ALC - s360

Posts about:

Achieve Business Growth (2)

Mike Abernathy of NSCA Talks About Solutions360 Business Accelerator Partner

In this week’s video, we speak with Mike Abernathy of the National Systems Contractors Association about the Business Accelerators program.

“The NSCA is a community of systems integrators and systems contractors,” says Abernathy. “Our role and our job is to assist members, and help them with day-to-day business issues.” That’s why Solutions360 has partnered with NSCA and the Business Accelerators.

Read More

What Your Sales Forecast Isn't Telling You

In a lot of organizations, your sales forecast is only giving you a partial representation of the truth 

The first challenge is to establish objective criteria against the data

Sales people are generally very optimistic and hopeful, and as great a trait as that is, it doesn’t always make for great judgement when evaluating where a sales opportunity is within the sales cycle.  One very simple, yet powerful method to get objectivity into the numbers is to define what your various sales cycles look like. You enter into a market with competitors that have access to essentially the same gear and expertise as you.  However, you show up in the market differently than they do. That is called your Value Proposition.  How are you different than they are? I’m sure everyone can answer that question within your sales department.

Read More

Solutions360 and NSCA Partner to Provide Members Access to a Best in Class Technology Solution

The Q360 Technology Platform Offers NSCA Members Efficiency and NSCA Best Practices to Enable Growth

MARCH 2013: NEWMARKET, ON – Solutions360 Inc., a leading provider of business management software announced a partnership with the National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA) to offer the Q360 Professional Services Automation software technology platform to NSCA members. The partnership was developed in order to provide integrators with a technology solution aimed at streamlining processes that create efficiency and provide opportunities to grow NSCA member businesses.

Read More

Business Intelligence to Another Level

Troy Sorzano, Director of IT at Expert Technology Associates shares some of the cool things he and his team are doing with Q360 Professional Services Automation Software.

On another note I wanted to show you some cool SQL reports Bill has been creating.  He has been making drill down reports that are not the standard List drill-to-Form relationship and at the same time he has been supplying subtotals and groups in the reports so you don’t have to select a column to add them up, which unto it self is powerful.  Also the drill through calls new SQL reports or forms depending on the row data selected so we can cascade these reports to whatever degree we need.  Here’s an example:

Read More