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What Matters Now
Professional Service Organizations
Accounting Software without Antacid
Microsoft Dynamics
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Introducing PowerPivot for Excel 2010
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Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010, formerly known as Project "Gemini" is a data analysis add-in that delivers unmatched computational power directly within Microsoft Excel 2010.  Watch the
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If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
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Learn how to import contacts from Excel or a CSV File into Outlook.
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20 year
eNewsletter   February 2010
Greetings!

As the newness of 2010 begins to fade, we must be honest about our New Year's resolutions.  Yearly business goals often revolve around increasing revenue and reducing cost.  And one month in, it's imperative to address your own impact on sales and the bottom line.  Did you know having the right accounting software package can help that?  Are you able to get accurate financials out by the 10th of the next month?  Do you know which inventory items need to be reordered?  Is it easy to run a job profitability report?  Can your accounting software offer you good business intelligence?
 
If you answer no to any of the above questions, we can help.  We are here to help you meet your goals in 2010, and look forward to outfitting your business with the tools it needs to exceed your expectations.
 
Regards,
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Nancy Phillippi
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What Matters Now
The moment is here.  We stand at a fork in the road.  The time has come to choose our direction.  With purpose.  Deliberately.  It's time to look beyond the bottom line and see precisely what matters about what we do.  Seth Godin's compilation of motivational and inspirational insights for the business-minded is guaranteed to make you think, to make you feel, and, truthfully, to make you act.  It's chock-full of feel-good, big-picture, at-the-end-of-the-day nuggets of wisdom. . . We promise you'll approach the rest of your day differently after reading it.  It may just change your life.
 
Click here to be compelled to think, to feel, and to act. 
Why Professional Service Organizations Need Improved Financial and Resource Management
This white paper addresses the financial and resource management pain points that professional service organizations currently face.  It focuses on the benchmarks that professional service organizations can use to improve their management capabilities and goals.  Read the full white paper here.
Accounting Software without Antacid
Accounting software.  The two-word term sounds harmless enough, but carries the power to bring even the strongest CEO or CFO to his or her knees.  Some business owners feel ill just reading those words. . . Theirs is a ship slowly sinking beneath the weight of add-on software, post-it note addendums, and slow-as-molasses response time.  Theirs is a company that didn't update accounting software in time.  But you need not share their fate.  The thought of accounting software need not cause nausea in you.  Read on and consider yourself warned.
 
Click here for the stomach-soothing antidote.

About Custom Information Services (CIS)

Custom Information Services (CIS) is a pioneer in affordable managed services, IT solutions and business software applications for forward thinking businesses. We've been keeping our customer up and growing for 20 years.
 
Founded in 1989, CIS' primary objective is to provide and support business software, IT services, managed network services, telecom, and custom programming to many customers in many different industries. Located in Dallas/Fort Worth, CIS has been implementing and supporting the financial industry, process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing and distribution solutions to clients throughout Texas and the Southwest; NM, OK, AR and LA.

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