Introducing our new Information Worker Infrastructure (IWI) Team

The new Information Worker Infrastructure (IWI) team pulls together our resources and skills from across the board to offer solutions that help your organisation achieve a stable and reliable IT platform and improve your decision making process.

It focuses on delivering Microsoft based technology and services in the following areas:

If you are interested in any of the services of the IWI team or require more information please contact your Account Manager.


In this issue:

Introducing PA's "Information Worker Infrastructure" Team (IWI)

Microsoft announces future roadmap for Dynamics GP

Easily reduce the size of your Dynamics GP Database with Company Data Archive

PA's Customer Portal is now open

Professional Advantage named to elite Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle

Business Improvement Awards 2007

Customer in the Spotlight: UHY Haines Norton- Improving performance with enhanced infrastructure

 
Microsoft announces future road map for Dynamics GP

Microsoft announced recently at it's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver the future road map for Dynamics GP.

The major goal of Microsoft’s product development road map is to help protect the investments of customers by helping them gradually move to the new Microsoft Dynamics platform while realising the benefits of breakthrough technology innovations along the way. Read more

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Easily reduce the size of your Dynamics GP database with Company Data Archive.

Company Data Archive (CDA) for Dynamics GP provides an easy way to move historical information from your "live" company to another "archive company". Archiving your data will reduce the size of your live company database and improve system performance.

Its recently released Pause and Resume functionality allows you to archive a large amount of data at different times-that are convenient for you- saving you a great deal of time. For more information click here or contact your Account Manager.   

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Customer Portal is now open!

You may have heard that the new online Customer Portal has just been opened.

The Customer Portal is our new online service that allows us to extend customer service and support to you via the web. It provides you with a more efficient support as well as a higher level of self sufficiency.

The portal offers you a number of benefits. You will be able to create new service cases, view and update existing cases, add attachments, re-open resolved cases and much more.

For more information contact our Customer Support Team on 1300 658 608 or email microsoftsupport@pa.com.au

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Professional Advantage named to elite Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle

We are pleased to announce that Professional Advantage has been recognised once again as a Microsoft Dynamics™ Inner Circle member. With nine consecutive years of recognition Professional Advantage is the 3rd longest standing member -out of 63 worldwide members of the Inner Circle.

 

“By achieving Inner Circle recognition, Professional Advantage is at the top level of the premier partner channel in the industry. We congratulate them and thank them for their commitment to Microsoft, our customers and solutions" said Tami Reller, corporate vice president, Microsoft 

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 2007 Business Improvement Awards- have you registered yet?
 
As announced at the recent InTouch meeting, registrations for the 2007 Business Improvement Awards are open.

With interesting projects already registered and TWO major prizes to be won we anticipate a good level of competition this year.

If you have not had the chance to register yet, jump online today and register your interest. Click here for competition details.

Have you seen the latest Webinar schedule?

Join us for the upcoming FREE online session on Enterprise Search.

Date:  13th September
Topic:  Enterprise Search
Time:  3.00pm to 4.00pm
Cost:   FREE

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InTouch Customer Meeting
The latest InTouch meeting held in Melbourne and Sydney on the 19th and 21st of June respectively were well attended.

We would like to thank all who joined us and provided us with valuable feedback, your presence made the event a great success. Your comments and suggestions will help us deliver worthwhile presentations in the sessions to come. 

Stay tuned for the next InTouch meeting, details coming soon!

TIPS & TRICKS
for Dynamics GP Users

  • Did you know you could create custom reminders to allow you a quick view into key data in Dynamics GP?  Details here
     

  • Would you like to customize your reports' view quick and easy?
    Details here

Customer InTheSpotlight:  UHY Haines Norton
Improving performance with enhanced infrastructure

UHY Haines Norton overcomes downtime issues and eliminates related cost of $50K per day-per downtime episode by stabilising its core "back-end" infrastructure and implementing high available systems. To read the mini case study click here

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Lets keep it in touch!
 
 If there is a particular topic/product that you would like to see featured in our next issue, would love to hear from you. Please let us know by emailing angela.lasso@pa.com.au 

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