individual report would be attached to an email sent manually. Now I have a script I run once a month that takes just a double click of the mouse and all 250 reports run, get parsed out, and are emailed to the proper customers in the proper format. This used to take 2 full days and now it takes 30 seconds. 

I haven't quite explored the full power of Visual Cut but it does things that $2,000 utilities that I looked at couldn't do. This is probably the best value I have ever seen in software. If you use "Crystal Reports" and your customers like to have the reports emailed to them you need this software. 

John Eck
www.4imprint.com

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If I haven't said so before, you have a very slick product.  I am really impressed by the Check for Updates button feature.  This is very practical and smooth!  Keep up the good work. 

Paul Callaghan 
www.larsenhinge.com
 

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I wanted to thank you for developing such a helpful piece of software as it has saved me countless hours in report exporting/delivery.  In using this software for the last year we have reduced report distribution time by several hours a month.  With my last 2 jobs I found myself in an office that had very manual processes.  We had to print reports, export them and then deliver them one at a time to the appropriate person. Visual Cut allowed me to automate all of that, and expand report content and delivery. 

Development on this product is very consistent and releases expand upon an already strong tool with helpful updates that we never even considered possible to implement.

Dave Pealow
Budget Planner/Analyst
Department of Education
Government of Nunavut 

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We've evaluated several solutions for the automated distribution of Crystal Reports from small and large vendors, but they were either lacking in functionality or were beyond the budget of a small company. That's when we came across Visual Cut.

Visual Cut caters to all our requirements for the unattended production and distribution of reports. The cost savings generated by automating these tasks far outweighed the actual cost of the software. 

I have no hesitation in recommending this software over its more expensive competitor products. 

Steve Varna 
Manager - Information Systems 
Ashmans Group 

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We wanted to find a solution to sending out chaser letters to our customers. In the past these letters would be printed off, dispatched to the post room, where some poor soul put the letters in envelopes and then franked them ready to go out. This was a time consuming, laborious and expensive process. The other problem was that it would take up to 3 days by the time the customers received the letter, by which time they may well have paid the debt, and it occasionally caused some embarrassment 

Our objective was to produce the letters in a format, which could be automatically faxed. We decided that Crystal reports would be the letter generator, Visual CUT would do the bursting and Gold Fax would do the faxing. 

We set up a crystal report with the appropriate letter and payment request information. In the header portion of the report we had to put in some 'embedded codes,' which told Gold Fax the fax number, sender info, etc. 

By using the bursting facility in Visual Cut, rather than having to send a fax at a time (which would take hours) we simply send all the letters in one go, separated only by page breaks and the embedded codes. The process is very easy to follow, and the credit control department can start the job in little under 5 minutes, after that the fax software kicks in and does its bit. 

The process has saved many hours, and allowed us to get the chaser letter to our customers on a timely basis. Thanks Ido!

Roger Richards, Finance Director
MacDermid PLC, Birmingham UK.