Global Software, Inc. is headed to RealComm 2011!

Wow! We’re really racking up the frequent flyer miles lately, aren’t we? Global Software, Inc. will be attending RealComm 2011 in beautiful Orlando, FL from June 13-15 at the Peabody Hotel. Tonya Cannady and Becky Kaufman from our team will be set up at Booth #504, ready to discuss how spreadsheet automation can enhance your organizations capabilities.  If you’re attending, stop by and say hello!

We’re going to Amsterdam for SAP Financials Europe!

We’re skipping across the Atlantic pond to Amsterdam to attend SAP Financials Europe from June 7-9. Global Software, Inc.’s Spencer Kupferman and Caitlyn Ashton-Gill will be attending along with our UK counterparts, Mark Gray and Iqbal Dhupar. We will be set up at Booth #105 at the Amsterdam Rai Convention Centre. Caitlyn will be hosting a session on Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated’s improved financial reporting from Microsoft Excel-based automation on Tuesday, June 7^th at 2:45 PM CET. You can find out more about our session here: http://bit.ly/ipnlBI

Be sure to stop by and say “hallo!”

Planning on going to GFOA’s annual conference? So are we!

Global Software Inc.’s Tonya Cannady and Caitlyn Ashton-Gill will be there from May 22-25.  We will be set up at Booth #800 within the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX.  Key customer, Dave Ehlinger from Jefferson Co. Wisconsin, will be on-site to discuss how Global Software, Inc. helped his organization automate their financial reporting and improve their CAFR and departmental expense analysis. 

Gift card winners will be drawn at each briefing and if you refer a colleague, you get an extra entry into the drawing!

Here are the details for our briefings:

 Sunday, May 22 

11:00-11:15 am – Automating and Publishing CAFR Based Reporting

 2:30-2:45 pm – Automating Excel-based Budgeting: Future period budgeting and forecasting

 6:00-6:15 pm – Doing more with less: Eliminating manual Excel schedules and reporting

Monday, May 23

10:15-10:30 am – Automating and publishing CAFR Based Reporting

1:15-1:30 pm – Automating Excel-Based Budgeting: Future period budgeting and forecasting

Tuesday, May 24

10:15-10:30 am – Doing more with less: Eliminating manual Excel schedules and reporting

If you’re attending, make sure you stop by! 

Are you an SAP user? Are you in Orlando at Sapphire NOW? We are!

The show starts today…visit us at booth #2046 to learn how we have assisted other organizations, such as Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, improve their Excel-based reporting capabilities. Enter for our $100 gift card drawing just for stopping by!

We hope to see you there!

Global welcomes Sherry Puckett as Sr. Strategic Product Specialist

Global Software, Inc. is pleased to welcome Sherry Puckett to our team as Sr. Strategic Product Specialist. Sherry will be hosting demos with prospective clients as well as assist with training with local businesses, installations, and trials. Before she joined Global Software, Sherry was a consultant at Robert Half and was Sr. Vice President of Finance at Square 1 Bank. She has two Bachelor degrees from NC State in Accounting and Business Management. In her free time, Sherry enjoys camping with her family at Carr Lake, spending time with her family on their farm in Oxford, and watching her 9-year-old son Jake play baseball. We warmly welcome Sherry to the Global Software family and we’re very excited to see what she will bring to the team! 

Global attends Collaborate 11

Collaborate 11

4/10-4/11, Orlando, FL

OAUG/Quest/IOUG hosted Collaborate 11 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. 5,500 of the best and brightest in the Oracle industry attended including Global Software. Attendees had an opportunity to network with other Oracle users and obtain critical Oracle knowledge from education sessions. With over 1200 sessions, educators covered a variety of topics including “Setting the New Standard for Supply Management Applications”, “Managing Assets in a Global Environment”, and  “Enabling Your Chart of Accounts for Management Reporting and Compliance”.

Global Software was invited as a presenter and an exhibitor and our own Becky Kaufman, Caitlyn Ashton-Gill,Tonya Cannady, Jeff Alfers, Bjorn Beer and Amy Collier attended this event. We were lucky enough to host not one, but TWO sessions with two different customers. Becky Kaufman, Vice President, Client Services, hosted the session with Oracle customer, Orange Lake Country Club, entitled “Best Practices & Technologies for Building Microsoft Excel-Based Oracle Financial Report –Featuring Key Customer with Orange Lake Country Club”. The presentation discussed Orange Lake Country Club’s experience with Global Software’s Microsoft Excel-based automation tools.

Caitlyn Ashton-Gill, Product Information Manager, hosted the second session with customer, AAA, entitled “Best Practices and Technologies for Building Microsoft Excel-based JD Edwards Financial Reports, Featuring AAA Success Story”. The presentation covered how to users could access critical JD Edwards data with minimal IT intervention. It also recounted how AAA enhanced its overall spreadsheet experience using Microsoft Excel-based automation tools from Global Software.

This is the first time we’ve had the opportunity to host sessions with both AAA and Orange Lake Country Club. It was a great experience and we hope to work with them again soon!

Did you attend Collaborate? What sessions interested you the most?  

Are you ready for Collaborate?

Collaborate is less than a week away and we’re gearing up to attend! We’ll be at Booth #1423 and we will also be hosting two sessions featuring two customers’ experiences with Global Software’s Microsoft Excel-based automation tools on Wednesday, April 13^th. The first session will be held at 10:30 AM EDT and will feature Global customer and Oracle user, Orange Lake Resorts. The second will take place at 4:00 PM EDT and will feature JD Edwards customer, AAA. Find out more about our sessions here: http://bit.ly/gOjUXS & http://bit.ly/hz9Ms5.  Be sure to check them out if you’re attending Collaborate!

Looking forward to seeing you all there!