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Your clients are ready. Are you?

October 5, 2015 in Business

Self-service is the fastest and most cost-effective client support for both accountants and clients alike. Whether you realise it or not, you are most likely using self-services every day. Technology today gives organisations a great deal of choice. Businesses are constantly looking for ways to improve workflow and cut down on the time it takes to do tedious tasks. Accounting practices ...

Cloud – growth or hype?

October 15, 2012 in Technology

Predicting future growth is a difficult and an uncertain exercise. But let’s take a look at what the forecasting companies are expecting for Cloud growth in the coming years.

What is unique about Visma.net?

September 28, 2012 in Technology

The IT industry is facing massive changes. The introduction of the Cloud paradigm is changing the way IT is consumed, all the way from purchase to actual usage. We are no longer tied to locally installed software with inflexible pricing models. Visma.net is our new complete business solution that provides all the benefits of the Cloud. There are several aspects ...

What is the Cloud made of?

September 4, 2012 in Technology

Visma does not define Cloud as a technology in itself, but a collection of different technologies combined with new business models. By this we state that Cloud is the next generation of IT – a new paradigm. Through history we have seen similar technological disruptions, from mainframes to PC’s, and from character based software to windows based. Now we are ...

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 ...

Turning Products Into Services

May 4, 2012 in Technology

Consider the jet engine industry and the disruption of the business model in the ‘90s. Traditionally the industry competed on product functionality like thrust-to-weight ratio, design, just-in-time delivery of parts and so on. These elements are connected to the actual offering, where features and performance are at the core. The same applies for the computer industry where the vendors compete ...

The value of Cloud for Business applications

April 27, 2012 in Technology

These days it’s almost impossible to read an article about IT without touching Cloud. There are a lot of players and hard to navigate into core facts. Let’s start with the definition of Business applications, this is applications your company uses to run the business. Mandatory for everyone is of course ERP, but other application types such as HRM, CRM, ...

Cloud basics – Deployment models

March 12, 2012 in Technology

One of the key elements of Cloud Computing is the deployment model. There are a number of different methodologies and ways to define the elements of Cloud. So far there are no unambiguously definitions or standards. Therefore there are different understandings of deployment models with no one being better than another, but we are seeing some dominant definitions. In this ...

Cloud basics – the Layers

February 24, 2012 in Technology

There is probably no other concept facing the IT-industry that is more hyped than Cloud Computing. Some say it will totally disrupt the industry, which very well may be the case, but in our eager to support the hype, it is important to break Cloud down into the concrete parts of which it is build. In this article we will ...

SOA in the Cloud

December 23, 2011 in Technology

For those of you with a good memory you will have vague memories about SOA that was one of the big buzz words some years ago. SOA was supposed to be the silver bullet that solved integration problems, you could put together different services, build on top of other services and magically compose new services. What happened to SOA? The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interview with Anders Sporring

October 20, 2011 in Visma Life

At Severa we have a Free Beach Ball competition for our Twitter followers. One of the lucky winners is Anders Sporring from Stockholm, who is better known on the web as cityrat59. Anders has a strong career in project management, quality assurance, maintenance and logistics. These days he’s seeking new professional opportunities in his established field. But while he waits ...

Internship In Visma Severa

October 20, 2011 in Technology

I am a 26 year-old marketing student who fulfilled her occupational internship in Severa Corp for 10 weeks. BBA degree demands all together 20 weeks of internship but I have completed half of that earlier as a basic internship. I intend to graduate by the end of this year. The only work I have left is completing my internship and ...

How I see projects being handled in marketing

October 19, 2011 in Business

I work in the Marketing Department here at Visma Severa and I handle many different types of social media projects and tasks. One thing I’ve learned is that there are many different kinds of projects in marketing and handling them can require skills that demand time management and team coordination. What I mean is that you have limited amount of ...