Olympia Magazine
A printed quarterly, posted to you
Four times a year we would collect the quarter’s software guides and worked scenarios into one printed issue and post it out. No login, no feed, no notifications — something you can read away from a screen and leave on a desk.
Nothing has been printed yet. This is an interest list, not an order form. There is no price, no first-issue date and no payment taken — joining it only means we will email you if and when an issue is actually printed. Everything in the issue below is free to read online today.
Issue one
September 2026
The quarter’s software guides and worked scenarios, in the order we would print them. Every article is readable in full online right now — the printed issue would add nothing you cannot already get for free.
Format, extent, cover price and postage: not set — TODO before any print run is committed.
Read the magazine online- Software guide The 10 best CRMs, and how to pick the right one
- Software guide The 10 best work management tools
- Software guide The 10 best ERP systems for firms under 200 people
- Software guide The 10 best HR and payroll tools, and what you cannot run yourself
- Software guide The 10 best helpdesks
- Scenario A car dealership, and what its software could cost instead
- Scenario A trades business, and what its software could cost instead
- Scenario A software company, and what its software could cost instead
- Scenario An accounting practice, and what its software could cost instead
- Scenario A small charity, and what its software could cost instead
- Scenario An architecture studio, and what its software could cost instead
Why print, when it is all online
Because the person who signs the software invoices is usually not the person reading infrastructure blogs. A printed issue reaches a desk without needing anyone to search for us first, and it is read in the one context where comparing what you pay against what you could pay is a calm decision rather than an interruption.
It is marketing. We would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. What is in it is the same material we publish free, written to the same rule as everything else on this site: every figure is either our own published price or is labeled as an estimate, and we do not print other vendors’ per-seat prices — we tell you to look at your own invoice.