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Client Profile: Family Service Foundation
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Acquisition of ACCPAC by Sage Finalized
The acquisition of ACCPAC International, Inc. by The Sage Group, plc is complete. As part of Sage, which is known as Best Software in North America, ACCPAC is part of an organization focused exclusively on business applications for small and medium-sized businesses. Computer Associates International, Inc. sold its 90 percent ownership in ACCPAC International, Inc. for $110 million. This sale culminates CA's multi-year effort to exit the business applications market and focus on management software to enable organizations to manage their IT environments.
“We are pleased to have completed the acquisition of ACCPAC as their applications will help us better serve small and medium-sized businesses in North America,” said Best Software CEO Ron Verni. “Specifically for our CRM division, ACCPAC’s hosted solutions now give us a complete offering to go with our desktop solutions and our award winning ACT! And SalesLogix product lines.”
ACCPAC brings approximately 540,000 customers and over 3000 business partners like Mazzullo, Inc. to Best/Sage. Best Software has been providing small and mid-sized customers with business applications for over 25 years. ACCPAC users should rest assured that there are no plans to eliminate any of the ACCPAC products and no changes to the existing ACCPAC product release schedule. We feel that ACCPAC’s future is brighter than ever.
If you have any questions or would like more information about this acquisition, you can contact us or use the following Web resources:
ACCPAC www.accpac.com
Best www.bestsoftware.com
Sage www.sage.com
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Mazzullo, Inc. and ADP
Dedicated to world-class service and offering processing efficiencies by interfacing ADP to ACCPAC General Ledger and ACCPAC HR, Mazzullo, Inc. and ADP are partnering to bring the best of both to your business.
Through simple Windows-based file sharing, information can be shared without time consuming re-keying or human error. ADP offers Internet-based time and attendance software, payroll processing, and report generation to allow multiple users to access crucial information to make informed management decisions and reduce the duplication of efforts.
Recently, a Mazzullo, Inc. client left a national competitor of ADP’s to take advantage of ADP’s telephone-based time and attendance system that allows employees at job sites to “clock-in” without cumbersome hardware and software links. The Time data downloads into payroll which will produce checks, direct deposits or even debit cards as forms of payment to employees without bank accounts. Payroll general ledger information, job and labor cost totals can be downloaded into ACCPAC to complete the Payroll process.
Debbie and Beth work closely with Tami Keiser at ADP (410-933-6486) to provide free analysis of your current system and price quotes. Tami can offer Mazzullo, Inc. clients a 15% partner discount for new ADP clients. ADP offers very competitive pricing.
Find Out How to Relieve the Pain of HR Administration!
Your ability to accurately and efficiently manage expanding Human Resource responsibilities is vital to your success. Please take this opportunity, from the comfort of your office, to see how ACCPAC HR Series provides a comprehensive solution to simplify even your most complex HR and benefits administration tasks.
It’s easy! Let us know which date you’d like to attend, we’ll sign you up, and you’ll get an e-mail from ACCPAC with log on instructions. At the scheduled time, sit at your desk, log on to the Webinar, lean back, put your feet up, drink a cup of coffee and watch how life as the “HR Person” can be so much easier.
For more information or to register, e-mail us at info@mazzullo.com
Place: The comfort of your office Cost: Nada, zilch, zero—FREE!
| May Webinar Schedule
May 7, 2004
May 18, 2004
May 26, 2004
All Webinars are given at 12:00 Noon EDT.
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Training Schedule
It’s not too late to sign up for our Crystal Reports class being held on May 6, 2004. This is an all-day class. The morning session will include a review of Crystal Report design basics. You’ll learn how to open a data source, how to link tables, how to add fields to your report, how to filter the data, how to add sub-reports, etc.
In the afternoon session you will design your own report. Come prepared with an outline of a report you would like to have, and with the help of our trainer, you can leave class with that report designed and ready to use when you get back to the office.
Need help with the ACCPAC Bank Reconciliation function? We are now offering a half-day class designed to get you “up to speed” reconciling your bank accounts in ACCPAC. Come learn how to fully utilize your accounting software and save time every month on this important function.
This class will be offered on Wednesday, May 12 from 9 to noon.
As always, we offer ACCPAC training for new learners too. Check our schedule for dates at www.mazzullo.com, or email us at info@mazzullo.com.
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Our next User Group Meeting is on Tuesday, May 18, 2004. As usual, you can join other users for a continental breakfast at 8:30am and discussion of the following topics will run from 9 to 10 am:
· Recurring entries in AP and GL
· Macros Easy
· Open Q & A (take advantage of us for free ACCPAC tips and advice!)
This user group meeting will be held at Mazzullo, Inc. offices in Columbia, Maryland. Please call if you need directions.
We are hoping to hold the user group meeting at other locations which might be more convenient for some users. If you would be willing to let us use a conference room at your office for the the user group, please let us know! We have also received requests for a different date (currently the third Tuesday of every other month). Look for new locations and dates in the next newsletter!
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Iciniti's Credit Card Payment Pro
| Fast, efficient, yet oh-so-simple to use, Iciniti’s Credit Card Payment Pro is quickly becoming the standard for accepting credit card payments through ACCPAC Order Entry and A/R. In partnership with E-xact Transactions, Iciniti offers a fully automated, end-to-end solution for credit card processing. Using E-xact’s revolutionary “Tagged Transactions™”, no credit card numbers are stored on your premises. Instead, credit cards are stored in secure, audit facilities at E-xact and only a reference tag is passed back to Credit Card Payment Pro. Recurring invoices? |
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| No problem. Tagged Transactions will link to the credit card information at E-xact and process future transactions on the same valid card. Iciniti’s Credit Card Payment Pro opens up the vast and growing market of credit card payments to all ACCPAC users, with a product that will show positive ROI with as few as 200 transactions per month. So as we said…fast, efficient, yet oh-so-simple and completely secure…Iciniti and E-xact have set the standard in credit card processing for ACCPAC Advantage Series. Contact us today for more information! |
Client Profile: Family Service Foundation
Founded in 1937, Family Service Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit mental health and social service agency located in Landover Hills, Maryland. FSF is dedicated to serving both hearing and deaf individuals, including those with chronic mental illness and developmental disabilities. FSF provides a full range of psychiatric counseling and clinical services to individuals and families, and employs a total of 265 people.
In 1994, Family Service Foundation turned to Mazzullo, Inc. to recommend a new accounting system that would help them with their growing non-profit business. At that time they already had 45 different departments. Financial reporting for each department and consolidated groups of departments was critical. Maintaining separate fund balances, a strong audit trail and ease of use were other requirements of the software. At that time they choose ACCPAC Plus General Ledger, Accounts Payable and US Payroll to manage the business.
In 1996, Family Service Foundation upgraded to ACCPAC Advantage Series to take advantage of the additional flexibility offered by the Windows-based software. As the number of employees and sophistication of their payroll needs grew, they decided to outsource payroll to ADP. With the ACCPAC third party product by Musick Intl., they are able to import the payroll entries into the ACCPAC general ledger with all of the desired departmental breakdown.
Recently, FSF needed a new server for their accounting system. Rather than purchasing a Microsoft server operating system and paying all of the related licenses for each user, FSF decided to purchase a Linux server. Since the ACCPAC Advantage Series version 5.2 upgrade came with an IBM DB2 server and 3 licenses, FSF just had to switch the LanPaks from Pervasive to IBM DB2 and purchase the additional IBM DB2 licenses at a very nominal cost. This solution saved them several thousand dollars. After Mark Prindle of Mark’s Communication Support, Inc. set up the Linux server, Mazzullo, Inc. was able to dump the Pervasive database, load the data into the IBM DB2 database and we had FSF back up and running within half a day. “The performance is incredible” says Reuben Mbinda, CFO of Family Service Foundation. “There was no learning curve at all. The end user doesn’t notice any difference at all other than how fast it is. We were even able to merge back in 5 years of transaction detail that we had to purge out to get reasonable performance on the old setup."
| You can find Family Service Foundation at:
5301 76th Avenue
Landover Hills, MD 20784
(888) 333-7505
www.socialservices4u.org
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Mark Schwartz joins Mazzullo, Inc.
Please help us welcome Mark Schwartz to the Mazzullo, Inc. team. Mark is our new sales & marketing and customer service representative (CSR). Mark will be contacting you shortly to get acquainted and make sure that all of your needs are being filled.
Mark has over 17 years of sales and marketing experience in various industries including financial services, educational services and printing & publishing. He holds a bachelors of science degree from The City College of New York. Mark lives in Columbia, Maryland with his two children.
Please contact Mark by email at mark@mazzullo.com or at 301-596-9945 (Washington line) or 410-531-5955 (Baltimore line) for any non-technical issues.
Technical Corner
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Q. All of a sudden, I have to go in to file\printer setting every time before I print a report and be sure that the correct printer and printer setting are selected. It used to remember this for every report. What happened?
A: There is a file in each users ACCPAC\User folder called databaseID_p.ism. For example, if the user name is John and the database ID is SAMINC, then the file you are looking for is ACCPAC\Users\John\saminc_p.ism. This file contains all of the user-specified options for each report. Sometimes this file can get corrupted. You can delete this file and it will get recreated with the default settings the next time John logs in to SAMINC. John can reselect all of the printer settings and after that, it should remember it. Deleting the _p.ism file has solved a myriad of problems. The only downside is that you have to reselect your printer preferences.
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Q. Sometimes when I print a report, I get the error message that an invalid printer is specified and the report won’t print. What can I do to print this report?
A: Try setting the printer destination to “preview” and then changing the printer selection from within the preview to the proper printer. This will save that printer with the report and you shouldn’t have the problem next time. To change your print destination to preview, select file and then print destination. Choose preview and then click on OK. Within the Crystal preview, click on the icon with the printer with a yellow wrench (printer setup) and choose the specific printer.
| Q. How can I move my ACCPAC database to a new server or different location?
A. Before you edit a database profile to change the folder where ACCPAC looks for the data, you must copy the database to the new folder.
· Close ACCPAC and copy the files in \\Program files\ACCPAC\DATA\databaseID to the new folder.
· Start Database Setup, highlight the database profile you are moving, and click Edit. In the Edit Pervasive.SQL Database profile dialog box, type a new path or click the Browse Button to display a list of folders and drives, select the new folder, then click the OK button. You can use the full UNC pathname or a mapped drive. An example of a UNC pathname is: \\computername\sharedfolder\ACCPAC\programs. Note: do not create a new entry for the database. You cannot have two databases with the same database ID.
To verify that the database profile points to the correct data location, leave Database Setup, start ACCPAC, and select the company. If the correct data is displayed, delete the data files from the original data folder.
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