Creating a single view of your world Creating a single view of your world Greg Cole / den 22 november 2013 I find myself managing multiple calendars on a daily basis. Not only my business meetings stored in our corporate Exchange server, but also my online calendars in Hotmail (Outlook.com) that I use for reminders of friend’s birthdays, and a shared family calendar stored in Gmail, to help manage those events too. Like many of you who have switched to using online calendars to stay organized, I like to have access to all of these appointments in a single view in my preferred calendar ... Read more
Mañana Mañana no more… Mañana Mañana no more… Blog author (PC) / den 15 november 2013 Last week I was on the tube travelling home from an account management meeting with one of our Zetadocs for NAV resellers and I saw a disheveled City AM newspaper on the seat next to me. Casually flicking through, I was drawn to an article discussing the establishment of holiday and spa resorts designed to be smartphone and email free ‘detox centers’. This got me thinking about how the modern day workforce goes about their day to day business. For a while now it has been the norm for ... Read more
Thoughts from an Excel lover Thoughts from an Excel lover Blog author (CD) / den 8 november 2013 First a confession: I am Colin the ever- helpful FD and I love spreadsheets. I spend a disproportionate amount of time using Excel to dig into data searching for valuable nuggets of information, spotting trends and creating pretty graphs for various reports and/or publishing to our SharePoint intranet. But the problem for those responsible for building and managing spreadsheets for time recording is that the main users, such as consultants, input data too infrequently to invest time ... Read more
The Convergence of people and information The Convergence of people and information Blog author (PC) / den 1 november 2013 It was at my first Microsoft Convergence EMEA conference in Munich back in 2006, when I first heard the term “Extended ERP”. The principle seemed simple enough to understand: typically, 15% of employees of a mid-market organization have access to the ERP system and therefore the information and data stored within it. Microsoft’s vision for extended ERP was to empower the other 85% of the company by enabling them to access the relevant information. And the vehicle for doing this was ... Read more