Vol.1 Issue 9, September 2005  

Explore Consulting Launches Explore Mobile, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary
Explore Consulting today announced the formation of a wholly-owned subsidiary - Explore Mobile, furthering its commitment to provide industry leading solutions for integration to the NetSuite platform.

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Explore Consulting provides innovative solutions to drive business process efficiency for companies of all sizes. As we identify better ways to get the job done, we like to share the information with the community…that’s you. We also want to keep our customers (past and future) up to date on all the latest Explore happenings. We hope you enjoy the newsletter. If you have any suggestions of what you would like to see on future publications please send us your comments here.

Upcoming Events
NWOUG and Oracle in partnership together present Oracle Apps/Tech Day

Experience a day of valuable learning and networking with peers and Oracle staff. Start off with the Oracle keynote, Project Fusion: The Oracle Applications Strategy - then immerse yourself in breakout sessions, demos, and partner showcases.

Monday, October 17, 2005

The Hilton, Portland
921 SW 6th Avenue
Portland, OR

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Featured Website
 

The Ultimate Support website takes full advantage of customizations using a NetSuite templated site. They needed to combine four different looks into one NetSuite website: Coporate, Music Stands, Bike Stands, and OEM. With the use of custom NetSuite tags each page was able to have an appearance of its own. The products are displayed dynamically from NetSuite currently for informational display; the site will be easily migrated to an online e-commerce store by simply 'turning on' the shopping aspect in NetSuite. Ultimate Support takes advantage of the use of custom records to store customer warranty information with a custom online warranty registration form. To view their site please click here.

Another Customer Success Story:
"The combination of the Explore Field Sales Rep and NetCRM allows me to access my mortgage files on my BlackBerry. This saves me a tremendous amount of time to check the status and follow-up as needed. I don't have to track anyone down at the office to do the lookup. Ultimately, it allows me to service my clients better"

- Jason Gardiner, CEO & Owner (JTG Financial)


 
Explore Field Sales Rep v1.6.0

Explore Mobile offers the Field Sales Rep is a hosted service to be delivered over the web and accessible to any handheld with web browsing capability. The service allows real-time interaction with your NetSuite account via your handheld device. Look-up current customer, contact and other CRM information from NetSuite. Great for people out of the office, but with cell phone access. Our service runs against any web service enabled NetSuite or NetCRM account. The next release will include support for Cases and a complete interface re-design. Read more about the demo and test it now. Experience NetSuite mobility yourself for as little as $20/mo plus setup. Call 866.3EXPLORE for details.

Biotech Case Study
Validating Clinical Safety Systems

Patient safety is the foundation of risk for treating illness. Organizations developing products to treat illnesses must understand this risk. Understanding risk in specific treatment situations and in general use relies on accurate and timely adverse event data from patients and their healthcare provider. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires adverse events to be communicated via a 7-day Investigational New Drug (IND) Safety Report, 15-day Postmarketing Alert Report and Followup, and a Periodic Adverse Drug Experience Report. Computer systems that collect and transmit this data require documented evidence of accurate performance.

Organizations adopt a variety of quality assurance and validation methodologies to document system performance. In this case study, an organization was implementing a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) safety system and the validation process provides an illustration of several issues and benefits. Read the case study here...

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NetSuite Tips

Each month, we will provide our NetSuite customers with some tips on how to use the product more efficiently and how to perform complex or unintuitive tasks. We hope that you find these tips helpful.
  • Easy Access to Recent Records
  • Changing Your 'From' Email Address
     

    Easy Access to Recent Records

    During a short time period a NetSuite user may be accessing the same couple of clients and transaction records. Instead of wasting time navigating through the main dropdown menus, NetSuite provides a 'recent records list' as a one-click way to access these records.

    Simply hover over the arrow to the left of the Home tab and a list of the last 10 accessed records is displayed. From here the user can easily bring up recent records in edit or non-edit mode.

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    Changing Your 'From' Email Address

    If you are sending out invoices and other transactions to clients from NetSuite and do not want your personal email address to show as the sender you can modify this address.

    1. On the home page tab there is a portlet labeled 'Settings'
    2. Click the 'Set Preferences' link under the 'Settings' portlet
    3. Click the 'User Profile' tab
    4. Enter the email address you would like recipients to recieve email out of NetSuite from in the 'From E-Mail Address' text field
    5. Click the 'Save' button
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    Did you know that Explore Consulting has extensive experience in utilizing the Microsoft .NET architecture to successfully build and deploy applications? Find out more by clicking here.