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Monday, March 15th, 2010
 In a recent example of Barack Obama’s estimable prowess as an orator, the president referred to corporate America’s ability “to squeeze more productivity out of the workers that they’ve got; they’re working people longer hours, they’re doing more overtime, or not, but either way they’re producing the same amount of product or providing the same services without hiring more people. And that’s something that we’re going to have to really work on.”
True enough. But the work’s already afoot up here at 360 Visibility, where we long ago recognized the value of being smarter with fewer resources. (more…)
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Announcement from Microsoft:
Your Microsoft Dynamics® solution is mission critical to the success of your business. Together with your Microsoft Dynamics partner, we understand this and want to help you ensure your solution runs smoothly and performing at its highest level. Enrollment in the Business Ready Enhancement plan is an essential part of providing your organization with the innovative upgrades to expand your functionality along with important updates to help ensure compliance and improved performance. On June 1, 2010, Microsoft will begin requiring a Business Ready Enhancement Plan when making additional license purchases on supported versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics AX. This policy change is designed to drive more customers to maximize their solution value and help protect future investments they make. As a value Microsoft Dynamics Customer, we look forward to your continued enrollment in a plan to ensure you have access to the support, training, tools, and solutions you need to expand your business and plan for future growth. Please contact your Microsoft Dynamics Partner if you have any questions regarding this change.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Maconomy has delivered a remarkable proof point on the market for ERP solutions for project-focused organizations. In close collaboration with Kantar Group, Maconomy has proven that its solutions can be scaled up to support more than 60,000 users on a single server and database. Kantar Group is the parent company of several global market research powerhouses, including Research International and Millward Brown.
Currently Maconomy’s largest single implementation has around 8,000 active users. But Kantar Group, a long-time Maconomy client, wanted to know if Maconomy could potentially scale their system to 60,000 users. (more…)
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
 The Aberdeen Group released a report recently that made me shake my head in one of those “I-told-you-so” kind of ways.
The study, called Delivering Project Profitability: On Time and Under Budget, looked at project-based businesses and the challenges they face in remaining profitable inside a distressed and developing world.
While it acknowledged that a subject like this can’t be accurately painted with a single brush, given the range of corporate activity bustling out there, it does provide some strong counsel on how everyone could get a leg up in this cramped economy by paying attention to certain proven practices. (more…)
Tags: projects early, projects on budget, projects on time
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
 You know the feeling.
The tickle in the throat. The scratch in the chest. The leak in the nose. Far from down and out, you’re functioning just fine, thankyouverymuch. Still, there’s trouble around your edges and every reason to believe you could be performing at levels much closer to the top of your game.
But wait. Before congratulating yourself on the wisdom that delivered tickly, scratchy, leaky you to the doctor’s office in pursuit of a clean bill, consider that other parts of your life could benefit from similarly preventative attention.
An information technology health check is common sense, (more…)
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
A surfeit of schedules. An excess of expenses. A ribbon of red tape. An imperative to keep costs low and occupancy high. Government agencies on your tail; feckless tenants on your case. Deals that need to be tracked, leases that need to be managed, writeoffs that need to be recovered.
Property management ain’t the breeze you imagined it might be.
But there is help at hand. (more…)
Tags: property management checklist, property management software
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
“I want to be Denmark,” Steve Ballmer famously said, two years after his company acquired the Danish company Navision.
It was a curious stance to embrace, way back in 2004 at Microsoft’s worldwide partner conference, held that year in Toronto. But there was wisdom in Ballmer’s Danish declaration.
Specifically, the Microsoft Corporation CEO was expressing his high-flown opinion that, if Microsoft Business Solutions was as successful with Navision in other countries as it had been in this Viking motherland, this business unit would increase its revenue by a factor of 10. (more…)
Tags: nav, navision
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
 If you’re familiar with the concept of hosting a website, then you get hosted SharePoint. But that doesn’t mean you’re down with all the details.
SharePoint is a browser-based collaboration and document-management platform from Microsoft. Effectively a content-management system, SharePoint allows groups to set up a centralized, password-protected space for document sharing. Here, documents can be stored, downloaded and edited, and then uploaded for continued sharing. SharePoint can also host specialized applications, such as wikis and blogs, from within a browser.
The logic behind the concept is that an organization’s effectiveness can by streamlined by having someone else oversee the maintenance of a server, (more…)
Tags: Hosted Sharepoint, SharePoint Hosting, SharePoint On-Demand
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
(Continued from Part I)
There is something about a new year that gets a person in a predictive frame of mind. A psychic to the stars I am not. But as a fairly successful company we have earned the right to claim some vision, I would think.
And so, without further ado, perched as we are on the brink of yet another decade, bereft of political stimulation thanks to prorogued news, weary of the effort required to stay abreast of the late-night talk-show scramble, I present my collection of predictions for the year ahead (complete with context from years past). (more…)
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
It is instructive to watch, in the wake of the disaster in Haiti, the humble telephone emerge as the planet’s ultimate tool.
In the very first minute after the earthquake, 106 people filed status updates with the word “earth” in them. In the first three minutes, that number jumped to over 700. Since then, updates with the word “Haiti” have been coming at the rate of 1,500 a minute, according to the Mobile Giving Foundation.
But not only are texting, Tweeting survivors alerting the world to their plight, many of us on the receiving end are responding with our keypads, too. (more…)
Tags: Microsoft Unified Communications
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