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Easy CRM by BPA Solutions, Available from Alcero, Recognized as “Best Of Tech-ed 2008” Finalist by Microsoft
Montréal, Québec, June 18, 2008 – Easy CRM is a full-featured Customer Resource Management (CRM) solution that is based on Microsoft’s Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 technology. Its functionalities include storing all related information to Customer Contact (Name, Organization, Phone Number, etc.), Contact Log (Calls and Emails), Marketing Campaigns, and has optional connectivity to Microsoft Outlook. Its reporting features create immediate and accurate graphical dashboards of customer information and marketing campaign results.
Alcero is a leading North American sales partner for Easy CRM by BPA Solutions. Alcero is proud to congratulate the entire product development team at BPA Solutions for their excellent work and the recognition they have received from such a prestigious organization.
BPA Solutions’ Easy CRM was recognized as a finalist in the SharePoint product category. Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2008 is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for IT professionals.
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a versatile technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to information they need.
Alcero specializes in supplying small, medium, large and enterprise level clients with software solutions for Microsoft’s SharePoint technologies. Amongst those solutions, Alcero also offers the entire suite of BPA’s Out-Of-The-Box SharePoint Business Applications including Recruiting Management, Quality Management and Project Management Solutions. Alcero also publishes and markets other line on business applications and SharePoint management, security and publishing products.
About Alcero: Alcero is a one stop resource for applications, accelerators and “In-a-Box” SharePoint solutions. Alcero has experience in creating, enhancing, implementing and maintaining applications based on Microsoft SharePoint technology. Please visit www.alcero.com for more information.
About BPA-Solutions: BPA Solutions develops and implements out-of-the-box SharePoint business applications, is a Microsoft Information Worker Solutions Certified Partner and is located in Neuchatel Switzerland. For more information, please visit www.bpa-solutions.net.
About Microsoft: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. For more information please visit www.microsoft.com.
Alcero Executive Vice President Danny Boulanger Accepts Invitation From Microsoft to Address Their World Wide Partners Conference In Houston, Texas On July 9, 2008
Montréal, Québec, June 16, 2008 – Alcero is on the official agenda for Microsoft’s World Partner Conference 2008 (WPC 2008) to be held in Houston, Texas from July 7th through the 10th. This important conference allows the large network of Microsoft partners from all fields of Information Technology to learn and share information about their Microsoft technologies. Amongst the activities and sessions planned for the event, Microsoft has invited Alcero’s Executive Vice President Danny Boulanger to address the Business Productivity audience. The session scheduled for 12:30 on July 9th and will be moderated by Dave Healey, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft. The session will be an opportunity other partners to learn why Alcero has chosen Microsoft’s SharePoint technologies to create customer solutions for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), as opposed to using legacy ECM specific solutions.
About Alcero: Alcero is a one stop resource for applications, accelerators and “In-a-Box” SharePoint solutions. We have experience in creating, enhancing, implementing and maintaining applications based on Microsoft SharePoint technology. Please visit www.alcero.com for more information.
About Microsoft: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. For more information please visit www.microsoft.com.
Alcero Co-Sponsored SharePoint User's Group holds first meetings in Montreal and Quebec City
Montréal, Québec, June 12, 2008 – SharePoint users in the province of Quebec now have their own User’s Group; www.sharepointquebec.org, and activities are officially underway following concurrent member meetings in both Montreal and Quebec City. These inaugural meetings were respectively presided over by Alain Lord of Standard Life and Daniel Hallé from the Corporation d'hébergement du Québec.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
The meeting in Montreal hosted at the Salle du CRIM, 500 Sherbrooke West, featured a case presentation by Alain Lord and an open discussion by attendees who related their own experiences and solutions.
The SharePoint Quebec User’s Group objectives are to grow the collective and individual knowledge of SharePoint technology amongst its user-members, to create a social network for SharePoint knowledge workers in Quebec and to become one of the reference sites for SharePoint technologies in Quebec.
As a Microsoft Partner and publisher of solutions for Microsoft’s SharePoint technologies, Alcero is proud to assist the local community of SharePoint users and knowledge workers. Alcero is equally proud to have shared sponsorship of these events with Microsoft, CRIM and Zerofail.
About SharePoint Quebec User’s Group: SharePoint Quebec is a community managed by SharePoint users for
About Alcero: Alcero is a one stop resource for applications, accelerators and “In-a-Box” SharePoint solutions. We have experience in creating, enhancing, implementing and maintaining applications based on Microsoft SharePoint technology. Please visit www.alcero.com for more information.
About Microsoft: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. For more information please visit www.microsoft.ca.
About Zerofail: ZEROFAIL is an award winning managed service provider that creates measurable resultsfor its clients. Winner of Microsoft prestigious Impact Award for Best networking infrastructure of the year 2006, ZEROFAIL offers turnkey outsourced/managed infrastructure and hosted solution. Please visit www.zerofail.com for more information.
About CRIM: CRIM is an Information Technologies applied research centre that develops and transfers technologies and knowledge in order to add value to the products and services of businesses and organizations and contribute to their commercialization. Please visit www.crim.ca for more information.
Alcero Partners Intlock to offer Web Analytics for SharePoint 2007
Montreal, Quebec, June 4, 2008– Offering the world’s widest range of pre-packaged SharePoint enhancing software, Alcero is very proud to welcome Intlock to its partner program. Intlock produces best in class web analytics software specifically designed for web portals.
Alcero is constantly on the search for new and innovative technologies to satisfy their customer base’s need for business applications that allow them to enhance their SharePoint user experienc. Now that a wide range of enterprises have embraced the principals of web 2.0, they need to have the right tools to analyze how their employees are using these new tools in order to improve user experience.
Danny Boulanger, Alcero’s Executive Vice President says, “We know that our customers are getting results from their SharePoint sites, when they ask how they can invest more in them. The answer is always the same, we advise them to invest in what is making them more creative, more competitive. Now we have a tool that can pinpoint exactly where they are having success and identify areas where they can learn from their strongest success.”
Intlock’s web analytics software creates reports on user statistics, monitors workflows for efficiency and even recommends sites of interest to users to help them discover more information within that SharePoint portal.
For more information on how Alcero can enhance any SharePoint portal using Intlock’s web analytics software, please visit www.alcero.com
ABOUT Alcero – Alcero is a one stop resource for applications, accelerators and “In-a-Box” SharePoint solutions. We have experience in creating, enhancing, implementing and maintaining web 2.0 based on Microsoft SharePoint technology.
Alcero Partners With EPM Live to Offer SharePoint Based Project Management
Montreal, Quebec, May 23, 2008– Offering the world’s widest range of pre-packaged SharePoint enhancing software, Alcero is very proud to welcome EPM Live to its partner program. EPM Live links the powerful desktop project management tools of Microsoft® Office Project with the interactive collaboration technology of Microsoft Office SharePoint to bring Enterprise Project Management (EPM) collaboration tools to project team members, enabling individuals to more effectively work together on projects.
Alcero offers solutions to a wide range of organizations that use a variety of tools, new and old to manage projects. We are proud to offer our customer base EPM Live’s solution so that their Project Management solution can now seamlessly integrate with their other SharePoint applications.
“Every organization manages projects, successful organizations have invested in time and energy into products and services that support best practices in Project Management. EPM Live’s technology will allow SharePoint users to achieve all the benefits of a world-class Project Management tool that integrates that is easy to use and inexpensive to manage,” notes Alcero Executive Vice President Danny Boulanger.
EPM Live allows organizations to improve overall project performance by facilitating project management as a three step process, where continued analysis and course corrections are a key part of guiding your team toward success.
For more information on how Alcero can immediately improve your Project Management practices, please visit www.alcero.com.
ABOUT Alcero – Alcero is a one stop resource for applications, accelerators and “In-a-Box” SharePoint solutions. We have experience in creating, enhancing, implementing and maintaining web 2.0 based on Microsoft SharePoint technology.
Alcero Partnes with Enesys Software to Offer SharePoint Data Reporting
Montreal, Quebec, May 20, 2008– Offering the world’s widest range of pre-packaged SharePoint enhancing software, Alcero is very proud to welcome Enesys to its partner program. Enesys provides a solution to thisdemand by extending"Reporting Services" (Microsoft reporting's platform) and let you report over data stored in SharePoint's lists.
Alcero guides a wide range of corporate clients to improve internal collaboration using SharePoint technologies, and by partnering with Enesys we will be able to offer complete SharePoint solutions that allow to provide live reporting on business data stored in their SharePoint lists and sites.
“When creating a web 2.0 environment where innovation is driven by the creativity of your workforce, you always have the fear that too much power and knowledge will be unlocked. Now corporations will be able to report on all SharePoint activities and provide access limits to specific information lists as well as oversee those list permissions,” says Danny Boulanger, Executive Vice President for Alcero.
The technology that Enesys brings to this partnership uses a universal query language based on XML, to retrieve data from any SharePoint list (document library and form library are considered lists as well) and use it for building reports. This query language also features commands for joining, merging and aggregating lists data from multiple sites.
For more information on how Alcero can enhance any SharePoint portal using Enesys’ reporting on SharePoint Data software, please visit www.alcero.com
ABOUT Alcero – Alcero is a one stop resource for applications, accelerators and “In-a-Box” SharePoint solutions. We have experience in creating, enhancing, implementing and maintaining web 2.0 based on Microsoft SharePoint technology.
Alcero Partners with Nintex to offer Ground Breaking SharePoint Graphical Workflow Creation
Montreal, Quebec, May 1, 2008– Offering the world’s widest range of pre-packaged SharePoint enhancing software, Alcero is very proud to welcome Nintex to its partner program. Nintex has developed software that extends Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide advanced workflow capabilities via a graphical web based interface embedded within SharePoint.
Alcero guides a wide range of corporate clients to improve internal collaboration using SharePoint technologies, and by partnering with Nintex we will be able to accelerate the rate at which we automate workflows within business groups.
Danny Boulanger, Alcero’s Executive Vice President says, “SharePoint is a young technology that is changing every day, but this is a very big step forward. This will reduce the time, resources required and quite frankly dollars spent on getting a Business Process automated in a collaborative SharePoint environment.”
The technology that Nintex brings to this partnership enables organizations to build complex workflow processes quickly and easily using a web browser interface. Specifically, it empowers users across the organization to automate business processes, review workflow activities and automate common SharePoint administrative tasks.
For more information on how Alcero can enhance any SharePoint portal using Nintex’s graphical workflow automation software, please visit www.alcero.com.
ABOUT Alcero – Alcero is a one stop resource for applications, accelerators and “In-a-Box” SharePoint solutions. We have experience in creating, enhancing, implementing and maintaining web 2.0 based on Microsoft SharePoint technology.
Alcero Partners with Content Technologies ApS to offer DITA powered Document Management on SharePoint
Montreal, Quebec, April 23, 2008– Offering the world’s widest range of pre-packaged SharePoint enhancing software, Alcero is very proud to welcome Content Technologies ApS to its partner program. Content Technologies ApS has developed a unique software product that allows for any size of organization to create DITA based documents using Microsoft SharePoint.
DITA is an open source code that builds content reuse into the authoring process, defining an XML architecture for designing, writing, managing, and publishing many kinds of information in print and on the Web. SharePoint technology is a web based technology that allows for greater collaboration between information workers. With the marriage of the two technologies, we are now able to offer an extremely competitively priced solution for collaborative document creation using a structured architecture for managing all document components.
“SharePoint technologies have made the accessible to an incredibly wide range of organizations and businesses. By using Content Technologies ApS DITA know-how, we can now offer a SharePoint Solution that goes beyond Document Management – a solution that manages the creation of documents that require specific structures,” says Danny Boulanger, Alcero’s Executive Vice President. He continues, “This will be invaluable for customers who are creating legal documents, product manuals and submitting technical documents for governmental approval.”
For more information on how Alcero can enhance any SharePoint document management solution using DITA technology, please visit www.alcero.com
ABOUT Alcero – Alcero is a one stop resource for applications, accelerators and SharePoint“In-a-Box” solutions. We have experience in creating, enhancing, implementing and maintaining web 2.0 applications based on Microsoft SharePoint technology.
Alcero becomes Microsoft "Independent Software Vendor (ISV) "
Montreal, Quebec, February 28, 2008 - Alcero, which was established in 2007, is pleased to announce that is has obtained the status of “Independent Software Vendor (ISV)” in the Microsoft Partner Program .
Alcero is a leader in the development and supply of pre-packaged solutions, business applications, WebParts and other software solutions to support or expand SharePointfeatures. This certification confirms Alcero’s expertise and the impact of its services in delivering solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) platforms .
To become an ISV, Alcero demonstrated its expertise in developing and providing support for SharePoint technologies .
“The ISV status will allow us to access Microsoft tools and benefits that will enable us to develop and improve our products and services for SharePoint technologies for our customers” says Diane Quintal, President and CEO of Alcero.
The ISV competence demonstrates the ability of Alcero to develop and market software solutions based on Microsoft technologies.
SharePoint Summit 2008
Montreal, Quebec, February 14, 2008 - As SharePoint Summit 2008 partner, Alcero is proud to announce its participation at one of the largest event in North America focusing on technology and business solutions of Microsoft Office SharePoint. In addition, a large panel of tools, technologies and solutions will be showcased emphasizing the integration with SharePoint to better your business process.
Taking place on 8 and 9 April 2008 at the Mount Royal Centre in Montreal, this symposium with more than 50 presentations will permit you to improve, at affordable costs, your methods of collaboration, information management, obtain a better handle on your business processes and harmonize your information architecture needs with SharePoint
You could identify strategies around Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, OneNote, Groove, Dynamics, Microsoft Office and Vista; and be witness solutions developed by various providers to enhance SharePoint capabilities like solutions for real-time backup/restore, workflows, multilingual management, mobility, processes management, conversion, replication and maintenance, etc.
Managers will attend presentations of customers case studies on SharePoint-based business solutions and developers will discover tips and tricks (ex: AJAX, Silverlight) and best practices development for WSS/SharePoint;
Discover how your current solutions such as Documentum, Lotus Notes, LiveLink, Oracle, JDE, SAP and many others or your mobile device like BlackBerry can integrate or communicate with SharePoint;
During the SharePoint Summit 2008, you will have the opportunity to meet global leaders in the world of SharePoint who will reveal you the ways to implement quickly at affordable cost, reliable and innovative solutions.
Be there! Take to action!
www.sharepointsummit2008.com
For more information please contact: dgatel@interdoc.com
Alcero and InterDoc Forge Alliance
Combine SharePoint 2007 expertise to deliver state-of-the-art business solution
Montreal, Quebec. - October 1st , 2007 - Alcero Solutions and InterDoc Corporation announced today a strategic alliance designed to create SharePoint 2007 business solution to be market through the Alcero's eCommerce plateform. The alliance combines InterDoc deep knowledge and experience solving business problems with their consulting, integration and development experience around SharePoint 2007. Alcero will promote and sell over the Web SharePoint in-a-box solutions developed by InterDoc, to help small and medium size businesses address their number one objective "be more profitable.
For the first time, small and medium businesses can buy prepackage SharePoint 2007 solutions, SharePoint in-a-box, on the Alcero's Website and quickly deploy complex business solution within hours.
“Alcero is committed to partnering with best-in-class companies to help solve important customer problems,” said Diane Quintal, president and chief executive officer of Alcero. “By partnering with a leading company like InterDoc, we bring together Alcero’s strength in creating easy-to-use solutions, with InterDoc's SharePoint 2007 expertise, to offer leading-edge SharePoint in-a-box business solutions help small and medium businesses to quickly implement pre-package SharePoint 2007 solutions.”
“InterDoc is pround of this alliance combining Alcero's SharePoint product development expertise and eCommerce distribution capabilities with InterDoc's consulting, integration and SharePoint 2007 in-a-box solution development capabilities" said Danny Boulanger, president and chief executive officer of InterDoc”
About InterDoc
InterDoc has built a unique business model by pre-packaging business solution, in-a-box, which is based on Microsoft SharePoint 2007. InterDoc is a leader in business architecture, targeting operational effectiveness and valorization of intangible assets. visit www.interdoc.com
