Volume III #19
IN THIS ISSUE:
A D M I N I S T R I V I A
A I V I R T S I N I M D A
1. SAFE Timer gives 30 second warning message before you time out.
2. E-Mailing Reports
3.
1. Cost Center Identification of each order. You can now enter a cost center for each order which is automatically linked to a particular group of Contacts assigned to this Customer and Cost Center. Your Forms Management reports may be re-designed now to take advantage of this ability and subtotal by Cost Centers for each Customer!
2. You can also link orders to a particular Contact assigned to the selected Customer. Coupled with the new Cost Center feature, you now have a complete cost center management system when selling to larger customers with several orderers!
3. Numbered forms can now be tracked per release. So if you ship, for example, 200 checks to a particular location, you can review what the next starting number should be for that specific location within a larger organization!
4. There is now a separate customer value for each item you sell and release. In other words, you can assign a value to your customer's forms as they are released, which is independent of the price they actually paid for the item. This allows you to provide customized Customer Value reports for each customer which may be revised without affecting their sales history or your actual inventories!
5. User Specific Tagging can now be turned 'on' and 'off' for various modules. In other words, you can have User Specific Tagging for check printing, but global tagging for Sales Invoices!
6. You can now add Voided Checks directly to the Check Register. If you hand write a check and void it before it is entered into SAFE, you can now simply add the check into the Check Register as a Void without having to enter it, print it, then void it. Additionally, this may be done quickly for a whole range of checks. Say, for example, twenty checks are ruined because of water, you can enter the range 39000 to 39019 and void the complete list in a single step!
Check out the complete list of new SAFE 4.2 features by going to http://www.suntowersystems.com/new442.htm
.
ThinSAFE Pricing
Available!
As ThinSAFE
is now available to those interested in being a part of this exciting new product. To
review, ThinSAFE is a thin client version of SAFE which allows users to run SAFE from
virtually any machine using the same interface as SAFE. The difference is that your
machine is connected to your main server over the Internet! This means that you have a
real-time connection to SAFE no matter where you are.
ThinSAFE works well even on slower computers and 56k modem connections, but with DSL or Cable Modems the performance is virtually indistinguishable from using SAFE in your office over a LAN! (In fact, we had to change the user interface slightly just to remind users that they are indeed, connected over the Internet and not using local data!)
ThinSAFE will be priced at $4,000 for unlimited users over a single Internet connection. Although ThinSAFE does not replace Remote Office Extensions, current ROX customers may receive a $495 credit for each office they wish to convert to ThinSAFE.
Our second beta is very stable and we are now simply optimizing for more speed before final release. As always, beta testers will recieve a substantial discount on the gold release in exchange for their vital help in polishing the product.
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Editorial: Tragedy!
We had a fairly large customer in
Manhattan last week. I mean that in the most literal way: sometime Tuesday morning, the
entire company simply was no longer there. Except for one guy in a mini-van who
was out making deliveries. For some reason, this fact is what brought the tragedy home to
me. Not just that some lives were lost, but that an entire group of people and their
surroundings could be instantly removed from existence. They may as well all have been
transported to Mars.
As many of you know, most of us are Irish citizens. We, as do most of the world now, have had first hand experience of terror and the irrational acts of extremism. In fact, last week at the same time the WTC was being blown up, in the Ardoyne neighborhood of Belfast, near where two of my partners were born and raised, a group of Catholic school children were kept from crossing the road to go to a new school on the Protestant side of the street by torch-wielding parents. So we may have one or two insights which would prove instructive to you first-timers at this sort of thing.
First of all, I have gotten a lot of feedback from customers on how we should launch a crusade against those guys. Naturally. However, might I counter by saying that the people who do these things are not all delusional or some how inherently different from you or I. They definitely need to be locked away some place far away for a really long time. But their feelings are real and they aren't going away no matter how much force we attempt to apply. It just keeps going from generation to generation. Just look at Belfast or Israel. It will never stop so long as people keep having grievances. And in fact, it may be that the more force one attempts to apply, the worse will be the reaction.
Secondly, before we go off on a crusade, let's try to remember something about the original crusades which may be instructive: I believe they were referred to as a Holy War. Ring any bells?
Which brings me to point three. It may, in fact, be just as easy to whip patriotic Americans into performing similar acts of insanity against others in order to obtain some measure of comfort in revenge. The sad truth is that, we may not be intrinsically all that different from our enemies. I rode in a cab this week with a Sikh driver who had his car vandalized. Obviously the criminal did not make a distinction between an Indian guy with a turban and a follower of Osamu bin Laden. Did the vandal really think he was contributing to the fight against terror by spray painting this fellows car and putting him out of business for a while?
So my message about this is pretty simple: we may not be able to do all that much about this stuff, except to be a bit more careful in the future. That's a hard pill to swallow for a nation such as ours. The really pro-active thing to do, in our opinion, would be to go out of one's way to be nice to one another and not fall into the same trap of attack/revenge and so on. Unlike other crusades, this policy really would have some scriptual foundation.
CIARAN'S CORNER:
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Check out www.microsoft.com/technet/mpsa/start.asp
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Quality Of Service? Are you liable for missed transactions if your web site goes down? A terms of use statement is key to protecting yourself and creating good expectations for your users.
Cheers!
---CM
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