This document is the first issue of Intergen's company newsletter called "SMARTS". It provides an overview of Intergen as a company that offers a full range of Microsoft services and solutions. It highlights Intergen being awarded Microsoft Gold Partner status and recapping their recent launch party event. It also includes articles on various projects, technologies and staff profiles. The goal of the newsletter is to provide informative and entertaining content that demonstrates Intergen's approach of intelligent business solutions.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Our vision is to build a world where people dream without limitation and perform without hesitation. An Idea is just the beginning of a new better world.
Our mission is to enable our customers to focus on their core business capabilities and empower them to have a digital and technological presence.
This document brings together a set
of latest data points and publicly
available information relevant for
Consulting & IT Services Industry.
We are very excited to share this
content and believe that readers will
benefit from this periodic publication
immensely.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Our vision is to build a world where people dream without limitation and perform without hesitation. An Idea is just the beginning of a new better world.
Our mission is to enable our customers to focus on their core business capabilities and empower them to have a digital and technological presence.
This document brings together a set
of latest data points and publicly
available information relevant for
Consulting & IT Services Industry.
We are very excited to share this
content and believe that readers will
benefit from this periodic publication
immensely.
Earnest Brothers, is the leading information technology
laboratory, IT consulting, services, Training and business
process outsourcing organization that envisioned and
instigated the adoption of the flexible business practices that
today enable our clients to operate more efficiently
and produce more value.
For more details please mail us to:
info@earnestbrothers.com
Tomorrow's Talent for Future-Thinking Organisations - Vine ResourcesVine Resources
Vine Resources is a leading provider of recruitment services, attracting tomorrow’s talent for future-thinking organisations.
Founded just over a decade ago, we provide both permanent and contract recruitment solutions, placing top-tier talent within the technology, media and telecommunications sector.
We focus on people, wherever they are in the world.
Adit Microsys is the best offshore Software development services & Offshore Software Development Companies provide services for business enterprises in Ahmedabad India, USA, Australia, Netherland, Denmark, South Africa and Germany.
ASSIST Software Brochure.
ASSIST Software Romania specializes in outsourcing software development projects. Based in Eastern Europe, we are operating in a challenging economy that creates a fertile environment for Information Technology and business outsourcing. Our team has a solid and proven track record, delivering high quality and timely services.
Technology Staffing Solutions | SOLTECH | Atlanta, GAJeff Bond
Based in Atlanta, GA SOLTECH is a founder-led technology solutions consultancy established in 1998. Specialty services include Technology Staffing (Staff Augmentation, Contract-to-Perm, Team Incubation, and Permanent Placement) and Custom Software Development (Solution Design, Mobile Development, Web Development, User Experience UX Design, Rescue and Recovery). This is a brief presentation of our staffing solution set. Visit www.soltech.net for more information.
Excelloite Pvt Ltd latest company profile that helps you to understand us more deeply. We an IT based company providing services, solutions & products to the range of clients involved with the business of any size and type. Our expertise services like React-Native Mobile App Development, E-Commerce Development, Digital Marketing, Data Science & Predictive Analysis, Electron Desktop Application Development, Data scrapping And Business Intelligence etc will help to boom your business.
Recognizing the forerunners that are revolutionizing the corporate space and keeping innovation on their radar by staying up-to-speed with the developments, we have come up with this special edition of “The 10 Most Promising BPO Services provider companies.”
Our main developments office’s are open from 10 AM to 7 PM (IST) and 7 PM to 6 PM (IST) difference with Europe is only 5 or 6 hours, and with the USA from 11 to 12 hours. Although the difference with the USA might seem significant, it's a benefit for you. The time difference allows projects to move forward almost twice as fast as if they were in your same time-zone.
The 10 most innovative business leaders making a difference in 2021Swiftnlift
The Nitya Capital , based in Houston, TX, is a privately held real estate investment firm that owns and manages ~$2 billion in real estate assets across the US. The firm is vertically integrated to have a deep focus on acquisitions, asset management, and property management.
This presentation contains followings:
What is Enterprise Mobility?
Why Enterprise Mobility for your Organization?
How Enterprise Mobility increase your ROI?
Case Study
How PureLogics can help your organization?
Nubiz Solutions is a company that delivers top class solutions to the clients all over the world. Incorporated in the year 2013, with the motive of providing the services to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction & trust, Nubiz Solutions look to wow everyone with its creativity & hard-working culture in years to come.
Organizations can benefit greatly by allowing an outsourced IT team to manage information technology functions. Here are the top 15 reasons to consider IT Outsourcing for your business.
DiTech Process Solutions – Your Trusted Partner for all your Publishing & Fin...DiTech Process Solutions
DiTech Process Solutions – Your Trusted Partner for all your Publishing & Financial Requirements. We provide publishing services, typesetting, copyediting, graphics designing, medical illustration, project management services. We convert simple books into fixed-layout ebooks, attractive, interactive & enhanced ebooks. We are also in the field of financial services like; we do EDGAR filing, XBRL filing, iXBRL filing, MCA XBRL filing & mutual funds. Visit us at https://ditechps.com
Intergen Twilight - Empowering Marketing and Sales using CRM and ClickDimensionsIntergen
Marketing automation solutions help organisations better understand and target prospective customers, providing email marketing, web tracking, form capture, surveys and more.
ClickDimensions is an email marketing and web analytics add-on for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that joins together marketing automation with your CRM system. Steven Foster, Intergen's CRM Product Manager showed attendees how this single marketing solution can help their organisation's identify who is interested in their products or services, their level of interest and help you take action.
He also showed how you can use ClickDimensions with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to identify customers, generate compelling newsletters, deliver rich email content, manage web content with smart forms, create landing pages and surveys and generate qualified leads through intelligent web analytics.
Smarts 31 - All for one and one for all (New Zealand)Intergen
All for one and one for all. Consistent experiences help to unify people, systems and organisations.
Visions are given that name for many reasons; they’re a goal, a direction for organisations to head towards; a means of bringing together people to support a common cause or purpose. In the technology world, visionaries are everywhere – they’re the people and organisations constantly driving change, challenging the status quo and trying – often desperately – to evolve or disrupt what’s happened in the past in order to arrive at a better future.
Earnest Brothers, is the leading information technology
laboratory, IT consulting, services, Training and business
process outsourcing organization that envisioned and
instigated the adoption of the flexible business practices that
today enable our clients to operate more efficiently
and produce more value.
For more details please mail us to:
info@earnestbrothers.com
Tomorrow's Talent for Future-Thinking Organisations - Vine ResourcesVine Resources
Vine Resources is a leading provider of recruitment services, attracting tomorrow’s talent for future-thinking organisations.
Founded just over a decade ago, we provide both permanent and contract recruitment solutions, placing top-tier talent within the technology, media and telecommunications sector.
We focus on people, wherever they are in the world.
Adit Microsys is the best offshore Software development services & Offshore Software Development Companies provide services for business enterprises in Ahmedabad India, USA, Australia, Netherland, Denmark, South Africa and Germany.
ASSIST Software Brochure.
ASSIST Software Romania specializes in outsourcing software development projects. Based in Eastern Europe, we are operating in a challenging economy that creates a fertile environment for Information Technology and business outsourcing. Our team has a solid and proven track record, delivering high quality and timely services.
Technology Staffing Solutions | SOLTECH | Atlanta, GAJeff Bond
Based in Atlanta, GA SOLTECH is a founder-led technology solutions consultancy established in 1998. Specialty services include Technology Staffing (Staff Augmentation, Contract-to-Perm, Team Incubation, and Permanent Placement) and Custom Software Development (Solution Design, Mobile Development, Web Development, User Experience UX Design, Rescue and Recovery). This is a brief presentation of our staffing solution set. Visit www.soltech.net for more information.
Excelloite Pvt Ltd latest company profile that helps you to understand us more deeply. We an IT based company providing services, solutions & products to the range of clients involved with the business of any size and type. Our expertise services like React-Native Mobile App Development, E-Commerce Development, Digital Marketing, Data Science & Predictive Analysis, Electron Desktop Application Development, Data scrapping And Business Intelligence etc will help to boom your business.
Recognizing the forerunners that are revolutionizing the corporate space and keeping innovation on their radar by staying up-to-speed with the developments, we have come up with this special edition of “The 10 Most Promising BPO Services provider companies.”
Our main developments office’s are open from 10 AM to 7 PM (IST) and 7 PM to 6 PM (IST) difference with Europe is only 5 or 6 hours, and with the USA from 11 to 12 hours. Although the difference with the USA might seem significant, it's a benefit for you. The time difference allows projects to move forward almost twice as fast as if they were in your same time-zone.
The 10 most innovative business leaders making a difference in 2021Swiftnlift
The Nitya Capital , based in Houston, TX, is a privately held real estate investment firm that owns and manages ~$2 billion in real estate assets across the US. The firm is vertically integrated to have a deep focus on acquisitions, asset management, and property management.
This presentation contains followings:
What is Enterprise Mobility?
Why Enterprise Mobility for your Organization?
How Enterprise Mobility increase your ROI?
Case Study
How PureLogics can help your organization?
Nubiz Solutions is a company that delivers top class solutions to the clients all over the world. Incorporated in the year 2013, with the motive of providing the services to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction & trust, Nubiz Solutions look to wow everyone with its creativity & hard-working culture in years to come.
Organizations can benefit greatly by allowing an outsourced IT team to manage information technology functions. Here are the top 15 reasons to consider IT Outsourcing for your business.
DiTech Process Solutions – Your Trusted Partner for all your Publishing & Fin...DiTech Process Solutions
DiTech Process Solutions – Your Trusted Partner for all your Publishing & Financial Requirements. We provide publishing services, typesetting, copyediting, graphics designing, medical illustration, project management services. We convert simple books into fixed-layout ebooks, attractive, interactive & enhanced ebooks. We are also in the field of financial services like; we do EDGAR filing, XBRL filing, iXBRL filing, MCA XBRL filing & mutual funds. Visit us at https://ditechps.com
Intergen Twilight - Empowering Marketing and Sales using CRM and ClickDimensionsIntergen
Marketing automation solutions help organisations better understand and target prospective customers, providing email marketing, web tracking, form capture, surveys and more.
ClickDimensions is an email marketing and web analytics add-on for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that joins together marketing automation with your CRM system. Steven Foster, Intergen's CRM Product Manager showed attendees how this single marketing solution can help their organisation's identify who is interested in their products or services, their level of interest and help you take action.
He also showed how you can use ClickDimensions with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to identify customers, generate compelling newsletters, deliver rich email content, manage web content with smart forms, create landing pages and surveys and generate qualified leads through intelligent web analytics.
Smarts 31 - All for one and one for all (New Zealand)Intergen
All for one and one for all. Consistent experiences help to unify people, systems and organisations.
Visions are given that name for many reasons; they’re a goal, a direction for organisations to head towards; a means of bringing together people to support a common cause or purpose. In the technology world, visionaries are everywhere – they’re the people and organisations constantly driving change, challenging the status quo and trying – often desperately – to evolve or disrupt what’s happened in the past in order to arrive at a better future.
EPiServer and Intergen spoke to attendees about what’s new with the latest version of the EPiServer CMS Content Management System as well as their other offerings for Commerce and Communities.
This session is designed as an update for any existing non-technical EPiServer customers or anyone interested in looking at the EPiServer offerings.
EPiServer in Australia/New Zealand: Developments in the past year, the team, purchase of Media Chase, corporate growth, new EPiServer.world and community for editors
What’s new with EPiServer Software: EPiServer as a platform, EPiServer CMS 7 release, CMO, Google Analytics, SEO, Find, Commerce, Relate, Social Pack, Mobile (short demo & slides)
Upgrade to EPiServer CMS7: What’s involved and why you should consider it
Upcoming events: EPiServer Customer Day 2013, seminar/webinar series
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
BI Think! Event: The Master of Your DomainIntergen
Claim the power of accurate data.
Sally works for your organisation. She recently got married and changed her name and address. How many systems do you need to update? What happens if you don't get them all changed?
In a world that is becoming increasingly distributed and interdependent, a world where we are communicating more often and using more systems, the importance of having your data correct has never been higher. Learn how to identify your core data items and overcome the challenges of keeping them correct. Determine how to identify high risk areas, prioritise them, and implement a methodology that will allow you to reap the rewards of keeping those items accurate.
Whether it is an employee, a customer, a contract or something else, making sure your systems accurately reflect the changes improves operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, reduces the risk of legal liability and increases the ease of regulatory compliance.
Join us to learn how claim the power you can have through accurate data and be the master of your domain.
Boost loyalty and bottom line results by putting customers firstIntergen
According to Forrester Research, you cannot outperform your competition by offering lower prices while ignoring customer experience.
Their research shows that customer experience is a more powerful customer loyalty driver than price-value perception and, as examples, accounts for 55.1% of loyalty for banks and 46.5% for retailers.
What’s considered a customer experience? These not only include interactions through traditional channels, such as purchases, customer service requests and call centre communications but also, increasingly, through social CRM such as Twitter and Facebook.
To manage the customer experience, companies need to create a strategy that encompasses all customer touch points across the organisation. Stanley Marcus, former president and chairman of the board at Neiman-Marcus (US Luxury brand) quoted: "Consumers are statistics. Customers are people."
Customer experience management (CEM) is the collection of processes a company uses to track, oversee and organise every interaction between a customer and the organisation throughout the customer lifecycle. The goal of CEM is to optimise interactions from the customer's perspective and, as a result, foster customer loyalty.
This insightful Think! Event looks at how organisations are embracing CEM and utilising CRM tools to assist in growing loyalty amongst their customers.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
This presentation was delivered at one of Intergen's Twilight sessions during 2008. It provides an overview of the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and is targeted at both business and IT users.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Dynamics Day 2012: Enterprise Projects - Setting up for SuccessIntergen
With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 now considered an “enterprise” solution, come to this session to hear from customers who are implementing or have implemented AX, and their experiences of setting up a projects for success.
Involving both Intergen practitioners and customers, this session will focus on the key considerations for implementing Dynamics AX, in complex scenarios, and how to set up an implementation project to ensure a successful outcome.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: Break down silos with SharePoint Collaboration and...Intergen
Improving collaboration and communication is a goal for virtually all organisations – there are always opportunities to improve the flow of communication between and across teams.
As a leading collaboration solution, Microsoft SharePoint provides a number of features and functions that combine to improve collaboration and break down the silos that exist within many organisations.
When implementing SharePoint we find our customers often come back to two key objectives: achieving findability and ensuring integrity. How can we create, classify and store information so that it can be easily retrieved? And how do we ensure that the information we do find is correct, up to date and gives users confidence?
Intergen Think! Seminar: Assesing your fit for ERP cloudIntergen
Organisations that embrace cloud computing can experience significant cost reductions when it comes to the on-going operation of their solutions.
With Dynamics NAV 2013 now available as a cloud-based solution, Microsoft is one of the few vendors about to provide organisations with options when it comes to ERP deployment.
Is your organisation ready to embrace ERP in the cloud? What are the key business factors you should be considering? What should we, as New Zealand-based organisations, be looking for? Does an on-premise deployment make more sense?
This Think! Seminar explored the value proposition of ERP in the cloud, incorporating the latest information from Microsoft Convergence, Microsoft’s global conference for users of Microsoft Dynamics solutions.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: What's shaping the Business Systems of the FutureIntergen
What’s shaping the Business Systems of the Future
With the abundance of desktop and mobile devices and platforms, there are now numerous ways for consumers and information workers alike to create and consume applications and services. Enterprise applications are having to evolve to keep up, and your ERP system is no exception – like all other applications, they too need to move with the times.
The session focussed on emerging trends in business solutions from Microsoft and a forward looking view on what Microsoft Dynamics ERP might look like in the future. In this session, we covered:
- How business processes can be embedded into users’ own devices
- How social systems are influencing business system design – how Microsoft Dynamics is responding to the growing influence of social systems
- Previewing design concepts for the future versions of Dynamics ERP applications, including a Metro-based application
Presented by James Page and Nick Johnson of Intergen along with Sue Driscoll of Microsoft, this session provided an exclusive behind the scenes look at how Microsoft’s ERP solutions could evolve in the future. While the focus of the session was on Microsoft Dynamics, this session could also be of interest to those people who want an insight into how enterprise systems in general are having to evolve to keep up with new devices and interaction methods.
Featuring Craig Dewar, Director of Product Management for Microsoft Dynamics CRM at Microsoft Corporation; Chris Auld, Chief Technology Officer from Intergen; and Simon Bright, Chief Operating Officer from Intergen. This multifaceted keynote will look at the current state of Microsoft and its Dynamics offerings, and what lies ahead over the next few years.
The Benefits of Social Collaboration in the EnterpriseIntergen
According to Forrester, growth in software investment is shifting to people centric and collaborative software with 37% of IT decision-makers planning to implement or expand the use of collaboration tools, compared with 25% or less who are planning investments in traditional software such as enterprise resource planning, human capital management or product life-cycle management.
The drivers for this change include:
• A greater desire for organisations to capture and re-use knowledge.
• The need to maintain connections throughout a distributed workforce.
• The need to align software systems to meet new workforce demands.
This event discussed Microsoft's vision for social collaboration in the enterprise and see how you can extend your SharePoint platform with Yammer to foster greater team collaboration, empower your employees and drive business agility.
How to make the most out of Lead Management and CRMIntergen
You’ve implemented Dynamics CRM, you “kind of” manage leads, but you either have no real process or a process that regularly fails. In this session we will find out how to take advantage of Dynamics CRM to manage your leads more effectively and track the conversion of leads to actual opportunities and sales.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
ALTITUDE 2019 | Corporate Engineer: The New IT AdminBetterCloud
The notion that IT is only important when stuff breaks is outdated. IT is now the gatekeeper and enabler of business solutions and productivity. Join Blair Sammons, Lead of Corporate Engineering at Weedmaps, for a deep dive into the core skills you need as the IT industry shifts and how to leverage these skills to uplevel your career.
The Most Trusted IT Managed Service Providers In India.pdfinsightssuccess2
This edition features a handful of business leadersThe Most Trusted IT Managed Service Providers In India several sectors that are at the forefront of leading us into a digital future.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
This trend is simply not being followed by only big companies but small and medium scale businesses are also chipping in and catching up with the trend and taking up advantage of Top IT outsourcing companies in USA , smaller and mid-cap companies hiring third party vendors for web development, digital marketing, customer support, human resource, etc.
Software Development Company Corporate Presentation Aapna Infotech
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Discover. Learn. Evolve
Technology is a discovery assisting you to evolve through the lifetime of learning. Global Infocloud believes in implementing our knowledge, hard work and talent to guide you on your success path.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Read our B2B marketing credentials. We show the clients we've worked with on each slide. You can see individual results on the right slide panel.
Your success story can be next!
#FIRMday London 2nd November 2017 'Moving from monologue to dialogue; how Cap...Emma Mirrington
Join Joanne Lee, Head of Recruitment, who will be looking at how Capco are using on-line group chat to engage with specialist scarce talent. Through peer-to-peer engagement Capco are building their brand within target markets and promoting the exciting work they’re doing and innovation they are bringing to the industry, without pushing a pure recruitment message.
Swiftnlift Announces digital marketing agencies in Singapore 2021Swiftnlift
With the purpose (or vision or mission) of Building A Better Internet, our suite of reusable products and services helps our customers build, secure, and deliver responsive e-commerce websites, customized web solutions, enterprise-grade mobile apps in less time.
Experience the pinnacle of digital excellence with our Best Digital Services. From transformative digital solutions for businesses to captivating web design, innovative app development, and results-driven digital marketing, we redefine possibilities in the digital realm. Elevate your online presence, streamline operations, and stay ahead of the curve with our comprehensive suite of cutting-edge services. Revolutionize your world with us
Creating intelligent content: How to automate personalised, one-to-one market...Intergen
Now more than ever as organisations we need to accelerate our digital engagement and use our content intelligently, sensitively and helpfully.
One of the only ways to connect with customers is digitally, and so the challenge for us as brands is how do we deliver a relevant and engaging experience at scale? And, within that, how do we make sure that we're tailoring the right content, to reach our audiences in the right ways, at the right time?
In this webinar, we'll discuss the importance of personalisation in delivering an outstanding customer experience and the challenges marketers face when it comes to delivering true one-to-one personalised journeys. We will then look how Episerver's new Content Intelligence and Content Recommendations can, through the power of AI, help marketers gain deep content insights and automate true one-to-one, personalised marketing at scale.
The Coronavirus pandemic had a profound impact on the way we work. Almost overnight, organisations have had to learn how to work remotely – and collaborate effectively – often by the most expedient means possible.
The good news is that the flexible, remote working practices and tools that always seemed like a good idea in principle, have now been tested under extreme conditions and, in many cases, have been proven to be highly effective. To maintain the momentum and continue to realise the benefits, it's essential that we balance that flexibility and immediacy with governance and management. This is particularly true with 'easy to use' tools designed with user empowerment at their heart, such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom and others.
In this webinar, we explore common pain points and problems arising from the explosive growth of these tools and potential solutions to those problems. We will hear from Anthony Martino, IT Operations Manager at flybuys (Australia), on how they plan to balance user empowerment with effective governance and management. We will look at practical approaches available to all customers, to continue realising the benefits of flexible working in a secure, streamlined and controlled manner.
For more information visit https://www.intergen.co.nz/ReimagineWork/ #ReimagineWork
Customer Insights: It's time to get personalIntergen
During this webinar, Qassem Naim, Head of Data and Tech at FCB NZ (one of the largest global advertising agencies) joined us to discuss how excellent customer experience starts by getting personal. To do this right, it is important to understand how each customer interacts with your business. We then looked at how the Dynamics 365 Customer Insights platform can help you unify customer data from any touchpoint and personalise the buying experience for each customer through AI-driven insights and recommendations.
For more information visit https://www.intergen.co.nz/ReimagineWork/ #ReimagineWork
Working Remotely with Microsoft TechnologiesIntergen
Keeping with the #ReimagineWork theme, we ran the "Working Remotely with Microsoft Technologies" webinar - conducted with Microsoft Teams live event - where we discussed covering remote working with Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Desktop and communication with Microsoft Teams.
Watch the recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBWkoPbw5kc to see how you can use Microsoft Azure technology to create and deploy Windows desktop images that run on the cloud, accessible from web browsers, Windows and MacOS clients as well as Android and iOS apps, giving your employees access to the same tools they would normally have through your physical desktop deployments.
Business Change Management is more than just sending out a few emails, doing a bit of training and writing a new policy. It is about understanding the things that make the business unique, working with people to find out how the change will actually affect them and how they feel about it. You can then provide them with the right information and tools to comfortably and confidently transition to the new system.
Equally, it’s not a one off, hit and run activity. Supporting people as they transition to new ways of working should be ongoing throughout the life of a project and beyond.
This approach leads to the development of a change strategy, creation and delivery of communications and training resources, and the facilitation of all staff training.
Working with people to understand their needs and then coming up with practical and creative ways to address them allows you to come up with targeted approaches to getting people on board.
It’s hard not to be inspired by someone who is actually excited and committed to change. Alternatively, change is never successful when a solution is thrown in and people feel that leaders are ‘doing it to them, not with or for them’.
Enters InterConnect, a proven approach that focuses on what your business wants to achieve and then works with your people leaders to give them the skills and confidence to support their teams through the transition. The approach is based on having conversations, providing an open forum for teams to discuss the changes and giving your leaders the knowledge and skills to maintain the drive for change.
With more than 50,000 new malware created every day organisations can no longer afford to risk the financial and reputational impacts of a security or data breach, which can be too much for a business to recover from. Because of this, IT managers face increasing scrutiny and pressure from CEOs, managing directors and boards to prove that they are keeping the organisation secure.
The changing threat landscape means organisations need to be vigilant and smarter about security. While businesses still face threats from infected devices and malware, attackers have also moved beyond that. For example, there is an increasing number of targeted email attacks with cyber criminals spending time to monitor communications so they can imitate emails that are so sophisticated that even relatively savvy users will open them.
This webinar will explore the building blocks required to ensure you have the roadmap required to best protection against cyber attacks. We will provide you with a high level view of the following topics:
· Audit and discovery – What are your weaknesses and are you compliant?
· Education – Do your employees know when not to open that attachment?
· Policy – Do you have the right policies for your industry?
· Technology – Where to start and what has changed?
Dynamics Day 2016: Microsoft Dynamics 365 first lookIntergen
James Page and Steven Foster give the first Australasian public viewing of Microsoft’s new business platform as a service, Dynamics 365, and explore the foundations underpinning future Digital Transformation success.
Dynamics Day 2016: CRM Field Service and Project ServiceIntergen
Steven Foster and Microsoft’s Scott Smedley look at how Field Service and Dynamics Portals can change the way you serve your customers, ensuring you provide an intelligent and data-driven engagement that empowers employees and customers.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
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Intergen Smarts 1 (2001)
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PROJECT CASE STUDY >>
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Welcome.
As I sit here writing the introduction to this
newsletter, I find myself feeling a bit nostalgic. I
looked up the first ever newsletter we did as Glazier
Systems back in 1996. At that time we proudly
announced that we had grown to 18 staff, talked
about our staff gaining Microsoft qualifications
and an emerging technology call “Intranets”.
A lot has changed in the past five years but then a lot of things have remained
the same. We are still in the same offices we were five years ago, although the
fit out is much improved, we have grown to 40 staff, we have recently had our
Microsoft capabilities recognised by being admitted to the elite Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner Program and we are buzzing about SharePoint Portal Server
as a great new Intranet and Document Management solution.
What is new is our brand. We are very positive about our future after re-gaining
our independence from the Advantage Group. We had a great launch party early
in September, and I would like to thank all those who were able to attend. Your
enthusiasm for our new company was a great boost and we were all on a high
for weeks after.
As a new company we have spent some time thinking about where we are,
where we want to be and how we are going to get there. As part of our planning
we looked back at some work we did back when we had first started Glazier.
We were quite surprised to find how appropriate those early plans were, even
today. They needed updating because they made some references to specific
technologies, but the concepts are still valid. We identified four key values,
things that are so important that they have survived all the changes that have
happened and that will happen in the future.
Professionalism - We always act in a professional way. We always treat our
clients, partners and other team members with honesty and integrity. We strive
to understand the business needs of our clients and offer the best solutions for
their needs.
Innovation - We embrace innovation. We constantly review new technologies
and experiment with new techniques that enhance the solutions we can offer
to our clients.
People - We have fun and genuinely enjoy work. We work as a team without egos
and recognise the value of the diversity of the team members. We strive to learn,
to always do better and to help others in the team to realise their potential.
Value-driven - We always strive to add real value to our clients. We work hard to
improve our own processes to ensure they are appropriate, effective and add value.
We hope that you will enjoy this issue of our newsletter under its new banner
“SMARTS”. Our aim is to provide a cross section of articles that are informative
and entertaining and demonstrate the essence of Intergen, Intelligent Business.
tony.stewart@intergen.co.nz
I S S U E O N E
>> HOT NEWS:
Intergen awarded Microsoft Gold
Partner Status >> Page 4
>> NEW
TELEPHONE
NUMBERS:
Landline:
04 472 2021
Facsimile:
04 472 2027
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Karen Young
What do you do?
Senior Developer
How do you make a difference?
Quality is really important to me, and
delivering something that will meet
the customer's needs. Along with
the people in my project teams here,
I've helped to deliver high quality
systems that do that.
What are you known for (famous
or infamously)?
Having an “annoying Australian
accent”.
What do you love about your job?
It's great helping to build a solution,
seeing it go from a concept, and then
working with a team to create
something that will be of use to
people and help them in their jobs.
Brief about yourself?
I'm from Wellington originally,
although I spent some time working
in Melbourne before I came here.
Although Wellington is a wonderful
place and has everything on a smaller
scale, I still miss the great food,
shopping, and all the events on over
there - I'll definitely have to go back
for a holiday sometime.
Who is Intergen?
>> INTERGENITE:
DEVELOPMENT
& INTEGRATION
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES
QUALITY
ASSURANCE
CREATIVE
STUDIO
TECHNICAL
SERVICES
The Technical Services team is experienced in configuring and deploying
the full suite of Microsoft server applications. They run our
internal infrastructure, as well as our hosting and ASP
environments and use the skills and experience gained there
to provide clients with up to date advice and assistance
via consulting engagements. They provide SQL Server
DBA and OLAP services to many organisations.
The Quality Assurance team ensure that all of the projects
we deliver achieve the required quality, and they contribute
at all stages of the project life-cycle.
All this capability is harnessed and delivered via our
Professional Services team who provide Project Management,
Business Analysis and Consulting in front of, along side and
around all of our projects.
wayne.forgesson@intergen.co.nz
Intergen is your one stop shop for anything you
want to do in the Microsoft environment. We are
a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for E-Commerce
Solutions but our services cover a wide range of
Microsoft technology sets and beyond!
We excel at delivering successful business solutions - both bespoke and package.
Over the years (as Glazier Systems, Advantage Group and now Intergen) we
have delivered over 400 solutions to more than 170 clients. Amongst other
things, we have a long history in delivering Intranets and Document
Management Systems, and are now supporting the current interest in
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. Intranets we have delivered
support more than 15,000 users for 19 clients.
As you can see in the pentagram, there are five 'parts' to the
Intergen service offer.
Our Creative Studio has expertise in online branding, site
design and Web Site usability. We are currently working to
deliver the latest generation of highly functional and easily
maintainable Web Sites with products like Microsoft Content
Management Server.
The Development and Integration team build and deploy the
solutions and are gurus in all the core Microsoft technologies -
ASP, Visual Basic, COM, Access, MTS, SQL, etc. Their days are spent
immersed in the Internet world - building Internet, intranet or extranet
applications. They are currently working with the new .NET framework
and will have live applications very soon.
>> The public face of Intergen. From left: Shane Hassan, Wayne Forgesson,
Andrew Jamieson, Richard Petrie and Gina Harper.
3. The Challenge:
In a year, the Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS) administered by
the Community Development Group, Department of Internal Affairs, distributes
$10 million to community groups. The time spent in processing and prioritising
paper applications in the order of 3-4,000 a year, was a duplicated effort across
17 regional offices, compounded by many different databases. But the far
greater cost in the bigger picture was that it was hamstringing CDG's vision to
place greater emphasis on delivering real community outcomes and initiatives.
It was an opportunity for COGS to be first out of the blocks with a web-based
grants service.
To Enlarge:
We didn't want the solution to dominate our business –
we needed a solution that would grow with us.
The strategy was clear to define. This was about people. From the outset,
Donald Shand Chief Advisor Strategy and Development, stressed the need to
think of the project not so much as a technology project, but as a business
improvement system.
"We needed to get into the mind of the customer in a way that would be useful
and valuable, so far more than tools, we wanted a partner that could personalise
what technology could do. Clearly, however, Intergen's ability to demonstrate
sites and experiences that were relevant to our business stood out in their
selection". Donald Shand, Transitional Manager
COGS Online went live 1 June 2001
To encourage uptake by the community, the site needed to be developed with
Community Funding goes On-Line
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strong community consultation. In
readiness, CDG and Intergen
facilitated 2 pilot studies to tease
out ideas that would make the site
work harder and smarter than paper.
The pilots showed 38% of applicants
had an email address.
A Model for the Future:
COGS OnLine is also seen as a valuable model for potential uptake by other
groups such as Lottery Grants who award over $70 million to a wide range of
community purposes.
The Business Difference:
Significant efficiencies and reductions are expected in administration costs as
more community groups register online. However, results won't just be counted
in the speed of processing applications or in greater accuracies in information.
The real success of the COGS OnLine strategy lies with CDG advisory staff being
freer to focus on being more mobile within communities, in contrast to carrying
the huge workload created by paper applications.
"COGS OnLine has bought us nearer to communities – virtually as well as
physically. Technology has created space for our Advisors to transfer more time
into value-added community development activities and to work towards
community change", Donald Shand.
paddy.payne@intergen.co.nz
>> TECH TIP:
Transact-SQL Debugging
Finding bugs in a stored procedure
used to be a major difficulty to
developers using SQL especially if the
stored procedure is complex and
you’re not the person who wrote the
stored procedure in the first place.
Stored procedures were designed to
perform a task, or set of tasks, with
the developer only needing to know
what needs to be passed into the
stored procedure and what is
returned. Most simple stored
procedures can be visually debugged
but complex stored procedures with
comparisons, loops, or nesting can
be time consuming to understand
and trace where the problem occurs.
With the introduction of MS SQL
2000, Microsoft has provided a
Transact-SQL debugger in the SQL
Query Analyser. This will let a
developer set breakpoints, step
through each line in the stored
procedure, and add watches to
analyse the results after each line is
executed, but best of all it can
automatically rollback changes
performed by the stored procedure
to preserve the integrity of the data.
This allows complex stored procedures
to be debugged in much the same
way as an ASP page or a VB
component in Visual Studio, which
will save both the developer’s time
and most importantly, your money.
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>>4 >> M I C R O S O F T G O L D P A R T N E R
Partnership Programme Structure
The Microsoft Certified Partner Program has two levels - Member and Gold, each
with its own requirements and benefits.
Microsoft Certified Partners at the Member Level:
Microsoft Certified Partners at the Member Level (or Microsoft Certified Partners)
are the foundation of the Microsoft Certified Partner Program and are entitled
to receive technical, marketing, and sales information as well as Microsoft
Product Licenses to support their development, testing, internal business and
marketing needs.
Microsoft Certified Partners at the Gold Level:
A Microsoft Certified Partner at the Member Level can qualify to become a
Microsoft Certified Partner at the Gold Level (or Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
through demonstrated expertise with Microsoft products and demonstrated
success in deploying Microsoft technology based solutions. Microsoft Certified
Gold Partners are qualified by areas of specialisation: e-commerce solutions,
enterprise systems, support centers, and ASP hosting. Microsoft Gold Certified
Partners receive the right to use a unique Microsoft Certified Gold Partner logo
with respect to the areas of specialisation in which they have qualified, plus
incremental benefits over and above those provided at the Member Level.
Intergen is one of only two Microsoft Gold Certified Partners for E-Commerce
Solutions in New Zealand. Intergen offers the earliest available access to technical
readiness materials and Microsoft technologies, including technology deployment
blueprints developed by Microsoft Enterprise Services.
Microsoft Gold Certification
The new Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner Program for E-Commerce
Solutions is an exciting natural
evolution for those Certified Partners
who are focused on e-Commerce.
The Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
Program for E-Commerce Solutions
identifies companies that have
proven their commitment and
expertise in building or delivering
e-Commerce solutions based on
Microsoft technologies.
E-Commerce Solutions
We’re back, and we’re Y
>> INTERGEN LAUNCH
1: Catherine Rusby, State Insurance. Tarah Nikora, Open
Polytechnic. Richard Petrie, Intergen. Mark Johnston,
Open Polytechnic. Marty Kerr, State Insurance. 2: Geoff
Laurie, Microsoft 3: John Jameson, Intergen. Stephen
Bell, IDG. Fulton Hargreaves, Intergen. 4: Tim John,
Domainz. Ian Morrish, Microsoft. Jeremey Moon, Icebreaker.
Brent Anderson, DPMC. Robin Semmens, ERS. Paul Reiher,
Bexhill. Mike Peters, Steve Graham and Scott Wylie,
Microsoft. Tony Stewart, Intergen. 5: Wayne Forgesson,
Intergen. Peter Clemerson and Neil Upton, NZ Fire Service.
6: Lady Penelope, aka Gina Harper, Intergen. 7: Neil
Andrews, Recruitment Knowledge. Beith Atkinson, NZ
Immigration Service. Donna Cooksley, Recruitment
Knowledge. 8: Robyn Renouf, Robyn’s Agencies. Scott
Wylie, Microsoft.1 2
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>>AMBER DELIGHTS: We were privileged to recently host a tutored
beer tasting with Geoff Griggs, reknowned beer writer and commentator. A great opportunity
to socialise whilst learning about a non-IT topic for a change! Client attendees names will
not be revealed, but thanks for joining us in a hugely successful evening.
Mac's Nelson Reserve
Fine full-flavoured marzen-style
bronze lager.
Stella Artois 660ml - IMPORT
Crisp hop notes balance the biscuity
sweet malt flavours. Excellent dry
finish.
Malt Shovel Pilsener
Czech style pilsener with spicy, hop
aroma. Malt body and hop
bitterness, especially in the finish.
Malt Shovel Amber Ale
Soft-bodied Ale with creamy malt
flavours. Lightly spicy hop character;
and melony fruitiness.
Malt Shovel Porter
A dark beer with delicate complexity
from wheat and roasted barley, the
hopping and extra maturation.
Belle Vue Kriek (Lambic)
Lambic style made with fresh
cherries, a burgundy hue and a
refreshingly fruity taste.
Hoegaarden White
Classic Belgian white beer. Tart and
refreshing with distinctive coriander
and orange flavours.
Leffe Blonde
Rich spicy and malty with long
drying finish. The biggest-selling
Belgian abbey beer.
Leffe Brune
Dark brown Belgian abbey beer - a
full-bodied beer with a typical nose
of dark malts and fruity flavours.
Hoegaarden Grand Cru
Belgian Wheat Beer. Strong and
spicy complex pale ale from famous
Belgian brewer.
All product supplied by Regional Wines &
Spirits, Basin Reserve, Wgtn.
www.regionalwines.co.nz
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All launch photographs Craig Simcox
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6. http://messenger.msn.co.nz). I'm also excited about the new Pocket PC (2002).
When combined with a GPRS or CDMA phone it allows lots of freedom. I was
recently up in Gisborne, checking and responding to emails on my Compaq IPAQ
over GPRS. Surfing the net while on a surfing holiday, fantastic!!
Big for developers is Microsoft.Net, the most significant programming environment
upgrade for about 4 years. You've probably heard of Microsoft's .Net push but
have no idea what it is. You're not alone. It has not been well communicated
yet. My understanding of what .Net is, follows
1. a new set of libraries and tools for developers to access the many rich
services of Windows and the Internet.
2. technology that makes it easy for applications and for business to
communicate with each other
3. a set of compelling web services from Microsoft
So why is .Net important for business? Well, while technologies like Active Server
Pages have been great for quickly developing web based applications they have
turned into a maintenance headache. With .Net web programming matures to
a much more structured and manageable activity. This will reduce maintenance
and increase affordability of web based apps.
With our US company it makes absolute sense to leverage the skills and cost
advantages of NZ developers. It's about 1/3 the price of having work done in
the US. Another big difference is that local developers seem to have a broader
skill range. I'm excited about working with some of the new Intergen stars like
Alan, Derek and Jeremy on our project.
Tony has invited me to get involved with a few things and I'm more than happy
to spend time with any Intergen customers. Just contact Tony or send me an
email at rod@drury.net.nz
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We asked Rod to write a few paragraph's for this month's newsletter:
Hi everyone, it's good to be back working with the Intergen team. Congratulations
to Tony, Paddy, Wayne and the rest for buying back the business. I'm really
impressed at how the team has matured and the facilities. The new fit out is
fantastic and the hosting environment looks great.
I've always thought that having quality hosting facilities near a strong development
team would be a powerful combination. For building rich web based applications
its really difficult and expensive to do it with the bigger providers, and you need
the hosting staff to understand (and care) what the applications do.
Bandwidth is starting to get there as well so with the economy being tight there
is great opportunity for small to mid size organizations to move their mail and
application servers to 'boutique' providers, reducing their costs and getting all
the big company features that make life easy like web mail and not having to
worry about monitoring viruses and backups etc.
The things that are exciting me at the moment is how computers are becoming
more of a communications tool. MSN Messenger is one of the most exciting
tools I've used for a while. Watch over the next year as Messenger becomes a
platform for all sorts of new services like alerts and notifications (try it out at
Since leaving Glazier, Rod has
started Context Connect, a US
based company working on a
Directory Assistance product
for Mobile Phones. Rod has
been based in Wellington for
most of the last year, however
and is using Intergen to develop
the application software which
will be deployed in
New Zealand, Australia, UK and
the United States.
>> What's he doing now?
Many people have asked what Rod Drury (one of the original
Glazier founders) has been doing for the past couple of years.
Well Rod has been spending quite a bit of time in the Intergen
offices over the past few months.
>>INTERGENITE:
7. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
>>7>> B U S I N E S S T E C H N O L O G Y T R E N D S
Intergen and Viatx recently worked
together to build the official Web
Site for the TelstraSaturn Hyundai
New Zealand Golf Open. The site
(www.open2002.co.nz) was designed
by the Intergen Creative team and is
built on the Viatx Xpand Portal
platform. The Viatx platform provides
a basis for delivering content rich
Web Sites with management of the
content available via a browser over
the internet. During the lead up to
the Open and during the Open itself
the web site will receive regular
updates to ensure it always reflects
the latest available information.
Intergen has a long relationship with
Viatx with some of the original R&D
for the Viatx product set coming out
of work done by Glazier Systems. The
partnership with Viatx gives Intergen
access to a set of highly functional
and highly scalable applications that
are designed to be offered via an
Application Service Provider (ASP)
and access to a highly scalable
development framework. For more
information on Viatx visit
www.viatx.com .
SharePoint Portal Server is an application with a
huge feature set. We struggle to demonstrate it in
less than 2 hours.
Formally known as Tahoe, SharePoint Portal Server is built around the Microsoft
Office personal productivity tools that are used by many organisations and is
a very cost effective way to implement a platform for Document Management,
Intranet, Knowledge Management and Team Collaboration.
The feature highlights are:
>> Browser based delivery. All of the Sharepoint functions are delivered through
the browser, including those provided for systems maintenance. Features are
also delivered through tight integration with both Windows Explorer and the
Microsoft Office suite (Office 2000 and above).
>> Digital Dashboard. SharePoint provides users with the Microsoft Digital
Dashboard. Users are able to aggregate information from many different sources
into one convenient place.
>> Web Part Integration. Plug and play Web Part technology is available to
further extend the feature set and scope of SharePoint. Organisations can develop
their own web parts for use within SharePoint.
>> Document Management and Publishing. Within SharePoint is a fully-fledged
Document Management and Publishing system that includes of document check-
in and checkout, version tracking, application of searchable meta-data, approval
workflow routes, web discussions for on-line document comment and control of
document access.
>> Index and Search Services. SharePoint offers a comprehensive index and
search functionality that allows organisations to index not only documents but
also databases, web sites and meta data stores. Search capabilities offered
include Full text, categories, 'best bets', combined content sorces and subscriptions.
>> Collaboration and Document Sharing. Through Team Services, SharePoint
provides organisations with the ability to have team based services of
Announcements, Event Management, Contact Management, Task Lists, shared
document libraries, surveys and project status information.
If you are thinking about implementing Document Management or upgrading
your Intranet make sure you take a look at SharePoint Portal Server.
paul.quirk@intergen.co.nz
Steve would be one of the longest serving staff members were it not for the year he took out to manage the Development team
at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Wellington. Steve started with Glazier Systems in 1995 fresh from the UK with very little IT
experience and is now considered somewhat of a Guru. AKA: Brookesy and inaugural winner of the “Brookes Award” What
do you do? Manager, Development & Integration Services. How do you make a difference? I’m very passionate about what
I do. I love using technology to help clients be more successful. I also love solving problems if someone has something that does
not work or can’t figure out how to do something, I won’t rest until I have a solution. Share one thing you love about your
job? The challenge. There is always something new to do and learn and always someone keep you on your toes. A bit about
yourself? I emigrated to New Zealand from the UK with my wife 6 years ago. I have a son, William, who turns one in December.
I enjoy Motorsports, playing Golf and read Physics books for relaxation. I have a degree in Applied Physics.
Steve Brookes
>> PARTNER NEWS
>>INTERGENITE:
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>> I N S I D E S T O R Y
>> TWILIGHT
SEMINARS:
Our Twilight Seminars are informal
evening sessions held at our place
running from 4.30 to 5.30. They
are designed to inform you about
current trends and happenings in
the space where business and
information technology overlap.
These are some of the topics we have
covered in the past few months:
>> industry trends – mobile
computing; emerging business
models; Intranets; document
management
>> technology briefings – Microsoft
SharePoint Portal Server; Microsoft
Content Management Server
>> customer presentations - case
management systems; application
capturing & processing
The seminars consist of an
interactive presentation followed by
open question and answer
discussions. Drinks and nibbles are
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Our next topic is User Interface
Design and Content.
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The Creative team has been very busy over the
past few months. Not only have they completed a
number of client engagements but they were given
the job of developing the new brand and all the
associated brand assets for Intergen. One of the
major tasks was to develop a design for a new
Internet site. The objective was to have the Web
Site work as a showcase, not only for the Creative
team but also a technology show case. The decision
was taken to develop the Web Site in Microsoft’s
new Content Management Server.
At a business level the advantages of using Content Management Server are
well understood. We are able to delegate the task of managing the content to
the appropriate people and put in place an approval process to ensure that
everything is verified and checked before it goes live.
The decision to use Content Management Server did, however, put added pressure
on the team charged with developing the Web Site. It has always been our policy
to try new technologies out on ourselves before our clients. Usually we start
simple but this time we went for probably the most complex implementation we
could. The Creative Director designed a user interface that appears simple, but
“pushed the boundaries” of CM Server.
In typical internal project fashion, our launch date loomed and we still had not
been able to begin the development. The creative concept for the Web Site was
Microsoft Content Management Server
completed only 3 days before our launch. The Development team then had to
work day and night to bring the designs to life in Content Management Server.
In the hours leading up to our launch it was all hands to the pump. We had a
large number of people creating, entering and checking content. These people
were using Word Processor like features to enter content into pre-defined
templates. There was no requirement for HTML skills. There was no way we could
have got so much content up on our Web Site in such a short time without using
something like Content Management Server. Our Web Site is not finished, nor
will it ever be, that is part of the point of doing it in CM Server. We will be
constantly updating and improving it.
We learned a lot about CM
Server in a compressed time
frame. We plan to use that
knowledge to benefit out
clients. We also plan to offer
CM Server in an ASP
environment so we can share
the cost of the platform across
many clients to further
improve the value proposition
for using CM Server.
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