/ When: September 21-23, 2010
/ Where: Hilton Charlotte City Center / 704.377.1500 / 222 East Third Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
/ Information/Registration: Please check back. Details will post as they become available.
/ Questions? Send Email or call 704.971.8112

Please go to this location to download my presentation materials.  Thanks.

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AvidXchange’s Annual SAS 70 Type II Audit is now available to all system administrators as of Friday, January 16, 2009.

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

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 »