Sage Insights 2010. As we head into 2010, our travel schedule is fairly light, with the next BIG EVENT being Sage Insights 2010 which is being held from May 17-20, 2010 at the Denver Colorado Convention Center. MISys now partners with three Sage-owned accounting systems (Accpac, Peachtree, and Simply) so the Sage Insights Conference is a great place to see lots of important people all under the same roof! As other strategic partners schedule events that include MISys, we will be sure to post them here.

January 2010. You may have heard news reports that a major crime ring has been discovered and broken up by Woodstock Police. According to court papers, Jason Hinsdale and his brother Dwayne, have been convicted of attempted assault, although the Police were never able to identify a victim of the Hinsdale’s operation. According the Duncan Duncan, Chief of Police, the Hinsdale brothers started their crime spree (called The Operation) in 2008 by telephoning members of the Woodstock Highway Department, threatening to assault them if they didn't pay a ransom of $100. Six months later, when the twins failed to identify any victims, Dwayne convinced his brother to participate in another version of the operation, one the pair called “The Other Operation.” Dwayne, who once tried out for (but did not place) in the TV hit “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader,” sent letters to 4 Woodstock fire-fighters, threatening not to assault them if they did not pay the $100 ransom. When The Other Operation still did not produce any results, the third and final version of the operation (called Another Operation) finally brought the results the Hinsdales sought. This time, they sent emails to 2 Woodstock Police detectives, threatening assault if the detectives did not pay a $100 ransom. Unfortunately, the brothers sent their email using their own AOL email accounts. Unlike the first two attempts, Another Operation caught the attention of the detectives, who responded to the emails by replying “I can deliver the cash to your home today. What is your address?” The trap was sprung when Jason responded with detailed driving instructions including a link to MapQuest. The detectives quickly tracked down the perps who were immediately transported to the Woodstock District Court the same afternoon.

Did you see the new iPad from Apple?

If you are like us you watched the debut of the new iPad yesterday wondering exactly where it will fit in todays business world. Many a lunch hour has been spent around the table thinking about whether our MISys customers would like to see an app for a smartphone like the iPhone or Blackberry and to be able to check inventory in MISys or produce some critical reports. If you have some thoughts along that line drop me an email at terry.merrill@misysinc.com and let me know what you are thinking. In the meantime it's back to our peanut butter and jelly sandwichs and the MISys wish list.

MISys works with Five Top Accounting Systems

Although MISys can run stand-alone, it works best when it is intergated with a world class accounting system. MISys intergrates with Sage Accpac, Sage Simply Accounting, Sage Peachtree (as Quantum Manufacturing Edition), QuickBooks and Microsoft Business Accounting. When you turn on the accounting integration you can send GL transactions created in MISys to the GL of your accounting system. If you have sales orders in your accounting, better known as Order Entry you can retrieve them into MISys, create a corresponding MISys work order or manufacturing order and purchaee and pull from inventory the raw material items needed for manufacturing. When the product is complete you can transfer the finished good back to your finished goods inventory in your accounting system. No more double entry of items and transactions. With MISys it's all seamless and easy.

What tablet? At MISys, Inc. engineers, salespeople, and marketeers all spend a good part of their day learning about new technology and noodling about how various developments might impact what we do in the future. Coming up on our radar is the rumored announcement (January 26th) of a very cool new gizmo from Apple.

Website refurbishment. As mentioned in a recent newsletter, the MISys website is undergoing a major facelift. One element of the redesign is this new portal from which we can deliver specific and timely information to our business partners around the world. We hope it will be a place you visit on a regular basis to see what is going on with the folks at Manufacturing Information Systems, Inc. (aka MISys).

Dream vacation winner. We are happy to report that Patrick Donnelly of Oak State Products was the winner of a Disney Dream Vacation. Patrick was one of many who took advantage of a recent promotion to purchase or extend their Upgrade Subscription Plan for MISys SAE. But Patrick was the only one to win a trip to Walt Disney World. Congratulations Patrick!

Accounting integration. With the release of the Shop Floor Control module for MISys SBM last fall, the MISys engineers (headed up by our VP of Development, Dave Halpert) has been busy working with our accounting partners to streamline the integration with their products. Sometimes functionality we would like to have is not possible due to the current state of the various accounting SDK's with which we work. We appreciate the cooperation our partners offer to enhance their SDK's which will allow us to provide even better accounting integration in future versions of MISys SBM.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

All of the guys and gals at MISys wish all of our friends, clients and partners a very happy New Year! Without all of you we wouldn't be the company we are today. So a hearty Thank You is also in order. See you next year!