I can't believe it's already close to the middle of July.  As this summer continues to move into full swing business at blue tent continues to do well.  Just last week our director of sales and I headed to the outer banks of North Carolina.  This story should resonate well with other NetSuite users.  The nightmares of not having access to your data and company information is now days of old. Read more »

This last week Blue Tent Marketing had our final meeting with our CPA to wrap up the 2009 end of year tax picture. I would assume many of you are at that point in the year as well. Both my CPA and I laughed at the nightmare of the old days of doing business when we used to have to send him a back up Quick Books file…..then NOT work on it for a few days while he got everything he needed from our business records. Read more »

I saw this week that Netsuite is moving toward a tighter integration with Google Apps. This news was of interest to me as Blue Tent Marketing is moving all of our 35 employees to Google Apps this week. As a company we are always looking to avoid the nightmares of software and application changes and this move seems like a natural one for us. We have spent the better part of the last six months getting our Netsuite tuned up very very tight. Our CRM functions are going so well, our financial reports and accounting, nailed.....our projects, on track. Read more »

I was talking to a customer the other day about Netsuite and we both remarked how incredible it was to be able to stay connected to our business even when we on the road or out of the office. The ability to have true enterprise level business software available when you're away from the office has many many benefits. Here are a few of my top - "why I love remote access"

- I have real time access to sales pipe line. In my role I come in and help our sales representatives. This is big, we know all know 2010 is about sales! Read more »

As I posted last week our end of year accounting has been significantly helped by our full transition to Netsuite. Our in house bookkeeping team has been able to work with our CPA to close our 2009 faster than I can ever remember. The ability to access netsuite over the Internet from any location has helped us steer away from the on site meetings, long drawn out conversations and has allowed us to do our CPA and bookkeeping work. A few things that I have noticed this year as opposed Read more »

Like many in the Netsuite Nation, Blue Tent has been working on closing up our books to officially move on from 2009! This process made me think about the nightmares we used to face without an integrated online financial system. This year we were able to wrap things up fast, easier and more effectively than ever before. The ability for us to coordinate and collaborate with our accounting team and bookkeepers paid huge dividends in both time savings and completion dates. As you know any Read more »

I have to admit I am now a true believer in what a single system with all of your customer, accounting and project information will bring to any business owner. The ability to dig into your business and see on your dashboards key performance indicators is always a joyful reminder of what you get when you take this step. Now, whats next and how can you improve your forecasting and planning methods. Blue Tent is an internet marketing and web development agency, we sell hours and people. It's ALWAYS been a struggle for us to forecast workloads so that we can properly staff the company to be the most efficient use of some very smart and expensive people. Read more »

With all the buzz around going green, I came across this article in InfoWorld ( http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/businesses-should-demand-tax-break-cloud-computing-407 ) and thought, hey, why not? The author is arguing that if the government is going to give tax breaks for things like tinted office windows, using geothermal heat pumps or driving hybrids, why not cloud computing too? Based on the findings that cloud computing saves the same per year as the annual electricity consumption of 56,000 homes and reduces greenhouse gas Read more »

I remember the nightmares of times past when you used to go into a black hole of financial and project quite when you would leave the office. This is especially true now when while its always great to get away from the office, shutting down is not possible. Cash flow is king these days for our business and it seems like every day we are dealing with decisions on client accounts for slow payment etc. To have access to our business accounting software from anywhere, this allows me to spend a small amount of time on accounts, but make a big impact. Read more »

I thought it would be of interest to keep the update going on Blue Tent’s full integration of Netsuite into our CRM, accounting and project management processes. We have been talking about the nightmare of not being able to control and run your business from anywhere and being tied to your in-house accounting software. Read more »