Issue 20 – April 2015 WHAT IS A COFFEE BREAK WEBINAR? SVA’s coffee break webinars are typically about 20 minutes in length and are intended to provide a short, high-level review of hot topics and current trends that are top of mind for today’s business leaders, finance and IT managers, and how they relate to your own workplace. Some of the topics in our series may have longer, product-focused follow-up webinars scheduled within a week or two after the initial coffee break. For a complete listing of all SVA events, please click here. April Webinars April 23: Maximize the Investment in your ERP Technology Getting the most out of your ERP system requires you to continuously evaluate it and the processes it supports. If you have any number of manual processes, it is likely a good time for a process review. If you enter the same data in more than a single system, it might be a good time to do a process review. Mike Sowinski, SVA’s ERP Practice Manager, will share how SVA can help you bridge the gap between process and technology! April 24: Affordable Care Act Reporting in Dynamics GP Before the end of 2015, employers must make adjustments to how they record employee payroll and health benefits to meet the ACA’s requirements. The groundwork has been laid for the mandatory reporting, which will give users the ability to generate the required 1094-C Transmittal of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage Information Returns and 1095-C Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage forms. Tera McCulloch, Senior Business Solutions Consultant at SVA, will walk you through what you need to know! April 28: Overview of Microsoft Dynamics SL 2015 Join Cheryl Mortvedt, SVA Senior Business Solutions Consultant, for a brief tour of long-awaited functionality now available in Microsoft Dynamics SL. We hope you can join us to see what others are raving about! May Webinars May 19: Streamline Business Form and Report Distribution Is your organization spending hours distributing invoices to your clients? Would you like to automatically attach supporting documentation to an invoice or statement? Liaison Messenger EDD by Liaison Software helps streamline business form and report distribution. Just print through your normal print procedures in Dynamics GP, NAV or SL, and Messenger EDD distributes your forms and reports based on unique rules you set up at initial configuration. May 21: Getting a Handle on Your Procurement Spending Automate, manage, and control your purchasing cycles with an easy-to-use 100% browser interface that allows you to view, review and approve on the move. ReQlogic makes the entire requisition process easy to follow, manage, and complete. Add items to your requisition by accessing your suppliers’ website or connecting to a soft copy of your vendor catalog. Once the user has completed their requisition, the requisition is routed through the approval processes you’ve determined before creating a purchase orderhelping you to eliminate maverick spending! June Webinars June 18: Financial Information at Your Fingertips Renovofyi is an innovative web-based financial report writer that securely generates and delivers presentation quality reports quickly and easily, anytime and anywhereincreasing productivity and improving delivery speed of the financial intelligence your company’s stakeholders need. Join Marc Morrow, Sales Engineer at Renovo Corp, for a brief demonstration and learn how Renovofyi provides: Secured access to financials from anywhere Intuitive drill-down from summary to detail Automated distribution June 25: Make Expense Reporting Simple and Efficient See for yourself how using ReQlogic to streamline your employee expense reporting process makes it easier for everyone involved. With an electronic approach to information gathering, employees can leverage a number of sources (images, emails, etc.) to enter and track their expense reports. July Webinars July 14: Cut Budget Season in Half this Year Broken links, bad formulas and incompatible formats mean lots of wasted time and inaccurate results. Budget Maestro budgeting and planning software significantly shortens the budget cycle by standardizing and guiding users through the data collection process, then automating all the calculations and allocations needed to produce the budget. Join Centage’s Michael Rybacki for a demonstration of Budget Maestro, an incredibly powerful and easy to use budgeting, forecasting and planning solution that you still have time to implement for the current budget cycle. July 23: AP AutomationThe Future is Yours Gain complete visibility into your invoicing transactions by enabling your employees to enter and monitor the status of vendor invoices and check requests. By leveraging ReQlogic’s advanced and flexible routing options, invoices can be routed to any number of reviewers based on dynamic routing policies. Once invoices and check requests are approved, ReQlogic can create corresponding AP transactions in your backend system. Dynamics User Groups ANNOUNCING OUR SPRING MEETING WHEN: TIME: WHERE: TOPIC: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. SVA Headquarters, Madison, Wisconsin Exploring Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 We will look at the latest release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015, including lots of cool, new features and functionality! We’ll be covering the following topics: Review of CRM 2015 new functionality Sneak peek into future releases Customer Spotlight – OPEN Tech Spotlight – RESCO mobility Open lab/Q&A session. Bring your laptops and tablets! Click here for more information and to register for this event. In addition, we invite you to join the CRM User Group on LINKEDIN. ANNOUNCING OUR SPRING MEETING WHEN: TIME: WHERE: COST: TOPIC: Thursday, April 16, 2015 8:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Comfort Suites, Johnson Creek, Wisconsin $20 per attendee includes beverages, continental breakfast and facility rental What’s New in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 We will review the latest enhancements introduced with Dynamics GP 2015, including the new employee self-service web apps, which complete the functionality found in Business Portal today. With the release of GP 2013 and 2015, new licensing changes were made, and we will break down how these changes affect those companies upgrading from version 2010. Stay with us as we wrap up with an open forum, where you can ask questions and share tips and tricks with other Dynamics GP users. Click here for more information and to register for this event (registration closes on April 6th). In addition, we invite you to join the CRM User Group on LINKEDIN. SPRING MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT WHEN: TIME: HOST: ADDRESS LUNCH: Thursday, May 21, 2015 8:30 a.m. check-in; 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. training/program Nancy Ludin / Oconomowoc Residential Programs (ORP) 1746 Executive Drive, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin Optional lunch to follow Program topics are currently being developed and may include purchase card processing, budgeting and SL upgrades. Members may contact Carol Fisher ([email protected] or 608729-6828) with training topics or to present. SAVE THE DATE: Our One-Day Annual meeting is planned for Wednesday, October 21, 2015. This full-day meeting will be held at WPPI Energy, 1425 Corporate Center Drive, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Hosted by member Kalban Singh. To join the Wisconsin-Based SL User Group and be added to their contact list, click here. In addition, join the SL User Group on LINKEDIN. Did You Know? ShredFest 2015 – April 25th and May 2nd One person’s trash is another person’s identity. Every 3 seconds someone is a victim of identity theft. One way to protect yourself is to shred documents that have your name on them if they are no longer needed. SVA has teamed up with the Better Business Bureau (BBB), Pellitteri Data Destruction Division and WISC-TV 3 to host a spring Shredding Event on Saturday, April 25, 2015, from 8:30-11:00 a.m. at our Madison corporate office. Additional events are being held at our offices in Appleton and Milwaukee on Saturday, May 2, 2015. More information on the ShredFest events can be found on our website. Reduce Your Risk and Loss to Fraud Don't become another story in the news. Fraud is a persistent threat to every organization and yet not enough pay the appropriate attention. iSuspectFraud puts mechanisms in place for reporting fraud anonymously in your organization. To learn more, please visit https://www.isuspectfraud.com/. “The Napkin Guys” SVA Consulting has launched a video program featuring two really smart IT guys: Tim Hanson, Principal and Bryan Bechtoldt, Chief Technology Officer and Principal. They have over four decades of combined expertise in information technology and are ready to cut through the noise of the business technology chatter (ERP, CRM, Cloud, SaaS, RMGRC, xRP, BI, etc.). And, believe it or not, they do it all on a napkin with bullet points on what you really need to know through a simple conversation. The role technology plays in a business can be a huge win for the organization, but it needs to be done right. These two experts have short, straight-forward conversations that any C-level executive or business owner would benefit from. Prepare to be entertained and educated with the antics of these two at The Napkin Guys. SVA’s Insights Technology Blog SVA Consulting’s INSIGHTS Technology Blog provides executives with the latest news and trends. Click here to learn more and subscribe via RSS. Technology Updates Stay up-to-date on the latest technology news. Click here to learn more and subscribe via RSS. Support End Dates Check here for updates on the Microsoft Dynamics support lifecycle policy and software retirement dates. If you have questions on any of the above, or need to schedule your Microsoft Dynamics upgrade, please contact Tanya Kratzer at 608-826-2092 or [email protected]. Microsoft Dynamics® Promotions Microsoft Dynamics GP Employee Self-Serve User Licenses If you have already upgraded to Dynamics GP 2013 or 2015 and you are using Dynamics GP for payroll processing, there has never been a better time to take advantage of the new web client-based Employee Self-Serve License. This low-cost license gives employees the ability to enter payroll time cards, look up paycheck stubs and W-2s, and more. What makes this even more exciting is the ability to procure these licenses for 50% less than the system list price. That means a Named User License can now be had for a mere purchase of $30! Please contact Tanya Kratzer at 608-826-2092 or [email protected] for specifics and hurry as this offer ends in June 2015! SVA Team Profile Ray Colonero, SVA’s Project Manager, just celebrated his 13-year anniversary in January. Hailing from Boston, Ray finds it ironic that his now adult children have all moved to the East Coast leaving Ray and his wife to be true emptynesters. To help fill the void at home, they recently became the proud parents of Rocky, a Siberian Husky. When he’s not busy playing with the puppy, Ray enjoys watching and coaching sports. Much to the chagrin of his co-workers, he is an avid Patriots and Red Sox fan. He does, however, join them in cheering for the Badgers!
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