Summary of Foresight ConferenceIt has been a few weeks since we returned from the Foresight Conference, and it is time to bring you up-to-date on what is new at Foresight. We had an intensive 2 1/2 days of sessions which demonstrated just how far the product has come in the last two years and what the plans are for the future. Foresight, as a company, have seen revenues increase and profitability increase over the past two years as they have rolled out their new DECADE product. They now have 3 customers who are in their second year live with Decade, 3 more in their first year live and 5 currently implementing with a further 4 licensed to upgrade but not yet started. This is encouraging and bodes well for the future of the product. Of course there are still many customers that are still on the character version of the product (V7.4 mostly), and they will not be forgotten. Discussions were held with the executive at Foresight to see how we can best combine the features of the new-look Decade product with the practicality of the often highly modified Character product. In fact we at Chassels are now converting our own internal system to Decade and intend on providing a character interface to that system, which will be identical to the existing V7.4 interface. When we are successful with this we will be able to offer it to our customers as a logical upgrade path. As for DECADE itself, The Financial and the Distribution are complete with the latest Purchasing module just released to Beta test. The next phase is the redesign of the Manufacturing, which will complete the core functionality of the original product. At Chassels we are pretty excited about this progress and look forward to using the product and contributing to its future functionality. We have already moved our popular Archiver and Plus Formed products over to the DECADE environment and of course our new Executive Snapshot browser based product will work with the DECADE product. There were many good sessions to attend, and I even presented a session on "Enhancements to MXP" which highlighted some of the things Chassels has done to enhance the product. If anyone is interested in this presentation then I can send it to them. It won't be as good as the live session, but it does cover the points. The Conference was well organized and the location of Nashville was a good choice. Personally I was hoping that the Nashville Predators would have made it to the second round of the NHL Playoffs, as that would have given me a rare chance to see hockey in May. Toronto hasn't seen that for years! |
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