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Greentree Customer Newsletter - January 2007 |
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Welcome
Greentree Customers!
Happy New Year to all! Another successful year has been wrapped up, and now that the Christmas decorations have been put away and mince pies have been digested, there are many new things to share with you.
So, welcome to the first 2007 edition of ‘Taking the Lead’. In this issue we bring
you news of exciting product development,
including Job Costing and extended CRM
functionality. We also have
an update on customer success stories
and news of this year’s Massey Prize.
Happy New Year to everyone in the
Greentree Community and beyond!! |
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If you have business news to announce,
or would like to relate to the Greentree
community with a story in the next newsletter,
please send your copy to: newsletters@greentree.com |
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 Wellington User Group -
Big Thanks to Jay
and Welcome Nicky
Around 30 Greentree users gathered at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club on October 5th with refreshments kindly hosted by Enabling Technologies.
Elizabeth Sandford and Philip Morgan from Enabling overviewed areas of new Greentree functionality including Approvals and Alerts, the new Qlikview Business Intelligence system, many other recent enhancements and an evaluation of the General Ledger and Cashbook modules.
A huge vote of thanks went to Jay Wester of Excel-Hepworth for convening the group for the last 4 years. Nicky Katsanos from the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand has “volunteered” to be the new organiser and she can be contacted at n.katsanos@alac.org.nz or phone +64 4 9170744.
Christchurch User Group Meeting
Recently another productive User Group meeting was well attended in Christchurch. Graham Hill updated the attendees on all the latest and greatest functionality from Greentree and what was being worked on in the immediate future.
Chris Miller then gave a thorough presentation on the Workflow and Approval & Alert modules which was very well received. Most companies could see how they could derive real benefit within their organisations from the implementation of these modules.
Jenny Morris who headed up the User Group session said the Organising Committee was still looking for additional volunteers. Jackie Stephenson a long time CBA / Greentree stalwart has put her name forward to get involved.  |
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 Customer Success Stories
An essential element of Greentree communication with the market is our Customer stories. It’s widely acknowledged that these references build image, recognition, awareness and assurance. These customer testimonials are used in a variety of environments to communicate vital influential messages, important to current and potential new customers.
Do email us if your company is 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 often outline ‘how the implementation went'? ‘what modules the customer bought and why'? ‘what difference Greentree has made to the business'? and 'what they hope to get from the solution in the future'? Greentree has an impressive raft of customer reference sites but obviously we are always keen to develop more. We know prospective customers use the testimonials of current Greentree customers (they tell us) and these no doubt serve to raise confidence during the decision making process. We would like to thank all the Greentree customers and partners that have gone through the process of helping us create these success stories. Here's some recent customer profiles: |
Ivoclar
Ivoclar Vivadent, a dentistry sales and marketing company are familiar with precision ‘tools of the trade’. But with18,000 stock codes to handle they needed a very high performing set of business
tools themselves. more
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Lutheran
Organisational needs often change. Software packages often can’t handle an organisation’s changing needs. But five years after Lutheran Education Queensland (LEQ) installed Greentree, accountant Julie Rogers is still a proponent of the accounting package. more
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  QlikView for Greentree
Businesses thrive on access to and the quality
of, their data. QlikView for Greentree will
gather and analyse data for the purpose of
helping enterprise users adapt and make
better business decisions. Effectively the organization is energised and empowered
by having a comprehensive knowledge of all
of the factors that affect the business.
 With QlikView for Greentree you will be
provided with an in depth knowledge
(KPI’s) about factors such as your customers,
competitors, suppliers, economic environment,
and internal operations. Business Intelligence
of this calibre drives performance and
provides a source for competitive advantage. Ask your Greentree provider for more information.
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 Job Costing gets even stronger!
We have enhanced Job Costing to enable project-based businesses and project managers to track actual and estimate activity.
These can be done by project and phases, and in more detail - while easily tracking revenue, expenses and profitability.
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 Manufacturing - Forecasting
Greentree’s Forecasting and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) software was initially designed to cater for manufacturing sites requiring a simple to use process, but one that can calculate the complex algorithms required to determine material requirements and drive manufacturing and purchasing decisions.
From the benefits gained by our manufacturing customers we quickly established that similar benefits could be gained by customers that do not manufacture but have large inventory purchasing requirements.
As a result we have removed the Manufacturing dependencies, to enable Inventory customers to take advantage of Forecasting and MRP capabilities, without having to purchase the Manufacturing (BOM) module.
Any of the three main Manufacturing modules of Manufacturing (BOM), MRP or Forecasting can now function as a single standalone module, or operate together in any combination, to provide detailed planning information based on sales orders and/or a forecast.
Note that the Planning Board module is still dependent on Manufacturing (BOM) as it is designed to display Factory Orders. |
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 Webstore on ie7
Recently Microsoft released the latest version of its web browser - Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). One of the main features of this release is the ability to have multiple tabs or browser sessions open concurrently on one screen.
Inline with Greentree’s desire to be compatible with the latest windows software, IE7 has been successfully used with Greentree’s WebStore module. |
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 VISTA
X –Box creators (do they still do ERP software?) Microsoft are gearing up for a series of high profile product launches early in 2007. The focus of these will be the latest windows operating system called ‘Vista’.
The Vista website can be found here.
Here’s a snippet from the Vista website: ‘Windows Vista introduces breakthrough computing experiences that are both visually exciting and intuitively designed, and will positively change the ways in which you use your PC.’ This translates to mean graphics; interaction and accessibility are to the fore.
It’s inevitable that a lot of PC users will be experiencing Vista in 2007. Realistically, vendors will need to attune their hardware and software offerings accordingly. This will take some a lot longer than others. Being ‘very very responsive’ Greentree has already undergone testing under a Vista platform. So far all looks good! This testing will continue; no problems are expected. |
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 Ensuring top Quality products reach your customers!
Shortly we will release our new module designed to allow manufacturing and distribution customers to automate their Quality Control processes for serial/lot tracked items.
Greentree’s Quality Control module provides you the ability to design tests, group these within test classifications and then assign these to serial/lot tracked Inventory items as well as non Inventory items.
When Inventory is received from the manufactory floor or receiving dock, the relevant test suite can be automatically generated and only on successful completion of those tests, plus optional secondary approval, are these items made available for sale.
Tests can also be designed and used to monitor and approve a range of environmental or process based measures that may not be specifically related to Inventory. For example, the temperature and humidity of a laboratory.
Greentree’s Quality Control module has been designed to support use of our Approvals and Alerts module to deliver automatic notification of test requirements as well as multi level approvals. |
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 Approvals and Alerts -
Powerful Control
Recently a prospective customer
asked how Greentree could meet
a business requirement that was
specific and important to them.
The Business Need
The customer wanted to cover the following situations:
- Any Purchase Order valued between $2000 and $5000 must be approved by the Purchasing Manager.
- Any Purchases Orders greater than $5000 must be approved by the CFO.
- Once each Purchase Order is approved, they then required that the Purchase Order status changed from “Request for Quote” to “Entered” and the person who raised the Purchase Order was notified so they could then print or fax the Purchase order.
The Solution
Greentree’s Workflow Approvals and Alerts provides the ability to establish user defined rules that are automatically monitored and actioned. This customer's requirement requires a simple approval rules to manage the process as follows. This is easily setup as a form driven rule.
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 Recent General Enhancements
The development team has been hard at work continuing to make Greentree a better product for our customers.
To do this effectively they strive to achieve the appropriate balance between resolving customer issues and delivering new features requested by customers.
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 Massey Award 2006
Greentree is continuing its partnering commitment with Massey University Auckland. One of these partnership projects involves working closely with students and teachers on Jade development programmes. Greentree has sponsored the postgraduate course in Object-Oriented Software Development, awarding a $500 prize to the team who achieved excellence in completing the project in Jade.
 Following a series of outstanding project presentations from various student groups, the winning team members (pictured) were Ana Dzartevska, Richard Brown and Anthony Gerdelan. The winning group presentation benefited from a very well structured approach to planning and delivering the software project.
Steve Sims, Greentree Development Director (also pictured) performed judging duties and presented the $500 prize. Dr Ellen Rose, Massey University course tutor said she was “delighted by the overall quality of the student presentations”. Dr Rose said the Greentree Prize for the Best Jade Project has become “a key feature” in the Massey calendar. |
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 Dr Rod Carr named NZ Hi-Tech Company Leader of the Year.
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. Rod 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.
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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 2007.
Happy New Year!
The Greentree Communications Team
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