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Welcome

Welcome to the first edition of Connexia Connections. We will use this newsletter as a means to provide you information about future product releases, tips and tricks about the software you already use, upcoming events and webinars and special pricing offers. Keep an eye out for online webinars this summer.

This edition we spotlight Financial Reporting Made Easier, using F9 for Dynamics GP, which can be used to perform financial reporting in Microsoft Excel, a tool we are all familiar with. MAS 90 clients, don't despair, there is an F9 version available for you as well. Call us today to find out more and to see a demo.

Last year, Connexia Consulting expanded its service offerings, adding Microsoft's Dynamics CRM to the list of tools we can assist you with. If you aren't using a CRM system yet, why not? In these tough economic times a CRM system can help you get more out of your established customers, target customer development efforts, keep your existing customers loyal and assist you in working smarter and not harder.

A big "Thank You" to everyone who participated in our Client Satisfaction survey! Congratulations to the $25 Chilis gift card winner Mike Lewitt of All Medical Personnel!!!

Your responses not only help Connexia improve our service offerings, but most importantly survey participation helps us improve our customer service and support.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Maintain your Competitive Edge in This Economy by Improving Client Relationships

In this difficult economy, customers will continue to do business with companies that treat them well. Top business analysts recommend that companies focus on customer relationship management (CRM) systems in order to maintain their competitive edge. Customer Relationship Management is how your company interacts with a customer from marketing and sales to customer service. Investments in CRM, particularly on the customer service and support side can reduce your overall costs and increase your client retention.

Microsoft created a CRM software solution which provides your business with a set of tools to link your sales, marketing and customer service team. For example if you choose, your customer service team can access phone calls and e-mails between the customer and sales team when solving customer services problems. Read More

Microsoft Dynamics GP

Dynamics GP Featured Tool

Connexia would like to introduce our clients to software products that add additional functionality to the main ERP and CRM packages we support. This month we are featuring a product that has been around for many years but most companies are still unaware of their product. Did you know you could create your financials in Excel…(easily and quickly)? Read More.

Intuit Quickbooks

Connexia is Now an Intuit Solution Provider

Since our inception we have always worked with QuickBooks in supporting our clients or helping clients convert to more robust systems once they outgrew the features of QuickBooks. Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks have finally released an Enterprise version of QuickBooks that allows it to more closely compete with other mid-tier products such as Dynamics GP and MAS 90/200. Because of this Connexia Consulting, LLC has been selected as an Intuit® Solution Provider. Connexia Consulting, LLC now offers a full range of value-added consulting services for Intuit QuickBooks® Enterprise Solutions (www.enterprisesuite.com) developed by Intuit Inc., a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. Read More

Sage Mas 90/200

Sage MAS 90 and 200 4.3 Delivers Customer Value

For those clients who are still on older versions of MAS 90 and 200, we think you will like what you see with version 4.3. It has been out for a year now and there many new enhancements, paperless office capabilities, business intelligence features, usability improvements, and other features included in v4.3.

If you have been waiting to move up – now's the time. Sage has already counted 1,468 new ways that clients can use v4.3! Read More

Networking

The Top 20 Ways SharePoint Can Solve Your Common Business Needs

Even though this product has been around since 2003 most small businesses have still not taken advantage of this product. Not to mention that the basic version that has numerous benefits is FREE!

It is our belief that the best way to answer the question, "what is SharePoint?" is to provide you examples of how it can help your business.

The Top 20 Ways That SharePoint Can Solve Your Common Business Needs:

1 Store all your emails on a secure and centralized Website for easy archive.

2 Keep a central task location for assigning tasks to team members. These tasks will automatically show up in your team's Outlook 2007 To-Do List. Those tasks will also link to your projects so you can easily find out what tasks are still open for each project.

3 Organize large events and store the related documents, assigned tasks, and generally post anything and everything related to the events. It will also integrate with Outlook for added efficiency.

4 Collaborate with team members on all documents and stay on top of who did what. Earlier versions can easily be restored in case someone has made too many mistakes. Projects can also be linked to related documents.

5 When tasks are assigned to team members they'll automatically be notified that they've just been assigned a new task. Alerts are sent when there have been updates to the tasks. Read More