TALLY UP THE FIGURES

City Times talks to Gautam Nair, executive director, ComputerPoint LLC to know more about Tally and its market acceptance in the region.

An ISO 9002 certified company, Computer Point is a leading systems integration and IT solutions company in East and Central Africa. Apart from the distributor of Tally Solutions, Computer Point is also a Tier-1 partner of global IT giants such as Microsoft, Cisco, Computer Associates, Avaya, Citrix and Ramco among others.

How is Tally different from other accounting software applications?

Tally's endeavour has been to develop an innovative and leading-edge technology product that has practical relevance to an enterprise and can provide rapid benefits. New features, services, technologies and the power of Tally's legendary simplicity has made it one of the most widely used business solutions' software in the world.

It has the simplest, yet most powerful business management software to handle the extended enterprise as well as the more traditional functions such as financial accounting, inventory management, sales and purchase order processing, invoicing, reporting and MIS, etc.

Since its inception, the focus of Tally Solutions has been on a single software application Ð business accounting. As a result, the company has striven to improve upon its one and only product Ð Tally. In fact, it was the first company in the world to introduce the no-codes concept in accounting software. The company's mission is to provide a flexible and easily comprehensible business solution akin to the manual accounting system, which mimics the human train of thought while optimising advances in technology.

What does an enterprise/customer look while looking for accounting software?

Every customer looks for a stable, reliable, easy to use, feature rich and affordable software. In addition, customers also look for availability of support and trained personnel who can actually implement, consult and provide the best business practices in their respective industries on the software.

Can the software be customised to the customer's business requirements?

Yes, it can be customised.

Typically, what kind (size and kind of business) of customers/enterprise are your customers?

Tally is used by a cross-section of industries, which include manufacturing, trading, sales & marketing, consultants, computer hardware, distribution etc.

Internationally, Tally is used extensively in over 88 countries in Europe, South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa with over 100,000 customers and 1 million users worldwide.

What are the instant benefits for the average customer ?

Any customer can be up and running on Tally within 15 minutes. We take pride in vouching for implementation time frames as low as even a day at times. The abundant trained resources available can get you started with the least down time possible and the worry of trained staff turnover is unheard of in an enterprise using the solutions.

Every customer has free access to support over phone, web chat and e-mail.