Happy Thanksgiving

B2BGateway would like to wish all our clients, partners and friends a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Intuit Connections ISP Summit 2011

B2BGateway.Net a leading global EDI solution provider and Intuit QuickBooks Gold Developer will be attending the Intuit Connections ISP 2011 Summit in Orlando, Florida this October 9-12, 2011.
This year’s summit takes place at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld hotel. The theme of this years event is “Connections,” to represent the important role the summit plays in connecting ISP (Intuit Solution Providers) with peers, vendors, and Intuit representatives as they look for new ways to improve and expand their business.
“Connections” will be an intimate, high touch, business and innovation focused event showcasing the industry’s best solutions including B2BGateway.Net’s Cloud\SaaS based fully integrated EDI solutions for all Intuit QuickBooks products. As in previous years, B2BGateway.Net will be a technology sponsor of the event and will have a booth in the main floor. Make sure to drop by and say hello if you are planning to attend this event.

B2BGateway.Net EDI enables the Clash of the Ash!

Hurling is the name given to a traditional Irish sport played with sticks called hurley's and a small leather ball, it is also known in colloquial terms as the Clash of the Ash - referring to the hurley sticks used which are crafted from Ash trees. Each team consists of 15 players and a game typically consists of two periods of play of 35 minutes each. Hurling is older than the recorded history of Ireland. It is thought to predate Christianity, having come to Ireland with the Celts and has been a distinct Irish pastime for at least 2000 years. The earliest written references to the sport in Brehon law date from the fifth century. The tale of the Táin Bó Cuailgne (drawing on earlier legends) describes the hero Cúchulainn playing hurling at Emain Macha. Similar tales are told about Fionn Mac Cumhail and the Fianna, his legendary warrior band. Meallbreatha describes punishments for injuring a player in several games, most of which resemble hurling. The Seanchás Mór commentaries on the Brehon Law state that the son of a rí (local king) could have his hurley hooped in bronze, while others could only use copper. It was illegal to confiscate a hurley.

Traditionally hurley sticks have been sold at club or team level or passed down from player to player, however, B2BGateway.Net EDI solutions have brought the sale of hurling sticks into the 21st Century! Champion Hurleys Ltd., one of the leading hurley manufacturing companies in Ireland started selling their hurley's to Musgraves (SuperValu & Centra retailers) and needed EDI to submit their invoices electronically to the retailer. Champion Hurley's contacted B2BGateway.Net who set them up on their cost effective, web based EDI solution - WebConnect. Champion Hurley's can now submit all their invoices electronically, bringing over 2,000 years of tradition into the 21st Century!

B2BGateway.Net offers EDI for Amazon Drop Ship Central

B2BGateway.Net offers EDI automation to Amazon Drop Ship Central users. Instead of having to manage everything manually, end users can now avail of B2BGateway.Net's EDI X12 solutions to automate the process. Documents handled include: Order Fulfillment Processes (850, 855 and 856), Consolidated Invoices, Packing Slips and Inventory. Visit www.b2bgateway.net
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B2BGateway.Net develops TASC - EDI Testing Portal

Global EDI Specialist, B2BGateway.Net have expanded their offering in the Cloud with a new SaaS EDI Testing Portal - TASC (Testing And Supplier Compliance) Portal. The TASC portal offers On-Demand 24/7 EDI Testing & Validation Services for Large Format Retailers, Manufacturers and Third Party Logistics Providers (3PL’s). As more and more firms become EDI compliant the pressure on trading partners to implement successful EDI testing, mapping and validation procedures can put a huge strain on any firms resources. With B2BGateway.Net’s new TASC portal, however, firms can now access on-demand 24/7 EDI Testing and Validation services thus freeing up personnel to focus on their production environment. The advantages of using B2BGateway.Net’s TASC portal include cost and time savings, consistency, ease of use and the portal is fully customizable to meet the individual needs of any particular client.

B2BGateway CEO to be featured speaker at Right Networks Accounting C4 Conference

B2BGateway.Net CEO, Kevin Hoyle, will be a featured speaker at Right Networks Accounting C4 conference. This year’s conference will take place at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel from September 18th to 20th, 2011.
Accounting C4 is an event focused on bringing the practice and clients of all size accounting firms to the cloud to allow for integration with the hosted or SaaS business applications that best fit their needs. Attendees will gain a better understanding, through networking, training and presentations, of how to bring their own practice online and of the available technology platforms to allow their business to excel in addition to providing guidance to their clients on how to do the same.
Kevin’s topic will be B2BGateway.Net- The keys to streamlining the supply chain and increasing sales. Everyone talks about streamlining the supply chain process, tightening lead times and process flow automation…but most people have no idea what any of that means. To most, it sounds like a load of the latest buzz words with a really high price tag attached. Do you really need to be part of the cloud to make your business better? Kevin will use this session to demystify some of the newer technologies and show how you can use them to your advantage in a cost effective manner.

On being different..................

Over the past month or so, I have had some extended business travel and some free time in the European Union (EU). Having spent time in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, France and Italy, you see a few things that are different. No, not just the obvious things like different languages, or driving on the other side of the road, but the more subtle things. For example, in Europe the grocery shopping carts (trolleys) have 4 wheels that swivel. This doesn’t sound like much, but if you come from the United States and you are used to the carts traveling in two dimensions and suddenly you are faced with three dimensions, it can be a big change.
In Paris, I noticed that a lot of people seem to litter. I’ve seen Parisians eat a sandwich and throw the wrapper on the ground. I watched a lot of Parisians open a pack of cigarettes (from my limited point of view, I’m pretty sure that all Parisians smoke, although there may be one older gentleman in South Paris who does not…) and the wrapper ends up on the sidewalk. In Ireland and the UK, a large percentage of the people smoke as well, but they are not allowed to do it indoors. So the sidewalks are filled with smokers. I spend most of my time walking down the sidewalks coughing; so much that I’ve found that you have to ‘step inside for a breath of fresh air’.
In the United States, when we go to the beach, there are teams of people watching us and blowing their whistles to make sure we don’t swim out too far. If we do, they are ready to swim out and rescue you (remember the TV show Baywatch…). But in Europe, if you want to do something stupid and you end up hurt or dead, it is your own fault. “Oh, he swam out to far and drowned. Bummer, he should have known better” (It is best if you read this quote with a French accént).
But, being different is interesting. After cataloging some of the differences between the US and EU (which would fill a whole book), I started thinking about differences in organizations and in particular, B2BGateway.Net (yep, here is the tie in). At B2BGateway.Net, we are different; not just in what we do, but in how we do it. People at B2BGateway.Net enjoy what they do and take pride in their work, but they also have personalities that are different and unique. This newsletter and some of our future video clips will show some of the different personalities that make our company great. I hope you enjoy.
Thanks , Kevin