Hire SA May 2017 | Page 11

EMBRACE RENTAL Going where no “bolt-on” has gone before. The challenge for any company operating in the rental marketplace is to find a best-of- breed rental software solution that integrates to their existing financial system. Maximise revenue, manage your assets and increase operational efficiency M any rental companies first implement a financial system to run their business and eventually, to support the unique requirements of the rental industry, add or “bolt-on” a separate rental system. While this appears to be simpler and less costly than replacing the existing system with a new fully integrated one, the reality is this “bolt-on” creates significant ongoing problems and costs that never go away. Those who have gone this route warn that “a bolted-on rental package is cumbersome to use, expensive to manage and maintain and never really works!” This is because bolt-ons do not integrate seamlessly; they require duplication of effort as employees need to manually enter the same information into separate systems, with different data bases, which is time-consuming and results in erroneous and unreliable data. In today’s competitive market, co