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Club Assist, a
Microsoft Great Plains user, judged the most innovative ERP
implementation in Australia
Professional
Advantage's customer is a winner of MIS IT Innovations
award
Congratulations to
global automotive group Club Assist who have been presented with the
most coveted industry award in
Australia. Club Assist, who
provides battery replacement services for motoring clubs, such as
NRMA and RACV, chose Professional Advantage to assist them in
transforming from a paper based operation to an organisation with
smartly automated business practices.
To read the
full story as published in MIS magazine, click here. |
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Club
Assist judged the most innovative ERP system user in
Australia
NEW
Module: Act Now! Solution
Windows
Server 2003 promotion
Customer
Support email change announcement
Wizard
Financial Services and Professional Advantage
feature in
BRW
Microsoft
CRM release date
Professional
Advantage doubles up in Microsoft's Inner Circle for the third
consecutive year
Mark
your calendars: Upcoming events
Customer
Survey Feedback |
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New Module: Act Now!
Series
Adding
new fields and including this data in inquiry and reporting
analysis
Does your
current system leave you with important pieces
missing? This new module can
track the information that you need to fill in the gaps.
Features:
- Add up to 36 new
fields to a Data Entry window.
- User Definable Data
Entry window allows you to decide which fields to add to your Data
Entry window. You can add lookups, validate data, and decide if a
field should be required.
- Additional fields
are easily accessible through Data Entry, Inquiry, and Drill Down
windows
- Additional fields
can also be placed onto existing Microsoft Great Plains reports.
Use Crystal Reports and/or custom reports to expand your reporting
options.
For further
information please contact your Account Manager. |
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Customer Support email
change announcement
As a result
of our groups focus expanding to include a diverse range of
Microsoft products and services, we had an internal name change.
Therefore, our support email address has changed to microsoftsupport@pa.com.au |
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Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 Promotion
Register
your interest to receive the Microsoft Windows Server 2003
promotional pack - no commitment
Microsoft has
announced a special promotional campaign for Windows Server 2003.
Easy to deploy, manage, and use, Windows Server 2003 provides a
complete server platform for quickly building connected solutions.
Your organisation can benefit from the new-generation of Windows
Server by providing more reliability, security and scalability in
applications and network services. Also learn the exciting new
features around Windows SharePoint Services that ship with Windows
Server 2003.
The
promotional pack includes:
- Complimentary
Training Vouchers for a 1 Day Course
"Destination 2003 Seminar
and Windows Server 2003 Hands-On Lab"
- Windows Server 2003
Resource CD
- Windows Server 2003
Administrators Pocket Consultant by William R. Stanek
- Windows Server 2003
T-Shirt
Simply
register your interest in upgrading to Windows Server 2003 before
September 30th
2003 to receive the
promotional pack. This offer is only available while supplies last.
Click Here! |
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Wizard
Financial Services and Professional Advantage feature in
BRW!
Wizard
cut their budget cycle from 20 to 5 days
Learn how
Wizard Financial Services have benefited from their Microsoft Great
Plains software and how Professional Advantage was there to guide
and assist the entire process.
Click Here to read the story.
Microsoft CRM Release
Date
Australian
release is due in December
We are
pleased to confirm the much anticipated international release date
of 1st December 2003Microsoft CRM. Whilst Microsoft has not
confirmed the release date for the international version of the
Microsoft CRM integration to Great
Plains, they had previously
suggested that it should be released 90 days after the international
release.
For any further inquiries please contact brad_tattersall@pa.com.au
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Professional Advantage
doubles up in Microsoft's
Inner
Circle for the third
consecutive year
The
only Microsoft Business Solutions Partner in the world to be double
Inner
Circle
member
Microsoft
Business Solutions announced that Professional Advantage has once
again achieved membership of the exclusive
"Inner
Circle" club and is the only
company in the world to have done so in both categories of reselling
and developing partner. Read more about this at http://www.pa.com.au/pa/news_inner_circle2003.htm
Upcoming
Events
Online
Presentations and Training:
Mark the following
dates in your calendar!
- 29th August - Smart
Tags for Microsoft Great Plains (DemoOnline) Register Now
- 5th September - Tips
and Tricks in using the system (TrainingOnline) Register Now
- 12th September -
Configuring business alerts
(TrainingOnline) Register Now
Retail
Trade Show
Sydney: from 12 - 14 August
2003
Where: Darling Harbour Convention centre
Professional
Advantage will be presenting Microsoft Retail Management Systems at
the show. Visit us on Stand C22.
For more info
visit http://www.retailbusinesstech.com/
To visit the
Professional Advantage Microsoft Business Solutions home page please
click
here. |
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Survey
results from our last user group
We
would like to thank those of you who completed express survey
at our last user group; your answers have contributed to the
findings below:
- You
rated our team performance as follows (On a scale of 1 to 5,
with 5 being the highest): Sales: 3.88 Account Management:
3.89 Training: 3.96 Consulting: 4 Support: 3.89 Development:
3.76
- One
third of users read this newsletter regularly and 46% -
sometimes
- Majority
(47.5%) prefer newsletter in html format, closely followed
by PDF as an attachment (40%)
- 48%
of users visit our website for information and events, while
33% of customers never visit our website,
- 43%
are finding our online training or demo sessions extremely
useful and further 43% think it is reasonably helpful
- as
many as 21% of respondents say they use only 40% of their
system's potential
We
will also take into account your feedback about our group
meetings when organising our next
event. |
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