Altruism With Financial Stability
TPG has been profitable in each of the twelve years of its business life and its aggressive growth plans and considerable investment programs are premised on continuing, strong profitability. Each of its four separate operating companies have their own profit objectives. However, one of TPG's major strengths is that the operations of each of the separate companies interlink to add to the presence and capabilities of the others.

TPG has a 12 year track record of continuous commercial success and is more successful in delivering real products to the user than any other Australian owned IT company and many multinational companies. TPG remains one of Australia's most successful locally owned IT companies.

The company has become one of the key Internet providers in Australia by providing the most cost effective services, not only in capital cities, but also in regional centres where its goal is to provide country communications users (both personal and organisational) with the same facilities and costs as capital city users.

World Class Personal Communications
TPG Internet is a tiny company compared with the USA and European communication giants and Internet service providers who are able to access their facilities. However, the latest member of the TPG organisation, is able to offer communications access facilities to over 85% of Australia's population at a lower cost in most circumstances.

From its inception TPG Internet has set out to offer the best Internet and Intranet access facilities in the world at the lowest possible per hour and/or per connect cost.

It was given a head start to achieving this objective by gaining access to TPG Network's trunk line backbone, Frame Relay hardware and software plus TPG Systems server products, offering best price/performance available to any Internet provider.

TPG was therefore not a newcomer in providing a comprehensive access topology and avoided the formidable amount of infrastructure set up costs and the acquisition of the wide range and quality of in depth technical expertise required to set up a competitive 'carrier' capability. It was also able to utilise TPG Network's 10 years of experience in designing and operating a bottleneck free and optimally redundant carrying facility that would have taken many years to develop from scratch.

TPG Internet has therefore been able to establish an Australia wide network of scalable line bandwidth with fully redundant and bottleneck free Point of Presence servers and switches.

Since TPG acquired the company in 1992 it has become more tightly focused and has regained a commercial viability as well as significantly increasing its penetration of the Australian marketplace. There are now over 1000 of its TPG 7000 and 5000 Frame Relay Packet switches installed.

This company has become a significant Value Added Network provider of growing status and is in the process of expanding its State Capital City trunk network into 100 country areas of Australia and also to New Zealand.

Communications Hardware Total Solution
TPG Network's current range of communications hardware products have evolved from an unbroken R & D and manufacturing effort that goes back to 1980. The TPG 7000 and 5000 Frame Relay packet switches allow a user to connect their LAN, PABX, Multiplexers, Voice Multiplexers, Video Conference Stations, Host Computers, Terminals, PC's and other devices to virtually any communication medium.

These connections can be made over ISDN, DDS, Fibre Optic Cable, Microwave and Radio Modem links. The TPG 7000 and 5000 allow for the ability to integrate already installed facilities including Voice/Data/LAN/WAN and other network equipment. TPG Network also offers router and terminal adaptor products of its own design and manufacture.

We provide a 3 year warranty on our desktop and server systems which we carry out on either a return to base or an on-site basis, depending on the clients' choice and budget.

World Class Design and Manufacturing
TPG Systems has been assembling personal computers since 1986 and has been building file servers since 1991. From the first PC that was assembled on a cramped bench in November 1986, to the workstations that now come off the fully computerised moving assembly lines and burn in racks at North Ryde, the objective has been to produce computer systems of the highest quality but at a price that would ensure that they were competitive in what has proved to be one of the most competitive product market places in the history of the world's commerce.

World Class Product Quality
TPG Systems sources the best components available anywhere in the world to build its systems and uses the most efficient and effective means of assembly that are available. The systems and processes used to construct a TPG product at North Ryde meet, and exceed, the international standards set for computer production (TPG has been certified ISO9002 compliant) and are constantly audited and modified to ensure that each individual system meets the exact expectations and requirements of its purchaser.

We are not yet perfect and indeed we may never reach perfection in everything we do. However that is our goal and we know that to remain a viable supplier to our growing customer base we need to be better than our competitors in everything we do. This is our commitment to our own and to Australia's future and to you, our clients.

With thousands of users in Australia alone (and a client list that looks like the 'who's who' of Australia's largest organisations) the company continues to invest heavily in new software developments and remains at the cutting edge of financial software innovation.

World Class Software Development
In 1984 two accountants in Melbourne grew frustrated with the limitations of the software packages that were then available on PC equipment to automate the preparation of various statutory documents and reports. They decided to form a software company that designed software 'by accountants for accountants'.

The company they formed was named Catsoft (CAT being the acronym for Contemporary Accounting and Taxation SOFTware) and began the development of a series of accounting packages aimed at providing sensible solutions to all levels of the accounting profession, whether they operated in an advisory accounting practice or within a commercial or government structure.

Over the next eight years the company grew from modest beginnings to a well regarded, innovative accounting software developer with a growing customer base and a reputation for well-written products and excellent support. The four packages available (Assetcat, Leasecat, Taxcat and Ledgercat) each became the benchmark packages by which others of their kind were judged.

In 1992 Catsoft became a part of the Total Peripherals Group and since that time the growth of business has considerably accelerated. The four original product suites have all been upgraded and new packages released to serve the exacting requirements of Catsoft clients.

TPG Software (which continues to trade under the popular Catsoft name) has offices in both Melbourne and Sydney with a nationwide network of approved agents. The company enjoys a highly trained staff of programmers proficient in the latest development languages and techniques to maintain and update its leading edge applications. The company also retains its policy of only using people with accounting qualifications to design and test the code for its products.

Meeting All Of Today's Requirements
The diversified range of products cover a range of areas including taxation, general ledger, depreciation, fixed asset management and lease registers, and corporate register applications. Catsoft also provides a range of specialised services, such as consultation and on-site training. The flagship lease and asset register packages the company began with in the 1980's remain the best of their type, and the strong market growth of the newer depreciation, client cash book and other products ensure that Catsoft will continue to be a force in accounting and taxation software for many years to come.