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Telecommunications in the Year 2000
The quality and power of the technology available to the small and medium sized business is simply awesome.

SBT Pro Series Wins Top Honor at Microsoft Developers Convention
In an awards ceremony held May 19th in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft Corporation and Advisor Publications, Inc. announced the winners of the Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards.

SBT Pro Series Reviewed By the Journal of Accountancy
SBT was compared to Seventeen other accounting packages in the Journal of Accountancy.

Accounting Library Rank SBT Pro Series the #1 Accounting Package for Second Consecutive Year
K2 Enterprises and the Accounting Library recently published a study ranking 16 leading accounting software packages feature by feature.

SBT Announces Support for Microsoft® Windows 2000
SBT's award-winning Pro Series 5.0 application leverages the increased scalability and reliability of Microsoft's new Windows 2000 Server family.

SBT's Business Solutions
SBT's network of reseller/consultants and partners offer a wide array of industry-specific solutions for organizations with one to one thousand employees.

Telecommunications in the Year 2000

The recent conference on Computer Telephony in Las Vegas was a real eye opener. The quality and power of the technology available to the small and medium sized business is simply awesome. Phone systems are now so feature rich that a business can have all of the advantages of a large corporate system at a very realistic price and low total cost of ownership. Why is this possible? SOFTWARE – The new systems use software to make feature rich systems that are easy to use and manage.

Click your mouse to listen to your voicemail or to make a call. Give your important clients a password and the phone system will find you without revealing your cell or home numbers. Return calls while listening to your voice mail. Control your phone system via the Web. Connect your business Web site to your phone system. Train your existing staff to manage the phone system.

One other radical change has taken place. The new technology phone systems are designed to integrate into your office network. The people who support this new technology are coming from the ‘computer geek’ world. Leading edge business system integration companies are expanding, hiring and training staff to meet this new need.

At the leading and sometimes bleeding edge of this technology is IP (Internet Protocol) Telephony. Several companies now offer pure IP telephones that connect into the office data network. The standards in this very exciting area are evolving rapidly. Most systems require proprietary rather expensive IP telephones or your office computer to make a phone call. If the network is disabled so are the telephones. Networks today are quite reliable so for some organizations a solution like this may be attractive. Eventually all phones and our international phone network will be IP based, but this is quite a few years away.

IP based communications between remote offices offer many advantages. The most obvious advantage of communication over the public internet is no long distance charges. This advantage is counterbalanced by the speed and reliability of the public internet. Remote IP communications depend on high quality, high reliability, high speed connections. Issues such as internet service provisioning in this situation are very important. Another less recognized advantage of remote IP communications is reducing the number of lines you need to rent each month from your local phone company. For many companies this expense is quite significantly reduced with an IP solution.

The middle ground and most attractive systems combine IP and analog Telephony in the same system. Such a solution allows the use of low cost analog phones while still offering all of the features available to pure IP systems. These technologies also allow selected phones to be used in the event of a power failure.

In summary, small and medium sized businesses have a great opportunity to streamline their communications without spending a fortune for the system or the support.

SBT Pro Series Wins Top Honor at Microsoft Developers Convention

In an awards ceremony held May 19th in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft Corporation and Advisor Publications, Inc. announced the winners of the Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards. SBT Pro Series 5.0 won an award for the "Best Migration to Visual FoxPro," earning accolades for demonstrating creativity and ingenuity in the development of a top accounting solution.

SBT Pro Series Reviewed By the Journal of Accountancy

SBT was compared to Seventeen other accounting packages in the Journal of Accountancy. SBT was the only product to score an excellent rating. We expect the same for this year's evaluation.

Accounting Library Rank SBT Pro Series the #1 Accounting Package for Second Consecutive Year

K2 Enterprises and the Accounting Library recently published a study ranking 16 leading accounting software packages feature by feature. The results? SBT Pro Series 5.0 was ranked #1, offering the most extensive array of key features as determined by the Accounting Library and K2 Enterprises. SBT Pro Series is based on Microsoft® Visual Studio.

SBT Announces Support for Microsoft® Windows 2000

SBT's award-winning Pro Series 5.0 application leverages the increased scalability and reliability of Microsoft's new Windows 2000 Server family. Microsoft's Windows 2000 Professional builds on the traditional strengths of Windows NT, boasting higher levels of security, reliability, and performance. Inc. Magazine and Cisco Systems recognize SBT Accounting Systems as Growing with Technology Awards winner Inc. Magazine and Cisco Systems recently announced the winners of their Growing with Technology Awards. According to Jennifer Mayer with the Inc./Cisco Growing with Technology Awards, SBT Accounting Systems was chosen from an extremely impressive pool of over 700 applications; the competition was stiff and the judging process was difficult." SBT was selected based on its creative use of networking and Internet technologies as a springboard for increasing profits and maintaining a competitive industry edge.

SBT's Business Solutions

SBT's network of reseller/consultants and partners offer a wide array of industry-specific solutions for organizations with one to one thousand employees. These solutions help businesses run better by providing instant access to information in accounting, manufacturing, service, distribution, customer care and retail operations.

With access to SBT source code and hundreds of add-on modules, you can have the system that fits your needs. We invite you to visit SBT's Business Solutions Catalog to see the variety of available add-on products.