Company name: Koala Publishing, Bristol
Contact name: Vivienne Willoughby-Ellis

Established for eight years and employing eight people, Koala Publishing specialises in electronic publishing. Koala currently has a network of 12 PCs based around Microsoft Windows for Workgroups offering a very comprehensive networking system for the company. Microsoft Visual FoxPro is used to build vital customer and supplier databases, while more advanced products such as Visual C++ and are used everyday for design and development of customer publications. Vivienne Willoughby-Ellis, managing director of Koala says: "The technology has definitely speeded up the business by making processes much more efficient. "

Koala can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.koalapub.co.uk

Company name: Levy Gee
Contact name: Jonathan Teller
Email: jonathant@levygee.dir.com

Founded in 1953, Levy Gee has grown from a single office in Holborn to a significantly sized firm serving clients throughout the United Kingdom. The company has been using Microsoft desktop applications for about three years. It upgraded to Windows 95 and Office 95 after considering several other products which has proved to be the right decision. Levy Gee has found the product very user friendly, and the use of the Microsoft Back Office family of integrated servers, including Windows NT, has resulted in a streamlining of business processes, allowing the company to deliver services faster.

Jonathon Teller, a partner specialising in IT says: "It was also much faster to get the kind of presentation we needed with Excel and the overall ease of use of Microsoft products was a major deciding factor."