If you’re looking to implement a new content management system (CMS) in your organization, this insightful article outlines the pitfalls and the best practices of choosing a CMS and offers invaluable advice.

Systems Valley has the expertise and experience to help you choose the content management system that’s right for your business. We can also seamlessly install your CMS for you and configure it so that it matches the precise way you do business and the unique way your end users work.

To find out more about our full range of CMS and web services and solutions, call us on: 0800 33 456 30, or contact the Systems Valley team.

SharePoint is dramatically improving the way people work, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft has announced.

In an interview conducted before his keynote address to Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference, Steve Ballmer stated that  SharePoint is helping companies all over the world deal with the ever-growing and ever-changing business landscape and is enabling them to harness increasing amounts of information, across numerous technologies and devices, in a productive and cost-effective way.

You can read the full interview here.

If you’re looking to boost productivity and raise efficiency levels in your organisation by switching to SharePoint, Systems Valley can give you all the help and support you need.

As specialists in Microsoft technologies, we can give you expert advice about how you can benefit from using SharePoint and can smoothly and seamlessly install it for you. We also have a wealth of experience in designing, developing and implementing SharePoint applications, plug-ins and web parts.

You can learn more about our SharePoint solutions and services here or call us on: 0800 33 456 30.

Introducing a special Friday policy in your organisation, such as allowing staff who’ve accrued sufficient hours in the week to leave early on Friday, or letting employees with perfect attendance records go early on the last Friday of every month, can be an astute way to enhance staff morale, encourage good attendance and bring down your absence levels.

LeaveMaster , Systems Valley’s powerful leave management application, includes a unique feature for companies who’ve introduced a special Friday policy.

To find out more, call us on 0800 33 456 30 or contact the Systems Valley team.

Conducting return-to-work interviews with staff who have been away on short-term sick leave is seen as one of the most effective methods of managing and reducing the short-term staff absences that can be so costly to businesses, a survey has shown.

In the CIPD’s tenth national survey of absence management policy and practice, almost two-thirds of the surveyed companies cited return-to-work interviews as one of the most effective methods of managing short-term absenteeism; making it by far and away the most highly-rated approach.

83% of  the surveyed companies said they conducted return-to-work interviews with short-term absentees, while 74% said they conducted interviews with long-term absentees.

You can download the survey here.

To help organisations take advantage of this highly-effective method of managing absenteeism, LeaveMaster includes an invaluable return-to-work questionnaire that can be used to quickly and easily conduct return-to-work interviews with staff who have been away on both short and long-term sick leave.

To find out more about the return-to-work feature on LeaveMaster, call us on 0800 33 456 30 or contact the Systems Valley team.

Organisations around the world are using Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Dynamics ERP to be more productive, get a better insight into, and control over, their business processes and gain a competitive advantage, Microsoft has announced.

A press release  issued to coincide with Convergence 2009 Europe features examples of how Microsoft customers and partners are using Dynamics to obtain a competitive edge.

This includes a Portuguese consumer bank, which, working with a regional partner, used Microsoft Dynamics CRM to enable a supermarket chain customer to reach a goal of issuing 1,000 customer loyalty cards in just 12 days, and a Spanish Hospital that used a Microsoft Dynamics ERP solution to reduce patient waiting time by 50 percent compared with other Spanish hospitals.

You can read the full press release here

Systems Valley can help you gain a competitive advantage by implementing a powerful and flexible Microsoft Dynamics software package in your organisation. We can help you evaluate which Microsoft Dynamics package best suits your business needs and can seamlessly install it for you.

To find out more, contact the Systems Valley team.