VAI Prepares for 2010 User Conference at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn

VAI’s annual User Conference traditionally highlights S2K’s newest features, while allowing attendees the chance to discover best practices for improving operational efficiencies, network with peers and learn about the latest industry trends. VAI understands that users have the opportunity to attend many events throughout the year. In order to facilitate the decision making process, VAI offers existing and potential customers ten reasons to attend the 2010 VAI User Conference:

1. S2K Enterprise Release 5.0 PTF3: VAI will unveil Program Temporary Fix (PTF) 3, which includes a new Purchasing Manager Screen, to consolidate all S2K purchasing options into one comprehensive management window. PTF3 also includes enhancements to Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP), General Ledger Financial Report Writer and Warehouse Management.

2. Sales Force Automation: VAI will reveal its new portal based CRM solution, S2K Sales Force, designed to integrate enterprise data with mobile computing devices, such as the Apple iPad and iPhone. This capability gives field sales staff easy, immediate access to customer and product information at the point of customer contact. Sales analysis screens allow sales professionals to track personal sales data, as well as customer and item sales information, to help drive new business and inform sales calls.

3. Qlikview Business Intelligence Dashboards: Business intelligence dashboards connect vital company information and place it at users’ fingertips. VAI now provides integration with Qlickview Dashboards to help companies add value to existing S2K technology investments. With this exciting, user-friendly tool, creating powerful dashboards and useful reports companies can easily identify irregularities before they turn into significant business issues, recognize and analyze opportunities and trends, consistently communicate goals with employees and monitor and evaluate performance.

4. S2K for Food Release 4.7: With a new graphical user interface (GUI), VAI’s Food Release 4.7 offers redesigned screens to provide greater flexibility and access to enhanced data in an easy-to-use enterprise level solution. Enhancements include sophisticated Warehouse Management features, Bank Reconciliation tools, new Rebate and Allowance options, and advanced date and lot control options.

5. S2K Enterprise Portal: VAI continues to extend the enterprise through web-based portals. Using IBM Websphere Portal technology, this solution offers application integration, document management, and web content management and collaboration capabilities in a single, easy-to-deploy solution. Our new portal based Shopping Cart application provides advanced e-commerce options for B2B and B2C environments. IBM WebSphere Portal software makes it easy to connect people, information and applications.

6. VAI Future Development Plans: The next generation of S2K Enterprise will involve integrating Web 2.0 technologies and capabilities with enterprise information systems to transform the work within and across the enterprise. Web 2.0 technology will allow users to do more than just retrieve information over the web. It will provide "network as a platform" computing, permitting users to run S2K Enterprise Software entirely through a browser. This Web 2.0 design will feature a rich, user-friendly interface, with the ability to custom tailor screens.

7. Executive Breakout Sessions: Knowing how to effectively and efficiently run a company or department is an extremely desirable business skill. At this year’s conference, VAI will provide a series of breakout sessions focusing on topics such as strategic pricing, maximizing software investments and effective business analysis to help executives advance their company and their career.

8. “How To” Sessions: Getting the most out of VAI’s software sometimes involves integrating the enterprise solution with outside services. At these newly developed sessions, VAI experts will explain how businesses can sell products on Amazon.com and interface S2K data with online retailers.

9. Win Free Tickets to La NouBA: VAI will raffle tickets to the Cirque du Soleil’s La NouBA show, only at Walt Disney World® Resort in Florida. The show name La Nouba originates from the French phrase “faire la nouba,” which means to party, to live it up. It is a world where dreams and reality intertwine as the urban and circus worlds meet on stage. Blending acrobatics, dazzling choreography, whimsical characters and live music, La Nouba stimulates your imagination from beginning to end.

10. Exciting Keynote Speakers: Keynote speaker Ross Schafer will share innovative practices gleaned from dozens of organizations that continue to thrive in any economy. On day two, the hilarious Raspyni Brothers will entertain attendees with their unconventional presentation on teamwork, time management, risk-taking and competitive excellence.

Bob Vormittag, President & CEO, VAI, said, “The strength of a company is often dependent upon the technology solutions deployed. VAI understands that smart leaders must implement systems that extend across the enterprise and beyond, to access accurate and timely enterprise data. VAI has been helping our customers do this for over 30 years and the 2010 User Conference will provide the knowledge to adapt to any economic climate—now and in the future.”

Professionals interested in learning more about past User Conference’s can access a video here. For information related to attendance, please contact Dawn Waters at 1-800-824-7776, ext. 275, or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

About VAI (Vormittag Associates, Inc.)
VAI is an award-winning software developer and an IBM Premier Business Partner. Designed for the mid-range market, S2K Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Suite is used by a wide variety of mid-sized companies worldwide, with a number of clients in the manufacturing, distribution, retail, food and related service industries. Advanced applications such as Warehouse Management Systems, EDI, CRM and e-Business provide companies the power to leverage their information technology investment. VAI is headquartered in Ronkonkoma, New York, with branch offices in Miami, Orlando, Chicago and Oroville, California. For more information, please contact Diane Dady at 800-824-7776, ext. 236 or visit www.vai.net.