DAC Chat Issue #17 May 2014

FOREWORD

Chris Willemse

IN THIS ISSUE

• Partner Update

• Nintex price increase

• Finalists announced

• Upcoming events

• Anchor the deal!

• Nintex Workflow for major

finance house

• Quick Q & A

• Microsoft Dynamics R3

• Announcements

• Dac Systems welcomes

Samancor

t We all know that sinking feeling when you follow up on an outstanding deadline (that’s now overdue and urgent) and the person says, “I didn’t receive the e-mail”.

While e-mails are probably less likely to disappear into the ether than they are to be “lost” in a bulging mail box, the all-important question remains: does sending an ve-mail constitute effective communication? According to Tony McManus, MD of McManus Consulting, the answer is simple.

“No, it doesn’t – hitting send does not provide any assurance that the message was received, understood or acted upon.”

No doubt, e-mail remains the go-to form of communication in the business world and, according to recent research by The Radicati Group there are some 929-million business mailboxes in the world.

The Radicati report says that, in 2013, the majority of e-mail traffic came from business e-mail, which accounted for over 100-billion e-mails sent and received per day. It also predicts that e-mail will remain “the predominant form of communication in the business space”, with over 132-billion business e-mails sent and received per day by the end of 2017. That’s a lot of messages.

Read more: http://it-online.co.za/2014/05/21/ensuring-effective-e-mail-communication/

We all know that sinking feeling when you follow up on an outstanding deadline

(that’s now overdue and urgent) and the person says, “I didn’t receive the e-mail”.

While e-mails are probably less likely to disappear into the ether than they are to be “lost” in a bulging mail box, the all-important question remains: does sending an ve-mail constitute effective communication? According to

Tony McManus, MD of McManus Consulting, the answer is simple.

“No, it doesn’t – hitting send does not provide any assurance that the message was received, understood or acted upon.”

No doubt, e-mail remains the go-to form of communication in the business world and, according to recent research by The Radicati Group there are some 929-million business mailboxes in the world.

The Radicati report says that, in 2013, the majority of e-mail traffic came from business e-mail, which accounted for over 100-billion e-mails sent and received per day. It also predicts that e-mail will remain “the predominant form of communication in the business space”, with over 132-billion business e-mails sent and received per day by the end of 2017. That’s a lot of messages.

Ensuring effective e-mail communication

By Tony McManus

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Dac is a focused solutions supplier to industries that continue to depend on robust

infrastructure to enhance opera-

tions. There is an increase uptake of technology across industry verticals such as retail and manu-facture.

The integration of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 into our ‘Projects Every Ware’ business driver range of product is signifi-cant. This strengthens the appeal of the offering and adds enormous value through features such as advanced picking strategies that support optimised pick route and handheld devices, as well as ‘put

away’ functionality.

Features like new transportation management functionality help to cement our differential quality in this market.

We are very proud of the fact that, along with McMethod.net solution, we have been selected as a Nintex Solution Finalist for Europe, Mid-dle East and Africa (EMEA). We are very proud of the team. The winners will be announced in July – watch this space!

DAC Chat Issue #17 May 2014

The latest release of Nintex Workflow for Office 365 adds new capabilities like State Machines, RunIf, and Action labels. You can now design workflows using State Ma-chine and RunIf actions to build agile, dynamic, and powerful processes with ad-vanced logic. With the new action labeling capability, users can easily label each ac-tion in their workflow design to describe the process in easy to understand terms.

Watch the video linked here for more details:

New Releases for Nintex Workflow for Office 365

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTZXlNB01SE&feature=youtu.be

State Machines

Using state machines users can model workflow processes to jump between different levels of business logic in a way that’s easy to understand and main-tain. For example, if you have several levels of synchronous approvals (in processes like employee onboarding, docu-ment approval, advertisement creation process, sales order generation, etc.) and a certain level declines the request, then state machine allows you to go back to the previous level of ap-proval.

The RunIf action allows you encap-sulate workflow actions to run only if a certain condition is met.

Adding meaningful labels to your workflow actions helps users understand the process and its current status better. It provides context to business process owner for reviews and documentation, especially if they are not familiar with the action’s icon.

RunIf Action

Label Your Workflows

Partner update

DAC Chat Issue #17 May 2014

NintexIntrduces New

Pricing &Licensing Plans

Introducing Nintex Workflow Complete Edition

To ensure that we deliver the product quality and level of support you deserve, we’re ini-

tiating the annual adjustment of our pricing and licensing plans.

For on premise customers look-ing to leverage the cloudThe on premise offering of Nin-

tex Workflow Complete Edition pro-vides one perpetual license of both Nintex Workflow Enterprise Edition and Nintex Forms, along with an annual subscription that includes 2,500 seats of Nintex for Office 365 Enterprise Edition, Software Assur-ance, and Premium Support.

For cloud customers looking to leverage Nintex on premiseThe cloud offering of Nintex Work-flow Complete Edition provides 2,500 seats of Nintex for Office 365 Enterprise Edition, along with Premium Support and rights to one server license of both Nintex Workflow Enterprise Edition and Nintex Forms for the duration of the subscription.

Nintex price increase

Nintex Solution Innovation Finalists announced!

Dac systems, with the Mc-Method.net solution was selected as a finalist for

Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region. We are truly excited and proud of the team. Winners to be announced in July!

DAC hard at work

Upcoming EventsPlease join us on 25 June 2014 and see @dacsystems make

#process work.

For more information or to book your place, please email

DAC Chat Issue #17 May 2014

The 3 characteristics of the well positioned sale – anchor the deal!

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Here’s one from a recent ses-sion with a young professional who’s just starting out in sales.

It’s a variant of the classical teach-ing about open and closed ques-tions.

“The book” teaches us that open questions are those that could have many different answers and that it’s used to set the scene and context of the sale. Closed questions is differ-

ent because they’re designed to lim-ited the set of possible answers, for example yes / now or red / amber / green.

I’ve always felt that by itself these ideas are not that helpful – sure if I knew where to go with the sales discussion, I’d know if an open or a closed question would work better at any particular point.

Louis Laurie

ColleenH@dac.co.za

Chirs Willemse

DAC Chat Issue #17 May 2014

Dac Systems, a Proudly South African national provider of turnkey solutions based on Microsoft products,

has successfully integrated Nintex Workflow in order to address critical technical requirements at an established market leading financial and investment house.

The Company is a leading provider of Nintex Workflow®, Nintex Forms® and Nintex Workflow for Project Server®.

Nintex is the largest Independent Software Vendor (ISV) in the Microsoft SharePoint product space and recognised leader in workflow automation solutions using SharePoint as its core foundation.Dac Systems is a valued added reseller and solution provider for Nintex solutions, and the preferred training provider for these products.The financial and investment firm has capitalised on the partnership and integrated Nintex Workflow to leverage off the technology’s offer

of immediate, automated workflow operation and the ability to scale quickly.

“As with all Nintex solutions, this offering is mobile, social and cloud-enabled,” says Aldo van Tonder, Solutions Executive at Dac Systems. “Nintex is all about facilitating workflow for everyone through the convergence of key features, functionality and services that address operational requirements in business.”

Dac Systems unveils the power of Nintex Workflow for major finance house

Quick Q & A of Chris Willemse, CEO at Dac Systems

What are the latest trends you are witnessing in your

line of business?

Cloud and mobile computing is happening, not just being talked about or planned. What do you enjoy most about your job? The diversity of it – I am involved in almost every aspect of the business. What is your favourite personal gadget? My GPS running watch – can play with it for hours

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Dac Systems cements business offering with Microsoft Dynamics R3

DAC Chat Issue #17 May 2014

Dac Systems, a national provider of turnkey solutions based on Microsoft products,

has announced the integration of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 into its expansive ‘projects every ware’ business driver product portfolio. The Company has established itself as a mainstay supplier of game-changing solutions designed to offer businesses the edge in project management and agility in overall operations. Their solutions portfolio combines the advantages of Microsoft Project

Server 2013, Microsoft SharePoint 2013 for electronic document management and Business Intelligence, Nintex for workflow, as well as Dynamics AX for the back office, on-premise cloud and mobile. Dac Systems now offers its market access to the features of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, including advanced picking strategies that support optimised pick route and handheld devices, as well as ‘put away’ functionality.

Read MoreGary Carter

DAC welcomes Samancor to its client base

DAC Chat Issue #17 May 2014

Announcements

This exam is designed for individuals who plan to install, implement, configure, consult on, or support Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. They are typically admin-istrators, implementers, developers, and technical consultants who need to understand the technical aspects and administrative functionality of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Candidates should also have a general working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, including all required deployment platforms.

Well done Michiel for passing:

Dynamics AX 2012 Installation and Configuration exam

Well done Derek forpassing:

Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server 2012 product features and tools related to maintaining a database.