Golden Casket Variety Special Children's Christmas Party (Sept - 08)

This year Enabling QLD will be a VIP sponsor of the Golden Casket Variety Special Children's Christmas Party in Brisbane. The aim of the event is to provide in excess of 3,000 children with a day they will never forget.



The children come from four major groups: The terminally ill, the intellectually impaired, physically impaired and also the underprivileged who may be suffering from domestic violence or physical abuse. Children arrive from all over South East Queensland, from as far north as Caboolture, west to Gatton and south to Tweed Heads.

If you would like to contribute to this special cause visit the website here and you too can make a difference.

What's New in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009? (Sept - 08)

For more than 8 years, at least 10,000 organizations around the world have been relying on Microsoft Dynamics AX to help them drive their business forward and realize business success. And now, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 empowers organisations even more with one of the most innovative and exciting releases to date.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 empowers people with many new tools and features to help them manage their work and tasks effectively to find, use, and share information and thereby drive greater insight.

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Microsoft Gold Partner Recognition (June - 08)

Microsoft has recognised the continue growth and development of the Enabling Dynamics AX team by announcing that they have gained Microsoft Gold Partner Status.

This prestigious achievement was partly due to some of the recent Microsoft Dynamics projects (Mainland Poultry and Duffel Watts and King) that the Enabling (NZ) Microsoft Dynamics team have been working on.

What’s new in Sage Accpac 5.5 (June - 08)

The Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite lets you see your vital Sage Accpac data right from within the SageCRM application, giving you a complete picture of your customers and your sales and marketing data without having to switch applications.

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Robbie – Robbie - Robbie Oi! Oi! Oi! (June - 08)

Enabling NZ and Greentree recently sponsored a farewell dinner for Robbie Deans.

It was a very entertaining and reflective evening with past and present players in attendance to salute the Canterbury (Crusaders) legend. One of those legendary players Alex “Grizz” Wylie commented “this farewell dinner was akin to a funeral, as it is sad to see Robbie go, but at least we know he is going to a better place”.

Looks like Robbie will be joining another long list of Kiwis who Australians call there own – Phar Lap, Crowded House, Pavlova, Russel Crowe etc.

Early reports suggest that Robbie has made a huge impression on the Wallaby side, with reports suggesting that his approach to coaching the game has invigorated the older and younger members of the side.

Enabling NZ wishes Robbie all the best for the up coming Tri Nations matches against the South Africans. Photo Graham Hill (Greentree), Robbie Deans, Philip Morgan (Enabling).

In the News (April -08)

Purpose-driven admin system breaks through pain threshold. A recent article in the Australian that may be of interest.

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Enabling takes out top 3 awards at Sage Insights (November - 07)

Enabling scoops the top awards at the latest Sage Australia conference!
On a balmy October evening in the Blue Mountains, Sage Australia announced the winners of the 2007 Partner awards. These awards reflect excellence across the partner channel for all Sage products including Accpac, Timberline, Saleslogix and ACT!

We are delighted to announce that Enabling won three of the top awards being Sage ERP Partner of the Year, Sage CRM Partner of the Year and overall (across all products), Partner of the Year – ensuring we are recognized as a Master partner for the third year running.

These awards reflect dedication and commitment to our customers and to the products that we support. We would like to recognize all Enabling team members for their efforts in helping us to achieve such a fantastic outcome, and we are of course excited about the year to come!

Enabling wins Microsoft H2 Growth competition 2007 (November - 07)

Enabling took out the Microsoft H2 Growth competition for 2007. The success has been the result of some hard work by the Enabling Dynamics AX team, and is certainly a great result for the group. The prize is a week’s rental of a Holiday Home in New Zealand, so Simon Rhodes the Dynamics AX team leader has booked a place in Wanaka, where the Dynamics AX team will base themselves for a week during the 2008 ski season.

Dunedin office moves into The Wilson Distillery Building (November - 07)

Enabling NZ is growing rapidly, and with the latest increase in staffing numbers the decision was made to move out of the York Place offices that the team has shared with Dunedin chartered accountants Taylor Mclachlan since 2000.

The Enabling Dunedin team are now ensconced in the more spacious surroundings of the Wilson Distillery Building in Willowbank, which has been refurbished to cater for the modern requirements of the Enabling employees.

The modern exterior is a contrast to the historic stone exterior which hasn’t changed much from the early days as a brewery (circa 1862), and indeed threw up a technical problem in that it didn’t allow much cellphone coverage inside the building.

The Wilson’s Malt Extract Company and Dunedin Brewery Company variously operated here from 1910. Whisky distilling in New Zealand was discontinued until the 1980’s when Wilson’s in Dunedin again distilled & exported whisky.

Enabling Group Conference (November - 07)

Our entire Australasian team are in Dunedin for our first ever Enabling conference.

The Enabling conference will give our employees a unique opportunity to work alongside their colleagues from Australia and New Zealand, with a focus on customer service, solution experience and skills development. We feel that this is an important opportunity for self development which will lead to an even more experienced and knowledgeable support team for our customers.



But it is not all work; the Enabling team will be celebrating another great year by having an end of year ball at the spectacular Larnach’s Castle on the Otago Peninsula.

New Timberline Add-on Product (June - 07)

Sage Timberline Office - MyAssistant, as your business grows, it grows more complex - multiple projects with multiple tasks that need the involvement of multiple people. MyAssistant for Sage Timberline Office provides an easy way to be more proactive, improve communications and manage those things critical to growing your business.

Completely integrated with Sage Timberline Office, MyAssistant allows you to:

• Define business conditions you would like to monitor, when each should be checked, and the action to take when issues arise.
• Use Microsoft Outlook to notify you of issues needing attention.
  
• Automatically send notifications to the right people depending on the type of event or task.
• Have a central location to see unresolved issues for the different areas of your business.
• Define what will be checked in your Sage Timberline Office database, using any of the 200+ conditions provided with MyAssistant or by creating your own.

Launch of e-Marketing (May - 07)

Sage has launched its fully integrated e-Marketing solution into the Australian marketplace.
100% web based, the Sage e-Marketing solution manages all aspects of electronic marketing, including campaign management, click-through analysis, bounce back analysis, permission based contact, HTML based communications, surveys and newsletter delivery.

Built on the Microsoft .net framework, Sage e-Marketing integrates with the full range of Sage CRM solutions including Sage ACT!, Sage CRM and SalesLogix and is based on common standards including SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and XML.

Sage e-Marketing will be available in two editions in Australia, Sage e-Marketing suite Standard and Sage e-Marketing suite Enterprise. The Enterprise edition offers additional benefits of click-through analysis and analysis of specific topic areas in which a customer shows continued interest. This is particularly valuable in tailoring loyalty programs and cross-selling campaigns.

Sage Timberline Office Earns a 5-Star Rating from CPA Technology Advisor! (May - 07)

In a recent review of construction industry software, CPA Technology Advisor evaluated Timberline along with competitive products. The result was that the software received the highest review possible! The review process involved actual hands-on use of our products over a period of time by experts at CPA Technology Advisor. With five stars out of five Timberlines was judged to be a top-of-the-line product that will benefit any large-scale construction company.

To read the review click here

'Unleash your Business' with GT3 (April - 07)

Announcing the launch of GT3 – the latest version of the Greentree business- building solution. Given Greentree’s innovative constant improvement and continuous software release approach, as opposed to the typical industry annual release, you may be asking why create a fanfare around just 1 release, why GT3?

We are celebrating all of the wonderful functionality that has been added to the Greentree product over the last couple of years, some of the examples of this include the new Manufacturing suite (see article on the addition of Quality Control), Approval and Alerts, Web Services Connectivity and the new HR suite. A huge driver in this continuous improvement is our customers' needs and inputs combined with our own innovations. What better way to celebrate this GT3 achievement than with a great new product look plus many areas of improved visibility of information. Check out Graphs, Data Explorer and Business Intelligence and the many new capabilities in GT3.

And now “back to the future”. The release of GT3 is definitely not a static point and there will be no waiting for the industry typical “next year until the next release”. Greentree is pushing ahead with its continuous product improvements and other major initiatives and GT3 creates the platform for Business Process Management and Mobile Applications – both of which will be progressively rolled out during 2007.

The Launch of Enabling (Feb - 07)

Four of Australasias top SME financial and business software service providers have merged to capitalise on their collective experience and individual strengths, and make the most of greater market opportunities. Orchid Business Solutions, Online Business Solutions, and Accsoft, of Australia, with Enabling Technologies Limited in New Zealand found that they were providing very similar services to small to medium businesses, and agreed that a single business would deliver a better, more cost-effective deal for customers.

With 90 staff, the combined entity, Enabling Pty Ltd, now has the critical mass to work on bigger, more complex business without compromising their commitment to existing customers. The deeper pool of expertise means that a wider scope of work can be tackled effectively, with dynamic teams of the most appropriate people for specific projects being drawn together from around the business.

Enabling’s greater buying power means better value solutions for customers for the core products supported by Enabling: Sage Accpac, Timberline and CRM; Microsoft Dynamics AX and NAV; Greentree; and Applix TM1. Enabling also has the development capacity, through associated companies Orchid Software Development and Enabling IP, to create new applications, enhance systems, and fill in the gaps between existing applications.

Dr Rodd Carr named NZ Hi-Tech Company Leader of the Year (Feb - 07)

One of the participating International Judges was Vinton Cerf, who is widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet”. Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet evangelist for Google. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, internet-based products and services from Google. He commented that “The New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards serve to highlight the importance of developing supra-national products and services in the IT industry. In many countries, IT-based businesses need more than the domestic market to thrive and New Zealand is as good an example as any of that need".

Dr. Rodd Carr joined Jade Software Corporation in 2003 after a distinguished career in the banking sector, most recently as the Acting Governor of New Zealand's central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. During a five-year career at the Reserve Bank he played a key management role as a director and Deputy Governor, including five months as Acting Governor. Prior to this Dr. Carr was a senior executive at the National Australia Bank (NAB) in Melbourne, Australia. During his 11-year career in commercial banking, Dr. Carr worked in senior executive and management roles spanning many aspects of the business. He is also involved in several private companies as a consultant and director.

Greentree is nominated one of New Zealand's Top 25 ICT Vendors (Feb - 07)

Greentree is delighted to have been voted one of the 25 most strategically important New Zealand IT vendors by MIS New Zealand magazine. They share this honour with Navman, TelstraClear and Weta Digital among others. The ten judges hail from both the public and private sectors, and hold senior management & IT positions. They based their decisions on those vendors who have experienced exponential growth locally and internationally. These 25 New Zealand companies have been deemed to be very important to NZ IT user organisations that value the advantage of working with companies attuned to the needs of the local business community, and are flexible and innovative at the same time.

Enabling client’s seminars 2007 (Feb - 07)

Enabling will be having client sessions throughout 2007. For dates and time please click here...

Sage Software helps drive business for Ed Morse Automotive Group (Jan - 07)

Longtime South Florida Automotive Dealership Utilizes Award-Winning Enterprise Resource Planning System to Manage its more than 1,400 Accounts, Enjoying Significant Cost Savings and Return on Investment

Sage Software announced today another example of how it responds to the needs, challenges, and dreams of more than 2.7 million small and mid-sized business customers (SMBs) across North America with the successful deployment of Sage Accpac ERP (enterprise resource planning) at the Ed Morse Automotive Group of Fort Lauderdale, FL, a well-known automotive fixture in South Florida, with 20 dealerships and 23 franchises selling 14 different automotive brands to customers across South Florida and southern Alabama.

With the assistance of Sage Software business partner NextLevel Information Solutions of Miami, FL, this deployment exemplifies how Sage Software and its network of more than 4,800 business partners across North America mutually deliver on its “customers for life” strategy, providing the business management solutions companies like Ed Morse Automotive Group need as they grow and change over time.

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