See how Intacct:

• A streamlined quote-to-cash process that bridges sales and finance and eliminates manual data re-entry
• Automated revenue management including revenue recognition and automated renewals
• An accelerated financial close process with automated consolidations of multiple business units or currencies
• Real-time business visibility via easy to create dashboards and reports enabling more agile decision-making

Register now to attend this free webcast.

Construction firms pride themselves in designing and building with the latest technology - technology that drives efficiencies and performance. Shouldn’t your website do the same?

Attend our free February webcast and let us show you an open source solution to create and manage your next website. You can include features that highlight your portfolio with Google map points. Or maybe you want to showcase a feature technology that differentiates your firm by using video. The Aktion WebWorks team can create your site from scratch or from a list of pre-configured themes, it’s up to you.

Aktion WebWorks provides services to enable your website to be a strategic part of your business and our solution will allow you to keep your content up to date and relevant at all times. We put you in control.

Register now to attend this free webcast for Construction firm professionals.

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Attend "Extend Your Cloud Computing Advantage—Salesforce and Intacct" featuring Greg Thompson, VP Finance of RedVision, and learn how RedVision streamlined and improved their quote-to-cash process by moving to Intacct's cloud financial management and accounting solution.

Plus, see a live demo of the built-in Intacct and Salesforce integration and see for yourself how Intacct combined with Salesforce helps you:

• Create a booked order in Intacct from a sales opportunity in Salesforce with a single click
• Provide your salespeople instant access to key financial information, right from within Salesforce
• Bring down your Days Sales Outstanding to as little as 30 days by providing comprehensive customer visibility to both sales and finance
• Provide 360 degree, real-time visibility to key company data like contracts, invoices, revenue, profit, and cash-flow

Register now to attend this free webcast.

See how Intacct provides:

• Real-time insight into your financial and project performance
• Streamlined time and expense management, for billable and non-billable items
• Automated project billing and invoicing that eliminates manual entry and accelerates collection cycles
• Anytime, anywhere access for your entire workforce, including subcontractors
• Integrated project management automation that maximizes project efficiency

Register now for this free webcast.

• Fog of war play: Maximize gross profit during a vendor price increase.
• SPA opportunity play: Dig into the rebate and supplier special pricing agreement (SPA) side of the equation to reclaim gross profits.
• Override overtime play: Gain visibility into the true symptoms of price override, and gain new insight into how to reduce gross margin losses.
• Pregame plays: Understand how the lack of accurate or up-to-date product data related to pricing, costs, and rebates is the “Achilles heel” of pricing and gross margin optimization.
• Gross profit optimization analytics play: Start eating the “gross-profit optimization elephant” one bite at a time, to immediately add 2% or more to your bottom line.
• Distributor pricing science: Learn about the pros and cons of applying various segmentation and price sensitivity analysis to your overall game plan for increasing gross margin.

Register to attend this important webinar to learn how distributors have added to their gross profits.

Who should attend?

• New Master Builder clients
• Current Master Builder users who have added new employees who will be using Master Builder
• Current Master Builder users and their employees who may need a refresher 
• Current Master Builders users who have never had formal training and are not utilizing the system to its fullest

Location:

Aktion Associates' Chicago Office

3973 75th Street, Suite 101

Aurora, IL 60504

Seminar Dates/Times:

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- 9:30 am - 4:30 pm CT

Thursday, February 9, 2012 -- 9:30 am - 4:30 pm CT

Friday, February 10, 2012 -- 9:30 am - 3:00 pm CT

The cost to attend this course is $1,500.00 for up to 3 people. Each company will have at least one desktop assigned to use for the 3-day class (laptops are welcome/not required).

Register now to attend this training event.

For questions, please contact Sandi Ecton at 630.585.7767 or email secton@aktion.com

Join us for the webinar "Real-Time Financial Reporting and Business Visibility in the Cloud" and learn how Intacct and cloud computing:

• Eliminates manual, Excel-based reporting
• Provides real-time and accurate data
• Distributes customizable reports to decision makers
• Facilitates quick recognition and response to changing business conditions
• Enables you to reinvent your and your finance department roles within the organization

Register now to attend this free webcast.

TheUserGroup.org (TUG) invites all licensed users of Infor10 Distribution products to attend their annual educational and networking conference. You don't want to miss this opportunity to connect and share with other Infor10 Distribution users, Infor10 Distribution product management and key personnel, industry consultants and technology gurus along with third party providers offering one-stop distribution technology shopping.

PRODUCT DIRECTION, EDUCATION AND NETWORKING
After a day of strategic Special Interest Group meetings where users meet with Infor to give their input into future product direction, we promise you three more full days of technical training, inspiring keynote speakers, breakthrough product demos, and invaluable roundtable discussions.

Add in a starlit reception at a working Longhorn cattle ranch, and Saturday evening on the Riverwalk of San Antonio and we promise you an event you won't soon forget.

Register now to attend this annual user's group event.

FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INCLUDES:

•  Access to all SIG Day Activities
•  Access to all 200 breakout, keynote and product demo sessions during the conference.
•  Full access to the trade show, during open hours throughout the day and including the Trade Show Happy Hours on Wednesday, February 15th and Thursday, February 16th
•  Breakfast, lunch and two refreshment breaks on each day: Wednesday, February 15 through Saturday, February 18th
•  Transportation to Knibbe ranch, dinner and all activities at the Ranch Roundup on Friday, February 17th.
• Transportation to and from the San Antonio Riverwalk area for the pub-crawl on Saturday, February 18th.

How do you move to an ideal IT infrastructure? First, by attending our upcoming webcast that features cost-effective, proven solutions from IBM and Aktion Associates, your local IBM Premier Business Partner.

Our technology experts will address:

• Integrated middleware for efficient business processing - The integrated database and middleware design of i provides unique business value and differentiates it from component operating environments like UNIX® and Windows®.
• Virtualization to manage multiple applications and processes - One of the key factors to the i operating environment’s efficiency is the ability to run multiple business processes and applications reliably and securely together.
• Trusted security with auditing and compliance tools - i has a long-term track record of significantly fewer security advisories than Microsoft® Windows Server® and UNIX operating environments.
• Designed for open application design choices - i offers an integrated language environment that supports a broad range of open application options.
• Simplified operations and storage management - i is renowned for its ease-of-use and powerful systems management features.
• Scalable to enable nondisruptive business growth - i offers a variety of expansion options to help a company maximize return on its IT

Register now to attend this free webcast.

In this session you will learn best practices for removing unused vendors, archiving historical vendor invoices, archiving closed jobs, commitments for closed jobs, transactions for closed jobs, and customer invoices.  By moving/archiving data you reduce the opportunity for improper classification of data and improve response time of your Sage Timberline Office.

Who should attend?

• Controllers
• CFOs
• Accounting Managers
• IT Managers

Register now to attend this free webcast.

Join our Network Security Experts for a webinar on what you should be doing to “adapt your security fundamentals” to help address these new technologies and threats.  We will review what we view as the Top 5 Security Threats for 2012 and what you can do to help mitigate your risk.

Also, attendees will have an opportunity to receive a free Security Vulnerability Assessment valued at $500.

Register now to attend this free web cast.

Sage Timberline Office and Enterprise manage resources, accounting, project management, human resources, services, and equipment. As a result, there are often gaps between where the content is created, how it is used, and where it is stored. Join this webcast to see how Content Manager 4.0 bridges those gaps with classification and structure, integrating construction business process, systems, and access across the enterprise.

Register now to attend this free event.

For version 17, Sage Master Builder has updated and refreshed the product's Dispatch Board. With this latest release, Sage has added many new and improved features to insure field service technicians are in the right place at the right time.

In this session, Aktion's Sage Certified Consultants will review the many enhancements and changes to this popular tool that will make managing the entire service team easier and more efficient. See how Dispatch Board can now help you: 

• Quickly respond to incoming service calls, efficiently manage field technicians and quickly process work orders and bills -- all from the Dispatch Board
• Keep field technicians up to date with the latest work order details by sending emails from within the Dispatch Board itself
• Multiday views and rich personalization capabilities to make scheduling and dispatching more efficient
• View and update schedules by service personnel or use the five-day multiview for a complete look at service activity

Register now to attend this free event.

Deltek Vision CRM can help you:

• Generate repeat business with a complete and accurate view of each client
• Win more of the right kind of work with favorable bottom-line results
• Quickly create service estimates based on sound analysis of costs and margin
• Automate the entire proposal process and improve business development

This high level, 60-minute overview demo is designed for the firm interested in understanding the business benefits of Deltek Vision CRM. The presenter will not get into specific product functionality or provide specific training on Deltek Vision CRM.

Register now to attend this free web cast.

This must-attend event is presented by Aktion Associates, the #1 Sage Business Partner in the United States for implementing Sage Timberline Enterprise. You’ll see a demonstration of Sage Timberline Enterprise and how “Work Space” concept gives you easy access to data and easy single point for data entry.

The Sage Timberline Enterprise Difference:

Built on a high performance and secure Microsoft SQL platform, Sage Timberline Enterprise integrates accounting, job management, estimating, and service management processes so you can maximize your company’s productivity and have greater visibility into your business.

Accomplish More with Sage Timberline Enterprise

• Eliminate redundant data entry with tight integration between all applications.
• Access and easily work with critical data using interactive and intuitive workspaces.
• Simplify your workflow using process maps that provide your team with a customizable, visual representation of the most important everyday tasks.
• Gain maximum control and visibility over your service work with a service dispatch board that makes assigning projects a breeze.

Register now to attend this free webcast.