Meritide Upcoming Events - Leveraging your Microsoft Products...A Free...

Title

Leveraging your Microsoft Products...A Free Workshop Hosted at the U of MN Campus Club - Thursday, August 5th

Location

U of MN Campus Club

Description

Join Meritide at the Campus Club on Thursday, August 5th, as we host a workshop to demonstrate new methods and software for collaboration, document management, displaying enrollment information and managing constituents within your departments.

Additional Information

If you are currently managing and tracking any program data using Excel, FileMaker Pro, or Access, this workshop is for you. If you use email and manual processes to drive workflow and approval or document management, this workshop is for you. We will show you how using Microsoft technologies can increase the value and reduce the cost in these common department processes.

Workshop Format
During the workshop participants will have an opportunity to discuss some of the ways they are currently managing information and process within their department, as well as share what obstacles these methods introduce in effectively managing information.

Meritide will then help workshop participants align the features and functionality of Microsoft software, that is available to the University, with the needs they have - as solutions to process obstacles.

We will have demonstrations of the information, workflow, and document management solutions and will exhibit how effective they are at managing educational and department data and processes such as:

Faculty, staff, and student information collection
Program and event Information and registration
Grants management and reporting
Proposal and collateral development
Interdepartmental collaboration and communication
Project or program planning and coordination

Currently available Microsoft software offers the following benefits over custom database/solutions written in FileMaker/Excel/Access and manual email based processes..

Easy to use interfaces for data gathering including web based or outlook based forms.
Report and document distribution and notification to allow users to be notified when new information is available.
Built-in workflow engines to help you design business process and automate communication and approval.
Robust reporting and searching capabilities without requiring custom development to implement them.
Document versioning and approval process to allow easy management of multi-authored documents.
Dashboards, websites, and Outlook calendar integration to give staff easy access to current status information

Agenda
Click Here to download a printer friendly invitation

Registration
Introduction
Business Process Discussion
Demonstration of Microsoft’s Stack Software
Social Networking (refreshments & appetizers included)

CLICK HERE to register or for more information please contact:

Eric Hemme
Office/Fax 651-255-7355
eric.hemme@meritide.com

Start Time

8/5/2010 3:00 PM

End Time

8/5/2010 4:30 PM

All Day Event

Recurrence

Workspace

Attachments

Leveraging your Microsoft Products - U of MN Workshop - August 5th.pdf

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