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360 Visibility is the Canadian Distributor of Maconomy and we are adding new customers to our portfolio constantly. We are looking for someone with great Maconomy skills to join our ranks.

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This solution will allow the Hamilton Port Authority to continue to grow with Dynamics NAV. In implementing 360 PropertyManager© to manage their properties and marina, they expect to gain significant functionality and maximize efficiencies.

Janet Knight, CFO Hamilton Port Authority (Left)/Jens Baun VP Sales 360 Visibility (Right) Capturing the signing of the agreement to deliver 360 PropertyManager© to the Hamilton Port Authority.
360 Visibility was selected by the Hamilton Port Authority (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) for their unique, proprietary property management solution that is built directly into Dynamics NAV 2009, unlike any other Microsoft Partner in North America.

“Dynamics NAV is familiar to our people, is reliable for standard business activities, flexible for our non-standard needs and scalable enough to grow along with us. With 360 PropertyManager we can continue to stay on our single-application platform with NAV, and we can keep integrating more and more of our business processes into the solution. 360 Visibility’s expertise with 360 PropertyManager and Microsoft Dynamics NAV makes them the right choice for this project’s success,” said Janet Knight, Hamilton Port Authority CFO. “We expect the move to 360 PropertyManager to provide significant value for our company.”

The current version of Dynamics NAV 2009 will have to be installed for the first phase of the project, upgrading Hamilton Port Authority from existing Dynamics NAV version 4.0.

360 PropertyManager for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009©
“360 PropertyManager for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is a turn-key solution based on traditional NAV architecture, enabling us to provide Hamilton Port Authority and our other customers the benefits of implementing an out-of-the box solution that remains flexible and can be tailored to meet their needs” says Jens Baun, 360 Visibility Inc., Vice President of Sales.
360 Visibility is dedicated to offering industry-specific customized enterprise solutions to Canadian businesses. They are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and located in Toronto, Canada. 360 Visibility’s Business Management Specialist provide businesses with the tools to efficiently manage their business, enabling them to seize new opportunities and circumvent common downfalls.

“We are proud to team up with Hamilton Port Authority and to provide them with a solution that will make it possible to integrate each of their business processes into NAV 2009 and 360 PropertyManager, ” declared Lynn Cooke, President and CEO of 360 Visibility.

Hamilton Port Authority
Since 1912, Hamilton Port Authority (formerly Hamilton Harbour Commissioners) has managed the busiest of Canada’s Great Lakes ports, Hamilton’s industrial port lands. The yearly cargo passing through Hamilton’s ports is approximately 12-million tonnes on more than 700 vessels. This accounts for over a 1/4 of all St. Lawrence Seaway Systems movements annually.

With approximately 150,000 square feet of office space, around 2,000,000 square feet of warehouse space, more than 9,000 metres of wharf and exceeding 600 acres of land, the Hamilton Port Authority manages an extensive real estate portfolio. Striving to be “The Great Lakes Port of Choice”, the Hamilton Port Authority lives by their strong mission statement of “Partnering for Progress”.

For more information:
Jens Baun, VP Sales and Business Development
Telephone: (905) 907- 3617
jbaun@360visibility.com

Janet Knight, Chief Financial Officer
Telephone: (905) 525-4330 #226
jknight@hamiltonport.ca

No Harmony for Property Managers

Harmony is in particularly short supply in the property management field these days, as those professionals charged with overseeing large-scale physical interests struggle to understand this new layer of complication the government has seen fit to impose on their lives.

There are some who say that no segment of the population will feel the effects of the HST more acutely than landlords. Not only are they now paying 8% more to heat their properties (and some 85% of landlords include heat in their rent), they will be charged HST on a slew of other necessities of life, including: utilities, repairs, legal services, garbage disposal, snow removal, cleaning services, landscaping, accounting and property management.

Protecting the Tenants – Not the Property Managers

More than that, the Ontario government has seen to it that these folks are not in a position to recoup the money from their tenants. In a move largely speculated to be motivated by a desire to avoid widespread unrest among tenants, Premier Dalton McGuinty has chosen to exempt people living in rental housing—at least for the short term—from the HST’s sting.

Those folks holding the mortgage documents for those properties, meanwhile, will absorb the true effects of this adjustment to overall housing costs.

The Burden to the Property Owner

It’s a ridiculous move, this, not only for the way it unfairly burdens property owners, but for the inevitable roosting in which these chickens will eventually come home to engage. The HST will catch up with rents eventually, and drive them up too.

In the meantime, property managers will wrestle with how to fold the 8% sales tax increase, along with the hike to the heating fuel bill itself and the anticipated 2% inflation, into their lives. The provincial landlords’ association says the HST, once the dust has cleared, will amount to a 5% increase in the overall costs of operating a rental building; the potential for the occasional HST-inspired saving notwithstanding.

Restricted Increase for Rental Rates

More than that, landlords in this province are restricted with regards to how much they can increase their rental rates. The government has put a 0.7% cap on this, the most onerous since rent regulation was introduced to Ontario. Landlords cannot exercise this increase until next year.

And to make matters worse, the McGuinty Liberals canceled the provision for landlords to raise rents more than guidelines dictate in the face of extraordinary costs, calling it a “loophole”.

Property managers are going to be juggling price hikes on a number of fronts, as the rest of us are. Only thing is, they can’t make compensations for it elsewhere, while the rest of us can.

What a quagmire.

To my mind, this new tax is an affront to property managers in this province since it blends the 8% PST with the 5% GST. It puts an unfair limitation on how much their business can earn—and it is a business, after all.

Before this HST nonsense overwhelms you entirely, let 360 Visibility step in with its comprehensive property management software solutions to tightly manage your expenses, leases, invoices, assets, documents, reporting, maintenance schedules and—yes, the ever-lovin’ HST.

“Heroes for hard times, role models for the recovery,” is how PROFIT editor Ian Portsmouth described the companies featured in this year’s rankings.

Portsmouth noted that while the latest recession stalled many businesses, the PROFIT 100 firms persevered – from 2004-2009, 360 Visibility grew 468%.

360 Visibility has continued to build its reputation serving the professional services industry over the past 7 years, with a focus on media and PR agencies, engineers and architects, financial services, plus hospitality. It has grown to over 25 employees and continues to expand.

360 Visibility. See clearly. Act faster.

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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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. This would enable Kantar Group to consolidate their entire global organization and help them prepare for future growth. Maconomy ran a series of performance tests on-site at Kantar Group to determine whether the solution could be scaled up to support 35,000 users with adequate performance. As it turned out, the system’s capacity was even greater.

“Our tests showed that we could expand our system capacity to over 60,000 users by using standard software and regular performance tweaks. We even tested on-site with the client during the peak month-end period. We used these test results to fine-tune our database setup and now we’ve presented solid proof to Kantar Group that we can support their worldwide operations throughout their organization,” says Allan Junge Hyldal, Solution Management Director, Maconomy.

“No matter the size of your organization, you need a business solution that addresses your main business challenges, not just your size. Maconomy has asserted itself as a competent business partner in many of our subsidiaries, so we asked them if they could design a solution to leverage the operations of our entire organization. We’ve followed Maconomy closely while they’ve proven the scalability of the solution, and the results speak for themselves. 60,000 users on a single database will put great strains on any system, but the performance of Maconomy’s system was virtually unaffected,” says CTO Marv Ritter, Kantar Group.

A business solution on a single database will help make Kantar Group’s overall operations leaner and reduce their running maintenance costs. Additionally, Kantar Group will be able to assimilate new companies quicker following mergers and acquisitions. Maconomy will put the parent company in full control of financial management while enabling local flexibility to help Kantar Group’s subsidiaries in 52 countries solve their unique project management challenges.

“Maconomy is clearly ready for the major league. We have demonstrated that we can help even the world’s largest project-focused companies run their business. Maconomy is widely recognized as a leader in providing business value to project-focused companies based on years of exclusive focus on these businesses. But it may come as a surprise to some people that we also possess the robustness and technical savvy to put multinational companies in full control of their global operations,” says US President Steen Andersen, Maconomy.

Please note that this release does not affect Maconomy’s financial expectations for 2010.

About Maconomy

Maconomy is a global supplier of industry-specific business solutions for project- and service-oriented companies (“Professional Services Organizations”). Maconomy provides services to approximately 600 customers in 58 countries through offices in the U.S. and Europe, and through a comprehensive partner network. More than 126,000 users worldwide use Maconomy’s business solutions.

About Kantar Group

Kantar Group, based in London, was founded in 1993 as the market research, information and consultancy division of WPP Group. It is a network of more than 20 specialist companies with around 35,000 employees working in 80 countries across various research and consultancy disciplines. Kantar Group’s services are used by more than half of the Fortune Top 500 companies worldwide.

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