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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OfficeOps and Centerline Software

Invite you to learn how to make reporting with Microsoft Dynamics NAV easier with

Pivotier™ – The RIGHT Report Writer
for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
11:00am – 12:00pm PST

• Let’s face it, report writing can be difficult, cumbersome, time-consuming and frustrating, just for starters.
• The output lacks luster.  Enough said.
• Maybe your report writer requires programming knowledge or the technology it uses is not Microsoft standard.
• Why not enable the Microsoft stack of components already owned by your company?
• Think about this.  You could empower all of your Navision users with a reporting tool that has the familiar NAV interface and eliminates the dependency on experts.
• You could consider Pivotier, the Right Report Writer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, from Centerline Software.

Pivotier enables Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) users & consultants to create ad-hoc and financial reports without any programming expertise. Now any Dynamics NAV user that has upgraded to SQL can enjoy content rich reports without learning any new applications. Report output can be sent directly to Microsoft Excel, Word, Adobe PDF, and email or to the web through SSRS.

Pivotier uses the power of the latest Microsoft reporting technologies such as Report Definition Language (RDL), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Visual Studio Report Designer to thoroughly modernize NAV reports. These modern Microsoft tools are completely integrated into the Classic and/or Role-tailored user experience and Pivotier ensures that NAV’s data nuances such as flowfields, language captions, option fields and boolean fields are translated for use by SQL Server.

To learn more about Pivotier, please attend our live, highly informative presentation.

“Pivotier is one of the easiest report-building tools I have ever used!  This is the NAV add-in product we have been waiting for.”

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OfficeOps will be attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference in Los Angeles, July 11th-14th, to gain insights into Microsoft’s business and technology road map for 2011.

Microsoft’s World Partner Conference:

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The Microsoft Dynamics landscape is changing quickly – new technology, new platforms, new implementation strategies, new partner challenges—and the changes mean major new opportunities, and major new risks. Decisions that you make now about your Dynamics solution will have implications for years to come. Join us for our most targeted and in-depth virtual conference to date and get the latest information on the future of Dynamics products, technology, and strategy.

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Each day of Decisions Spring 2011, our next FREE virtual conference, will be dedicated to a different Microsoft Dynamics product line – AX, GP, NAV, and CRM. The presentation schedule will dive deeper into topics you care about and exhibitors will have more of the tools and services that interest you and your solution.

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OfficeOps and Centerline Software

Invite you to learn how to make reporting with Microsoft Dynamics NAV easier with

Pivotier™ – The RIGHT Report Writer
for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Wednesday, May 25, 2011
10:00am – 11:00am PST

• Let’s face it, report writing can be difficult, cumbersome, time-consuming and frustrating, just for starters.
• The output lacks luster.  Enough said.
• Maybe your report writer requires programming knowledge or the technology it uses is not Microsoft standard.
• Why not enable the Microsoft stack of components already owned by your company?
• Think about this.  You could empower all of your Navision users with a reporting tool that has the familiar NAV interface and eliminates the dependency on experts.
• You could consider Pivotier, the Right Report Writer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, from Centerline Software.

Pivotier enables Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) users & consultants to create ad-hoc and financial reports without any programming expertise. Now any Dynamics NAV user that has upgraded to SQL can enjoy content rich reports without learning any new applications. Report output can be sent directly to Microsoft Excel, Word, Adobe PDF, and email or to the web through SSRS.

Pivotier uses the power of the latest Microsoft reporting technologies such as Report Definition Language (RDL), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Visual Studio Report Designer to thoroughly modernize NAV reports. These modern Microsoft tools are completely integrated into the Classic and/or Role-tailored user experience and Pivotier ensures that NAV’s data nuances such as flowfields, language captions, option fields and boolean fields are translated for use by SQL Server.

To learn more about Pivotier, please attend our live, highly informative presentation.

“Pivotier is one of the easiest report-building tools I have ever used!  This is the NAV add-in product we have been waiting for.”

REGISTRATION:  OfficeOps:  Dynamics NAV Reporting with Pivotier

Talking Rain Beverage Company is based in Preston, Washington, and has 100 employees. With an aging enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in place, company employees often performed tedious data entry, cumbersome reporting, and multiple manual processes outside the system. Looking to improve business insight and productivity, Talking Rain engaged Gilbert & Associates, a Microsoft Certified Partner with a Silver Enterprise Resource Planning competency, and deployed a new ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, in only 90 days. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV in place, the company supports all accounting and manufacturing processes and gains a central repository for company information, easing insight and reporting. With such a comprehensive solution, the company has seen productivity gains across its organization, transforming from a regional to national brand without adding staff.

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WEST SIMSBURY, Conn., April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Web Marketing Association announces the call for entries for its 15th annual international WebAward Competition for Web site development at www.webaward.org. The WebAwards is the standards-defining competition that sets benchmarks for 96 industries, including fashion websites, based on the seven criteria of a successful web site. The deadline for fashion websites to enter to be judged is May 27, 2011.

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