March towards the Progress

It's March 2009 and we are all looking fwd for new challenges with "change yes we can" message still ringing in our mind.

This spring should open up new business, new websites powered by ISE (Interprise Suite E-Commerce), in less than 2-3 weeks we shld be launching our client's ecommerce site ...

While you are here why don't you click on "Follow" button under "ERP Followers" section on the right side so you can keep track of latest posts, blog updates of Interprise Suite, POS and others..

Highlights or News update:

• Interprise Suite launched its SaaS model and now customers can get "On Demand" solution for as low as $250 per month for hosting your IS services, contact us for more details though ...
• Interprise new version 5.2 is going to be released Mar 1st week.
• Inteprise 2009 version end of March.
• Premier POS 2009 is now available and pls contact us for new licensing keys
• We got new blogger on the block, yep Premier POS has luanched its blogging for POS customers and you can follow its blog by visiting http://premierpos.blogspot.com/ the layout all looks like mine ;) ...

SaaS Model For Interprise Suite, Coming Soon

With time we change, yes we do, Interprise Suite is working on the final specs of introducing the SaaS model (Software As A Service) for their ERP Suite for Small and Medium Business.

SaaS model has been in use for several years by Companies like Salesforce.com and NetSuite vendors, but Inteprise Suite would be the real ERP vendor to posses both models desktop (thick) and web (thin client) version, ofcourse we had the capability of using smart client to connect to remote data, but with this new model it can target other customers who are looking to rent instead of buying/purchasing the software.







Who should look for SaaS model?
Business owners who are thinking of switching to intergated ERP application for Small and Medium should consider SaaS model because of two main reasons.
1. Affordability, lower initial investment on hardware and software
2. Maintenance of the ERP system and its usage

Does it Fit my business?
Customers who are starting new business or those who have less number of user licenses or those who don't want the hassle of installation & maintenance are the ones who will like this model and may fit their business plans.

How Much does it cost and who can resell it?
Good question, the pricing is being addressed and will be announced shortly, they are working on the e-Commerce hosting options, since hosting your ERP/E-Commerce application means you would be taking their disk space, bandwidth and other resources so pricing would be based on those parameters so if you use more of your cell phone minutes you get charged accordingly, so you rent it and never own it.

Once released we (InfoSourcing Inc, Interprise Suite resellers) will be able to resell to our customer base or offer to any new clients as part of the implementation of the ERP strategy.

AspDotNet Storefront is Now "Inteprise Suite E-Commerce"

A month long issue now laid to rest, AspDotNet Storefront E-Commerce has evolved into "Inteprise Suite E-Commerce" (ISE) integrated module, this means we don't have to deal with Aspdotnet storefront Company and their support and this brings one platform within the system (IS).

It also means that ISE has to ramp up their development and support to carry on the features, issues etc. But this move to have exclusive licensing options from Aspdotnet to IS makes it easier for resellers like us and for our customers.
Aspdotnet storefront will continue to develop its own ML versions and sell it as "stand-alone" ecommerce shopping cart so it benefits them too.

We look fwd for product roadmap and new integrated features from ISE team.

Happy New Year To Inteprise Suite, its upcoming version 2009

Happy New Year to Everyone who are visiting my blog to find out the latest and greatest news about Interprise Suite.

I had a very long official vacation in month of Dec starting from Thanksgiving holiday, I was visiting Bangalore, India office and my home town ... Now back in States and back to work my first blog for this year 2009.

We heard recent changes have occurred in Interprise and this info was shared with all resellers and customers and here is glimpse of those changes that I felt you readers should know about and get to hear the new changes ....

It's an extract from the email I received from Interprise Suite

Our Successes
I would like to share with you some of the exciting trends we have been experiencing since the acquisition:
 Since April, we have more than tripled our development resources
 New prospect inquiries have grown by 285% in the last three months
 Interprise is currently 25% ahead of year-to-date earnings and sales projections
 Our reseller base has grown by 67% in the last seven months

While this represents just a few areas of our business, we continue to invest time and resources into other new projects designed to increase customer and partner satisfaction. This includes:

 Upcoming 2009 Product release
 Our new online product demo site, and upcoming online marketplace
 Increased training, documentation, and support offerings

and here is short listed of features that you can expect in 2009 version ...

Here is a “sneak peek” of some of the features that we are already have in development for this release. We hope to have a complete roadmap available to our partners shortly…

• Order and shipment Acknowledgments – ability for the system to automatically send
out email notification of a new customer order and notification of shipments to
customers. Email would include order verification document, shipment document
would include items shipped and tracking information.
• Hold Code processing – system will allow user defined hold codes for customer, orders
and A/R. Will control workflow of orders based on the hold code associated with the
transaction. Codes can put a customer account on hold that would stop all open orders
from processing or single orders or line items.
• Time Zone Management – system will properly recognize time zones when processing
call queues for outbound call lists
• Payment Types assigned to G/L accounts
• Payment types and Source can have order dollar limits
• Inventory locations will be able to be flagged as a pick location or stock only
• Inventory will have ABC classification functionality
• Inventory will now track – quantity fields for on pick, on reserve, future ship, allocated
• Flag an item as exempt for freight calculation
• Enhanced receiving and put away processes for inventory management
• Inventory location replenishment reports
• Physical inventory counting will allow cycle counting
• Outbound telemarketing will have enhance call queue processing
• CRM will allow the assignment of the earliest time of day a contact can be called
• User role security to be enhanced to allow users to belong to multiple roles
• System management password override to allow privileged access to make changes on
operator machines where the operator does not have the authority
• System control flag to determine if tax should be calculated on shipping and handling
• Ability to capture customer tax exempt information
• Ability to view and manage orders on user hold
• Support expiration dates on quotes
• Associate Batch numbers to picking tickets for better warehouse control
• Batch processing of re-authorizing expired authorizations and gathering of new
authorization codes for partially shipped orders.

and few more features ...

Bring IT On Microsoft, Launches NAV ERP 2009

Ran into this article on Computer World and worth reading about new version of NAV ERP for Mid-market, it would be interesting to compare the feature sets between NAV ERP and Interprise Suite ERP and see its flexbility...

Microsoft to launch major upgrade to NAV ERP software Dec. 1: "November 19, 2008 (IDG News Service) Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, the latest generation of one of the company's midmarket ERP products, will be generally available Dec. 1 in 14 countries, the company said today at its Convergence conference in Copenhagen"

Its has been more than 5 yrs now, haven't heard the status of the famous so called "Project Green" which is combined ERP from Microsoft after they acquired several differnet ERP/Accounting systems I would assume they are gonna push NAV as the bigger brother here ...

Does NAV ERP fit the bill for small and medium business? Can IS compete with NAV ERP in Mid market space, 2009 would be watchful year with down turn on Wall St and Main St..

All Major software companies releasing their great versions in Dec'08 targeting 2009, Interprise is releasing its 2009 version mid Dec'08 so stay tuned ...

What should be the "Best" Price for Interprise Suite?

Did Wall street meltdown hit the main street yet? With layoff's and economy slow down we are seeing this down turn in ERP market too. Recently NetSuite an ERP vendor for small and medium business reported loss, read below quote

NETSUITE LOSS WIDENS. Online application vendor NetSuite lost $6.2 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, up from $1.7 million in last year’s corresponding period, as the growth in operating expenses outpaced the growth in revenue. Revenue for the most recently ended period reached $40.4 million, up from $28.1 million in last year’s third quarter. Operating expenses rose to $32.8 million... - Source: Consulting Insights By Bob Scott

Interprise Suite is standing firmly to release its 2009 version in Dec'08 filled with lots of features, are they going to get hit with the economy slow down? we have to watch how the market goes from here ....

But with the increase demand for integrated systems for small and medium business who want to automate their entire business process defintely need ERP which is afforable, it becomes even critical to define the "best" price point for your product, with recent price increase of Interprise suite from $795 per user to $1295 (effect from 2009) would defintely hit hard on small business owners who are looking for intergated solution.

Customers who are looking for ERP should act now to purchase Interprise Suite (before end of this month Nov) as prices are low at $995 per user or atleast you could lock down the prices.

Interprise is closely watching the market & its popularity and based on which hopefully they will determine the best price for the slow down economy.

For more in depth comparison on ERP product click here.

ERP Vendor Highlights:
1. NetSuite loss widens and they are losing in share value
2. Everest Software down sizing its employees in India and cutting cost
3. Interprise Suite increases its prices from $795 to $1295

More and more companies are down sizing or right sizing for the 2009 market showdown.

Interprise Suite Training - Day 4 & 5

I'm so behind now in posting and recovering from the jolt of information Interprise struck us, even a geek like me can't digest, I pity those customers, there is so much to learn and use this product in several different ways.

Anyways on Day 4 more on what we did on Day 3, SDK training widened into creating shipment plugins exact same steps IS developers did to integrate the shipment module to IS, something interesting was happening in POS room, the Encampus guys were revealing their new assult products into the market, their new reporting engine its so dynamic we had ton of questions on how to use.... and some highlights

1. The report engine works seamlessly with Encumpus POS and IS

2. Report engine can plug into any third party database and provides you with reporting capabilities, ahh Crystal watch out.

3. It has capabilities to use Stored procedures, queries and also schedule when the report needs to be triggered and take action

4. In future it can also connect to web services and run reports on those kind of data too...

The kiosk intergation was neat, load POS on that box, configure and you are ready to collect data or payments, it can be stand alone or integrated with backend IS.

ASPDotNet Storefront, well we continued our think tank sessions with Rob who digged into XML packages and ran through e-Commerce sceanrios, should i mention in the end Rob said "No more suggestions looking at me" coz we couldn't resist asking can it do this, how abt that?

But they did take notes on what features to be added for future releases, one of the feature was to allow custom fields to show up without tweaking the code behind files, seamlessly from IS, allow to show custom stock status messages few to mention here ....

On thursday we hit Tabu dance club in MGM partyed all nite and wrapped up the event on friday, woke up late and was just socializing with IS developers and others.

I missed my flight for some stupid mistakes by the airport people, they moved the gate from D24 to D23 and they never bothered to post that info on their monitors and assumed everyone will hear to their great announcement, what they don't know is everyone has iPod or iPhone connected to their ears ...

Anyways after waiting for 7 hrs and getting frustrated bought a new ticket and flew out off Vegas.

What happens in the day stays with us but what happens in the nite stays in vegas ;)

It was an excellent seminar I attended since 2003 and a great location to attend the seminar.