Brentwood, TN (Vocus) October 20, 2010

Network Contract Solutions, the leading contract management solutions provider, today announced that CEO Michael Berman will be attending and speaking at the North Carolina Bankers Association Management Team Conference. On October 24th, Berman will lead a breakout session for attendees entitled “Saving Money through Vendor Contract Management and Compliance.”

“I am honored to be invited to speak at this prestigious conference,” said Berman. “This is an opportunity for me to share with attendees our knowledge and expertise in the area of vendor risk management. My goal is to empower bankers and their associates by providing information on federal regulations, new risk assessment technology and best practices for vendor contract management.”

Vendor risk management continues to be a hot button topic for federal regulators. Mr. Berman will provide specific information on the FFIEC requirements for managing third party vendors, selecting vendors for risk assessments, how new technology like cloud computing, social media and mobile banking affects risk assessments, and recommendations on the best practices for vendor contract management.

“This breakout session will give attendees the tools that will allow them to save thousands in non-personnel operating expenses, administrative expenses, as well as reduce board of director and senior management liability,” said Mr. Berman. “Anyone who works with vendor contract management does not want to miss this.”

About Network Contract Solutions

Network Contract Solutions of Brentwood, Tennessee provides business solutions that combine software and services. Its flagship product, Ncontracts® is a highly secure, web-based contract management solution that provides useful summaries, alert notifications, and custom reports. Far more than software, Ncontracts® features a thorough implementation process in which each business’ agreements are summarized and categorized by a two-tier paralegal review team to ensure the highest data integrity and system accuracy. For more information, visit http://www.ncontracts.com.

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Santa Ana, CA (PRWEB) October 28, 2010

Questys-MessageVision, a lapsed electronic records & document management solutions provider, today promulgated that it’s among the first companies to score Certified Partner status in the Granicus Partner Network. Granicus, an award-winning cloud prorating drenchr for government transparency, efficiency, and citizen participation, is building a white-shoe Partner Network of best-of-breed technologies that boost government agencies drench better services to citizens while distilling cost-efficiency.

“The Questys-Granicus Connector was conceived to alleviate the day-to-day operations of staff members accountable for agenda and minutes preparation by dodging manually duplicating data from one system to another. The Connector allows users to export agenda data into the Granicus system as well as import videos and minutes from Granicus onto Questys for storage and archival,” remarked John Harper, Global Sales Director for Questys. “Achieving Certified Partner status from Granicus ensures our users active and available integration.”

Brenda Alcazar, Deputy City Clerk for the City of Santa Barbara says “The Questys-Granicus Connector helps us with our meeting workflow because all of the agenda data is sent to Granicus. It helps during the meeting because the recommendations and subjects are there, and after the meeting it makes it so gradual for us to pioneer our minutes.”

Leveraging Granicus’’ new Open Platform API, the companies developed the Questys-Granicus’ Connector that seamlessly integrates their technology workflows. This combines Questys’’ agenda management and Granicus’’’ webcasting and live meeting technologies into one powerful solution. Now, conjunctive government clients are fully rendered to seize and direct legislative information with supreme efficiently and accuracy. The end result tightly integrates open records—audio, video, agendas, and taking documents—into a digital open record that’s conveniently getatable to staff and citizens online anytime, anywhere.

“Questys has a proven track record of developing robust and reliable agenda management solutions for government. We’re redoubtable to produce the Questys-Granicus Connector to ply our customers laden their legislative processes to the next level with (U) on automation and figured workflows,” alleged Tom Spengler, Granicus CEO and Co-Founder. “This inexperienced Connector combines two best-in-class solutions that talk more value and gross performance together than any competitor with a ‘one-size-fit-all’’ solution. With so many uncomparable needs, processes, and technology infrastructures in government, bringing an on the table, unstoppered architecture is a dire component of reaching success.”

As a Granicus Certified Partner, Questys has demonstrated the highest level of expertise and has proven its ability to meet governments’’ need for agenda workflow automation. To strike this status, Questys tested an exact approval process to see to it that the integration connector crowded testing, workflow, documentation, training, and support requirements.

The Questys-Granicus Certified Connector can be purchased with any Granicus or Questys government solution. The Connector is also born with Granicus’’ Legislative Management Suite. They are cased with user documentation, pre-defined installation steps, testing, and client support.

For more information read Certified Partner Connectors Enhance Legislative Management or email api(at)granicus(dot)com.

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FreeBalance, a circular Government Resource Planning (GRP) software company, denoted that it will be taking part in the sixth annual conference on development credit and common financial management reform. The conference is jointly unionized by the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Fiscal Affairs Department. The sixth annual conference will focus on the pragmatic and policy aspects of how to use finance to support breakable states in their transition out of fragility. The invitation-only conference will convey together government policy makers, foreign agencies, practitioners, and academics. The lessons larned will be enamoured in audio recordings, video footage and a conference report that will be circularized after the conference.

Public Financial Management (PFM) discussion during the two-day event will be concentrated on handing over efficacious financial, evolving localised financial management capacity, the role of transparency and accountability, and lessons larned in PFM reform in breakable states. Guest speakers at the event admit representatives credit ministries from FreeBalance customers including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Sierra Leone Uganda, and Liberia. Panelists and speakers will include representatives from the IMF, the World Bank, ODI, the African Development Bank and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

“FreeBalance is delighted to have been asked for to take part in the Cape Conference 2010 event,” stated Manuel Pietra, President & CEO at FreeBalance. “Our mission as a company is to assist countries around the world leverage technology to support worldly growth and development. Many of our customers are taking part in this event and we fully support the collaborative exchange of lessons larned and acceptable practices.”

FreeBalance is a circular provider of software solutions for PFM, where PFM is a substantive part of the foreign development process. FreeBalance solutions support government modernization, fiscal decentralization, and common credit reform across all levels of government.

FreeBalance customers span the globe and the user community includes common financial management professionals in 18 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Liberia, Mongolia, Namibia, Pakistan, Panama, Sierra Leone, Southern Sudan, Timor-Leste, and Uganda among others. FreeBalance operates in 15 customer time zones. FreeBalance has more than 60,000 users around the world. FreeBalance software manages a circular civilian service workforce of 1,500,000, and also manages a quarter trillion ($ US) annual budgets intercontinental.

About FreeBalance
FreeBalance helps governments around the world leverage robust Government Resource Planning (GRP) technology to accelerate country growth. FreeBalance software solutions for common financial and anthropoid resource management support reform and modernization to better governance, transparency and accountability. Good governance is necessitated to improve development results. For more information, visit http://www.freebalance.com.

Media Contact:
James Elrick, +1 (613) 218 4938, jelrick(at)FreeBalance(dot)com
http://www.FreeBalance.com

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CollaborateMD (formerly ClaimGear), a leading provider of Internet-based ASP practice management and medical billing software for the healthcare industry, today denoted that the company’s Java application and Oracle database managed more than 2 million transactions on July 30, 2007, the most it has ever treated in a single day. The 2,040,234 transactions affirm customer adoption and use of CollaborateMD ASP model

CollaborateMD has been conserved an eminent level of performance through their practice management services even with transaction volume maturing by ambiguous digits every year since inception. The CollaborateMD database has almost 200 million rows of data dwelling of patients, insurance claims, payments, appointments, claim status, just to advert a few. In June 2007 CollaborateMD was delighted to reach another milestone by going through the 2 billion dollar mark value for insurance claims treated since inception

The CollaborateMD data center is only running at 19% capacity during peak times even with the continuant increase in daily transactions. The data center speed and efficiency can be imputed to well projected Java creating by mental act and eminent performance Oracle Database in combination with the eminently balanced Red Hat Linux running system. The combination of these three factors has let CollaborateMD to increase performance and scalability of their practice management solutions while keeping data center hardware costs down

“Delivering over 2 million transactions in a single day demonstrates that customers are utilizing our practice management application as the sworn stock for running their medical office or billing service over the Internet,” stated Douglas Kegler, President and Founder of CollaborateMD. “We appear forward to our went on growth and serving the healthcare community well into the future.”

Customer Interfacing Delivers Reliability and Performance

CollaborateMD transaction growth is in part callable to altered interfaces with many business partners. Through a stock HL7 interface protocol, CollaborateMD allows business partners to beam patient, appointments and charge enamour data seamlessly between the applications. The medical billing software saves medical offices and billing services time, money, and more importantly reduces data entry errors.

The medical billing software’s efficiency and reliability can best be seen through the use by RediClinic, a domestic chain of in-store accessible care clinics. The in-store clinics are turned up around the country and securely beam patient and insurance claim data directly into the CollaborateMD servers in real-time. The billing service customer of CollaborateMD, undertook by RediClinic, reviews the beamed data and once O.K. is flagged to be sent out to RelayHealth. RelayHealth, a division of McKesson, has been utilised by CollaborateMD for all of their healthcare transaction processing needs since 2001. CollaborateMD expects a went on increase in data treated through interfacing largely callable to the foreseen opening up of hundreds, accomplishable thousands, of RediClinic’s in WalMart, H.E.B., Duane-Read, and other stores over the next decade

CollaborateMD noted they are currently working on a very significant and essential vendor interface that will greatly enhance collaboration between CollaborateMD, physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, and patients and expects to release the news later this quarter

About CollaborateMD

Headquartered in Orlando, FL, CollaborateMD provides the health care industry with an Internet-based Medical Billing Software and Practice Management Software program that has the speed of a localised PC application and the “use anywhere” flexibility of a Web browser application. CollaborateMD is a 100% Java application utilising Sun Microsystems Java Platform. CollaborateMD offers physician offices and billing services the opportunity to go more businesslike and elastic by utilizing their medical billing software. For more information, visit: http://www.collaboratemd.com or name 888-348-8457

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The Standard edition of QuickLicense is ideal for time or execution limited trial editions, lease periods or perpetual licenses of commercial or shareware products. It provides password protection of applications and procure, royalty-free distribution of any number of products or licenses. The Professional edition has online activation and license reset features. Developers can control actuated features in each license and limit access to ad hoc machines or users, plus roll up, organise, track and pull off customer data without blue-collar data entry

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FreeBalance, a For Profit Social Enterprise (FOPSE) software company that helps governments around the world to leverage robust Government Resource Planning (GRP) technology to speed up country growth today denoted participation in the International Consortium on Government Financial Management (ICGFM) 2009 Winter Conference conference. The event takes place from December 2nd to 4th at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Enrique Iglesias Conference Center at 1330 New York Ave. in Washington, D.C. The theme for the conference is “Performance. Results. Outcomes. Understanding Impact in Managing Public Finance”

Doug Hadden, Vice President of Products at FreeBalance will host an interactive session on Thursday, December 3rd at the Enrique Iglesias Conference Center detailing how Government 2.0 will transmute the practice of government performance and common financial management. The session will focus on the limitations of actual practices and the linkages between performance management and Government 2.0. This presentation will demo pragmatic approaches to better performance in government.

“Government 2.0 equips governments with the tools necessitated to render a 360 degree view of government performance and common financial management,” stated Doug Hadden, Vice President of Products at FreeBalance. “Government 2.0 enables governments to evaluate the gross effectiveness and societal impact of government initiatives.”

The practices of private sector performance management is narrow focused and lacks crucial aspects of government performance. Government 2.0 is a fresh trend in government transformation. Government 2.0 will transmute the practice of performance management and common financial management.

Doug Hadden also serves as ICGFM Vice President of Communications. Media coverage of the ICGFM 2009 Winter Conference will also prosecute cultural networking for knowledge transfer and collaboration. Real time event updates will be broadcast by twitter, blogging, video, presentation partaking, document partaking and social networking. Access ICGFM 2009 Winter Conference event coverage utilizing the postdating social media services:

    Event blog at http://icgfm.blogspot.com/     Picture gallery at http://www.flickr.com/photos/icgfm/     Videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/icgfmconference     Presentations at http://www.slideshare.net/icgfmconference     Documents and Journal Articles at http://www.scribd.com/icgfmconference     Social Networking at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1677477

The ICGFM Winter 2009 conference includes workshops, presentations and interactive sessions which focus on the use of performance frameworks in Public Financial Management (PFM). Senior level government financial managers from more than 30 countries including Poland, China, Brazil, Benin, and Bosnia will attendant PFM case studies. Limited to 130 representatives from the range of government credit – budget, audit, calculating, IT, policy, and treasury the conference serves as a circular forum to share successes and lessons larned in common financial management.

About ICGFM
Working globally with governments, organizations and individuals, the ICGFM is dedicated to improve financial management by providing opportunities for professional development and information exchange. More information about ICGFM is accessible at http://www.icgfm.org

About FreeBalance
Founded in 1984, FreeBalance is a For Profit Social Enterprise (FOPSE) software company that helps governments around the world to leverage robust Government Resource Planning (GRP) technology to accelerate country growth. Proven FreeBalance GRP products and concentrated methodology supports financial reform and modernization to better governance, transparency and accountability. Good governance is necessitated to improve development results.

FreeBalance is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with sales and support offices in Washington, DC (United States), Lima (Peru), Lisbon (Portugal), London (Great Britain), Pristina (Kosovo) and St. John (Antigua and Barbuda). FreeBalance solutions have been enforced in countries across the globe, including Canada, United States, Sierra Leone, Guyana, Pakistan, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Antigua & Barbuda, Timor-Leste, Republic of Kosovo and Panama

Media Contact:
Matthew Olivier
Director, Global Marketing & Alliances
FreeBalance     
Tel: +1 (613) 236-5150 ext.129
Mobile: +1 (613) 301-9653    
http://www.FreeBalance.com

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 19, 2007

Inmatrix reinforces its reputation as a global leader in credit risk management solutions with the release of Optimist 7.3.

Flexibility, efficiency, streamlined solutions and the capacity to integrate with any ratings tool are key features of the newly released software.

Optimist 7.3 is an internal credit risk management solution and a front-end relationship management tool which arms commercial bankers with vital financial analysis, diagnostic and communication tools to build, manage, and sustain profitable commercial loan portfolios.

The next generation of Optimist provides an integrated credit work flow platform that is designed to replace manual workbook and Excel spreadsheet systems by eliminating duplication in data entry and vastly improving the speed, accuracy and consistency of loan approval documentation.

Inmatrix President and CEO, Mr. Dileep Ramachandran, emphasized that Optimist 7.3 sets a new benchmark in risk management and client relationship management software.

“The release of Optimist 7.3 demonstrates our ongoing commitment to deliver the world’s best credit risk software which helps make our customers more successful.”

“Optimist 7.3 improves banks’ commercial lending results, enhances clients’ business performance, strengthens customer retention and provides a market-differentiator for banks using the application,” Mr. Ramachandran said.

Through the release of Optimist 7.3, Inmatrix delivers significant advances in Credit Risk analysis, including:

Meeting the requirements of CRE regulations: Through the introduction of ‘worksheets’ Optimist 7.3 delivers the capability for focused analysis of construction projects, income-producing property and property developments. All worksheets are integrated within Optimist reports, and can be included in credit approval documentation.

Customized credit write up tool kit: Optimist 7.3 provides flexibility to create, manage and edit loan approval documents – offering unlimited potential to custom-create reports. Customized ‘templates’ can be built within Microsoft Word and Excel programs, with the data linked directly to Optimist models. These templates are then integrated with institutions’ credit workflow and processes.

Standard & Poor’s Integrated Credit Risk Assessment: Inmatrix’s strategic alliance with Standard & Poor’s, delivers a premier financial diagnostic tool with the capability of assessing credit risk across the middle market. Using Standard & Poor’s CRT, Optimist 7.3 has the capability to provide:
a Risk Rating and Probability of Default (PD) on a one-page scorecard;
graphic representation of a customer’s trend for Probability of Default over the last four years; and
a formal credit report detailing the customer’s business performance and credit risk, therefore delivering a completed credit risk management and measurement solution.

By maintaining all relevant financial and non financial obligor information within one central database users have instant access to information by customer, or on a deal by deal basis. Optimist provides greater consistency in forms, templates and access to data.

About Inmatrix

Inmatrix offers a dynamic, interlocking suite of credit risk management solutions for banks seeking to increase their commercial loan businesses.

From credit assessments and monitoring of individual borrowers’ portfolios, to stress testing of business plans, key financial drivers, and credit scenarios, Inmatrix has the tools banks need to achieve superior business results. The business is a world leader in providing software tools for making business simple, providing products which create knowledge through financial, sales and other data analysis. Inmatrix clients include some of the world’s top banks, major accounting practices and corporations.

Inmatrix products are used by more than 2,000 businesses worldwide and the company boasts a global client base in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company was founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1999, with its head office now located in San Francisco.

For further information on the release of Optimist 7.3, please call David Allen, Chief Operating Officer, Inmatrix – 415 362-7900.

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Ottawa, Canada (Vocus) August 16, 2010

FreeBalance, a global Government Resource Planning (GRP) software company, today released a Case Study that details the Government of Kosovo’s success at improving governance through PFM reform. The Kosovo PFM Case Study covers the sequence of PFM reform in Kosovo from 1999 to the present day. PFM reform is critical to improving good governance. Good governance is critical to economic development. This Case Study is the first in a series to be published to assist governments around the world achieve country growth.

The Kosovo Financial Management Information System (KFMIS) is based on the FreeBalance Accountability Suite. The KFMIS has supported the Government of Kosovo agenda of reform and modernization.

“The advances of the KFMIS are very important for the Public Financial Management reform of the Government of Kosovo,” said Lulzim Ismajli, Treasury Director, Ministry of Finance & Economy, Government of Kosovo. “We have been working with FreeBalance since 2000.We’ll continue our cooperation towards continuous advancement of the KFMIS in order to drive public finances in the way of advanced management so as to be comparable with PFM systems of developed EU countries.”

The PFM Case Study analyzes Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessments. The Government of Kosovo has achieved excellent results (B and higher) for over half of the assessment criteria. The country context of economic, capacity and sustainability challenges are described. The PFM Case Study describes the Government of Kosovo goals of improved governance and transparency, and provides a GRP modernization scorecard.

“FreeBalance congratulates the Government of Kosovo on its remarkable achievements in PFM reform,” said Manuel Pietra, President & CEO of FreeBalance. “The Kosovo PFM Case Study illustrates how the Government of Kosovo has strengthened governance with the resulting economic benefits this brings to its people.”

Achievements by the Government of Kosovo include:

    Improved governance as demonstrated by the 2007 and 2009 PEFA assessments
    Effective sequencing of PFM reform
    Capacity built for budget execution, cash management and procurement government-wide
    Decentralization of budget execution reflecting successful capacity building
    Achieving International and European standards
    International Monetary Fund (IMF) member admittance

FreeBalance customers span the globe. This user community includes public financial management professionals in 18 countries, including Panama, Guyana, Antigua & Barbuda, Jamaica, Uganda, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Mongolia, and Canada. FreeBalance operates in 15 customer time zones. FreeBalance has more than 60,000 users around the world. FreeBalance software manages a global civil service workforce of 1,500,000, and also manages a quarter trillion ($US) annual budgets worldwide.

About FreeBalance

FreeBalance helps governments around the world leverage robust Government Resource Planning (GRP) technology to accelerate country growth. FreeBalance software solutions for public financial and human resource management support reform and modernization to improve governance, transparency and accountability. Good governance is required to improve development results. For more information, visit www.freebalance.com.

Media Contact:

James Elrick

Public Relations Specialist

FreeBalance

Tel: +1 (613) 218 4938

www.FreeBalance.com

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Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 7, 2010

As an integral part of the Solutions for Small Business (www.solutionsforssmallbusiness.com) initiative, a set of white papers explores how small-sized organizations can harness web-based technologies to enhance productivity and better manage cash flow.

The first report, entitled “Web Based Productivity Tools for Small Business,” describes how 2010 is turning out to be a particularly fertile year for adopting new web-based productivity tools that can improve interactions with customers, streamline business processes, and help companies stand apart from their competitors. The reason: technologies that improve the efficiency of small businesses are rapidly maturing, offering more ways to “talk” to customers, harness a virtual workforce, and access key software programs. The report covers some of the key players who have developed effective technologies at an affordable cost.
The second report, entitled “Cash Flow Management Solutions for Small Business,” explores the online tools and technologies that are now available to small business owners and managers so that they can improve the way they manage cash flow and, in the process, secure the insight they need to plan for the future.

The reports conclude that the quality of the broadband network infrastructures that underpin these important new small business tools play a critical role in their success. Fast and reliable Internet connections from local broadband providers (such as cable companies) are essential to business owners and managers looking to get the most from their technology investments.

To learn more and download these reports, offered at no charge, visit www.SolutionsForSmallBusiness.com.

About Solutions for Small Business

Solutions for Small Business is an initiative of CTAM, the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, which is dedicated to helping the cable business grow. Cable companies supporting the Solutions for Small Business initiative include Armstrong; Atlantic Broadband; Bresnan; Bright House; Cable One; Comcast; Cox; Insight, Mediacom, Optimum Business; Suddenlink and Time Warner Cable. Small business owners can learn about the initiative at www.solutionsforsmallbusiness.com.

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