Breakfast is served in the Ballroom Foyer.

Flexible Accounting that's by the book - Michelle Erickson, ACCPAC

Accounting is a function that not only manages your money, but also every aspect of your business. Give yourself a strong competitive advantage with an end-to-end customizable and flexible accounting solution that will help you respond to rapidly changing market conditions. With ACCPAC Pro Series, the engine that powers your business, you get integrated business management applications, flexible deployment options, advanced customization features and investment protection.

The Perfect Marriage between Manufacturing and Work Order Processing - Don Smith, WAC Consulting

ACCPAC's Manufacturing Suite consists of four (4) modules that can be used to assist manufacturing companies in the planning, procurement and processing of raw material  into finished goods. Production Entry provides Bill-of-material management, Sales Order "Kitting" and the definition of product configurations. Work Orders enable users to create production orders for specific due dates, tracks material allocations and provides MRP reporting. Shop Control provides capacity planning, plan orders, and manufacturing WIP tracking. Project Accounting allows users to track labor and material costs for complex, multi-phase projects.

3rd Party Utilities - Bob Distler, WAC Consulting; Christopher Nerreau, TSI Automation, Rod Lewis, Data Developer and Tony Karwatowicz, Data Fabrication

In this session we will review various utilities that can be used to increase the productivity and enhance the value of your system. We will look at fax and email solutions from PDFBlaster, CRM and wireless applications from Data Developers, sales order enhancements from Gilbert  Associates and mobile communications solutions from TSI Automation.

Not an EDI expert? Then why are you doing EDI yourself? Tom Hatton, RedTail Solutions

RedTail will provide insight into the ever expanding world of EDI and the many benefits of outsourcing a company's EDI requirements. RedTail will define the many benefits to outsourcing, covering everything from security, business continuity, resource focus and cost of ownership. An in-depth analysis of two successful companies who have achieved even greater success through the outsourcing of their EDI requirements.

Customer and Prospect Information at your Fingertips - Carlos Smith, ACCPAC

With ACCPAC CRM, you can quickly analyze, manage and synchronize sales and customer care activities across all points of contact. It's fully customizable with workflow, opportunity management, sales cycle analysis, forecasting and easy to use reporting features. Best of all, it is a true web and wireless-based application, giving your customer and prospect relationship managers real time access to the critical information they need to be successful.

How to Smooth out the Bumps in your Manufacturing Operations with COSS-ACCPAC Manufacturing Solutions - Antonia Spitzer

With a practical view to what works with manufacturers, this session will focus on strong COSS-ACCPAC integration, tools that can help you quickly realize productivity gains and other benefits, how COSS can support continuous improvements, the flexibility to set up COSS for different manufacturing environments and key enhancements over the past year and into 2006.

Data Warehousing - Gary Jenson, Account Tec, Robert Distler, WAC Consulting, Sunil Kadimdiwan, InfoTrove

In this session, we will review three data warehousing tools that fully integrate with ACCPAC Pro Series. The first, ACCPAC Insight, is an MS-SQL or Access-based reporting system using MS Excel as a front end to a powerful drilldown system. DataHabitat, winner of the ACCPAC Third Party product of the year award in 2004, is a powerful solution with a customizable interface. Finally, the InfoTrove BI system provides the ultimate flexibility in MS-SQL based reporting and data gathering.

Elevator E-Commerce for ACCPAC Pro Series - Bob Silver, Silverware

Elevator E-Commerce has been elevating Pro Series users businesses to the web for over six years. Elevator provides a complete online catalog that is fully integrated to your Pro Series. Information in your company's online store is based on data maintained in your accounting system. Orders flow seamlessly from yo9ur web site into your Pro Series. Elevate your business to the web with Elevator.

Financial Reporting - Ron Arsenault, Robert Distler and Mary Mc Nerney, WAC Consulting

Crystal Reports, ACCPAC Query, Synex F9, ACCPAC CFO and ACCPAC Insight are the premier reporting tools that can be used to provide live financial analysis of your business operations. This session will review how you can track key business indicators in real time, and decide which is the best tool for your needs.

Material Tracking using RFID, Wireless, and Barcode Technologies -          Dr. Peter Green, BellHawk

In the field of material tracking, there have been more changes in the last 12 months than in the past 20 years. In this presentation, we will cover some of the highlights including RFID, new barcode standards, wireless mobile computing, license plate tracking, FDA mandates, DoD initiatives, automated shipping and receiving, and Advanced Shipment Notices. In this presentation, we will examine how all these exciting new technologies fit within the framework of material tracking methods.

What you know can hurt you! How product knowledge kills the sale - Chris Bond, Next Level

Now that you've loaded up on product knowledge from the Regatta, what should you do with it? Come to this lively and informative session to learn how (and why) product knowledge, while great o have, is not the key to making the sale. You'll experience first hand how sharing features, benefits and product knowledge are usually turn-offs to your clients and prospects. What you know can hurt you!

3rd Party Utilities - Bob Distler, WAC Consulting; Christopher Nerreau, TSI Automation, Rod Lewis, Data Developer and Tony Karwatowicz, Data Fabrication

In this session we will review various utilities that can be used to increase the productivity and enhance the value of your system. We will look at fax and email solutions from PDFBlaster, CRM and wireless applications from Data Developers, sales order enhancements from Gilbert  Associates and mobile communications solutions from TSI Automation.

Customer and Prospect Information at your Fingertips - Carlos Smith, ACCPAC

With ACCPAC CRM, you can quickly analyze, manage and synchronize sales and customer care activities across all points of contact. It's fully customizable with workflow, opportunity management, sales cycle analysis, forecasting and easy to use reporting features. Best of all, it is a true web and wireless-based application, giving your customer and prospect relationship managers real time access to the critical information they need to be successful.

Picked, Packed, Processed - Don Smith, WAC Consulting

Today, companies much operate at maximum efficiency and provide superior service to ensure profitability. ACCPAC's Warehouse Management System (AWMS) is a powerful solution for automating the materials-handling process of manufacturers, distributors and third-party logistics providers. By integrating advanced Radio Frequency (FR) and bar-coding technologies with core warehousing functionality, AWMS provides a comprehensive toolset for order management, receiving, stocking, replenishment, picking and related warehouse tasks. Check out the latest version of AWMS version 3.5 running in an SQL environment.

Ten Laws of Making Money Online - David Harris, EC Internet

2004 was another record-breaking year in electronic commerce, and those companies leading the way are navigating through business and technology changes that can make or break the business. Learn the secrets of e-commerce implementation that lead to success in these new markets.

To e-mail or direct mail? How to pick the winner for your business - Brigitte Casemyr, WAC Consulting

We know that email marketing is a low cost method to keep in touch with customers and prospects, but how effective is it these days, with so much spam landing in inboxes? Should you reconsider using direct mail instead, though the cost per thousand is over 100 times higher than email? Here's a common sense approach to deciding when to use each method, together with clever marketing techniques to increase your rate of response.

Flexible Accounting that's by the book - Michelle Erickson, ACCPAC

Accounting is a function that not only manages your money, but also every aspect of your business. Give yourself a strong competitive advantage with an end-to-end customizable and flexible accounting solution that will help you respond to rapidly changing market conditions. With ACCPAC Pro Series, the engine that powers your business, you get integrated business management applications, flexible deployment options, advanced customization features and investment protection.

Custom Solutions - Charles Mayberry, WAC Consulting, Mike Nolan, PC Helper, Sunil Kadimdiwan, InfoTrove, Rod Lewis, Data Developer

ACCPAC Pro Series provides the ultimate in flexibility, unmatched by any other competing products. It delivers this flexibility by providing complete source code access. In this session, we will examine the ways that companies have used this feature to extend their implementations to meet their ever changing business needs.

Just-in-time Communications, Alex Beletsky, Sentri

Is your staff spending too much time managing incompatible communications systems? Phone calls, emails, voicemail, chat and faxes -  all are e effective forms of  communications, but require separate products and processes. Imagine using a centralized communications system you can access from anywhere on any device - for just-in-time communications.

Network Infrastructure and Security - Stephen Vogel, WAC Consulting

Even  the best planned application deployments will fall short of expectations if your underlying network  infrastructure and security measures are allowed to stagnate. Workstations, file servers, back up systems, firewalls, network security devices, switches, hubs and routers require regular and efficient, scheduled maintenance. Learn how to protect your systems, and your data, without disrupting your normal business activities.

Our generous partners and exhibitors have donated over 20 magnificent prizes which will all be awarded at the end of the conference to participants in the audience, and this year, we're adding a twist to the drawing.  At the end of the day, we'll display all the prizes in Baldwin, and each winner will choose his or her own prize from the display.