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It's not as if Decorators Choice Paint Store president Silvana Pace and her co-owner husband didn't like what Vigilant was doing for their original store. A loyal Vigilant user since 1992, Pace had come to rely on Vigilant's rock solid point-of-sale, accounting, and inventory management package. But there was this dream -- of a second store in Ottawa's expanding east end in Orleans, where construction of new homes and consequent demand for their products were booming.

You name it, and almost certainly Metal Stock has it - that special bar, sheet, plate, tube, or angle iron you need now, but can't buy in small quantity anywhere else. And even in the unlikely event that Metal Stock doesn't have your so-needed piece in stock today - be it made of aluminum, stainless steel, carbon steel, brass, bronze, or an alloy hot rolled, cold rolled, or heat treated and annealed - chances are you can pick it up or have it delivered tomorrow. What's more, you can have Metal Stock technicians take just about any metal of yours and precision cut it, plasma cut it, burn it, or shear it depending on its nature and your needs.

As your company grows, you soon know that you’re going to need something more than cash-in-a-shoe-box to handle your finances. It doesn’t take long to see either that even generating an invoice can be too tedious. Not much later you’ll feel the need for a system that delivers your point-of-sale data out front to your accounting records in back – better than clerks in sneakers. And then, maybe as you add another outlet or location, you will really feel the need to know what’s going on financially at all your locations, all the time.

They sure don't build them like they used to. At least not at ZyTech Building Systems Inc. based in Balzac, Alberta. Certainly, ZyTech provides top quality roof trusses, floor systems, and bundled lumber to builders of residential, commercial, and farm construction as other companies do. But for each project at ZyTech, building designers use engineer-approved software to select just the right engineered wood products to suit each builder's plans. On the ZyTech shop floor, automated machinery speeds the precise selection, alterations, and packaging of builder's orders.