Small Business Payroll Solution: EzPaycheck Adds New Features to Handle Bonus And Commission


Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 06, 2012

Many business owners would like to give employee generous bonuses because bonus bucks are the easy way for employers to give personalized, instant rewards to their employees. Halfpricesoft.com (http://www.halfpricesoft.com) released the new 2012 ezPaycheck payroll software, which makes it easy to handle salary, bonus, commission and other customized rewards.

Web Site Design on a Whole New Level


Greenwich SQ ,Ashburn, VA (PRWEB) June 02, 2012

Being aware that the days of segmented development are over, Ellie Design has recently launched a campaign that might be of a great value for businesses that seek web design and marketing all-in-one. By providing a complete solution for your online presence, theyre ready to substantially cut costs and save valuable time that would otherwise be lost in organizational and synchronicity effort in-between the different stages of development. The company believes that by providing all services at once they ensure long term relationship with their clients, continuous communication and maintenance, as well as adaptability for change.

Ellie Design always produces high quality custom look for all the websites they develop, without the use of predefined templates and standardized looks. Additional to the high level of customization, clients can communicate with specialists at various advanced Search Engine Optimization techniques. Marketing planning and effective strategy goes hand in hand with good web development. This is where the web site actually comes to use, and greater the audience better the result of the investment. Todays competitive environment calls for good planning and involvement. Every step that Ellie Design Company makes towards the completion of a project is vital to the successful elevation of awareness through good marketing planning and strategy.

According to their website, Ellie Design is dedicated to harness the power of the internet to obtain maximum benefit for your business. [] With Ellie Design you can get a step ahead of your associates. Their target group is mainly businesses that might lack quality internet visibility, social media presence, or search engine access. Thanks to their expertise, they were able to reach others, including you and me.

Ellie Design is a company that skilfully works in a wide range of web site design, development and marketing, as well as solutions for architectural and logo design. The group of professionals located in USA, VA, is well suited in understanding and capturing the ideas and visions of their clients. With years of experience and numerous projects behind their backs, Ellie Design Company can be of enormous value for every business that seeks not only quality design solutions, but also customer awareness, brand reinforcement, traffic increase, and Search Engine Optimizations.







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Saugatuck Technology Announces the 2nd Annual Cloud Business Summit

Westport, CT (PRWEB) June 12, 2012

Saugatuck Technology, the leading subscription research and business strategy consulting firm focused on the Cloud, today announced the date of its second annual Cloud Business Summit, to be held on November 14, 2012 at the Westin Times Square in New York City.

As a follow-up to last years highly successful Summit, this years conference will again bring together CIOs, CTOs and senior business leaders from mid-to-large enterprises from across a range of industries to explore how they can and are realizing value from the Business Cloud.

A key theme at this years event will be the emergence of the new Master Architecture what Saugatuck is calling “CMSA” (as in Cloud, Mobile, Social and Analytics). Unlike Master Architectures of the past, where a single technology has dominated (e.g., mainframes, PCs, internet), today’s new Master Architecture leverages multiple technologies and platforms, and loosely-coupled approaches, to unlock previously untapped business value. In this environment, innovation is clearly on the rise, as companies accelerate investments in support of a evolved vision for business computing what Saugatuck is calling the Boundary-free Enterprise.

Saugatuck is pleased to announce that both SAP and IBM have returned as Platinum sponsors in 2012. New event partners this year include Dimension Data and Progress Software as Gold sponsors, OrangeScape as a Silver sponsor, and Information Management and Sand Hill Group as Media sponsors. Saugatuck has assembled a rich mix of senior business and information technology executives who will participate as speakers in the event, including Rich Roseman, VP and CIO at News Corp., Michael Lemberger, VP at American Express, Gary Lynch, Managing Director at Marsh, and Andrew Stokes, Chief Scientist at Deutsche Bank AG, among others.

We are delighted to announce our second annual Cloud Business Summit, shared Saugatuck Technology founder and CEO Bill McNee. Similar to last year, the Summit again brings together approximately 150 senior business and IT leaders in an intimate, senior executive-level forum to discuss the issues of the day. However, the focus this year will not only be on the growing influence of the Cloud, but related technologies as well including Mobile, Social, Advanced Analytics and Integration and how they are collectively helping to reshape the business computing landscape, added McNee. Our goal is to provide a powerful networking environment for the conference delegates to learn firsthand from their peers and Saugatuck about how large enterprises are applying Cloud and related technologies, platforms and solutions to their advantage, and building winning business strategies.

Senior IT Executives and Business Strategists, who wish to request an invitation, or to learn more about the program, should visit the Cloud Business Summit website at http://www.cloudbusinesssummit.com, or call +1.203.454.3900.

About Saugatuck Technology

Saugatuck Technology, Inc. provides subscription research and management consulting services focused on the key market trends and disruptive technologies driving change in enterprise IT, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Infrastructure, Social Computing, Mobility and Advanced Analytics, among others. Founded in 1999, Saugatuck is headquartered in Westport, CT, with offices in Falmouth, MA, Santa Clara, CA and in Wiesbaden, Germany. For more information, please visit http://www.saugatucktechnology.com or call +1.203.454.3900.

To request a briefing with our analysts, contact: chris(dot)macgregor(at)saugatucktechnology(dot)com.







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SunGard Launches New Version of its Ambit Core Banking Solution for Balance Sheet Management

Kuala Lumpur (PRWEB) June 24, 2012

SunGard Launches New Version of its Ambit Core Banking Solution for Balance Sheet Management

SunGard has unveiled a new version of Ambit Core Banking, its universal core banking system, to help banks stabilize earnings and respond to margin pressure. Ambit Core Banking now includes balance sheet and risk management tools embedded into the core banking system in addition to retail deposits and lending, commercial banking, trade finance, and treasury management.

Providing balance sheet and risk management tools as an embedded component of a core banking system will help banks have a more accurate view of risk across the enterprise. Ambit Core Banking uses a single data model to help improve data consistency, accuracy and transparency of balance sheet information as an integrated component of core banking infrastructure.

In addition to providing accurate balance sheet and risk management data, Ambit Core Banking also offers workflow tools to help banks embed risk management processes into decision making across the organization. It helps banks interpret and use balance sheet risk information for improved strategic decision making, such as discontinuing unprofitable channels, and adjusting risk appetite or capital on reserve.

Michael Araneta, research director at IDC Financial Insights said Multiple post-crisis challenges have exposed the flaws in legacy architectures and driven a renewed focus on systems modernization. But today the biggest drivers for core systems transformation are underpinned by the need for more rigorous risk management practices, stringent regulatory compliance capabilities and the health and stability of the balance sheet a banks single most important asset.

Ambit Core Banking is based on the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) standards and built using a componentized service-orientated architecture, allowing banks to implement only the functionality they require in a manageable and phased way. This approach also enhances a banks organizational agility as it helps the bank to adapt more quickly to market changes.

Hans Tesselaar, executive director of BIAN said, “Banks are under pressure to deliver innovative products that enhance the customer experience, while also increasing flexibility and reducing costs. Adopting a service-oriented architecture will help banks migrate to a more modern infrastructure in a measured and managed way.

David Hamilton, president of SunGards banking business, said, Banks are reevaluating, and in some cases rebuilding, their operational models in order to help them restore profitability. The role of a core banking system is no longer simply that of a transaction processing engine, but is the primary provider of data into balance sheet management systems. The ability for banks to embed balance sheet management strategies across the organization will become essential to the ongoing stability of the bank.

About BIAN

BIAN is a not for profit organization which seeks to accelerate the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the banking industry by promoting convergence towards a common services landscape and semantic standards which makes it easier and more cost-effective to integrated such services.

About SunGards Ambit

SunGard’s Ambit is a banking solution suite for retail, commercial and private banks. It provides banking professionals with solutions that support front-, middle- and back-office operations, as well as solutions for financial management, risk and performance. Ambit helps banks retain and acquire customers, improve staff efficiency and effectively measure and allocate their capital. For more information, visit http://www.sungard.com/ambit.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the worlds leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and was ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 in 2011. Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo and Ambit are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.







Learn How GIS Technology Helps the Future of Health Care


Aurora, Colo. (PRWEB) June 13, 2012

Health care is big business. Plunkett Research estimates that total U.S. health care expenditures are projected to reach $ 3.6 trillion in 2016 and hospitals are spending billions to improve their operations. A recent report released by In-Stat predicts that the U.S. health care industry will spend more than $ 4.5 billion on wireless data by 2014 and another $ 10 billion to improve data. This includes geographic information systems (GIS) technology.

Join Jason Haley, GIS manager for the advanced health care data company Stratasan, and Dr. Devon A. Cancilla, dean, business and technology at American Sentinel University, as they explore how hospitals and the trillion-dollar health care industry are benefitting from GIS technology to improve the financial bottom line in a complimentary webinar, Mapping Health Care with GIS on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 1 p.m. EDT.

Haley, who has an extensive background in geospatial engineering, cartographic design, geodatabase management and GIS processing will detail how Stratasan receives, cleans, maps and analyzes disparate health care data sets from clients to create immediate intelligence and streamline communications.

Register for the webinar, Mapping Health Care with GIS at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/676870656.

Haley will demonstrate how he turns a patients address into a latitude-longitude point on a map. He will then add different geographic layers into the map documents to show revenue, high revenue, inpatient, outpatient, a trade area that displays patient percentages of area and competitors.

Haley will also describe how to display the data, why some data is more important than others and how to make it easily understandable to customers.

Once equipped with this data, Haleys clients can coordinate advertising efforts and regional improvements.

Through the analysis of GIS data we can show clients not only patients and physicians, but also referring physicians, attending physicians and admitting physicians in the hospital, says Haley. This helps hospitals get a strategic plan in place for how they want to operate and move forward in the future.

GIS computerized tools used to collect, archive, manage, retrieve, analyze and output geographic and other related kinds of data offer great potential to be a powerful tool for geospatial strategies to improve the health care industrys bottom line as they look to improve their operational efficiency.

The GIS courses at American Sentinel teach geographic information systems tools for developing data-driven solutions that help health care organizations visualize, analyze, interpret and present complex geolocation data to solve problems and overcome business challenges relevant to the health care industry, says Dr. Cancilla.

If you want to learn more about how GIS technology helps the future of health care, tune into American Sentinel’s webinar Mapping Health Care with GIS on Wednesday, June 20 at 1 p.m. EDT and register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/676870656.

Learn More About American Sentinel Universitys GIS Degrees

American Sentinel is one of the few higher education institutions to offer an accredited, online Bachelor of Science Geographic Information Systems degree. The bachelors program prepares students to analyze, interpret and effectively communicate spatial date while providing insights into GIS to solve workplace problems.

Learn more about American Sentinel Universitys GIS degrees at http://www.americansentinel.edu/online-degree/bachelor-degree-online/bachelor-gis-degree.php.

About American Sentinel University

American Sentinel University delivers the competitive advantages of accredited associate, bachelor’s and master’s online degree programs focused on the needs of high-growth sectors, including information technology, computer science, GIS, computer information systems and business intelligence degrees. The university is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), which is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency and is a recognized member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

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Axiom Consulting Partners New Analysis Finds 5 Key Telecommuting Success Factors


(PRWEB) June 12, 2012

Typically viewed as a soft, family-friend perk, telecommuting at a Washington, DC-based university is now driving hard-number results and helping them execute their strategy to attract and retain top-level talent.

Companies looking to cut costs and attract top talent, federal agencies seeking to comply with the 2011 Telework Enhancement Act, and employees looking to make the case for working remotely can all learn from the universitys experience.

University officials estimate that their new telecommuting policy will generate an annual savings of more than $ 800,000. Furthermore, having a few hundred employees work from home two days a week is generating a projected aggregate annual carbon footprint savings of 2,851 metric tons and saving an estimated $ 1.6 million in fuel and maintenance costs. Employees are saving money too. Those that travel between 20 and 30 miles to work can save approximately $ 1,400 a year.

Juan Pablo Gonzalez of Axiom Consulting Partners, who helped the university execute its telecommuting strategy, said a significant opportunity lies in treating telecommuting like a strategic initiative, validating the potential financial and organizational impact, prior to implementation. Factors worth considering include:

Chef Waldy Malouf Designs Chef Coats with Crooked Brook for his Newest New York City Restaurant High Heat


New York, NY (PRWEB) June 12, 2012

Crooked Brook, makers of “The World’s Highest Quality Chef Jackets” was contacted by Chef Waldy Malouf to design and produce custom chef jackets for his newest New York City restaurant called High Heat.

Malouf and his managers will be wearing Crooked Brook chef coat style M100, in khaki, certified 100% organic cotton twill fabric with a left shoulder sleeve tailored welt pocket and natural Abalone shell buttons.

The High Heat logo will be embroidered on the left chest of the chef jackets.

About Waldy Malouf

Waldy Malouf is the Co-Owner/Chef of Beacon and is opening a restaurant called High Heat on Bleecker St. in New York City. High Heat is the first restaurant opened of a three restaurant concept offering pizza, burgers and wine and beer on tap. The wine will be on tap in efforts to ‘go green’ and eliminate some use of plastics.

Waldy Malouf has over 30 years experience in developing and managing successful food and beverage operations. He is culinarily driven, operationally focused and a natural leader. His service philosophy stems from the belief that employees and customers are a proprietors greatest asset. Together with a core team of industry professionals, his firm offers over 100 years combined experience in hotel and restaurant management.

About Crooked Brook

Crooked Brook is a unit of the atelier division of an art studio that offers full service apparel design, pattern making, sample making, private-label small lot production and embroidery. Since 1989, theyve built a strong reputation of providing top-notch apparel designs, patterns, fit and production samples for many brand name catalogs and retailers, as well as wardrobe and costumes for movies, television and theater.

All Crooked Brook branded garments and accessories are proudly made to order in the U.S.A.

Because of their unparalleled attention to detail in tailoring, they were awarded a Supima

Bluenose Yacht Sales of Newport, RI and Portland, ME Announce New Representation for New England of the Grand Soleil Racing/Cruising Yachts


Newport, RI (PRWEB) May 29, 2012

Bluenose Yacht Sales with offices in Newport, RI and Portland, Maine is pleased to announce we have added the Grand Soleil Yachts product line for sale here in New England. Mareblu of Annapolis, MD is the East coast distributor for Grand Soleil and is working with Bluenose Yacht Sales as one of the regional, local dealers to provide better service and customer support for new Grand Soleil purchases in the northeast.

The Grand Soleil yachts ranging in size from 39′ to 54′ are uniquely positioned as a high quality racing cruiser with elegant Italian design on the from the deck to the main salon.

Grand Soleil built by Cantiere del Pardo

The history of Cantiere del Pardo began in Bologna in 1974. Their ambitious objective was to produce regatta boats that combined the best possible performance with elegant and innovative design.

Now, Grand Soleils timeless style is celebrating 35 years of history. 35 years in which these boats have left their mark on a fundamental chapter in the history of modern sailing. For years, Cantiere del Pardo has been creating yachts with care and passion, each one unique, thus establishing the company as one of the top producers worldwide, because the Grand Soleil yachts are an icon of ‘Made in Italy’ style.

Innovative features include internal structure in carbon fibre using infusion technique.

For the creation of the interior layout and the various optional features, Cantiere del Pardo collaborated with Grand Soleil owners to achieve a better understanding of their requirements and create a product with great possibilities for customization.

K1 Speed San Francisco Brings Racing to the Bay


Irvine, CA (PRWEB) June 07, 2012

With the opening of its newest center scheduled for August 2012 in San Francisco, K1 Speed the largest indoor karting company in the United States is introducing the adrenaline-pumping thrills of karting to a whole new audience. Founded in Southern California in 2003, the company is finally set to take over Northern California, with no less than four locations planned for the area, including Santa Clara now open, San Francisco, Pleasanton and Sacramento. Its San Francisco location is built with the community in mind from zero-emission electric karts to energy efficient lighting, the center is built to have a small environmental impact and should provide a unique and exciting new place for residents to unwind and have fun.

The K1 Speed Difference All-electric Karting

K1 Speed redefined what karting is when it was founded almost 10 years ago. With poorly maintained outdoor tracks littering the country, often at amusement parks right alongside miniature golf courses, the sport of go-kart racing had lost its luster in the United States. K1 Speed sought to change that and it took a page out of Europes approach to karting to do so. K1 Speeds tracks are professionally designed and are built indoors, allowing for racing every day of the year in any weather. The tracks are also designed with safety in mind; as opposed to spare tires jutting out of the ground, K1 Speed utilizes TecPro safety barriers. Perhaps the biggest distinguishing feature, however, are K1 Speeds karts.

Unlike outdoor kart tracks, which have anemic, poorly maintained, gas-powered karts that are loud, noxious, and heavy, K1 Speed utilizes zero-emission, all-electric European karts. Built in the same style of the world championship kart chassis that Formula One drivers learn their trade in, K1 Speeds karts provide genuine thrills and an authentic racing experience. In fact, they can reach speeds approaching 45mph on the companys

Infoglide Software Corporation to Present New Fraud and Compliance Innovations at 23rd Annual ACFE Conference

Austin, TX (PRWEB) June 05, 2012

Infoglide Software Corporation today announced that it has accepted an invitation from Boeing Kestrel to present its powerful fraud and risk analysis software offering at the 23rd Annual Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, FL., beginning June 17 at Gaylord Palms Resort.

Kestrel, the Intelligence Systems Group of Boeing Corporation (NYSE:BA), provides a robust set of analytics, training assessment and strategic planning services across a wide spectrum of government and financial services topics. Coupled with Infoglides industry leading search/match/link analysis software, Identity Resolution Engine (IRE), the analytics suite is poised to set new standards in the prevention and examination of fraud across industry sectors.

Kestrels technology and tools are as innovative as our own, said Infoglides Director of Industry Strategy Robin Farshadfar, and we welcome the opportunity to very rapidly expand our market through this relationship.

Attending the event alongside major industry partners Kestrel, IBM, Oracle, Verafin and LexisNexis, the ACFE Conference provides Infoglide a platform to discuss powerful anti-fraud and compliance offerings including Inter-Bank Intelligent Risk Data Search (I-BIRDS) designed to fight new account opening fraud, synthetic identity theft, and credit bust-out fraud.

I-BIRDS allows communities of commercial organizations to securely share behind-the-firewall risk data, said Infoglide senior VP Douglas Wood. Unlike other industry data-sharing initiatives, I-BIRDS doesnt require institutions to move their private data outside their enterprise. Instead, the bad guy data of each member is securely queried by other members to effectively determine risk.

The key to I-BIRDS, according to ACFE member Wood, is the patented I-SCore. While no personal data is ever revealed, the score indicates the probability that one or more member of the I-BIRDS community has been previously defrauded by a particular entity, or by individuals with close hidden links. I-BIRDS is being released through input from major financial institutions and technology providers.

About Infoglide Software Corporation

Austin, TX based Infoglide (http://www.infoglide.com) supplies identity resolution and entity analytics solutions to government and financial services markets. Infoglides flagship product, Identity Resolution Engine (IRE), searches disparate and third party databases to discover possible matches and non-obvious relationships between people, places, and things.

The company markets its software directly to large commercial organizations, and through leading, strategic OEM partners including FIS/Memento, BusinessForensics, TASCET and FICO.