Last August we had the pleasure of attending ASUG’s first ever Business One Summit. From VistaVu, Jory Lamb - President of VistaVu Solutions, Roy Garcia - Director of Business Development, and Lesley Dubin - Director of Customer Accounts attended.
The America’s SAP Users Group (ASUG) SAP Summit was the first dedicated to Business One. Held August 4-6, it was very informative with a solid agenda but even more valuable were the networking opportunities. A positive theme throughout was SAP’s dedication to Business One (B1) and B1’s strong positioning to SAP’s revenue and bottom line - a sure sign of continued growth in research and development for you - our B1 clients.
SAP client, Nike, and their lovely World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, couldn’t have been nicer or more conducive for the first ever gathering of SAP representatives, resellers, customers, and partners. The VistaVu team who attended helped prove to SAP the importance of B1 through our collective voices from the larger than expected participation at the conference.
Of the 254 registrants, 50 percent were customers. Per Carl Lewis, ASUG conference coordinator, VistaVu had an impressive five customers in attendance representing 4 companies - Tammy Keeran of Black Hills Bentonite, Rachel Sim of Canadian Advanced, Kevin Semenjuk of Edmonton Exchanger, and Jason Appleyard and Steve Fillinger of TOMCO Group of Companies.
VistaVu joined 58 fellow partner organizations, including resellers, and Software Solution Providers (SSPs), including partners from Europe and South America.
SAP had 13 representatives attend including executives from SAP headquarters in Germany, and ASUG sent 3 executive officers, demonstrating in full force that they care about the B1 community as much as we do. This executive and global participation led to an overall tone that B1 is extremely important and all levels of the SAP channel community care about what you, our valued clients, have to say.
The highlights of the event were the invitation-only VistaVu client dinner with Mary Coppard, National Channel Sales Manager, SAP Canada Inc. and client lunch with Lea Dvir, Channel Enablement & Solution Expert, SAP Business One, Small Business Go-To-Market Global, SAP Americas.
At both, we explained our client’s specific solution and support needs now and their projections for the future. We shared our refined and improved VistaVu Project Methodology with condensed milestones and more automated software installation steps (such as wizards). We were proud to share that our oil, gas, and energy services add-on, FieldVu, has over 3500 man hours invested per year since 2007 and over 4000 man hours invested in 2010 alone.
The VP of Global Sales for SAP announced to the B1 Summit that VistaVu Solutions closed the largest deal in North America during Q2 2010 with Wellhead Distributors Inc. Congratulations to Dave Koop, Jonathan Schofield and other Vistavu team members along with a huge thank you to Kevin Semenjuk of Edmonton Exchanger who acted as an integral reference for us.
8.8 has many improvements such as- increased online help functionality- Crystal Reports has been integrated into SAP with drill down and navigation trees- the introduction of performance improvement and data archiving- feature enhancements including negative totals on A/R invoices, improvements in managing basic units of measurement- upgrade wizard now makes it easier to upgrade your SAP version (with an automatic pre upgrade checklist)- accounting aging report improvements, gross profit on service documents- available to promise inventory status- pick and pack will allow the selection of serial numbers regardless of warehouse- the introduction of a new user experience ‘cockpit’ with a global search utility, ability to link to open docs, a web browser that enables widgets and message/alerts- dashboards for sales, service, and finance- the data transfer wizard improvements- credit card encryption- availability of 30 crystal reports- a conversion tool from PLD to Crystal reports- outlook email integration (drag and drop onto activity)- Windows 7.0 compatibility-introduction of middleware (integration framework) B1i for development on the web for security and performance.
The overall response from VistaVu attendees was that the conference was worth the time and investment and they would attend again. Thank you’s go out again to Black Hills Bentonite, Canadian Advanced, Edmonton Exchanger, and TOMCO Group of Companies for joining us, to Carl Lewis of Vision33 for coordinating a fabulous conference with Nike and ASUG, and our SAP representatives who dedicated time to VistaVu and our clients.
VistaVu Solutions invites its customers to take advantage of all the opportunities that are available to them as a valued partner. Our goal at VistaVu is to deliver extraordinary value to our clients by helping them achieve exceptional results. If you would be interested in learning more about how we can help you maximize your investments, empower your users, obtain valuable information, and deliver a stellar experience to your customers, please contact us at 1.888.785.7800 or vistavu@vistavusolutions.com.
July 13, 2010
