The Rand Group continues to sponsor events educating our clients and the public on business systems and the latest software developments from Microsoft and Sage. Be sure to check this page for updates as we are continuously adding events throughout the year.

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Upcoming Events

Sage Timberline 3rd Annual Year End Readiness Seminars 2011
Whether you are new to Timberline or an experienced user, some of the Year End tasks might seem daunting given they are only performed "once a year." The Rand Group is planning planned several opportunities for you to learn some of the tips and tricks to managing the year end processes. Answers to questions like "When do I print my 1099's and W2's", "Which modules do I close", "Should I archive data now or later", and others will be covered during the class.

• W2 Preparation and Processing
• 1099 Preparation and Processing
• Year End Close - Task Review
• Archiving Strategies and Tools

Past Events

December 2011 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. December's upcoming topics include:

• Core Associates Add-on: Paper Free AP Invoice Routing and Approval Software - Many of our clients are taking advantage of highly efficient and affordable technologies to eliminate the bottle necks of manual AP invoice routing and approvals. Our expert will be on the call to share his broad industry knowledge and how it might benefit your company by:
  
  Be Paper Free - Stop the expansion of your file rooms and begin to take that space back for more productive use! No more filing of invoices, no more creation of paper packets for invoice approvers!
  
  Route Invoices Electronically - Your business rules act as triggers to speed invoices to the correct approvers. Easily determine the workflow for each type of trigger (job, property, vendor, etc.) and invoices will route to the correct approvers with up to the minute reporting on which invoices approvers are holding.
  
  Electronic Invoice Reporting - Now all employees are on the same page about the where invoice are in the approval process! Reports requested by auditors, bankers, and even reports to support time/material and cost plus billings can be produced in seconds along with the applicable invoice images.

  December 7th

  Web Session

  2:00 PM CST



• Innovative Software Add-On: Extend Timberline Office Workflows with MyAssistant - Our clients frequently ask us how other Sage Timberline Office clients are addressing common business needs. For example, how are Timberline Office client.....
  
  • Going paperless with electronic Direct Deposit pay stubs.
  • Monitoring cash flow, costs, project documents, etc.
  • Auditing the information in Sage Timberline Office to help ensure correct reports.
  • Automate administrative tasks such as creating and distributing reports.
  Many Sage Timberline Office clients use the MyAssistant software to automate the above and many other tasks.

  December 7th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• The Rand Group Presents: What's New in Sage Timberline 9.8? - Join us as Clint Eggleston, from The Rand Group, takes us through the exciting new features and discusses the preparation needed for the upgrade.
  
  Just a few of the New Features:
  
  • AP Credit Card Processing and Reconciliation
  • Automatic Journal Saves
  • Human Resources Forms
  • Server Migration Tool

  December 6th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• The Rand Group Presents: Timberline Desktop Overview - Make It Personal - Sage Timberline Office Desktop is the centerpiece of Sage Timberline Office. From Sage Timberline Office Desktop, you can open Sage Timberline Office applications, third-party applications, files, and web pages. You can also open individual Sage Timberline Office tasks without opening their associated applications, minimizing your keystrokes when locating a favorite report.
  
  This session will help you understand the components of the Sage Timberline Office Desktop window, how to start tasks from Sage Timberline Office Desktop and much, much more.

  December 8th

  Web Session

  2:00 PM CST

Microsoft Dynamics GP Year End Readiness Seminars 2011
Please join us for our annual year end readiness seminar to review year end close processes in Microsoft Dynamics GP. For additional event details, please contact events@therandgroup.com.

November 2011 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. November's upcoming topics include:

• Core Associates Add-on: Paper Free AP Invoice Routing and Approval Software - Many of our clients are taking advantage of highly efficient and affordable technologies to eliminate the bottle necks of manual AP invoice routing and approvals. Our expert will be on the call to share his broad industry knowledge and how it might benefit your company by:
  
  Be Paper Free - Stop the expansion of your file rooms and begin to take that space back for more productive use! No more filing of invoices, no more creation of paper packets for invoice approvers!
  
  Route Invoices Electronically - Your business rules act as triggers to speed invoices to the correct approvers. Easily determine the workflow for each type of trigger (job, property, vendor, etc.) and invoices will route to the correct approvers with up to the minute reporting on which invoices approvers are holding.
  
  Electronic Invoice Reporting - Now all employees are on the same page about the where invoice are in the approval process! Reports requested by auditors, bankers, and even reports to support time/material and cost plus billings can be produced in seconds along with the applicable invoice images.

  November 15th

  Web Session

  2:00 PM CST



• Innovative Software Add-On: Extend Timberline Office Workflows with MyAssistant - Our clients frequently ask us how other Sage Timberline Office clients are addressing common business needs. For example, how are Timberline Office client.....
  
  • Going paperless with electronic Direct Deposit pay stubs.
  • Monitoring cash flow, costs, project documents, etc.
  • Auditing the information in Sage Timberline Office to help ensure correct reports.
  • Automate administrative tasks such as creating and distributing reports.
  Many Sage Timberline Office clients use the MyAssistant software to automate the above and many other tasks.

  November 16th

  Web Session

  2:00 PM CST



• The Rand Group Presents: What's New in Sage Timberline 9.8? - Join us as Clint Eggleston, from The Rand Group, takes us through the exciting new features and discusses the preparation needed for the upgrade.
  
  Just a few of the New Features:
  
  • AP Credit Card Processing and Reconciliation
  • Automatic Journal Saves
  • Human Resources Forms
  • Server Migration Tool

  November 17th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• The Rand Group Presents: Timberline Desktop Overview - Make It Personal - Sage Timberline Office Desktop is the centerpiece of Sage Timberline Office. From Sage Timberline Office Desktop, you can open Sage Timberline Office applications, third-party applications, files, and web pages. You can also open individual Sage Timberline Office tasks without opening their associated applications, minimizing your keystrokes when locating a favorite report.
  
  This session will help you understand the components of the Sage Timberline Office Desktop window, how to start tasks from Sage Timberline Office Desktop and much, much more.

  November 15th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST

October 2011 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. October's upcoming topics include:

• The Rand Group Presents: My Business Has Changed - How Can Timberline Better Serve My Company?
  
  • Are you a new controller/project manager/estimator?
  • Has your staff turned over due to the economic challenges we are facing?
  • Do you need a procedures manual documenting your important Timberline processes?
  • Are you wondering why Timberline does what it does?
  • Want to understand how you can position Timberline to better address the needs of your business?
  • Do you need a better way to store history?
  • Would you like to reduce your dependency on spreadsheets outside of Timberline?
  • Need to speed up reports?
  • Can we collect payroll and other data at the job site?
  • Want to streamline your Project Managers communication and approval process?
  • Are estimators having trouble keeping up with the # of projects they have to bid to win?
  
  If you answered yes to any of the questions above, and the prospect of considering any changes to your Timberline system seems overwhelming, consider asking The Rand Group to help. We offer an Assessment process designed to document, validate, and analyze your current methodologies against your needs and strategic business plans.
  
  The Assessment process is conducted in a series of interviews targeting your major pain points. The deliverables include:
  • Documentation of all interviews and current Software configurations
  • Workflow Process deficiencies
  • Recommended configuration adjustments or workflow process changes, with potential ROI
  • A project plan to facilitate the proposed improvements

  October 11th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• hh2 Web Services Add-On - Field Reports & Remote Payroll for Timberline
  
  hh2 Field Reports for Timberline Office:
  Are you recording all of your vital daily field information on paper logs? Take advantage of the simplicity and organization that hh2 Field Reports will bring to your field processes. Collect and organize field information with ease and allow searching and reporting anytime, anywhere.
  
  • Export to PDF or Excel
  • Create Custom Forms
  • Document Safety Concerns
  • Attach Photos and Digital Voice Recordings
  • Job Cost and Project Management Reports
  • Accessible from any Browser
  • Mobile App Solutions developed for the iPad
  
  hh2 Remote Payroll for Timberline Office:
  hh2 Remote Payroll streamlines and automates gathering, approving, and reporting job-cost payroll data from remote job sites while syncing seamlessly with Sage Timberline Office or Sage Timberline Enterprise. Time submission and approvals happen at the click of a button and automated tools make it easy to create labor reports.
  
  • Customizable Timecards
  • Customizable Approval Paths
  • Employee Time
  • Equipment Time
  • Real-Time Reporting and Analysis
  • Accessible from any Browser
  • Mobile App Solutions developed for the iPhone and iPad

  October 6th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• hh2 Web Services Add-On - Field Services for Timberline Enterprise - With hh2 Field Service, your technicians are always in touch. Your dispatch employees use Sage Timberline Enterprise (STE) to keep all incoming work orders keyed in and scheduled. The moment they save a work order, it is instantly available to technicians in the field. Technicians can use built-in mapping and GPS to choose the most efficient route. They can update trip statuses, notes, tasks and activities on the work order in real-time. Dispatch receives constant updates from the field and can see where all their technicians are on a map in real-time. The entire process is paperless, drastically accelerating the time to invoice.
  • Real-time sync with Sage Timberline Enterprise
  • Web interface available for laptops and netbooks
  • Track current GPS coordinates of technicians
  • Historical GPS reports available on-demand
  • Mapping and Directions
  • Paperless Process
  • Accessible from any Browser
  • Mobile App Solutions developed for the iPad

  October 27th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• Event 1 Software Add-On - Increase Productivity with Excel and Timberline - Dramatically improve how you share and work with your most vital information from within Excel using a real time, integrated connection to your data. Create your report once and refresh your data on demand with Office Connector. Intelligent Excel-based reporting for Sage Timberline Office, offers you advantages you never thought possible.
  
  Join us for a free online demonstration. You will learn that Excel, coupled with the Office Connector Product Suite, can transform how quickly and effectively you perform your job.
  
  • Produce Cash Flow reports that refresh instantly with current information from your Timberline Office database, allowing you to visualize revenue and cost in easy to read tables with eye popping graphs.
  • Create a single summarized worksheet (dashboard) displaying the current status of any of your Timberline Office applications.
  • Work more effectively with your auditors by displaying any Timberline Office information in the product they most desire; Excel.
  Improve any of the reports you currently depend on by creating them faster and with less effort than ever before.

  October 19th	Web Session	10:30 AM CST
  October 19th	Web Session	4:00 PM CST



• Core Associates Add-On - Paper Free AP Invoice Routing and Approval Software - Many of our clients are taking advantage of highly efficient and affordable technologies to eliminate the bottle necks of manual AP invoice routing and approvals. Our expert will be on the call to share his broad industry knowledge and how it might benefit your company by:
  
  Be Paper Free - Stop the expansion of your file rooms and begin to take that space back for more productive use! No more filing of invoices, no more creation of paper packets for invoice approvers!
  
  Route Invoices Electronically - Your business rules act as triggers to speed invoices to the correct approvers. Easily determine the workflow for each type of trigger (job, property, vendor, etc.) and invoices will route to the correct approvers with up to the minute reporting on which invoices approvers are holding.
  
  Electronic Invoice Reporting - Now all employees are on the same page about the where invoice are in the approval process! Reports requested by auditors, bankers, and even reports to support time/material and cost plus billings can be produced in seconds along with the applicable invoice images.

  October 20th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• Innovative Software Add-On - Extend Timberline Office Workflows with MyAssistant - Our clients frequently ask us how other Sage Timberline Office clients are addressing common business needs. For example, how are Timberline Office client.....
  
  • Going paperless with electronic Direct Deposit pay stubs.
  • Monitoring cash flow, costs, project documents, etc.
  • Auditing the information in Sage Timberline Office to help ensure correct reports.
  • Automate administrative tasks such as creating and distributing reports.
  Many Sage Timberline Office clients use the MyAssistant software to automate the above and many other tasks.

  October 13th	Web Session	12:30 PM CST
  October 25th	Web Session	1:30 PM CST



• Anterra Technology Add-On - SharePoint Dashboards and Scorecards for Construction Companies - Join us for a free online webinar that will show you how business intelligence works. Topics include business intelligence concepts, dashboards, scorecards, drill through reports and an explanation of the underlying technology.
  
  We'll also give an introduction to best practices for business intelligence to help you gain insight into your business operations.

  October 18th

  Web Session

  2:00 PM CST



• hh2 Web Services Add-On - Human Resources for Timberline - hh2 Human Resources helps keep all your vital employee information in one central location. Reduce the amount of time spent managing HR tasks through a convenient interface that is accessible anywhere, even on your mobile devices. With applications built for the iPhone and iPad, you can bring an extreme efficiency to all your HR processes.
  • Secure Online Human Resource Management
  • Employee Records
  • Enterprise Management
  • Safety Program Management
  • Employment Center
  • Job and Crew Dashboard
  • Accessible from any Browser
  • Mobile App Solutions developed for the iPhone and iPad

  October 18th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• Anterra Technology Add-On - SharePoint Dashboards, Scorecards, Document and Contact Management for Real Estate: iPad Ready! - Join us for a free online webinar that will show you how to transform your real estate company with key information anywhere you go. Topics include business intelligence concepts, dashboards, scorecards, drill through real estate reports and financial statements. See how you can access property and tenant documents, photos and contacts on your iPad.

  October 25th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST

September 2011 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. September's upcoming topics include:

• The Rand Group Presents: My Business Has Changed - How Can Timberline Better Serve My Company?
  
  • Are you a new controller/project manager/estimator?
  • Has your staff turned over due to the economic challenges we are facing?
  • Do you need a procedures manual documenting your important Timberline processes?
  • Are you wondering why Timberline does what it does?
  • Want to understand how you can position Timberline to better address the needs of your business?
  • Do you need a better way to store history?
  • Would you like to reduce your dependency on spreadsheets outside of Timberline?
  • Need to speed up reports?
  • Can we collect payroll and other data at the job site?
  • Want to streamline your Project Managers communication and approval process?
  • Are estimators having trouble keeping up with the # of projects they have to bid to win?
  
  If you answered yes to any of the questions above, and the prospect of considering any changes to your Timberline system seems overwhelming, consider asking The Rand Group to help. We offer an Assessment process designed to document, validate, and analyze your current methodologies against your needs and strategic business plans.
  
  The Assessment process is conducted in a series of interviews targeting your major pain points. The deliverables include:
  • Documentation of all interviews and current Software configurations
  • Workflow Process deficiencies
  • Recommended configuration adjustments or workflow process changes, with potential ROI
  • A project plan to facilitate the proposed improvements

  September 22nd	Web Session	4:00 PM CST
  September 26th	Web Session	11:00 AM CST



• hh2 Web Services Add-On - Field Reports & Remote Payroll for Timberline
  
  hh2 Field Reports for Timberline Office:
  Are you recording all of your vital daily field information on paper logs? Take advantage of the simplicity and organization that hh2 Field Reports will bring to your field processes. Collect and organize field information with ease and allow searching and reporting anytime, anywhere.
  
  • Export to PDF or Excel
  • Create Custom Forms
  • Document Safety Concerns
  • Attach Photos and Digital Voice Recordings
  • Job Cost and Project Management Reports
  • Accessible from any Browser
  • Mobile App Solutions developed for the iPad
  
  hh2 Remote Payroll for Timberline Office:
  hh2 Remote Payroll streamlines and automates gathering, approving, and reporting job-cost payroll data from remote job sites while syncing seamlessly with Sage Timberline Office or Sage Timberline Enterprise. Time submission and approvals happen at the click of a button and automated tools make it easy to create labor reports.
  
  • Customizable Timecards
  • Customizable Approval Paths
  • Employee Time
  • Equipment Time
  • Real-Time Reporting and Analysis
  • Accessible from any Browser
  • Mobile App Solutions developed for the iPhone and iPad

  September 20th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• hh2 Web Services Add-On - Field Services for Timberline Enterprise - With hh2 Field Service, your technicians are always in touch. Your dispatch employees use Sage Timberline Enterprise (STE) to keep all incoming work orders keyed in and scheduled. The moment they save a work order, it is instantly available to technicians in the field. Technicians can use built-in mapping and GPS to choose the most efficient route. They can update trip statuses, notes, tasks and activities on the work order in real-time. Dispatch receives constant updates from the field and can see where all their technicians are on a map in real-time. The entire process is paperless, drastically accelerating the time to invoice.
  • Real-time sync with Sage Timberline Enterprise
  • Web interface available for laptops and netbooks
  • Track current GPS coordinates of technicians
  • Historical GPS reports available on-demand
  • Mapping and Directions
  • Paperless Process
  • Accessible from any Browser
  • Mobile App Solutions developed for the iPad

  September 20th

  Web Session

  1:30 PM CST



• Event 1 Software Add-On - Increase Productivity with Excel and Timberline - Dramatically improve how you share and work with your most vital information from within Excel using a real time, integrated connection to your data. Create your report once and refresh your data on demand with Office Connector. Intelligent Excel-based reporting for Sage Timberline Office, offers you advantages you never thought possible.
  
  Join us for a free online demonstration. You will learn that Excel, coupled with the Office Connector Product Suite, can transform how quickly and effectively you perform your job.
  
  • Produce Cash Flow reports that refresh instantly with current information from your Timberline Office database, allowing you to visualize revenue and cost in easy to read tables with eye popping graphs.
  • Create a single summarized worksheet (dashboard) displaying the current status of any of your Timberline Office applications.
  • Work more effectively with your auditors by displaying any Timberline Office information in the product they most desire; Excel.
  Improve any of the reports you currently depend on by creating them faster and with less effort than ever before.

  September 27th

  Web Session

  4:00 PM CST



• Core Associates Add-On - Paper Free AP Invoice Routing and Approval Software - Many of our clients are taking advantage of highly efficient and affordable technologies to eliminate the bottle necks of manual AP invoice routing and approvals. Our expert will be on the call to share his broad industry knowledge and how it might benefit your company by:
  
  Be Paper Free - Stop the expansion of your file rooms and begin to take that space back for more productive use! No more filing of invoices, no more creation of paper packets for invoice approvers!
  
  Route Invoices Electronically - Your business rules act as triggers to speed invoices to the correct approvers. Easily determine the workflow for each type of trigger (job, property, vendor, etc.) and invoices will route to the correct approvers with up to the minute reporting on which invoices approvers are holding.
  
  Electronic Invoice Reporting - Now all employees are on the same page about the where invoice are in the approval process! Reports requested by auditors, bankers, and even reports to support time/material and cost plus billings can be produced in seconds along with the applicable invoice images.

  September 27th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• Innovative Software Add-On - Extend Timberline Office Workflows with MyAssistant - Our clients frequently ask us how other Sage Timberline Office clients are addressing common business needs. For example, how are Timberline Office client.....
  
  • Going paperless with electronic Direct Deposit pay stubs.
  • Monitoring cash flow, costs, project documents, etc.
  • Auditing the information in Sage Timberline Office to help ensure correct reports.
  • Automate administrative tasks such as creating and distributing reports.
  Many Sage Timberline Office clients use the MyAssistant software to automate the above and many other tasks.

  September 29th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• Anterra Technology Add-On - SQL Replication for SAGE Timberline Office - Join us for a free online webinar that will show you how anterraDataCenter merges an unlimited number of Sage Timberline Office data folders into a single Microsoft SQL data warehouse. This increases the speed of your reports significantly, allows you to report across all of your data folders and lets you archive your data to improve system performance.

  September 29th

  Web Session

  3:00 PM CST

July 2011 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. July's upcoming topics include:

• Document Management Overview from The Rand Group - Document Management is an electronic document classification, storage, retrieval and routing system developed to run directly from within Sage Timberline Office. With Document Management, you'll quickly experience increased efficiencies through improved storage and document access capabilities. As a result, you will be able to effectively put your hands on information in a matter of seconds rather than hours or days, thus, eliminating the time-consuming "hunt" for misplaced or misfiled documents.

  July 19th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• hh2 Web Services Add-On for Timberline - hh2 Field Services for Timberline Enterprise - With hh2 Field Service, your technicians are always in touch. Your dispatch employees use Sage Timberline Enterprise (STE) to keep all incoming work orders keyed in and scheduled. The moment they save a work order, it is instantly available to technicians in the field. Technicians can use built-in mapping and GPS to choose the most efficient route. They can update trip statuses, notes, tasks and activities on the work order in real-time. Dispatch receives constant updates from the field and can see where all their technicians are on a map in real-time. The entire process is paperless, drastically accelerating the time to invoice.
  
  Join us to learn more on Real-time sync with Sage Timberline Enterprise, Web interface available for laptops and netbooks, Track current GPS coordinates of technicians, Historical GPS reports available on-demand, Mapping and Directions, Paperless Process, and Mobile App Solutions developed for the iPad.

  July 21st

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• hh2 Web Services Add-On for Timberline - hh2 Remote Payroll & hh2 Field Reports - hh2 Remote Payroll streamlines and automates gathering, approving, and reporting job-cost payroll data from remote job sites while syncing seamlessly with Sage Timberline Office or Sage Timberline Enterprise. Time submission and approvals happen at the click of a button and automated tools make it easy to create labor reports. Join us to learn more on Customizable Timecards, Customizable Approval Paths, Employee Time, and much, much more....
  
  Are you recording all of your vital daily field information on paper logs? Take advantage of the simplicity and organization that hh2 Field Reports will bring to your field processes. Collect and organize field information with ease and allow searching and reporting anytime, anywhere. Join us to learn more on Exporting to PDF or Excel, Create Custom Forms, Document Safety Concerns, Attach Photos and Digital Voice Recordings, Job Cost and Project Management Reports amongst other topics.

  July 21st

  Web Session

  1:30 PM CST



• Sage Timberline Enterprise Overview from The Rand Group - You might have heard about Timberline's newest suite of software, Sage Timberline Enterprise. The initial release of Enterprise is targeted at service and specialty contractors. Future versions will be targeted at other markets that Timberline addresses, such as General Contractors, Developers, Real Estate, Home Builders and Highway Heavy. Timberline Enterprise is based on .Net and SQL technologies and is meant to position Timberline Enterprise not as a replacement for your existing Timberline Office software, but as a new technology that allows those of you that need a more robust technical solution an alternative and growth path for the future. During this 45 minute webinar we will provide a high level overview of the strengths of Timberline Enterprise.

  July 26th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST

June 2011 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. June's upcoming topics include:

• SharePoint Business Intelligence for Construction and Real Estate with Timberline Add-on from Anterra Technology - Join us for a free online webinar that will show you how business intelligence works. Topics include business intelligence concepts, dashboards, scorecards, drill through reports and an explanation of the underlying technology.
  We'll also give an introduction to best practices for business intelligence to help you gain insight into your business operations.

  June 22nd

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• Significantly Increase Reporting Speed with SQL Replication with Timberline Add-on from Anterra Technology - Join us for a free online webinar that will show you how anterraDataCenter merges an unlimited number of Sage Timberline Office data folders into a single Microsoft SQL data warehouse. This increases the speed of your reports significantly, allows you to report across all of your data folders and lets you archive your data to improve system performance.

  June 22nd

  Web Session

  1:30 PM CST



• hh2 Web Services Add-On for Timberline - hh2 Remote Payroll & hh2 Field Reports - hh2 Remote Payroll streamlines and automates gathering, approving, and reporting job-cost payroll data from remote job sites while syncing seamlessly with Sage Timberline Office or Sage Timberline Enterprise. Time submission and approvals happen at the click of a button and automated tools make it easy to create labor reports. Join us to learn more on Customizable Timecards, Customizable Approval Paths, Employee Time, and much, much more....
  
  Are you recording all of your vital daily field information on paper logs? Take advantage of the simplicity and organization that hh2 Field Reports will bring to your field processes. Collect and organize field information with ease and allow searching and reporting anytime, anywhere. Join us to learn more on Exporting to PDF or Excel, Create Custom Forms, Document Safety Concerns, Attach Photos and Digital Voice Recordings, Job Cost and Project Management Reports amongst other topics.

  June 28th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• hh2 Web Services Add-On for Timberline - hh2 Human Resources - hh2 Human Resources helps keep all your vital employee information in one central location. Reduce the amount of time spent managing HR tasks through a convenient interface that is accessible anywhere, even on your mobile devices. With applications built for the iPhone and iPad, you can bring an extreme efficiency to all your HR processes. JOin us to learn more on topics such as, Secure Online Human Resource Management, Employee Records, Enterprise Management, Safety Program Management, Employment Center, Job and Crew Dashboard, and Mobile App Solutions developed for the iPhone and iPad.

  June 28th

  Web Session

  1:30 PM CST



• Estimating Basics Overview from The Rand Group - Winning bids is the key to keeping your project backlog healthy. But you want to win the right bids, the ones you can count on to be profitable. Your keys to success are having accurate estimates that you can trust will result in profitable jobs and being able to quickly produce estimates so you can bid on multiple jobs at one time. Our Estimating Basics session will give you a high level taste of the Estimating module and how it can assist you in building your business.
  Come learn how to take advantage of the power of Sage Timberline Office to make your estimating process more efficient.

  June 30th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• Project Management - Change Management Overview from The Rand Group - Easily control the change management process by quickly identifying potential change orders, soliciting quotes, and pricing. You're able to record all the details, such as when quotes are due and from whom, using a familiar-looking pricing worksheet grid. Then, pending change requests and/or commitment change orders can be approved (security permitting) and passed on to accounting. The generation of commitment change orders is quick and easy as many fields are pre-filled from information in original commitments or change requests. And, best of all, project information is kept current and up-to-the-minute.

  June 30th

  Web Session

  1:30 PM CST

May 2011 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. May topics include:

• Save Time & Money Using Estimating to Job Cost Interface - Do you ever get tired of re-keying the same budget estimate numbers from Estimating into Job Cost? Have you ever spent all afternoon trying to find the one keystroke error that is keeping your new job estimate from balancing with your estimator's budget? Is it a wrong cost code? Did I transpose two numbers or maybe even three while doing my manual entry?
  Come learn how to take advantage of the power of Sage Timberline Office to make your job setup process more efficient.

  May 17th	Web Session	10:30 AM CST
  May 24th	Web Session	1:30 PM CST



• Are you REALLY Done with Your Year-End? - April 15th is now a memory, and for many folks that means they are finally done with their year-end.
  W2's and 1099's were printed in January, and filed with the IRS; the auditors have come and gone and now your financials are up to date. Year - End is done, right?
  Have you considered archiving your data to reduce time spent conditioning your inquires and reports to minimize the time spent sifting volumes of data? Join us as we explore when and how to archive your data.

  May 19th

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• Make It Personal with the Sage Desktop - Sage Timberline Office Desktop is the centerpiece of Sage Timberline Office. From Sage Timberline Office Desktop, you can open Sage Timberline Office applications, third-party applications, files, and web pages. You can also open individual Sage Timberline Office tasks without opening their associated applications, minimizing your keystrokes when locating a favorite report.
  This session will help you understand the components of the Sage Timberline Office Desktop window, how to start tasks from Sage Timberline Office Desktop and much, much more.

  May 17th	Web Session	1:30 PM CST
  May 24th	Web Session	10:30 AM CST



• Reduce Overhead and Costly Overruns with MyAssistant - Our customers frequently ask us how other Sage Timberline Office customers are addressing common business needs. For example, how are Timberline Office customers going paperless with electronic Direct Deposit pay stubs amd auditing the information in Sage Timberline Office to help ensure correct reports.
  Many Sage Timberline Office customers use MyAssistant software to automate the above and many other tasks.

  May 19th	Web Session	1:30 PM CST
  May 26th	Web Session	10:30 AM CST



• Automate the AP Routing and Approval Process - It's now so easy to stay on top of the approval process and never lose track of invoices on approver's desks.
  TimberScan is a paperless A/P approval system designed specifically for Timberline. It will automatically route invoices to the right approver based on your business rules. It's easy to use and quick to implement and it provides exceptional reporting. TimberScan can greatly improve your efficiency and productivity.

  May 26th

  Web Session

  1:30 PM CST



• Significantly Increase Reporting Speed with SQL Replication - Join us for a free online webinar that will show you how anterraDataCenter merges an unlimited number of Sage Timberline Office data folders into a single Microsoft SQL data warehouse. This increases the speed of your reports significantly, allows you to report across all of your data folders and lets you archive your data to improve system performance.

  May 23rd

  Web Session

  10:30 AM CST



• SharePoint Business Intelligence for Construction and Real Estate - Join us for a free online webinar that will show you how business intelligence works. Topics include business intelligence concepts, dashboards, scorecards, drill through reports and an explanation of the underlying technology.
  We'll also give an introduction to best practices for business intelligence to help you gain insight into your business operations.

  May 23rd

  Web Session

  1:30 PM CST

April 2011 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. Upcoming topics include:

• Timberline Reporting Methods - What Are Your Choices? - There are numerous ways to extract data from Timberline. This webinar will focus on the three methods for creating reports that run from within Timberline: the Timberline Report Designer, the Timberline Financial Statement Designer and Business Objects Crystal Reports for Timberline. Learn the pros of each and why and when one is preferred over another. Learn what makes the most sense for your company so that you can make choices about training your staff to produce your own reports.
  

  April 19th	Web Session	1:30 PM CST
  April 26th	Web Session	10:30 AM CST



• Are you REALLY Done with Your Year-End? - April 15th is now a memory, and for many folks that means they are finally done with their year-end.
  W2's and 1099's were printed in January, and filed with the IRS; the auditors have come and gone and now your financials are up to date. Year - End is done, right?
  Have you considered archiving your data to reduce time spent conditioning your inquires and reports to minimize the time spent sifting volumes of data? Join us as we explore when and how to archive your data.

  April 19th	Web Session	10:30 AM CST
  April 26th	Web Session	1:30 PM CST



• Increase Productivity with Excel and Timberline - Dramatically improve how you share and work with your most vital information from within Excel using a real time, integrated connection to your data. Create your report once and refresh your data on demand with Office Connector. Intelligent Excel-based reporting for Sage Timberline Office, offers you advantages you never thought possible. Join us for a free online demonstration. Improve any of the reports you currently depend on by creating them faster and with less effort than ever before.

  April 21st	Web Session	1:00 PM CST
  April 28th	Web Session	10:30 AM CST



• Automate the AP Routing and Approval Process - It's now so easy to stay on top of the approval process and never lose track of invoices on approver's desks.
  TimberScan is a paperless A/P approval system designed specifically for Timberline. It will automatically route invoices to the right approver based on your business rules. It's easy to use and quick to implement and it provides exceptional reporting. TimberScan can greatly improve your efficiency and productivity.

  April 21st	Web Session	10:30 AM CST
  April 28th	Web Session	1:30 PM CST

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Exclusive Launch Events
Please join us at one of our exclusive launch events for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. For those of you who missed the Microsoft launch events, we are offering you another chance to learn more on how Microsoft Dynamics CRM can enhance productivity in your business and increase sales. Our breakfast events will be scheduled at the following locations:

• Houston, Texas - March 2011
• Addison, Texas - March 2011

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Launch - February 10, 2011
Please join us at the Microsoft launch event for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. We are very excited to be one of five Microsoft Partners selected by Microsoft to host this launch event. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is designed to help. Be one of the first to hear how Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 can help you boost sales, improve marketing, enrich customer service interactions, and accelerate line of business application development through xRM.
Register today at the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 launch site.
Irving, Texas

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Virtual Launch - January 20, 2011
This FREE global virtual launch event takes place on Thursday, January 20, 2011, at 11:00 A.M Central Time. Watch from the comfort of your home or office. For inquires, please contact events@therandgroup.com.

Sage Timberline Office Year End Seminars 2010
Our events will be offered online this year to accomodate our clients schedules. Details will be announced in our upcoming Construction and Real Estate Newsletters. For inquires, please contact events@therandgroup.com.

Microsoft Dynamics GP Year End Readiness Seminars 2010
Please joing us for our annual year end readiness seminar to review year end close processes in Microsoft Dynamics GP. For event details, please contact events@therandgroup.com.

• Austin, Texas - December 9, 2010
• Houston, Texas - December 10, 2010

July 2010 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. Upcoming topics include:

• How to Build Assemblies, July 13th
• Sage Timberline Office, July 15th
• Introduction to Report Designer, July 20th
• Payroll Reporting, July 22nd

June 2010 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. Upcoming topics include:

• Sage Timberline Office 9.7, June 16th
• Digital Plan Takeoff, June 17th
• Kill Fewer Trees with Timberline Office, June 22nd
• Paperless AP Invoice Routing and Approval, June 24th
• Self-Help Tool Kit, June 29th

May 2010 Sage Timberline Webinars
Join The Rand Group for a complimentary webinar series focusing on techniques that will help you gain more from your existing Sage Timberline Office software. Upcoming topics include:

• Sage Timberline Office 9.7, May 11th
• Improve The Progress Billing Workflow Process, May 12th
• Proactive E-Mail Notification, With Business Rules and Alerts, May 13th
• Are Your Project Change Orders Out Of Control?, May 25th
• Increase Cash Flow with AR and Internal Alerts, May 27th

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Launch Event - May 20, 2010
Join The Rand Group at the Microsoft Houston Office to learn more about Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010. Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 enables all your people to work with information in ways that are familiar to them and lays the groundwork for innovation now and into the future. Join us for a luncheon, discussion, and demonstration of some of the exciting new features in GP 2010. Contact Monica Noriega at mnoriega@therandgroup.com to register.
Houston, Texas

Convergence 2010 Atlanta, Georgia - April 24-27, 2010
Join The Rand Group, LLC at Convergence 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. Build your skills, enhance your knowledge and optimize your Microsoft Dynamics business management solutions. Learn about new product features, gain hands-on experience and hear from key Microsoft executives regarding new products and solutions that can ultimately help your business? bottom line.
Atlanta, Georgia

Sage Sage Timberline Year End Events - December 2009 - January 2010
Whether you are new to Timberline or an experienced user, some of the Year End tasks might seem daunting given they are only performed "once a year." The Rand Group (TRG) is hosting several events during the months of December 2009 and January 2010 to accommodate our clients schedules. Come learn tips and tricks to manage the year end closing processes. Contact Monica Noriega at mnoriega@therandgroup.com for more information or to register!
Dallas, Texas
Houston, Texas