QBS group partners Rainbow Solutions and Quadira join forces

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Rainbow Solutions has started a full partnership with Quadira to offer and support Quadira’s Advanced-Forms® Output Management to their customers.

Advanced-Forms® is the Output Management solution for the easy design, enrichment, distribution and digital archiving of any document. Advanced-Forms® seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Dynamics software and is Microsoft certified (CfMD) for NAV2013, NAV2015, NAV2016 and AX2012. This has made Rainbow Solutions decide to add Advanced-Forms® as ISV solution for NAV to their NaviTrans solution. Rainbow will implement this total solution at their new customer Mooy Logistics.

Hajo Kanters, founder and CEO at Quadira: “Advanced-Forms® is the state of the art output management solution which we have developed based on a clear requirement of customers in several branches, such as the Dynamics NAV community. Many of those customers are looking for a solution with which they can easily create documents, add extra data to those documents and distribute them automatically in an digital format. Normally this can only be done through customization by specialists from the ERP partners. We noticed that among the Dynamics partners, such as Rainbow Solutions, there is a strong demand to minimize these activities as much as possible, so that they can focus on the ERP implementation itself. This has already been successfully revealed at several Rainbow Solutions customers. That is why Rainbow and we have decided to do this installation at Mooy Logistics together, in a partnership”.

Wim Korte, CEO at Rainbow Solutions: “We see a clear requirement in the Dynamics NAV market for solutions where users can easily digitize and automate the outgoing document process flow. Advanced-Forms® has already proven itself for several years now with a solid and highly skilled Quadira organisation”. ”We therefore have decided to include Advanced-Forms® in our total product portfolio and our total solution which we are now going to implement at our new customer Mooy Logistics”. “We are very enthusiastic about all the options and features that Advanced-Forms® offers and we look forward to a long term partnership. Quadira will fully train and certify our people, so that we can implement and support Advanced-Forms® by ourselves”.

More about Rainbow Solutions on our partnerpage

More about Quadira on our partnerpage

Mobile friendly website for QBS group

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Our website is now easily accessible for users of mobile telephones.

In November 2015 QBS group moved their website to an ‘adaptive’ design. This means that the website is easily accessible by using a mobile telephone. On the advice of Sander van Leeuwen, online marketer with QBS group, it was a necessary step. Sander: “Over the last two years, we have seen a considerable increase in the number of visitors to our website through mobile telephones. In order to provide our website visitors with a good user experience, we decided to optimise our website for mobile usage.”

An efficient approach

The project started in the summer of 2015 and was approached efficiently. Sander: “The complete website of QBS group consists of over 1200 pages in 10 different languages. So it would be a lot of work to build a complete new website, which wasn’t necessary as all we wanted was a website that was easily accessible for visitors with mobile phones. So we decided to ‘reuse’ the old website as much as possible. As far as content is concerned, the website stayed pretty much the same. The only thing that was ‘freshened up’ was the website’s look and feel.”

An adaptive website

The website of QBS group is now an ‘adaptive’ website which is more than just a ‘responsive’ website. Sander: “A ‘responsive’ website means that the content of the website stays the same on every device. An ‘adaptive’ website, however, shows different content on different devices. For example certain images are not shown on mobile devices. Also tables that are not suitable for mobile devices are not shown.”

It has only just begun

QBS group’s adaptive website went live successfully, but that doesn’t mean the work is over. Sander: “It has only just begun. Releasing a new website means the start of a new phase. We are now going to see how the mobile version of our website is being used and how we can improve this. For example, if we see that more people register for events on the mobile version of our website than on the desktop version, we can choose to move the link for registering higher up the page on the mobile version. And in that way increase registrations.”

Marketing partners

The new website was made possible by QBS marketing partners Spankracht and Maxdoro. Sander: “Spankracht took care of the new ‘look and feel’ and Maxdoro was responsible for coding. I’d like to say thanks to both partners for their hard work. They’ve done a great job.”

See our mobile version

Interested in seeing how the mobile version of our website looks? Take a peek on your mobile phone or just make your browser window smaller and experience the difference.

Would you like your website to be adaptive too?

Do you need your website to responsive or adaptive? Not sure whether it’s necessary for mobile access to your website? Need help to review the possibilities? Then please contact us for our advice.

No more sails in Microsoft Dynamics logo

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Microsoft has announced some important changes in her branding strategy. One of the changes is that the three sails are gone from the well-known Microsoft Dynamics logo.

The changes are the result of the ‘One Microsoft’ approach of CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft wants users to combine different Microsoft solutions and use them as one. Different logos for different solutions don’t fit the approach of ‘Microsoft as a complete solution’ and therefore Microsoft’s branding is now more uniform. You can see an example of the new branding strategy and logos below.

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New logo for Microsoft Dynamics

One of the major changes is a new logo for Microsoft Dynamics. The logo no longer has the three sails in it. It is now a blue boxtile with the name of the specific solution on the left upper side (see example below).

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Microsoft has also developed new Dynamics-icons for apps (see example below).

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How to use the new branding strategy

Microsoft would like partners to use the new logos in their communication materials. But for now this only applies to new materials, so it is not necessary to update all of your existing materials.

For more information on the new branding strategy, please download the new branding guidelines here at PartnerSource. The now logos can be downloaded here (also on PartnerSource).

Need help? Use QBS Content Services!

The new Microsoft branding strategy could be a good opportunity for you to update your existing communication materials. For example your website, brochures, stationery or presentation materials. We can offer you help! Please contact us (link to contact form)

Microsoft Give me 5 Promo for Q3 & Q4

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It is our pleasure to inform you about the Microsoft Promotions for the second half of Fiscal Year 2015

“GIVE ME 5 STARTER” AND “GIVEME 5 + 2 EXTENDED” – NEW CUSTOMER PROMOTIONS

Promotions for FY15-Q3 (19-01-2015 to 27-03-2015):

  • FY15Q3 “Give Me 5 Starter” – Starter Pack plus 2 Full Users (Promotion Code 1676)
  • FY15Q3 “Give Me 5 + 2 Extended” – Starter Pack plus Extended Pack plus 4 Full Users (Promotion code 1677)

Promotions for FY15-Q4 (01-04-2015 to 27-06-2015):

  • FY15Q4 “Give Me 5 Starter” – Starter Pack plus 2 Full Users (Promotion code 1680)
  • FY15Q4 “Give me 5 + 2 Extended” – Starter Pack plus Extended Pack plus 4 Full Users (Promotion code 1681)

Eligibility:

Please refer to the official terms for a complete listing of eligibility requirements and exclusions on Partner Source.

Marketing Material:

Please ensure you use the NAV Promo marketing banners for your website and email signatures along with the MAN email templates to drive this promotion to your prospects.

 

“EXTEND FOR LESS” – EXISTING CUSTOMER PROMOTIONS

Microsoft is launching an exciting promotion to help partners upsell existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV Perpetual Licensing customers by offering a compelling deal on the deep functionality of the Extended Pack.

Microsoft is introducing product specific versions of the Extend For Less promotions to reflect the differentiated value of the Extended Pack.

FY15H2 “Extend NAV For Less” (19-01-205 to 27-06-2015):

  • Existing customers can license the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Extended Pack plus 1 Full Concurrent CAL (Promotion code 1678)

Eligibility

“Extend NAV For Less” promotion available to all existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013/2015 customers that have not previously licensed the Extended Pack. Regardless of terms to the contrary, these promotions can be offered to customers that took advantage of FY15H1 or FY15H2 Give Me 5 Starter promotions.

Please refer to the official terms for a complete listing of eligibility requirements and exclusions that can be found on partner source.