January/03 Edition

Fred Blauer and Associates Newsletter
Introduction
This is the January/03 issue of our electronic newsletter. This was supposed to be a monthly publication, but we missed a few months because of a very busy fall season. We wanted to wish everyone a happy new year. We have a number of new alliances, services and products that we would like to let you know about.

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New Alliances
We have formed a strategic partnership with EDI Gateway and @Your Door to provide better and more complete range of Bluelink and Microsoft products and services. There will be a seamless integration between EDI Gateway and Bluelink, and @ Your Door will be doing our custom development. EDI Gateway will be handling most of the marketing activities, so you may be getting a call from Jon Fraser in the future.

We are working with Strophe to market and provide products and services to the Retail and POS markets. We will be offering Bluelink and Microsoft products and services to this industry.

We are working with PYA for human resources consulting and other products and services. So you may be getting a call from Morrie Weinberg concerning bill 90 1% tax on wages, which must be completed by the end of Feb. We are also working with Michael Kraus at Emploie Quebec for manpower related government assistance.

 
E - Business
  Bluelink Web.Venture - New SQL version will be coming this month

Agora Shopping cart (open source)

Microsoft bCentral

 
Small Business ERP Systems
 

Bluelink Business Systems

Microsoft Business Systems

 
Useful Links
 

180 Systems in Toronto (Michael Burns)

         Web Services Overview

        CA Magazine survey of ERP systems

 
Conclusion

We are very optimistic about the coming year. A lot of activities are going on, and we are expecting a lot of new things happening in 2003. Check www.fblauer.com for the latest information and news on ERP system implementations.