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Mentum Group Australia finalises transition to Avaxa Pty Ltd
This name change now finalises our transition from Mentum Group Australia to Avaxa Pty Ltd. Mentum Group’s history in Australia goes back to 1998, when the New Zealand IT business Optimation Limited, established Mentum Group Australia as its Australian arm. In 2002, Optimation decided to consolidate its business within the New Zealand market and sold its share to its Australian management team. The business continued to trade under the Mentum Group name until March 2007, when the name was changed to Avaxa Pty Ltd. With the exception of the name change and its obvious flow on effects to email addresses and marketing collateral, all other aspects of the business remain the same.

Optimation and Avaxa will continue to support joint clients where appropriate on both sides of the Tasman.

Valmax wins a coveted Consensus Software Award for 2006.
Valmax is an end to end property valuation management system. It is used by practices of property valuers and manages all business processes from receipt of client requests, through all stages of production, electronic delivery of valuation reports and management of the invoice to payment cycle. Avaxa (formerly Mentum Group Australia) developed Valmax for our client Preston Rowe Paterson Victoria. PRP (Vic) Pty Ltd is part of an international practice of property valuers.
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Preston Rowe Paterson Valmax delivers new business opportunities
An innovative web-based solution developed by Avaxa is helping PRP lift performance and improve work practices for their staff while delivering a more timely and cost effective result to their clients. Valmax has been used commercially since July 2005 at PRP (Vic) Australia Pty Ltd. It was enhanced by introduction of Microsoft MapPoint web services in December 2005.
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Upgrading software at Dun & Bradstreet – Parallel running takes the pain out of system upgrades
By enabling new software upgrades to run in parallel to existing production systems the risk and overtime demands have been reduced considerably.
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AAMI Insurance - On-line Car Insurance
A joint initiative between one of Australia's largest car insurers, AAMI, and Mentum Group has made it possible to quickly and simply insure your car on the spot without having to 'talk insurance' with anyone beforehand. It's a first in Australia and uses cutting edge technology developed by Mentum Group to offer end-to-end fully online transactions 24 hours a day. What’s more, there are plans to introduce other online services in the future.
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.NET solution makes accurate forecasting a breeze
An innovative web-based solution developed by Mentum Group is helping New Balance boost performance when it comes to the speed and accuracy of product ordering forecasts.
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AMCOR - IT Support for Packaging Excellence
Mentum Group is now entering its third year supplying high end IT consulting services to Amcor in Melbourne. Like many large and successful manufacturing corporates Amcor, for many years, ran it’s own internal IT services group. This function has recently been outsourced to a well known vendor. However, special needs arising from time to time, both before and after the outsourcing decision have placed pressures on the operational team and Mentum have been pleased to help Amcor with specialist IT consulting services across a range of assignments, some of which are ongoing at the time of writing.
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Amcor - PaperlinX Project Linx - Enterprise Application Integration
A key initiative, as PaperlinX continues to take strides towards becoming a global force in the world paper manufacturing and merchanting markets, is the implementation of SAP in Australia and New Zealand to provide top class supply chain integration for the mills and merchanting arms of the company. Although PaperlinX and Amcor are now separately owned companies they share a common ancestry. One aspect of the de-merger was that IT for both companies continued to be supplied from within Amcor. PaperlinX therefore relies heavily on Amcor IT to ensure that back end integration of its SAP system is successfully achieved.
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