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Exciting New Customer Stories
An essential element of Greentree communication with the market is our customer success stories. It’s widely acknowledged that these references build image, recognition, awareness, assurance and more!
Do contact us if you would be willing to commit to a success story; they're a great way of increasing your marketing exposure through our newsletters, press releases and general marketing material. The stories might outline how the implementation went, what modules you bought and why, what difference Greentree has made to your business and what you hope to get from the solution in the future. |
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New Customer Success Stories:
Shipping & Transport business streamlines multi-mode transport solutions with help from Greentree
The competitive pressures and demands of 21st century business practices had created a mismatch with this shipping company’s 20th century technology. Looking to avoid any potential disasters, management made the proactive decision to implement Greentree with little, if any, disruption to business continuity. Read more>>
 Greentree's super-integration clinches buy decision ahead of SAP, Navision & Pronto
Estimating, calculating and quoting labour costs are core business activities for Armflame, a gas and pipe installation company in Queensland, Australia. With over 30 field staff covered by multiple pay and award agreement, the calculation of labour is complicated. It is not then surprising that John Todd, Armflame's CEO, required any new software system to automatically calculate and charge back payroll costs to the job without having to re-key data. What was surprising for John was that only a handful of software vendors had actually figured this out. Read more>>
 Quiet achiever Greentree chosen to replace Tier One system
You’re probably thinking that to get all the functionality your business requires you need a dependable and proven system like SAP or Oracle right? OK, you might want to re-think that after reading about SellAgence and its Greentree experience. Read more>> |
| PRODUCT NEWS |
Business Process Management
A business with an agile Business Process Management structure is pre-disposed to scale and adapt to prevailing business change. Adopting a Business Process Management model will enable an organisation to monitor the execution of their business processes, analyse and change them in response to data and manage them just like other assets. Once this BPM structure is in place there is then capability to improve and make business processes more effective over periods of time. Read more>>
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Greentree's Going Mobile
Businesses now can wring maximum value out of their software investments with mobile solutions. Sales and field service workers for example, can now be more responsive to customers, save time and have information at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere, with or without internet conectivity. With this in mind, Greentree’s Mobile project objective is to provide a single platform to deliver both stand alone and connected solutions. Read more>>
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Currency Translation Consolidation
 Greentree is constructing a new Currency Translation functionality to enhance their Global Finance suite. Currency translations may be used independently or in conjunction with the Consolidations module. Translation is the process whereby the General Ledger of a company is reported in another currency at a user specified exchange rate. The Reporting Currency Rates are being enhanced to provide for additional user defined rates to be used by the Translations process.
The translation process may be run at any time in a period and may be run multiple times at different rates. A single company may be translated into multiple currencies always based on the ledger value. The translated values may be extracted in a consolidation run by flagging a company combination to use these values when consolidating.
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 Inventory Labeling
Proper labeling plays a big part in inventory management. An organisation that maintains individual stock items can benefit from correct labeling. The ability to clearly read scanned items makes it much simpler to detect mistakes as well as to prevent any errors from happening in the first place, thus reducing the possibility of a breakdown in the system.
Greentree's new inventory label printing function enables users to print item labels automatically from any programme enabling receipts. Such programmes include Purchase Order Receipt/Shipment Entry, Accounts Payable Invoice Entry, Factory Orders Receipt Entry, Inventory Transaction Entry and Kitset Make-to-Stock programmes.
Labels can be printed in duplicate based on a received quantity. It could also be printed singularly where an item is packaged in such a way that only one label is required, e.g. a pallet label. Standard receiving labels cater for the output of item & receipt transaction detail, barcodes, location, and serial/lot data. Retail labeling is also supported via this feature, with the inclusion of a standard retail label that outputs an item price. Labels may also be customised to meet the specific requirements of the organisation.
Business as Usual
While there are lots of discussions around major projects such as Business Process Management and Mobile Applications, the wheels continue to turn on the business as usual work of keeping existing customers happy.
Since our last newsletter we have issued over 100 enhancements including incremental enhancement releases to the existing product suites. Read more>>
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| PARTNER NEWS |
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Softworld Trade Show in UK
This year's Softworld trade show saw our green dog making a big appearance. The very, very popular Greentree mascot drew many curious visitors to the Prerogative booth.
Prerogative's director Ian Garvey says, "Softworld is a great way to generate high quality leads. Everyone at Prerogative knows what needs to be done and it is a cost effective and time efficient way to meet new prospects. The green dog was a big hit".
 Winner - The 2007 Synateq / CPA Australia Young Accountant of the Year
CPA Australia's Tasmania Division, in conjunction with Greentree Business Partner Synateq Pty Ltd, established the Synateq / CPA Australia Young Accountant Awards to foster recognition and showcase the contributions and achievements of young people within the Tasmanian accounting and finance professions. The night's big winner was Shaun Bleathman, who took away the prize of $5000 and a laptop computer donated by Synateq. Shaun's organisation Newman and Associates received the employer's prize, a $10,000 gift voucher towards the purchase of Greentree Business Software (donated by Greentree International and Synateq) and a $5000 QlikView Business Intelligence Software license (donated by QlikView and Synateq).Read more>>
Men in skirts - The Enabling Experience
Dunedin had their eyes full when over a hundred workers from Enabling attended a conference session in downtown. Men of many ethnic background wore kilts to show unity and appreciation of each other's culture. The Enabling team also managed to get out and see some of the stunning New Zealand countryside, visiting a number of locations and enjoying various outdoor activities including kayaking, surfing, golf, paintball and a tour of the Cadbury factory and the Speights Brewery.
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Green Dog Diary
Our Green Dog has embarked on new adventures. From flying high on the Hornet to bringing Christmas joy to customers and babysitting Greentree's new arrival, baby Ashton, there is no time to rest for our little jetsetter!
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A busy year in Greentree marketing
As 2007 draws to a close the timing seems right to quickly reflect on two high profile initiatives implemented during the year.
GT Engineering 
Back in March, we all ‘Unleashed our businesses' with the help of the infamous green dog. GT3 was not just the name awarded to the flashy new look and feel for the Greentree interface, it was also a celebration point for all of the wonderful functionality that had been recently added to Greentree. This included QC module, QlikView for Greentree, Business Analyst and Data Import Manager.
The release of GT3 came with a guarantee that it was definitely not a static point and there would be no waiting for the industry typical “next year / until the next release” scenario. Greentree is pushing ahead with its continuous product improvements and other major initiatives throughout 2008. GT3 created the platform for Business Process Management and Mobile Applications – both of which will be fully realised during the year.
 e-nhanced
The halfway point of 2007 saw a revised Greentree website released. The ‘fully loaded’ version got a new look and feel and includes all the new collaterals, industry categorisation and focus for customer success story pages, new banners and many other enhancements too numerous to mention. Two new key areas worth highlighting would be the Greentree Difference and Greentree Solution Gateway pages.
Greentree’s website is arguably more engaging and interactive with intuitive navigation. We aim to keep the site up-to-date with relevant and topical news, collateral and information. Do contact us on newsletters@greentree.com if you have some news you think might be suitable for our website.
We hope you agree the ‘look and feel’ and enhanced content of both Greentree and the Greentree website have added considerably to both their appeal and usability.
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JADE NEWS |
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Jade makes another purchase
 Jade Software Corporation has made its second acquisition this year, buying an Australian human resources (HR) and payroll services firm. Adelaide-based Empower Masterpay Pty has more than 160 customers across Australia, including Just Jeans, the Tasmanian Government, Australian Securities Exchange and Reuters. It also manages the payroll for more than 400,000 Australians. Read more>>
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That's all for this issue of 'taking the lead', hope you all enjoyed the reading, we'll be back with more exciting Greentree developments and stories later in 2008.
The Greentree Communications Team
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