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Make a video! Don’t limit yourself with text and stills

March 25, 2013 in Business

Everyone has something to tell, and as a human being we have a built-in system to communicate with others called the spoken language, highly supported by the body language and face expressions.

Use trigger words strategically to improve texts, SEO, usability – and ultimately conversions and sales.

Your most potent weapon when writing for the web

December 6, 2012 in Business

Consider this: As a product manager, marketer, or sales rep, do you talk about your product the same way a potential customer would? When you write about it on your website or in email marketing, do you use their words and jargon?

World Usability Day

November 8, 2012 in Business

Today is the World Usability Day (WUD). This year, WUD is focused on ‘Usability of financial systems’. The idea behind WUD is to have a specific day on which people around the world can promote usability by arranging local events. Since we´re passionate about usability and work with financial systems this year’s topic inspired us to advocate WUD! Life size ...

How to improve on a successful web based marketing campaign

How we want to make a successful web based marketing campaign even better

October 29, 2012 in Business

Recently I was fortunate to participate on a well-executed and successful web based marketing campaign. The goal was to get payroll professionals to sign up for an annual conference. When the initial eDMs went out the sign-ups jumped to 66. Two weeks later we broke 500. Despite over 9.000 recipients, the fact that these were actual orders at NOK 6.300 ...

Workshop in London: Using Content Strategy to change your organization

October 12, 2012 in Business

Today’s society has access to information from anywhere and through any device. This means more content, and organizations are facing the need to make content clearer. I was assigned to write a HCI guideline for the help function of Visma´s applications. I realized that in order to create a user-friendly help function, I had to work with content. Therefore I ...

How we are building a larger UX-community

September 19, 2012 in Business

In Visma Software, we are increasing the focus on user experiences (UX) and design. The goal for our UX professionals is to ensure that our products and services: are easy to learn are easy to navigate are efficient in use are understandable have the right (amount of) functionalities evoke positive emotions Within our R&D-department we have many interaction designers and ...

Frontend Development: Easing the Transition From Guidelines to Implementation

June 29, 2012 in Business

I think most accomplished techies will nod his or her head in agreement when I postulate that you don't push the limits of your knowledge just by reading user manuals and looking at pictures – you need to get your hands dirty. Making software is no different.

Visma.net, the new SaaS ERP from Visma

June 3, 2012 in Business, Technology

I really look forward to tomorrow, Tuesday, June 5. For the first time, we will publicly show the visma.net, our new totally SaaS / Cloud ERP-system. Interested? Here is the invitation: Visma.net is probably the first pure web-based ERP system available in our markets, that is also efficient for professional SME users with high demands for flexibility and performance. While many ...

New design and functionality on our websites

March 12, 2012 in Business

Monday the 12th of March we re-launch our websites with a fresh new look and a lot of functionality improvements. This will be our first step forward in our continuous efforts to improve our web presence through 2012.

NPS is the way to go!

February 24, 2012 in Business

Six months has passed since the first day I entered Visma’s headquarters as a fresh Management Trainee. I really didn’t know what to expect (besides the facts I already knew) – all I expected this upcoming year was getting a learning experience of Visma and the real working life in general.

Turning efficiency into a better customer experience

January 20, 2012 in Business

Visma Retail has over the last year, together with Bunnpris, gained many experiences and insights around self checkout and how it should be implemented. Bunnpris Blindern opened June 20th, as the first store of its kind, with only self checkout tills. This generated a lot of publicity, leaving many wide eyes wondering how this should turn out.. Self checkout is by ...

Innovation, the Ibuprofen of retail

December 19, 2011 in Business

For a company that supplies the biggest retail chains in Norway and Sweden with everything from point of sale functionality, via shopkeeping utilities, to reporting and analytics tools in shop and as well as on HQ, innovation is about pain relief. We aim to find new ways to reduce or remove the sore spots in our customers’ processes. Grocery chains ...

Technology trends in 2012

December 13, 2011 in Business, Technology

In 2012 you will see the emergence of the first Cloud-based (SaaS) financial and payroll systems, which are designed for larger businesses and professional users. Today there are many good self-service SaaS solutions, e.g. reporting, time tracking and expense, while the core systems of large companies still are On Premises and Windows based. The trend towards SaaS will continue, but ...

Successful SEPA (Single European Payments Area) transition in Finland

November 28, 2011 in Business, Technology

Deadline for SEPA transition in Finland was 31st of October. Visma has successfully completed the transition of Finnish customers to SEPA on a SaaS service. We have been working together with all major banks over two years. We have now over 15.000 customers in the new world of payments and close to half a million transactions so far. Our customers ...

Let’s keep in touch

November 28, 2011 in Business

It’s the end of November. One more month almost passed. Again. For me (and many others in the finance department) it means that it is time to close accounting, time to calculate accruals, taxes etc. and in a few days it is the dead line and time to report. You always think how to make the month end closing more fluent, how ...

How to manage business critical IT systems

November 21, 2011 in Business

More or less every company and organization have business critical IT systems supporting their business processes. For sure the same companies and organizations have experienced continuous needs for upgrades and additional development of their IT systems. Actually, adding new features and adjusting the IT systems to changed and new business needs is an absolute matter of necessity to maintain the full benefit of ...

10 step guide to better project management

November 7, 2011 in Business, Technology

Project management offers a framework for planning, organizing and managing resources in order to do a job well. From something as simple as a half-day assignment to the complexities of a nine-month construction project, the fundamental principles of project management are the same. Here’s a brief 10-point checklist project managers can use: 1. Forecasting Resource and revenue forecasting are ...

Visma Services, Dep. Sandefjord on the move

November 5, 2011 in Business

Visma Services, Dept. Sandefjord move into new premises from Monday 7 November 2011. Our department consists of nearly 30 highly skilled employees in accounting, payroll and financial advice.

Do you see the potential in social media?

November 3, 2011 in Business

That is what the Canadian entrepreneur and social media expert Maggie Fox asks in the latest edition of VISMAgazine. “It all about fishing where the fishes are. Businesses who don’t see the value of social media and how it affects business processes, will struggle, since you have to communicate with your customers where they are and where they spend their ...

The small companies should not accept the price for electricity

November 2, 2011 in Business

As usual nobody can predict the prices, but they will always be higher in the southern part of the country. Some people fear for another harsh winter with higher prices and others hope for a higher capacity and lower prices.