Create Effective Reports that Look Great – without Bringing in the Design Team

May 2, 2011

No matter how great your numbers are, no matter how much time and effort you spend gathering data for your reports, one thing is true: You’ve got to present information in a way that is accessible to the person reading it. In many cases – particularly when it comes to impressing clients or company executives – this means ensuring that your reports are well-designed.

The challenge, of course, is that in order to create great-looking reports that inspire stakeholders and team members to make data driven decisions and take action, many companies turn to designers. Even if your organization has an on site design team, this is not always an effective use of resources.

If your company outsources design or your on site team is overtaxed, with the right tools you won’t have to wait for great looking reports.

SAP solutions allow smaller companies to create reports that have custom formats, include a range of design elements, and that make it possible to quickly create presentation-quality reports. Whether you have access to Microsoft’s Office Suite or Adobe’s design tools including Flash, you will be able to export data and create reports that engage your audience and lead to informed business decisions.

Whether your company’s reports will be printed for distribution, shared via email with clients or team members, presented on screen, or shared on the web, you can be sure to engage your audience. More importantly, with the right tools, you will be able to reduce design time and costs – and better utilize those resources – by effectively presenting that data on your own.

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Manage Finances and Customer Relationships with a Single Tool?

April 20, 2011

Making purchasing decisions, communicating between headquarters and branch offices, maintaining a customer mailing list, managing finances and billing, producing reports: software is often the key component of all of these processes. Most businesses focus on finding the right tool for each task.

However, what if it were possible to avoid duplicate data entry and training staff to use a variety of different applications?

If your business has outgrown your current software tools, rather than looking at a number of different products, why not look at an all-in-one solution that lets you do more? The SAP Business All-in-One solution allows you to configure your system your way. Manage procurement and inventory. Track financials and manage human resources applications. Ensure that product development processes run smoothly and keep track of research.

And don’t forget your customers – in addition to maintaining staff communications and having tools that allow you to manage the business side of things, you’ll also be able to benefit from a CRM functionality that allows you to connect with customers and prospects, to offer better quotes, product and pricing information, as well as managing delivery and billing information.

Looking for multiple solutions to address business issues is time consuming. There’s a better way – one that not only will help to manage systems and simplify the way you do business. Having an integrated, all-in-one solution allows you to focus less on solving problems and more on growing your business and reaching your goals.

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Can Your Current System Help You Accelerate Growth?

April 12, 2011

There are a number of requirements for growing a business. In addition to needing a great product or service, it is essential to be sure that you are on top of purchasing decisions, production and current product supply, and the satisfaction of your customers so that they continue to come back for more.

Many small businesses struggle with inefficiency. They make decisions slowly because they don’t have all of the information they need readily at hand. They have trouble evaluating their needs or answering questions that come from business partners. Having the right tools in place can help you avoid these challenges.

With SAP Business One, you can put a system in place that lets you keep all of your important business information in one place. Whether you need to verify the number of units produced on a particular line or to determine how many parts to order, know that the data is accessible. Rather than allowing small challenges to escalate, you can monitor processes, identify corrective courses, and prevent issues from developing. Similarly, you can easily manage leads, ensure that you are following up with your prospects, and engaging your current customers so that you can encourage them to come back time and time again – and spread the word to others about all that you have to offer.

To grow your business, it’s vital to get answers when you need them. Having tools at your disposal that let you perform a simple search and quickly act on that information. If your system slows you down, it won’t help you to reach your goals – particularly those goals related to the growth of your business.

For more information about SAP Business One business management software, please head over to our website.

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SAP Opens New Fast Lanes to Help Companies Run Better

April 4, 2011

To strike a balance between line-of-business demands for quick results and the IT department’s requirement for low-risk solutions, companies worldwide are turning to rapid-deployment solutions from SAP. SAP today announced the availability of further affordable and easily deployed offerings specifically designed to address the most pressing business needs of finance, human resources (HR), IT, marketing, manufacturing, sales, service, supply chain and sustainable operation. View article link below for more information.

SAP Opens New Fast Lanes to Help Companies Run Better.

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Now introducing Beacon Technology Resources!

March 31, 2011

We at VEITS Group have been in the IT industry implementing business systems for about a decade now. Throughout this time our customers have expressed interest in VEITS Group providing ongoing IT staffing support to help them maximize their IT investment. This concept of providing professional staffing services has been in the works for some time, and now we’re proud to announce our newest affiliate company, Beacon Technology Resources!

Beacon Technology works closely with our customers to better understand their business needs and targeted short-term and long-term strategy. Our professional staffing solutions are tailored to meet your business goals and are driven by your company’s strategy to derive maximum value. Beacon Technology Resources specialize in providing IT consulting services and solutions, as well as, professional staffing services.

Beacon Technology is located in Ohio, with branch locations in Indiana and Canada. For more information on how Beacon Technology can help your business find resources, head over to www.beacontechresources.com!

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Five Ways You Can Put Your Customers First

March 9, 2011

Competition is tougher than ever, due in large part to higher customer expectations. After two years of difficult economic conditions—which have left an enduring impression—every dollar you earn will require greater effort and responsiveness. Customers expect as much value as possible for every dollar they part with. Your ability to gain an edge in the market will depend on how well you can connect with your customers and maintain their loyalty.The stakes are high. For small and mid-sized businesses, long without sufficient CRM capabilities to compete against larger companies, there are resources you can use to succeed. With SAP, you can implement the CRM features you need to protect your customer base and attain profitable growth. This starts with putting your customer first, and here are five ways you can accomplish that:

  1. Identify opportunities: customer demand isn’t always obvious. Use your SAP CRM solution to identify cross-sell, up-sell, and upgrade opportunities.
  2. Manage your pipeline: don’t let leads fall through the cracks. Increase responsiveness through better tracking and information management, and you’ll ensure that you have the most productive conversations with existing and potential customers.
  3. Monitor service levels: look for trends and isolated incidents that could lead to bigger problems down the road and remedy them in advance. Take early action to keep your customers happy and protect your company’s brand.
  4. Keep it all in one place: use centrally stored information and functionality to ensure that data is always accessible. Monitor employee performance, spot check business units, and identify opportunities for improved service or additional sales.
  5. Get answers fast: use your SAP CRM solution to as a knowledge resource. Your customer care team can search for solutions to customer problems, remedying problems directly and quickly. A happy customer keeps coming back.

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Case Study: Skull Candy/SAP All-in-One

January 19, 2011

Learn how SAP Business All-in-One helped Skullcandy attain 300 percent growth in the past four years. Using this ERP solution, Skullcandy doesn’t have to develop a core competency in IT and can turn its attention to what it does best: design and produce the products its customers want most. With SAP Business All-in-One, you can focus on your customers and market – not your systems.

Click HERE for more information regarding the SAP All-in-One business system.

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Five Benefits of Faster Report Design

January 5, 2011

Some report requests come with far too little lead time. And, it’s these instances that tend to be the most urgent. To fulfill the request, you have to drop everything, pull the necessary data and format the report in a way that will highlight the right information and resonate with the target audience. Meanwhile, other tasks continue to accumulate. Figure out how to accelerate report design, and you’ll deliver a higher level of analytical services while also recapturing time to address your other responsibilities.

SAP Crystal Presentation Design can take the stress out of short-lead report requests. Use this solution to design complex reports quickly, and you’ll save time you can use for other tasks, while also increasing the visual quality of your reports. Here are five ways you can use SAP Crystal Presentation Design to accelerate results.

  1. Plan ahead: create presentation templates for reports you run frequently. You don’t have to start from scratch every time.
  2. Use automation: SAP Crystal presentation design includes a number of tools that are ready for use immediately, obviating the need for repeated manual efforts.
  3. Go interactive: use SAP Crystal Presentation Design to bring data to life … without having to engage a designer or programmer. Interactive tools will help presenters illustrate key points, making your reports far more effective in the decision-making process.
  4. Mitigate risk: reduce the manual involvement in presentation design, and mistakes become less likely. Increased accuracy naturally results in better reports.
  5. Cut costs: there’s an implicit cost associated with everything you do. Faster presentation design can alleviate workload, making it possible to defer hiring and make existing employees more productive.

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ERP Helps You Close the Books Faster

December 6, 2010

How much time does your company invest in closing the books for the quarter or year? Timing is always tight, it seems, and the work mounts quickly. Team members are diverted from other tasks to help with the close. As a result, risk can enter your organization. Manual efforts, especially when employees are rushed, leads to error, and error leads to future costs—not to mention the prospect of damaged relationships with financial stakeholders. Automate the close, and your company not only mitigates this risk, but it prevents the need to disrupt other operations and projects.

Automating the financial close saves time. Systems use repeatable processes and the data already resident in them to streamline this important accounting task. For small and mid-sized companies, however, automation hasn’t been accessible, because the traditional perception of ERP solutions is that the necessary investment is too high. With SAP ERP solutions, this is no longer the case: you can implement the capabilities you need to manage your company effectively and facilitate the financial close.

SAP ERP solutions are designed specifically to meet the needs of companies like yours, delivering on an appropriate scale the features that small and mid-sized businesses can use to compete more effectively. Automated finance and accounting features also reduce the risk of manual error, as hurried employees are no longer in a position to make costly mistakes.

The stakes are high at every close, and you don’t need unnecessary risk. Use SAP ERP solutions to streamline this operation, and manual errors become much less likely. With this ERP solution, you can protect your budget and your key financial relationships.

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Increase the Value of Every Customer

November 11, 2010

You’re leaving revenue on the table. Your existing customers are the best source of new business your company has, and without powerful CRM capabilities, you’re missing important business opportunities. In fact, these opportunities would cost much less than revenue from new customer acquisition. Implement a CRM solution, and you can gain the insights you need to deepen existing relationships and accelerate profitable growth. The CRM tools in SAP Business All-in-One can help mid-sized companies like yours learn more about your customers and take swift and effective action.

Your current customers know you, trust you, and have done business with you. Your brand means something to them. Engaging this group for continued sales, therefore, is much easier than trying to attract new customers, where you have to introduce your company and gain their trust. To make the most of this opportunity, you have to understand your existing customers as thoroughly as possible and gauge their specific needs.

The information in SAP Business All-in-One can equip your sales team to maximize every opportunity to sell to your customer base. You can review past purchases, check customer care experiences, and mine every interaction with your company to find the potential for additional revenue. Instead of using general approaches, you can target your company’s efforts, increasing the likelihood that your efforts will be productive.

SAP Business All-in-One puts information into the sales process, and this is what your company needs to lower its sales costs, increase margins, and generate more revenue. Further, it allows you to take advantage of potential your company already has and may not realize.

A CRM solution can help your company grow faster and more profitably. With SAP Business All-in-One, you can take back the revenue your company has been missing.

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