Executive Luncheon: CFO’s & Technology Best Practices. Netsuite and 2nd Wind Fitness.

On October 29th 2008, Agosto held it’s first in a series of executive luncheons. The subject of this event was CFO’s and Technology Best Practices.  Tom Kelly of 2nd Wind Exercise Equipment presented NetSuite and how he transformed 2nd Wind’s operations through the use of key business applications delivered through SaaS.  Gary Pokorn from NetSuite also joined us to demonstrate and answer questions about the NetSuite platform.

If you missed the presentation, please contact Agosto for more information or watch the video below from the luncheon.

Thank you – Agosto.

Here is the slide presentation that Tom Kelly ran through. It’s hard to see the Tom’s slides in the video so click along using the presentation below.

The next Executive Luncheon in our series will have a featured speaker from Google. Tom Mills, Head of Midmarket Sales will be presenting Google and the Enterprise: How is Google changing the way businesses
use email, collaboration, and office applications?. There is limited availability for this event so sign up soon. Oh and yes lunch is included, come for the lunch stay for the education.

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More detail about this event:

Executive Luncheon – Google and the Enterprise

Online network share (file storage) – Getdropbox.com

Is a server-less IT strategy possible in the mid-market / enterprise space?  Can an organization leverage SaaS and outsourced partners to effectively remove all premise-based IT?  No one doubts the success of SaaS / ondemand applications for specific functions like CRM (Salesforce.com, Rightnow.com), Financial Modeling (Adaptive Planning), ERP (NetSuite, Plex), etc.  But few mid-market and enterprise companies are attempting an entirely SaaS / ondemand strategy.

One of obsticals is file storage and management.  As an IT Director, file storage and management is a crucial part of a healthy backup, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plan (BCP).  Untill recently, I have not found a decent SaaS storage solution that could replace the local server or storage appliance.  The ideal would be a solution similar to offline files and folders, the ability to sync local files and folders with a server or storage appliance.  Getdropbox is one such solution that could replace the local server for file storage and sharing.  I’m beta-testing www.getdropbox.com and it functions almost identically to offline files and folders.  I drop files into a local directory and they are sync’d almost immediately.  I loose my Internet connection or I’m on an airplane and I can access all my local files.  When I come back online, the directories sync.  Additionally, all my files are backed up in case my laptop fails or is stolen.   Best of all – no servers are required.  The solution is still in early stages of testing and presently you’re only allowed 2GB of storage but if this is any indication of what’s in our future we may one step closer to an entirely server-less IT solution.

Aric Bandy