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What is the +1 button?

The +1 button lets users recommend the content that they like on the web, helping to improve Google search for their friends and contacts. It appears on Google search, Google search ads and other sites across the web.

When users click the +1 button for a particular web page, their names and profile pictures will appear as part of personal annotations in their friends and contacts’ search results. Users will see their names and pictures beneath the ads and organic links associated with the webpage. The final landing page’s URL can also appear on the Google profile of any user who +1's your ad or organic result and chooses to share +1's on her profile.

Whenever possible, the +1 button is associated with a site’s final landing page. This means a user can recommend a web page by clicking the +1 button on that page, or the +1 button next to a Google search ad or search result associated with that page. For example, if a user +1's an organic search result with the same final landing page as your ad, the +1 count associated with both the organic search result and the search ad will increase.

The +1 button appears globally on Google search.

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SAP Business One has made it in the IRAS’ Accounting Software Register list

http://www.iras.gov.sg/irasHome/page.aspx?id=7752

What it means to SAP Business One in Singapore:

1.       SAP Business One’s compliance  to Singapore government tax guide will not be questioned now. At times, when our partners are facing small/local accounting software in the competition, they would be questioned of our system’s compliance.

2.       It will be a  good motivation  now to push for the  Starter Package whereby previously most of the registered software in the list are the small/local accounting software. Now that SAP Business One is in the list we can compete with them head on.

3.       At the moment, our usual competitors like Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Sage Accpac etc are NOT in the list. This an excellent time for our partners to position this development to win over the competition.

4.       Easier/quicker approval of government grants for our prospects/customers. IDA typically gives grants/funding to SMEs who are embarking on IT/ERP projects. It will only approve grants/funding to IT/ERP projects whose software are registered in IRAS.

CRM for iPhone

CRM for iPhone and other smartphones

Our end-to-end enterprise mobile solutions makes it real time possible giving business managers significant advantage of remote and instant access to information from anywhere, anytime. Our mobile CRM solution for Apple’s iPhone delivers a rich user experience and drives overall usage of your CRM system by enabling remote access for your sales, service and management teams.

KEY BENEFITS of iCRM: 

View Sales Entities, View Details, Alert and Qualify, Create and Update, Resolve, Delegate and Escalate. 

RESULTS: 
Access to remotely located data on fly; Cost effective solution using advanced technologies; Keep connected online with remotely located or on move team members and colleagues thereby enhanced interaction among team members across the organization; Quick customer response and immediate attention to customer queries; Improved business performance by timely response to a lead promoting for high conversion  rate from lead or prospect to customer; Data update and status update to remotely located application server; Rapid implementation at surprisingly low cost investment.      
source: SAP

What will drive use of mobile devices – new research says - business applications

Mobile Access to Business Applications Will Drive the Next Wave of User Adoption

Increasing Customer Engagement, Satisfaction and Loyalty with Mobility

According to a recent report by Forrester Research, only 1/3 of businesses have a clearly defined mobile strategy.  However, the research also showed that 70 percent of firms will increase their mobile budget in 2011, with one in four companies doubling or tripling their mobile budget.

Firms said mobility is seen as a way to increase customer engagement, satisfaction and loyalty, not generate direct revenues. Over half (52 percent of firms) see increasing customer engagement as their number one mobile goal.

So what is going to drive the take up of mobile solutions in 2011 and beyond?

Research suggests that giving users access to business applications and business processes is the key area that will drive adoption of mobile devices inside small and medium businesses – this is really when the next wave of adoption will be seen.

Mobile email and calendaring is already the no 1 usage of mobile devices but once end users have access to their line of business applications such as those from SAP, businesses will really begin to see the return on investment from equipping their people with iPads and iPhones as well as other mobile devices from vendors such as Microsoft and RIM.

Already users of the SAP solution for small and midsize businesses, SAP Business One, can have access to these solutions with SAP offering the mobile application for SAP Business One as a free download from the Apple App Store for professional users of SAP Business One.

Access to workflow approvals, customer and inventory information as well as rich graphical reporting from Crystal Reports are all features of the new mobile application and when paired with the mobile business intelligence tools from SAP stablemate BusinessObjects, small and midsize organisations can really begin to profit from these devices.

For more information about SAP Business One and the mobile application, please contact Alenu IT at +65 6884 5030 or email info@alenu-it.com.