The Action Management System (AMS) continues to progress
well and this newsletter is an update for our AMS Associates on some recent developments.
Welcome to our new AMS Associates
Four new Associates have joined our network in the past
couple of months.
Alan Bignell has joined us in Brisbane.
Colin Burns has joined us in Melbourne.
Peter Pain has joined us in Sydney.
Paul Anderson has joined us in Perth.
Their contact details and profiles are posted on the
Associate Network area
of our Action Management website and we wish them success in their embracing of AMS
into their consulting practices.
Take a look at their profiles and do not hesitate to contact them directly if you think that you could
use their services as sub-contractors to your clients.
New AMS Associate Website & AMS Knowledgebase
We have now created a
special AMS for our
Business Associates Network (BAN).
This AMS contains the complete Business DNA for our BAN
Business and is where we now keep the latest Knowledgebase for access
by all licensed AMS Associates. As any AMS material is
updated or added, it will be uploaded into the Knowledge
Directory of this AMS for the use of all Associates.
All AMS Associates have now been given access to this new
BAN-AMS via their own Username and Password. The direct URL
is www.ban.amshost.biz .
Usernames all take the format of
"xx.7" where xx are the personal initials of the Associate.
Passwords are initially set to be the same as the Username
but these should be changed ASAP by each Associate at the
first log-in.
(Menu: AMS/Involve Staff/Change Password).
New client AMS Website URLs for Easy Access
We have changed the URL for AMS access by all
clients.
The new main Host Directory address is now the shorter
www.amshost.biz .
This
change also gives
all our AMS customers their own sub-domain AMS address
for direct access to their own AMS. For example the
direct access URL for the National Institute of Accountants
AMS is now
www.nia.amshost.biz
(with their unique sub-domain name immediately preceding the amshost.biz address).
All AMS usernames and passwords have
remained the same for all clients.
AMS Pricing changes
Our basic Client Product
License fees have not changed, however from 1st March
2007 we
have introduced some additional one-off optional component
charges.
<> Additional Reports pricing:
Additional reports are now provided that are
additional to the basic integrated AMS reports. Reports can
now be obtained in three categories:-
(i) Integrated Reports: Provided within the
basic AMS at no additional charge.
(ii) Standard Reports: Provided as optional extra
reports and priced at AUS$300 (+ GST)
per report (see AMS Reporting Guide for sample
outputs).
(iii) Customised Reports: Developed at the special
request of a client and fixed priced at
AUS$500 (+ GST) per report.
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Additional Security pricing:
We now offer the option for a client to have all AMS
transactions encrypted with 128-bit SSL encryption at a
one-off price of AUS$750 (+ GST).
New
SSL Encryption option
for client AMS Websites
We have introduced an optional 128-bit encryption feature
for increased client security.
Effective from 1st March 2007 this is an optional service
for our clients and a client pays a one-off AUS$750 (+ GST)
up-front fee for this.
Existing clients (licensed prior to 1st March 2007) have
been upgraded FREE to this higher level of data
security.
Upgraded Hosting
Security
We have also upgraded our AMS server
hardware
and increasing our hosted server security.
We have moved our AMS server to a high security
location.
This relocation will enable us to have a dedicated and
physically separate backup server for a greater level of data security
(to protect against any failure on our main server). Our new server will
also have "transaction mirroring" to provide real-time
duplication of all of our client's AMS data and provide inbuilt redundancy against
disk failure. All our customer data is of course already
backed-up
but these new changes will provide AMS with a much higher level
of data security as we move to an International 24/7 real-time operating environment.
A new security brochure is available from the BAN-AMS (see
below).
New updates to AMS material
(All AMS Associate material
is now stored on our
Business Associates
Network AMS)
We have released an
AMS Reporting Guide.
This document provides details of all AMS reports that are
currently available and identifies those that come
Integrated within AMS and those that can be optionally
purchased as "Standard" (i.e. off. As mentioned earlier
any client can optional purchase any of the optional
reports for the one-off price of $300 (+ GST).
We have released an
Incident Operations Guide.
This document provides instructional material for the implementation of
the Incident Resolution sub-system of AMS.
We have released an
AMS Security Brochure.
This one-page brochure summarises the secure hosting and
backed-up environment in which our client's data is
stored.
FREE Internet Storage
for AMS Associates
We have now created a personal Internet storage area for each
Associate on our Internet Server. Each associate already has secure
access to their own webpage and can update the content of
their personal webpage at any time using any Web editing
tool (e.g. Microsoft FrontPage). Each Associate can now also
upload and host their own documents or reports (in fact any
document) for their clients, prospects or colleagues to
download.
Just let me know when you want
to utilise this storage service and I will set it up for you. You
may already have FTP software to upload your files to the
Internet, however if you don't then I recommend that you
purchase Web-drive Software (only costs about US$50)
to permit easy access to your secure AMS Internet area from your
own computer.
Go to
http://www.webdrive.com/software/demosoft/webdrive.exe
to download a 20-day trial copy now. We provide our file storage space to you for FREE on our Internet Server.
If you have any questions
then please contact us at:
The Management Practice
133 Alexander Street
Crows Nest NSW 2065
Phone: 61-(0)2-9431 5305
Mobile: 0412-860 403
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