"We examined PDQ as a tool to ensure consistency in our estimating and to provide both the office and the field based team with the ability to produce instant quotes; PDQ delivers on all counts. We are particularly excited about PDQ's ability to integrate with our existing applications, eliminating duplication and re-keying which has previously negated the efficiency benefits of stand-alone estimating tools. The team at Haybrooke excelled in their understanding of our complex range of equipment and products and therefore our very exacting estimating requirements".
Warren Brew - Head Of Commercial, Eclipse Colour Print Limited
PDQ now connects via a JDF bridge to several MIS packages, including Tharstern and EFI Logic. Operations director Philip Roe said: 
"In our cloud-based PDQ, the buyer begins by choosing a specification which creates an XML file. This can then be delivered to the printers desktop PDQ and converted into JDF, so files flow seamlessly from the buyer, right into the the heart of printer's MIS itself."
He added that the software's production route-based estimates offered printers an answer to the "double-whammy" of demands for faster quote turnaround times and falling conversion rates from quotes to jobs.
"PDQ vastly increases the number of quotes processed," said Roe. "If you keep the same conversion rate you will win more work. However as prices fall, conversion rates fall and if, for example, conversion rates were to halve, you need to double the number of quotes you do just to stand still. That's a fact of the market. PDQ offers the way out."