Bank reconciliation can be tedious administrative work. It can often be complicated when there are so many moving parts – lots of transactions, multiple banks and multiple accounts. But no matter how complicated, the bank reconciliation has to be done…and done right. Advanced Bank Reconciliation speeds up the process, while ensuring accuracy.

Advance Bank Reconciliation or ABR is an alternative automated bank reconciliation module for Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Why use Advanced Bank Reconciliation?
Let’s face it.  Bank reconciliation can be tedious administrative work.  And it can be complicated when there are so many moving parts – lots of transactions, multiple accounts.  But no matter how complicated, the bank reconciliation has to be done…and done right. 

Advanced Bank Reconciliation speeds up the process, while ensuring accuracy. Transactions are imported from the bank and extracted directly from the General Ledger.  Automated matching can be used to reconcile the majority of transactions with the minimum of effort. Flexible matching and grouping rules are user-definable, ensuring that they can be tailored to produce the most accurate results. With its many automated and time-saving features, Advanced Bank Reconciliation makes reconciliation a much easier task.

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What: Exploring the Office 365 architecture, integration potential, and introduction of new technologies for your business

Who Should Attend: IT Managers, Sys-admins

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Who Should Attend: CFO’s, Controllers, IT Directors

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If you’re like most businesses, you’ve already made the investment with E-Mail using Microsoft Exchange Server; you’ve purchased Microsoft Office for Outlook, Word, Excel; you may have even integrated your Smart Phone with your E-Mail box for Real-Time access. 

You might find yourself asking, what’s the next big communications innovation?  The answer is Microsoft Lync, a unified communications tool combining:

• Instant Messaging and Group Chat
• Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Enterprise voice integration (integrate Lync with your office phone system)
• Video Conferencing Desktop sharing for presentations and collaboration

Lync is fully integrated with Outlook with features such as available/busy status; create scheduled video/audio conference calls with a click of a button

Built-in Voice over IP for instant laptop to laptop voice/instant messaging communication from anywhere in the world.

Instant message conversations are saved in Outlook as a conversation for archival purposes. If you miss a request for an instant message session or an audio/video call the system automatically emails you to alert you of the missed request.

Thanks to Microsoft’s cloud solution called Office 365, you can deploy this in your organization for only $6 per user per month.  Paired with 360 Visibility’s remote deployment services, we’ll have you up and running in no time using our proven deployment methodology.

Looking even further into the not so distant future…is that the sound of your phone system moving to the cloud?  It may be closer than you think!

Wednesday June 13th @ 9:00am – 12:00pm EST.
Location: Microsoft Canada, 1950 Meadowvale Blvd., Mississauga, ON

Come and discover the right solutions for your business by participating in a Customer Immersion Experience (CIE). Unlike traditional product presentations or demos, CIE puts you in the driver’s seat for a rich, hands-on interactive experience. It is a unique opportunity to explore the Microsoft business productivity platform by role playing in a “true-to-life” environment.

The future of productivity starts here
The Microsoft business productivity platform provides the best productivity experience across PC, Phone & Browser, with familiar Microsoft® Office applications, provisioned through the cloud or on-premises. Explore the following applications: Office 365, Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, Visio, Windows, Windows Phone, Dynamics CRM, and Systems Center.

Next Steps
1. Use the invitation code: 6FA846 and register by June 6th
2. Work with your account manager to prepare for your CIE session.

So it’s been for me here lately. Some eight years into the mission, I’ve embarked on a mission to take stock of exactly what we’ve built here at 360 Visibility, to address those elements that need attention, and to align everything inside an overarching brand that authentically represents who we want to be. The exercise has been invigorating.

Finding Inspiration

The inspiration for the overhaul took root at various events I’ve attended in recent months, where I was motivated by the likes of Lululemon CEO Chip Wilson and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh to scramble our corporate culture in a way that more accurately reflects our values. Add to that an external cascade of events—including market changes and the widespread commoditizing of the products we sell and deliver—and the call for change became too compelling to ignore. From sales to delivery to post to go live support, I’m freshly committed to having our entire company speak in a single voice that offers compelling evidence of our reason for being here.

All of this is no small undertaking, and I find myself returning to infancy with my efforts, learning to walk all over again. Certainly there’s no shortage of speeches, white papers and case studies detailing other executives’ efforts to revamp their corporate culture, but nowhere is there a handbook that lays out an exact path for doing so. It’s an endeavour that’s extremely individualized to the organization behind it.

Outside of the Comfort Zone

More than that, I am not in possession of a personality that’s naturally suited to the exercise. A designated accountant and certified management consultant by trade, I am an analyzer at heart. And changing a corporate culture is anything but analytical.

It is, however, extremely challenging, consistently gratifying and, dare I say, fun. My push to revitalize my business has emerged as my reason to come into work every day. I examine each of our entrenched processes and challenge it with a battery of questions: Why, why, why do we do it that way? One of our core values is to “keep it simple.” Applying that imperative in each case is the first move we make.

Reaching Out

So my new post is a soapbox from which I regularly preach the value of revolutionizing the way we look at things. Our weekly tactical meetings are now full of KPIs, and red, yellow, green and “supergreen” scorecards that focus us on our goals. We’re communicating with our customers via LinkedIn, newsletters, Youtube and other social media outlets.

360’s reinvention isn’t going to happen overnight. Indeed, I suspect it will take at least the rest of this fiscal year before we’ve made any meaningful strides on this front. But I truly believe we’ll all be better for the effort. And it’s an ongoing commitment. It’s one thing, after all, to identify the need for a refreshed corporate existence; it’s another to live it every single day.

China: The Largest Cloud Player

• China is home to some of the world’s largest data centres, a bit of a triumph considering the heavily regulated environment in which they exist and the initial reluctance of international investors to be a part of them.

• In 2009, the Chinese government funded an experimental cloud platform under development by IBM and the Beijing University of Technology.

• The Chinese government has invested $173.2 billion in the development of key cloud computing hubs.

• A recent survey of Chinese IT executives found that 20% are already using cloud-based solutions, and 46% are evaluating cloud solutions for use in their businesses.

• Chinese policymakers have nominated five new cloud computing zones as part of its “12^th Five-Year Plan.” By 2015, the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzen in Guangdong province, Hangzhou in Zhejiang province and Wuxi in Jiangsu province should be well established as hubs of cloud-centric activity. Each of these cloud “laboratories” will work with industry to serve as pilot models for how such technologies work.

• The cloud market in China is expected to have reached almost $14.8 billion in 2012, up from $11.4 billion in 2011. At this rate, China is poised to become the world’s number-one cloud market.

India: Technology Hub

• India has been identified as a hotspot for cloud computing growth over the next few years. Its government has regularly indicated its endorsement of cloud with financial investments.

• Gartner has forecast that India’s spending on green IT and cloud initiatives will double, from $35 billion in 2010, to $70 billion in 2015.

• According to IDC, India is experiencing an information explosion, with digital data growing from 40.000 petabytes in 2010 to 2.3 million petabytes in 2020. The cloud is the means to this end, as Indian companies look to leverage cost advantages.

• Some 40% of professional organizations in India currently use cloud computing; 58% say cost saving is their primary motivation for cloud adoption.

• Gartner says businesses in India are adopting the cloud at a much faster rate than originally expected; two-thirds of Indian CIOs expect the majority of IT to be running on the cloud by 2015.

• Gartner has revealed that there are several “urgent and compelling forces” that will come to prominence in India and its 1.2 billion inhabitants in the near future. Cloud computing is prominent among them.
• Gartner has predicted that IT spending in India will rise by 9.1% to $79.8 billion in 2012, as in-country enterprises invest more in IT systems.

• In a recent survey conducted by virtualization platform provider VMware and Forrester Consulting, 91% of participants from India stated that cloud computing is “relevant to their business.”