A large pawprint of approval!
We've been converting over to our new back office system based on Microsoft CRM. It's been a slower process than we'd thought but we're nearly there. You'll see some of the benefits of that hard work when we launch our new website in a few weeks time.
In the meantime, we were nominated in January for a Pinnacle Award for our information systems project work. This award is one that Microsoft gives for innovative use of its Microsoft Dynamics software and is presented at Convergence 2007 in San Diego in March.
Woo hoo! We just heard that we won the award for Services Industry Leadership because of our "innovative use of Microsoft technologies to deliver measurable benefits to its organization and customers". Cool!
Microsoft officially announced the Pinnacle Awards yesterday and here is the press release. Yes, there's some marketing spin for Microsoft in all of this of course, but it's great for a start up to win a leadership award for financial services companies, don't you think?
The stats:
entrants: 175
winners: 17
number of companies being highlighted in a video presentation at the Convergence 2007 presentation: 4
Embrace Pet Insurance being one of the four companies highlighted in the video: priceless
More info:
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of financial, customer relationship and supply chain management solutions that helps businesses work more effectively - software includes Microsoft CRM and Great Plains.
The Industry Leadership Awards recognize organizations in Services, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Healthcare and Retail/Distribution sectors whose innovative use of technology in their operations deliver measurable benefits to their organizations. Candidates for this award are judged on creativity, vision and the tangible business benefits in the areas of sales, marketing and customer service; business operations/financial management; and/or business innovation.
The Services Industry Leadership Award is open to financial services organizations in the banking, insurance and capital markets as well as professional service organizations.
