Community Trusts Combining Together (Feb - 2010)

Eleven of the Community Trusts in New Zealand have combined together with a common goal of delivering better services to their respective communities throughout the country. The Trusts, which formed after the passing of the 1988 Trustee Banks Restructuring Act, are all similar in that funds received from the proceeds of the sale of shares in their then respective Trustee Savings Banks are invested in various asset classes and the income from these investment make up donations or grants that go out to support the communities (Not for Profit) they work with.

(Media Releasel)

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CEO Peter Dickinson discusses Greentree BPM & Mobile (Oct - 09)

Auckland-based Greentree is continuing to extend its business software suite offering new business process management and mobility solutions to customers as well as a software as a service option.

The BPM module comes as an extension to the workflow desktops Greentree has already launched, says Peter Dickinson, the company's executive director. He says the BPM offering is now in the market after going through a beta .cycle, partners have been trained and a roadshow is planned to promote the new product.

(Computerworld New Zealand Article by Rob O'Neill)

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CRT Co-operative Trading Up (April - 09)

CRT is the largest co-operative buying group of its kind in New Zealand, with more than 23,000 shareholders, and 30 CRT FarmCentre stores throughout the South Island stocking a full range of farm supplies. As well as retail, divisions include seed, feed, fuel, real estate and horticulture and the co-operative has an extensive supplier network of more than 2,300 companies that accepts the CRT Card.

With a turnover now in excess of half a billion dollars, CRT has recorded more than 60% growth by turnover in the last four years. With ever growing demands on the co-operative’s systems across all divisions, the existing IT platform and suite of applications was identified by the management team and the board of directors as a constraint to business growth.
“Our existing systems are unable to provide us with a consistent view of the truth in a timely manner, especially with the disparate nature of our business” said CRT Chief Information Officer Roger Rennie. “We need a platform that allows for easy growth and will meet our needs from a business processing perspective”.

Following the co-operative’s decision to trade up, a Microsoft Dynamics AX based integrated solution put forward by Enabling won a competitive tender against JDE, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics Nav.

“The selection process was very competitive with very little separating the organisations, however once we got to the presentation stage Enabling really stood out. They showed a good knowledge of CRT’s business requirements and clearly understood our culture.”

The CRT team identified one of the key advantages of Microsoft was that it was more people-centric than the other solutions they had seen. "Microsoft’s potential integration with other tools like Microsoft Office was seen as an advantage," says Rennie. "Microsoft also has a good vision with AX which we all like."

Enabling CEO, Gary Taiaroa, is excited about the prospect of working with the well known farming co-operative: “We are thrilled about the win and working with a quality organisation like CRT, they are a progressive co-operative who really understand the value that IT can bring to their shareholders. We are looking forward to building a successful and mutually rewarding relationship together.”

Enabling Customer Survey (Dec - 08)

Thank you to everyone who participated in the second Enabling Customer survey. Enabling puts great value on the results we receive. The purpose of the survey was to find out how well we are doing at our job and ascertain if our service is good enough for you to recommend us to your friends or business colleagues. Recommending is a key indicator of how you rate us.

This year we were very pleased with the results. It demonstrated to us we had made an improvement since last year’s survey and that overall, customers were happy with the quality and level of service they are receiving. The feedback helped identify where we are succeeding but most importantly, where we need improvement, which is worth its weight in gold to us.

Thank you again to all those participants in our survey. We encourage you to provide us with feedback on a regular basis - either through your Account Manager, the Help Desk or any member of the Enabling team. We would also like to congratulate the winners of the Survey Competition, who each received a new I-Pod Nano. The winners were: Stephanie Dean (NZ), Debbie Berens (QLD), David Higgins (NSW), Brian Cain (VIC).

Enabling Pty Ltd picks-up top gong at Sage Insights ‘08 partner awards (Nov - 08)

Sage Business Solutions has announced the winners of its 2008 business partner of the year awards. The awards pay tribute to the work and success of the best of Sage’s 120 business partners across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Winners were announced at Sage’s annual ‘Insights’ partner conference held last month at the Novotel Twin Waters Resort, Sunshine Coast.

More than 200 people attended this year’s conference, including business partners from the Sage Accpac ERP, Sage CRM, Sage Timberline Office, Sage SalesLogix and ACT! by Sage product lines. This year saw significant growth in numbers with sponsors growing by 100% from 2007 to 2008, whilst conference registrations grew by 50% from the 2007 conference.

Awards presented recognised the highest growth, revenue and performance by product in 2008 as well as highest maintenance renewals and top third party product sales. Sage Business Solutions partner Enabling was the highest achiever on the night, claiming awards in four categories: ‘Sage Business Solutions Partner of the Year 2008’, ‘Third Party Partner of the Year,’ ‘Top Performing Maintenance Renewals for Sage Timberline Office’ and ‘Top Performing Partner for Sage ERP’.

The company was also named co-winner in the ‘Master Business Partner’ category, along with partners Act Today and MicroChannel Services. With a one hundred per cent channel sales strategy, Mike Lorge, Managing Director of Sage Business Solutions, said the work of Sage’s development partners is crucial for innovation and to build on the core functionality of Sage's solutions. “We would like to congratulate all the winners on the success they have achieved. 2008 has been an exciting year for Sage Business Solutions in the region with the introduction of a range of new and upgraded products across our CRM and ERP suites,” Lorge said.

Inspired by the philosophy of Blue Ocean Strategy, Sage’s key themes for this year’s Insights revolved around the notion of creating new market spaces and opportunities in the ANZ market.

Enabling Executive & Customer Briefings (Nov - 08)

For the second time this year in October and November Enabling hosted our Executive & Customer Briefings throughout Australia and New Zealand. These briefings were presented with the goal of providing customers with an educational and informative event that allowed them to interact with Enabling staff face to face. Attendee satisfaction for the briefings was highly rated, with feedback questionnaires showing that 8 out of 10 customers indicated they would recommend their colleagues attend the next event.

Executive Briefing
The focus for the executive briefing was Productivity in the Workplace, with a practical guide to leading a business through the process of productivity improvement. The guide was presented in the form of one of Enabling’s growing series of white papers. The response from attendees was very positive and their submitted suggestions will be used to help create the next Enabling publication.

Customer Briefing
The Customer Briefings were a product focused session, to help customers learn more about the software solution they use on a day to day basis. Our Enabling team of consultants showcased the latest features to improve your productivity in the workplace – including Tips & Tricks, new business tools to enable better business for your organisation and upcoming vendor news. Feedback from this event was noted and will be used to improve future Enabling customer events.

Enabling's melbourne office moving (Oct - 08)

After spending close to 5 years at Ferntree Gully Road, the Melbourne Enabling team decided it was time for a change of scenery and have moved office. This decision was helped by the fact that with every new employee added to the roster, the closer they came to either stacking consultants on top of each other or finding a bigger office.

In the last week of October everything was packed and moved 3 km down the road to the nice and newly built Compark Circuit building. While the office still has that "New Building" smell, Enabling warmly invite any customers who are in the neighbourhood to pop in and say hello...

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.

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'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 customer seminars 2007 (Feb - 07)

Enabling will be having customer 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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