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!

Global attends SAP Financials

SAP Financials

3/7-3/11, Las Vegas, NV

SAP held its annual SAP Financials conference at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Global Software was invited as a presenter and an exhibitor. Our own Jeff Alfers, Amy Collier, and Paul Zunker attended this event. There were over 200 breakout sessions across 13 tracks, hosted by top experts at SAP, independent consultants, and industry counterparts.  Session topics ranged from “What evolving financial reform means for U.S. businesses” to “Choosing the right application to support closes, consolidations, and planning” to “How to gain costing insights that improve pricing and profitability”.

Global Software, Inc. sponsored a breakout session entitled “Best Practices and Technologies for Building Microsoft Excel-Based SAP Financial Reports”.  It was hosted by Paul Zunker, Vice President, West Coast Operations at Global Software and Ronnie Henry, SAP Development Manager at GraceKennedy.  The session demonstrated to SAP users how to utilize spreadsheet automation processes with the SAP environment, while touching on GraceKennedy’s successful experience with Global Software’s Spreadsheet Server. Attendees took away key points on how to leverage their financial reporting in an easy-to-use, formula driven, real-time fashion within Excel.

Were you at SAP Financials? What presentations did you attend and what did you think of them?

Come visit us at ASUG FL

It's been a busy week for Global Software! As we wrap up with SAP Financials, Global’s own Paul Grosshans and Caitlyn Ashton-Gill will also be at the ASUG Florida Chapter meeting in Orlando today. If you’re planning to attend, make sure you stop by and say hello. We will also be hosting a presentation entitled “Best Practices from Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated Microsoft® Excel-based Automation Experience” at 1:00 PM EST.

Stay tuned for follow ups on both conferences!

Global attends ASUG PAC NW

ASUG PAC NW

2/9, Tacoma, WA

The America’s SAP Users Group Pacific Northwest Chapter held its annual meeting at the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center in Tacoma, WA. Global’s own Jeff Alfers and Leo Palana attended this event.  There were 16 breakout sessions hosted by various SAP developers and experts. The sessions touched on topics such as “Easy Discovery of Relevant SAP Enhancement Package Functionality”, “Driving Success through High Performance Enterprise Architecture”, and “How to Create a Comprehensive Data Governance Strategy on a Global Scale.” Global Software, Inc. was invited to attend as a presenter and an exhibitor.

Global Software, Inc. sponsored a breakout session entitled “Financial Reporting with Global Software’s Spreadsheet Server”.  It was hosted by Cord McCormick, Manager of Financial Reporting at Marine Resources Group.  The session introduced attendees to how Global Software’s Spreadsheet Server tended to the needs of seven independent operating companies. The benefits of Global Software’s dynamic and interactive Microsoft Excel-based automation tools, specifically Spreadsheet Server, were discussed and reviewed to give attendees a view into Global Software’s capabilities in financial business processes.

Did you attend ASUG PAC NW? Were you at our session? What sessions did you attend?