Please note that our annual audit will be distributed to all system administrators by Monday, January 19, 2009.

For more information, please contact your internal system administrator or our help desk directly at 704.971.8170 or support@avidxchange.com.

2009 Learning Events Designed Just for You!

AvidXchange system administrators, users, financial officers and company executives will attend these events to obtain training and earn CPE (Accounting and Specialized Knowledge) credits. Attendees will have an opportunity to share experiences with industry peers, learn best practices for payables management and how to better leverage AvidInvoice within their organization. In addition, we’ll outline our future initiatives and provide details on new product launches and enhancements for 2009.

Option 1 ‒ Scheduled on April 27-29, the AvidXchange User Forum (AUF) 2009 is a condensed 1.5 day learning forum focused on best practices, strategy and updates on new products and services for your payables process. This event is held in Newport Beach to serve our West Coast clients and beyond. View past brochure… AUF2008_Brochure.pdf

Option 2 ‒ Scheduled on September 14-16, the AvidXchange User Conference (AUC) 2009 is a 2.5 day learning conference held in Charlotte focused on best practices, education and training, industry roundtable discussion groups as well as updates from the AvidXchange team regarding new products and services. View past brochure… AUC2008_Brochure.pdf

In the coming weeks you’ll be hearing from Kristen Thomasino (AvidXchange Client Success Manager) regarding your site preferences, session topics, training and more.

I’m more convinced than ever that Users need to invest time and well as money to get an appropriate return on investment. What does that mean? It means that most Users benefit greatly from interacting with other Users. It means that the best ideas for solving problems come from the community of users and not from the vendor. It means that you, as a User, should attend User Conferences to gain a better understanding of how others use the same tools to add more value.

Web 2.0 and community aren’t fads. They are solid business strategies.

It’s easy to focus your decision-making on an application’s current feature-set and functionality; after all, you’re trying to solve for a particular business problem that’s causing some level of pain. As important as it is to consider these things, something that is often overlooked but is maybe more important is whether your solution provider can scale.

Why does scaling matter? Read the rest of this entry »

(SaaS stands for Software-as-a-Service and refers to applications delivered primarily through a web browser. Learn more about SaaS at this site: Basics of SaaS.)

How many SaaS products do we use? At last count, five: for Customer-facing tasks like CRM/SFA (sales and customer service); for managing marketing distributions (marketing); for online registration processes (marketing); for managing our R&D backlog, defect-tracking, and release scheduling (R&D); and, you guessed it, for automated accounts payable (financials).

We’re looking into a few more: for core financials; for network monitoring and management; and for project management.  Why? Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to the AvidXchange Community. We’ve published this site and this blog because we feel strongly that AvidXchange alone cannot move our industry forward. Yes, AvidXchange may lead the charge - and we will - but we’ll need support, feedback, encouragement, criticism, and collaboration from you, the User. This is a conversation and we need you to be a part of it.

We’re here because: Read the rest of this entry »