Business is in the forecast at Outdoor Retailer

Outdoor Retailer is where orders are written, new accounts are found, connections are made and brands are launched. Outdoor Retailer has proven to be the leading growth vehicle for brands that are interested in progressing and advancing into multiple channels of the outdoor marketplace. From small shops and regional chains, to the largest national and international retailers – Outdoor Retailer attracts thousands of buyers and senior level decision makers that are looking for outdoor specific products, services, brands, fresh ideas, apparel launches, and outdoor innovation.

Outdoor Retailer…

• Is the must attend event for your business
• Progresses and advances your business for success
• Has a qualified and growing buyer portfolio that is verified
• Offers more outdoor focused business versus any other tradeshow
• Has the largest variety of offerings available, attracting a diverse and qualified yet targeted audience for your business

Outdoor Retailer is committed to delivering the widest and most comprehensive outdoor buyer demographic that has open to buy and a passion for the outdoors. Stores from around the world are looking to Outdoor Retailer as the venue of choice for the most comprehensive collection of outdoor apparel, gear, equipment, climbing technology, footwear, ski mountaineering, camping, backpacking, cycling, water sports, hunting, rescue, outerwear, fitness gear and accessory companies from which to buy products.

Our number one priority at Outdoor Retailer is to provide your company the most cost/time efficient means of connecting with outdoor specialty retailers, manufacturers and the media for unmatched selling opportunities and exposure.

Outdoor Retailer is the tradeshow venue of choice for the outdoor specialty industry. Brands big and small have a focused and targeted forum to contribute and conduct the business of the outdoors, with key market exposure in the most comprehensive showcase of outdoor companies. As Outdoor Retailer continues to attract national and international dealers in every category – specialty, specialty chain, general sporting goods, military, resort, mail order, big box and mass merchant retailers, our commitment is to deliver the best outdoor trade environment for your business to flourish and grow.

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January 9, 2012

LITTLETON, COLORADO – Centerline Software, Inc. today announced the launch of its newest product in the Pivotier Report Writing suite, Pivotier Express Plus. This product consists of 79 fully formed reports that will work with both Role-Tailored and Classic clients in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV enterprise resource planning software solution for small to mid-sized companies throughout the world.

“We were looking for a way to help people within organizations to pull their data into better organized and more visually appealing reports,” said Ron Summers, president of Centerline. “I think this new software will be a tremendous success, not only from a horizontal business perspective, but for ISVs who focus on vertical markets as well.” Mr. Summers explained that demand for clear and visually communicative reports is the way of the future, and ISV partners, after seeing Pivotier Express Plus, would be able to acquire other Pivotier tools that will help them create industry specific reports for their own products.

“Pivotier Express Plus should be the light bulb that comes on for all users of Microsoft Dynamics NAV,” said Jay Malik, CEO of Centerline. “This set of reports will empower users everywhere to meet the requirements of their businesses’ key performance requirements, by using Microsoft’s best and newest data visualizationtechniques to illustrate how a company or department is making progress towards all quantitative goals set by management.” Mr. Malik and Mr. Summers also indicated that the first release of Pivotier Express Plus would be available for internal use to all registered Pivotier partners for free in January 2012.

“We like to think of ourselves as the partner’s partner,” said Mr. Summers. “How can we reward partners for selling our products and investing extra time and money in learning the product? As Pivotier Express Plus integrates fully with the Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution, we hope all partners will download an internal use copy and acquire feedback from their employees.”

Pivotier Express Plus will retail for $1499 in North America, or £999 and €1199 overseas, plus the standard sixteen percent maintenance for the first year of updates. “This is a dynamic way to start the new year,” said Mr. Malik, “and we hope both the partner community and the end-user community will find that the reports within Pivotier Express Plus have enough whistles and bells to excite even the most fastidious reporting needs.

Centerline Software, Inc. is a software development company focused on creating add-on solutions for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The company has been in operation since2007 and has developed six add-on solutions under the Pivotier brand. For more information, please visit our website at www.pivotier.com or contact us at sales@pivotier.com.

Sean Andrew of Mills Communications, Inc. is the latest recipient of the OfficeOps iPad 2 Offer.  Sean referred OfficeOps to Spy Optic, one of the premier brands in action sports eye-wear which are sold in over 6000 retailers across the globe.  Sean explained, “A colleague of mine that works in Operations at Spy was experiencing some challenges with their dealer portal. Since I had worked with one of OfficeOps’ Senior Partners, Brad Lenahan at a prior company and knew Brad’s level of industry expertise and technical abilities, I suggested that Spy meet with Brad and his team to assess these challenges and make some recommendations.”

Subsequently, Spy met with the OfficeOps team and decided to move forward with the project.  The goal of the project was to integrate their dealer portal with their existing ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Sean also noted, “I followed up with my colleague at Spy and she had mentioned that the implementation was a success and the dealer portal is fully functional, saving the dealers and Spy, time and money.”

OfficeOps values its customers and colleagues and wants to reward those that share their OfficeOps experience with their business associates, peers and friends.  We want to work with companies that are looking for business software to drive productivity and improve system effectiveness.

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Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) will develop cloud-computing versions of its Microsoft Dynamics ERP applications and the company is promising to bring its partner ecosystem along as those applications are rolled out over the next several years.

Microsoft unveiled the roadmap for its cloud ERP applications before some 9,000 attendees at its Convergence 2011 conference in Atlanta Monday. But executives acknowledged that a lot of details remain to be worked out given the different development approaches the individual Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and SL products will require.

“For now we thought that it was appropriate for use to articulate the vision and the roadmap, the directional statement,” said Kirill Tatarinov, corporate vice president for Microsoft Business Solutions, in a press conference following his keynote speech.

Currently Microsoft provides a Software-as-a-Service version of itsCRM application, Dynamics CRM Online, along with the on-premise release. Dynamics CRM Online has been available in the U.S. for three years and just went global in February.

But until now Microsoft has offered only on-premise versions of its Dynamics ERP applications. Microsoft channel partners have had the right to host those applications themselves for their customers under a service provider license agreement (SPLA).

The next major releases of Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and SL will be developed to run on Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud development platform that’s been available for a year, Tatarinov said, beginning with the next version of Dynamics NAV that’s due in 2012. The applications will support multi-tenancy, he said.

“Make no mistake, when it comes to the cloud, Microsoft’s all in,” said CEO Steve Ballmer, using his keynote to highlight the range of cloud computing products Microsoft now offers or is developing, including Windows Azure, Dynamics CRM Online and Office 365.

“Every one of our products will be engineered to deliver the full benefits of the cloud. Every one of the whole Dynamics set, for example,” he said. “As I see it the cloud is probably the most important technological generation going forward for the next 10 years.”

At some point Microsoft will also adapt Dynamics CRM Online, which preceded Windows Azure, to run on that platform, according to Tatarinov.

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OUTDOOR RETAILER SUMMER MARKET – is the world’s largest outdoor sports industry gathering in the world, bringing retailers and media together with over 1000 brands in the business of producing and selling the active outdoor lifestyle. Brands include Timberland, The North Face, W.L. Gore, Columbia Sportswear, Patagonia, Ocean Kayak, Merrell and ; buyers include REI, The Sports Authority, Cabelas, Nordstrom, and thousands of other retailers. Media players include Outside Magazine, National Geographic, Men’s Journal and hundreds more, including non-endemics like WSJ, Forbes, Newsweek. 21,000+ overall attendees. 200,000 page impressions/month around showtime.

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June produced more sales gains for the retailers on the ActionWatch same-store panel, which helped the stores earn a 9.4% sales increase during the full first half of the year. Sales were up for all major categories in the first half. When comparing sales for male vs. female genders, the smallest and largest gains were in the same category with male footwear sales up only 2.4% and female footwear sales up 33.7%.

In the apparel category the only struggling classes were polo shirts, denim and skirts while the other classes were flat to strongly up. The footwear sales gain was led by the phenomenal performance of women’s closed-toe shoes although men’s shoe sales were also up slightly. Watches, hats and socks were the strongest performing accessory classes, although sunglasses also showed a small sales gain.

All significant hardgoods classes were up with protective gear showing the largest sales gain during the first half of the year. Wetsuit sales were also up with a strong increase in the category’s largest class-full wetsuits-as well as an especially strong gain from the short john class.

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