BIG BUSINESS BENEFITS FOR A SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT

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BIG BUSINESS BENEFITSFOR A SMALL BUSINESS
INVESTMENT

• Great Plains IBM Hosting
• Services

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Business drivers

• Increasing communication bandwidth
• Cost of maintaining a single computer nearly 10k
  per year!
• Shortage of technical skills
• Lack of integrated solutions
• Obsolescence
• Year 2000

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Total Cost of Ownership
Source Gartner Group
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What You've Said You Wanted

• Complete Solution
• eliminates the need to integrate
• Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
• provides reliable problem determination
• Local Support provided by Automated Accounting
  Solutions
• allows for relationship building
• Investment protection
• eliminates worry of being behind the times
• Competitive Price

Source Business Management Systems Outsourcing
Survey
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What is it?

• A complete and convenient accounting solution
• Support and expertise
• Affordable, predictable monthly cost
• Hardware, software, services and support
• Hosted
• At Your site
• At IBM site

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Solution Components
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Client Site
IBM remotely manages customer network and server
Select Practice Management

• Help desk
• Operations
• Tech support

IBM
Partner
Partner adds value while connected to customer
site
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IBM Site
IBM hosts server and remotely manages customer
network
IBM

• Help desk
• Operations
• Tech support

Select Practice Management
Partner
Partner adds value while connected to customer
site
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Typical Customer

• 4 to 15 users (or more)
• 1 to 25M in sales
• Limited or no technical skills
• Desire to become an e-business
• Concerned about year 2000 issues

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Benefits to You

• Focus on your business
• Premiere financial accounting package
• Single point of contact for IT issues
• Small up-front investment
• Predictable monthly costs
• Current systems and software
• Painless path to e-commerce
• Quick and convenient implementation

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What to Expect

• Order Solution
• Site survey IBM on-site review
• IBM installs connects equipment
• Accounting implementation by VAR
• Training and implementation
• Run application "live"
• Customer Satisfaction Survey
• Add e-business and other applications

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Great Plains IBM Hosting Services
Lowest Cost of Ownership
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It's about
business
NOT JUST TECHNOLOGY
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Start
small
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build
on what you have
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BIG BUSINESS BENEFITSFOR A SMALL BUSINESS
INVESTMENT

• Great Plains IBM Hosting
• Services

Automated Accounting Solutions, LLC Dallas, Texas