Afresh Consult is now officially a member of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry. We look forward to collaborating with the NCCI.
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Afresh Consult has partnered up with Just Enough. Just Enough supplies state of the art demand forecasting and inventory planning systems. Afresh Consult will offer local support for the product, either to HansaWorld customers, or to companies running other ERP/transaction systems. Just Enough is easy to link to existing systems and fulfills a vital role in optimising inventory levels to ensure highest availability at the lowest cost. Just Enough is the first product of a range of add-on products that Afresh Consult plans to offer its HansaWorld customers. See details about Just Enough and HansaWorld in our Products section

Enterprise software developer HansaWorld encourages customers to use Apple's latest operating system, Leopard.

"With more than 300 new features, Leopard is the most impressive Mac OS X version yet. Our products are fully compatible with Leopard so our customers can reap all benefits of the new system," said Stephen Jay, International Sales Director for HansaWorld.

"HansaWorld's business software has been available for Mac users for 20 years and we always want our customers to be able to take full advantage of the latest improvements."

Jay emphasizes that it is HansaWorld's philosophy to make products available on all major platforms. "We do not want to be rigid by posing strict demands on the infrastructure. By being able to choose between all major operating systems, our customers can save on hardware, training and maintenance costs," he explains.

HansaWorld has been chosen among four finalists in the Communications & Mobility category at the first pan-European awards event for IT and Telecoms channels - the European IT Excellence Awards 2008. Read More...

For the second year in a row, Berkshire-based HansaWorld UK has won the Accountancy Age Award for Mid-range Software Package of the Year, beating competitors Coda 2Control, Coda Dream and Rugged Logic.
The company has recorded between 5% and 15% growth each year since 1995, and is known for its exceptional functionality and breadth.
The company has a track record of completing 95% of implementations on time and under budget, and releases upgrades every nine months. The company has one support person for every 200 clients and never has more than 300 bugs at a time emerging from its 1.3 million lines of code.
'Everything works in a truly integrated manner. Stock that we buy can be automatically created as assets if we choose to add them to the rental fleet and then automatically depreciated,' says Roger Cherowbrier from Topcon. 'We are very impressed with the different levels of analysis offered by HansaWorld. We can assess the turnover and profitability of everything we do.'
Matti Zadok from Experian Integrated Marketing says: 'We are not aware of any other systems on which we could have achieved so much for anything like the money we have paid for HansaWorld.'
The judges were as impressed as HansaWorld's clients. 'HansaWorld shows excellent overall functionality with very positive customer feedback. It is so easy to implement and offers multiple platforms. Really innovative and incredibly wide-ranging,' the judges said.

Cross Country Carriers has decided on HansaWorld to replace their two accounting systems, Great Plains and Pastel, as well as their two parcel tracking systems, Ingalinga and TrackMaster. The implementation will be done by Afresh Consult Namibia with a phased approach over the next couple of months. Read More...

Apollo Bricks, a brick manufacturer with 4 operations in South Africa, has signed up for HansaWorld. HansaWorld will be installed and supported by Afresh Consult CC.

Afresh consult CC has had an extremely successful year, doubling turnover and signing many new customers. Afresh consult CC now has 26 customers in 2 short years. This is proof of the fact that HansaWorld is well received by the market and a very viable solution for companies to run. This growth is in line with the overall growth of HansaWorld in Africa.

HansaWorld wins the coveted Accountancy Age Award in the UK. Read More...

Hilke undertakes various trips to build a partner network throughout Namibia. HansaWorld has a very well developed referral partner program to benefit anyone who is as excited about our software as we are and refers potential customers to us.

Active Business Solutions CC (Namibia) changes its name to Afresh Consult CC (Namibia). Afresh Consult CC is now marketed as a single entity in the Cape and Namibia.

Afresh Consult CC (RSA) is established in the Cape by Immo Böhm and Ruaan Smith.

Classroom training is now offered in Namibia

Active Business Solutions is crowned the HansaWorld Dealer of the Year for southern Africa for 2004

Active Business Solutions implements the first HansaWorld Guesthouse Solution worldwide.

Edumeds (Pty) Ltd. goes live with 21 users and customizations to the backorder process.

Immo Böhm establishes Active Business Solutions CC to market and support HansaWorld Products in Namibia.

The first HansaWorld System in Namibia is installed at the Namibian Newspaper, which uses HansaWorld on Windows, Linux and Mac OS in a mixed network environment. A custom module for Advertising Orders is added to HansaWorld.

Immo Böhm has his first contact with HansaWorld. Immo was employed at Cymot (Pty)Ltd in Windhoek at the time, and was tasked with finding a suitable ERP system for the company after having established the need for it during research for his MBA thesis. Cymot decides to install HansaWorld for its low TCO, feature rich modules and speed over WAN.

HansaWorld LAN (Local Area Networking) solution based on client/server networking architecture released

During the 1990’s, HansaWorld expanded rapidly to countries around the Baltic Sea - Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia -, and afterwards to the UK, several Eastern-European countries and America. Today HansaWorld has offices and distribution partners in 89 countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Australia, Asia and the Middle East (as at 2006).

Internationalisation began already in 1989 by establishing a subsidiary in Finland.

Karl Bohlin founded HansaWorld in Sweden in 1988. HansaWorld’s first financials package released on Apple Macintosh. Graphical user interface introduced since the beginning.