Consulting and Upgrades
Sage have just posted the keynote address from their Sage Summit 2011 conference that was held in July 2011. Interesting topics covered include significant branding changes for Sage North America.
Following the keynote is a Q&A session with Sage Executives.
Google has started to allow for customized news sections that contains a series of search terms to tailor news articles to your specific interests.
Over the weekend I created one for Sage Software and added in some of the North American products. When clicking this link you’ll be taken to a concise summary of articles (as found in Google News). This can help keep up-to-date on the latest press releases concerning Sage or their products.
Are you attending the Sage Software Insights Conference in Denver May 17-20, 2010?
Insights is Sage’s annual conference for resellers and consultants (Accountants can attend Sage Insights 2010 too) , This three day event features technical sessions, keynote addresses and plenty of time for networking.
Because upwards of 2,000 are expected at Insights it can be tough to find people in the midst of all the sessions and keynotes.
This year I’ve created a Twitter list for anyone who is attending Insights. This list will make it simple to quickly review Twitter messages from those people attending the conference. These messages could be short summaries of sessions they’ve attended or vendors that they’ve just met.
It will include Sage employees, consultants, vars, etc
This list is small – but growing – and if you’re going I’d like to add your name – to make it even easier for other people to listen to what you have to say during the conference.
The benefit of Twitter lists is that when you log into Twitter (or use many third party Twitter clients) you can click on a specific list and view only the “tweets” from those people on the list.
Insights 2010 will be a busy time. People attending will be sending Twitter messages – which can be a great way to find out about good sessions, special activities and even hear opinions about keynotes, etc.
It can be challenging to zero in on just those specific messages without something like a Twitter list.
Think of Twitter lists as a way to filter out the noise on Twitter and temporarily zero in on specific information — in this case Twitter messages from people attending the Insights conference.
http://twitter.com/mas90guru/sage
I’ve created an Insights 2010 list so everyone at the conference can quickly view the Twitter activity of people who are there.
Interested in joining the list? All you need do is Tweet out the following message (just copy and paste it into your Twitter stream – be sure you include the “#insights10” hash).
I’ll keep looking for messages that include this text — and as I find them I’ll add your Twitter ID to the list.
Then when you get to Insights 2010 you’ll be able to easily view the Twitter messages of those who are also attending Insights.
Here’s the message to copy/paste into your Twitter feed:
I’m attending Sage Software’s Insights 2010 Conference in Denver – http://bit.ly/insights2010 #insights10
Sage Insights 2010 Twitter List (Unofficial – Not Affiliated With Sage)
You may remember a few weeks ago that I mentioned Schulz Consulting was named as one of the inaugural Sage Spirit Award Winners. The award arrived today and for a while I thought the packaging tape was going to get the better of me.
If you’ve recently started to use the Paperless Office features of MAS 90 or MAS 200 you may have found that while you could fax documents via Microsoft Fax the capability to fax via Internet based services was omitted.
This internet faxing capability was removed when Paperless Office was included in the latest version of Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200.
Now that capability is back, albeit as an add-on ($795 product + $265 maintenance = $ 1,060 total)
Sage’s Extended Solutions LM-1033 – Enhanced Faxing for Paperless Office adds internet faxing capabilities to Paperless Office by converting faxes to emails for the following providers:
Use this enhancement with paperless forms faxing from within your Sage MAS 90 or MAS 200 system.
Generic faxing has also been added in case you need to configure your fax service to work with one of those that has not been listed above. Sage however does not provide any special support for configuring generic fax services so you’re on your own with any special configurations outside the 4 supported services listed above.
Nearly 20 percent of the typical office space is set aside for storage, in addition to offsite storage. This method is both expensive and wasteful. Sage’s Paperless Office (included at no extra cost in both Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200) allows you to generate forms and registers to an electronic archive (PDF format) on your hard drive.
The software handles all system security (providing the option for only those who printed a document to subsequently access it) as well as the task of naming each document, filing it in the write spot on the hard disk and when desired allowing forms to be sent via email.
