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Latest Enterprise Software Posts
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.
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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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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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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
I’m not looking to ride the ink trails of Charles Dickens here, but it’s awfully hard to resist when he laid down so apt an all-purpose summary of a year. Because it is always the best of times—and the worst. A little of this, a little of that. Some highs, some lows. One day you’re an American journalist getting an escort from North Korea by Bill Clinton, the next you’re Taylor Swift and your stage is being stormed by Kanye.
Certainly if you were Miss California or Roman Polanski in 2009, you’ve had better revolutions through the lunar cycle. But if you were Susan Boyle or the guy who won that dream job on that Pacific Island, well, you had yourself a bit of a party over the last 12 months, didn’t you?
As for us here at 360 and our journey through the latest calendar pages, we feel confident laying claim to Dickens’ more positive category of assessment. Prominent among those best-of times was our growth. In spite of the so-called “recession,” we managed to pass another year in expansion mode. (more…)
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
It’s a hackneyed, overworked, inelegant maxim. But my God, it’s a good one: every dollar spent in planning saves five dollars in implementation.
Too many folks operate under the misguided notion that they can secure the best results for their businesses without investing much in preemptive effort. They believe an afternoon spent gladhanding and hanging in front of a handful of vendor demos will provide them with all the data they need to make an informed choice about what often proves to be a pretty hefty IT spend.
Or they issue a standardized call for quotations on a project whose multiple features and fiddly requirements are not given nearly their due in the process—and then suffer the consequences. (more…)
Tags: business analyst, ERP planning, quotations, RFP
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
 I read an article in The Wall Street Journal recently that gave me pause.
It was a piece on how the fragmented nature that’s defined the technology industry for the last several years may have run its course, and how a new trend to vertically integrate operations is afoot in corporate America.
Case in point: the surfeit of massive deals in the offing, including LiveNation’s targeted acquisition of Ticketmaster, PepsiCo’s pending US$7.8-billion acquisition of two of its key bottlers and Oracle Corp.’s massive planned purchase of Sun Microsystems.
Comprehensive control, it appears, is the new name of the game. (more…)
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
 Just because something has always been done a certain way doesn’t mean it can’t be done another way. A better way. Particularly if the first way has been knocked to the turf with a one-star rating and a 67% decline in license revenue in the last quarter alone.
Times are high right now and getting higher for Ontario engineers. Finally seeing some of the government funding earmarked for infrastructure trickling into their coffers from the last economic recession, these professionals are presiding over a scene that features more projects, more project management, more accountability for funds. (more…)
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
360 Visibility offers easy, customizable Microsoft Financing Plans so you’re better able to make the right decisions when it comes to your business improvement. These plans provide an affordable, flexible and strategic way to invest in your business, right at the point of sale, which can increase your IT spend while improving your chances for increased cash flow.
You can realize the benefits from your IT solution immediately with our customized payment plans.
Finance your IT solution
Microsoft Business Solutions serve businesses of all sizes and provide financing for a range of IT needs, including software, services, third-party products and hardware. There is typically no down payment required and terms range from two to five years, making it easy to realize the benefits of the latest Microsoft technologies immediately, with no large upfront costs or hidden fees.
Optimize your long-term IT roadmap
And if you need to build on your solution at any time during the contract, you can add new products, services or upgrades with supplemental financing starting at $3,000.00. Payment plans are based on competitive, fixed interest rates, so you can choose one that is aligned to your budget.
360 Visibility is dedicated to enabling all enterprise participants to make swift, well-informed, coordinated, and above all profitable business decisions. In short, they help companies see clearly, and act faster. We provide our clients with the enterprise software, communications systems, and technology infrastructure they need to effectively pilot their businesses, capitalize on opportunities and avoid pitfalls, so they can compete and win in today’s challenging and dynamic business environment. 360’s team of highly qualified and motivated IT and consulting professionals, have over 100 years’ experience among them, in all aspects of systems analysis, design, implementation, training, and support.
By offering Microsoft Financing, 360 is able increase our offerings and provide more options for our clients. To learn more about Microsoft Financing, contact us today.
360 Visibility. See Clearly. Act Faster.
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
 No matter the prevailing economic environment—swell or depleted—the time is always right to explore ideas for making your business more efficient. Setting about to optimize your operational efficiency improves productivity, reduces costs, betters customer satisfaction, increases profitability and generally makes you look like you know what you’re doing.
1) Employ technology at every turn.
Everything from purchasing to bookkeeping to environmental stewardship at a company can find betterment through automation—and it ain’t bad for the environment, either. If it’s possible to perform a task smarter and faster by computerizing it, go for it. (more…)
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News
In the wake of the chaos at Copenhagen, global enterprise applications firm IFS North America has published the results of a study that reveal much about how well prepared the business world is to participate in the makeover of the planet. And the news, on the face of it, is not so good.