Medium-sized businesses – a success story In a world which is constantly becoming 'smaller', the ability to be innovative is the most important basis for remaining internationally competitive in the future. Medium-sized businesses are exactly those companies which show extreme dynamic and creative potential which is especially required in these fast-moving times. This innovative strength is notably increased through information and communication technology. For companies and IT managers it is essential for every business to know which IT solution options are out there, and how they can be used profitably.

Source of inspiration and platform for the exchange of experience with IT experts At the Customer Forum practice oriented workshops will show the users of the abas Business Software "recipes" for their daily work. The interaction of the function ranges, together with many useful information on innovations and strategic developments of the abas Business Software, is the main focus. Cooperation partners of ABAS Software AG and the software partners will furthermore present the IT solutions in connection with the abas Business Software.

Internationality & multilingualism One highlight of the abas Customer Forum will be the workshop Internationality & multilingualism – Functionality in practice. It will be shown how internationally active businesses access data with different operating languages and how different languages of correspondence are selected. You will also be informed about country specifications, the function of dictionaries and how they are exchanged between the installations.

From sales order to production to the end product A complete sales order process in abas ERP will be shown – from the sales order to scheduling, production and materials management. Innovations and new developments of this area will be shown as well.

eLearning with abas ERP The abas eTrainer supports the transfer of knowledge from ABAS to the users. Using an example, you will be shown how to create tutorials and also the different modes, such as for example, the practice and the test function. Through the re-recording function, tutorials can be automatically adjusted to the customized ERP system in over 30 foreign languages without having to repeat the recording process.

Use your potential with abas eB abas eB enables an optimum interaction of company-internal and company-external business processes. The focus of the workshop will be on the area of vendor connection, service and sales, and also company internal information acquisition and goods management.

The abas Portal as the Web platform The abas Portal supplements abas ERP optimally. Besides being able to display abas ERP data, the abas Portal basis - the Portal server, Liferay - also provides further interesting options which will be informed about in the lecture. Examples are, for example, the creation of an Internet presence with the portal or the sales order related fusion of data.

Awaking potential in employees The guest speaker on the abas Customer Forum "Trends 2009" will be Matthias Schaack from Gustav Käser International GmbH. In his lecture he will show the potential of employees and how this can be brought out and made use of. Matthias Schaack will also explain how the personal attitude and the individual behavior of the employee is taken into account during the development.

Useful information about the abas-Business-Software Many solutions by abas partners and user reports round off the two-day congress. The range of topics comprise modern Java interfaces in abas ERP, the effective sales control via a solution integrated in the abas Business Software, the complaint and service processing and much more. In the accompanying exhibition users can talk about the workshop contents in more detail and inform themselves about further cooperation solutions.