Introduction Exonet (now known as MYOB EXO) is a popular SME Business Management and Accounting Software Package, presently owned by Australian software house MYOB and used by thousands of businesses throughout Australia and New Zealand. It is fair to say that I have been deeply involved in Exonet (a.k.a. exo-net, Exonet6 and MYOB EXO since the day I cut the first line of its source code back in 1997, through to today, in my role as CEO of Enprise Group, which is New Zealand and Australia's leading MYOB EXO / EXONET sales, support and development partner. I've often been asked, what made me take on such a crazily ambitious task as writing an accounting software package and how did Exonet rise to Australasian prominence so quickly? Who were the people and what were the events behind Exonet that got it to where it is today? Publishing this information is something I've always intended to do - and finally I've got around to doing it. So here goes. The following events, although some of them might seem irrelevant at first, influenced and led up to the creation of the product that is now known as MYOB EXO. The Very Early Days In 1984 I secured my first full-time job at Philips New Zealand (based in Mt Eden, Auckland in the Lighting Design department of their Lighting Division. I had just completed a 3 year Bachelor of Science degree at Auckland University, majoring in Electronic Physics. In my final year I had taken a couple of computer programming papers that were based on the UCSD Pascal and PDP-11 assembler programming languages. Lighting design is a very mathematically intensive process. My boss Jim Kerin and I were provided with electronic calculators and restricted access to a very rigidly controlled corporate mainframe computer as the only tools with which to tackle the very demanding design projects we were given. Soon after I'd started at Philips, a new.
A growing business often places demands on your business accounting software that you never planned for. Suddenly you find yourself sitting on a pile of business systems and battling creeping IT costs. And MYOB can't keep up. With over 1 million Australian and New Zealand companies using MYOB, you're not the only one facing this issue. Thousands of businesses arrive at a similar crossroads every year. Timing is everything: if you replace MYOB too early, then you may end up with more software than you need right now. But if you wait too long, you could end up struggling with inefficient business processes that could actively damage your business performance and prospects for future profitability and growth. At what point do the costs to the business of maintaining MYOB—and the other systems it requires to function—outweigh the benefits of keeping it in place? When is the right time to make the move to an MYOB alternative solution? Here's when: It's Too Hard To Find Out What's Really Happening Across Your Business Right Now You're wasting time playing Hunt the Spreadsheet Your management reports are prone to errors, or are out of date Simple MYOB reports take an unacceptable amount of time to run or print You can't get a comprehensive view across all of your businesses units Too Much Time Re- Entering and Reconciling Data across Systems? Paper trails of sales orders, manual order entry and invoicing Incorrect customer information resulting in customer dissatisfaction Slow and disjointed approval processes Financial consolidation simply takes ages Sales forecasting and budgeting processes rely on too much guesswork Losing Sales Because You Can't Get Information Fast Enough? Customer service fails because agents don't have up-to-date info Stock never seems to be where customers want it Customers and vendors can't self-serve information on the website You can't easily.
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