APS UK Annual Conference

We are pleased to extend an invitation to you to join us at our 8th APS Annual Conference to be held this year

between the 21st and 23rd of November. The venue for this years Conferenceis Whittlebury Hall in Towcester, Northamptonshire. Facilities are a plentyfrom the excellent golf course to the wonderful in-house Spa facilities.

Why Attend?

At APS we firmly believe that the success of any organisation depends upon their ability to manage their resources and knowledge as efficiently as possible. This is particularly the case with professional service firms where skilled staff represent the biggest cost as well as the biggest asset as a means of earning revenue. We have developed a suite of software systems and information services to assist organisations in meeting this challenge.

Each year we welcome clients and prospective clients who benefit from the comprehensive review of solutions for professional firms including presentations from key note speakers who deal with topical subjects which enhance the strategies your firm implements. The format of Conference is designed to cater for you as a day delegate on Thursday 22nd or a full delegate from Wednesday 21st (pm registration) to Friday 23rd (departing 2-3pm).

If you are not a client of APS you are very welcome as the content is as valuable as it is for clients.

" I attended the APS Conference last year as a prospective client - what impressed me about the event was how open APS are as a business about their services but more importantly how the existing clients were so positive about the 'APS experience' and the quality of their systems."
Owen Skinner - Managing Partner

"This will be the 6th APS conference our practice has attended. The first gave us an opportunity to see product roadmaps for the following year and meet the APS team. By the third conference, and with the benefit of product experience, we were able to enjoy a productive exchange of ideas in contributing to these roadmaps and share experiences with other clients. Approaching the forthcoming conference I look forward once more to new product offerings but equally importantly to renewing acquaintances with fellow users who have become good friends over the past 6 years. I can highly recommend conference as a beneficial, worthwhile and enjoyable use of time."
Neil Conacher - IT Manager

Conference Fees

Conference Programme

Keynote Speakers
We are currently finalising the guest speakers for Conference and will include these in the final agenda.

Document & Email Management - As a key business partner for Interwoven we demonstrate the solution, Worksite, that is a market leader for professional service firms together with the latest enhancements and success stories from implementations in the last 12 months. This year we will focus on:-

	Enhancements within the latest release - Worksite 8.5
	Creating an Extranet capability for your clients - fully integrated to Worksite.
	Offsite - remote and offline integration for Document and Email Management
	Universal search - creating an internal 'Google' capability across multiple systems
	Archiving Documents automatically from the DM system and Records Management.

In addition to Worksite we will also be demonstrating the latest technology from DocsCorp OCR Server and AdvanceDocs that are vital components for scanning, indexing and collating content from solutions outside Microsoft Office.


Client Relationship Management - With Advance CRM we demonstrate how to manage your business beyond Practice management. This year we will focus on:-

	Outlook Integration.
	Integration with Email Marketing Systems
	Event Management
	Managing new business opportunities and order processing
	Wizards to enhance data entry
	Automating business rules using Vigilant to ensure your response levels are optimised and making sure your team deliver on set expectations.

Workflow & Resource Planning - Advance PM has been enhanced to cater for

	Workflow Guides and templates to manage business rules
	Linking Documents to tasks
	Assigning multiple resources at Milestone and Template levels
	Improvements to personal task management and capacity planning.

Business Intelligence - Explore the latest enhancements to Practice IQ. This year we will focus on helping clients to understand why PIQ is in a class of its own from a technology point of view. We will explain the versions of PIQ and how your version of SQL may affect what you can achieve. We will also introduce SQL 2008.

Practice Management - Each year we announce the forthcoming enhancements to our market leading practice management system Advance. This year enhancements include

	Vista and Office 2007 compliance
	Fixed Priced Billing
	New Console
	New invoice layout designer
	Straight Profit Fees.

Client Surgery - Last year we introduced 'speed dating' to allow conference attendees to have one to one meetings with the APS team and other presenters. This year we will run two workshops to cater for client demand.

Guest Solutions - we are pleased to welcome Caseware (Audit and Accounts Production), Finapps (Wealth Management) and Bighand (Digital Dictation).

BigHand, the leading digital dictation developer and supplier, offers a simple, "point and click" solution for accountancy practices suffering from the inefficiencies of archaic tape machines and looking to improve workflow, decrease overheads and increase overall efficiency.

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