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Interim 2011 Version

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:30:00 GMT

We have today released our first interim release for 2011. For detailed release notes, please contact us on the admin email address, in order to get the link to the release notes, to decide if you wish to have this version installed early as part of our rolling upgrade program.

GotoMeeting - Training

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:52:00 GMT

We are now able to offer cost effective training using GotoMeeting by Citrix.

We can host up to 25 attendees in a training session, each attending the training from the comfort of their desk. Each attendee needs to have a USB headset attached to their computer so that they can hear and talk to the trainer and other attendees.

Rolling Upgrades

Wed, 26 May 2010 09:41:00 GMT

Having spent some time working on our deployment tools, and given our additional programming capacity, we find that we are adding new features to the software on a very regular basis. To this end, we are offering clients, rolling upgrades of the software, as and when they see a new feature that they find would be beneficial to their organisation. Clients can keep an eye on the automatically generated release notes from time to time and request an upgrade if required.

Banking Integration

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:58:00 GMT

We have released a new module, that allows the importation of transactions downloaded from a host bank, into a mirror account within the Taskforce accounting system. Book keepers have the ability to post and / or reconcile transactions imported from the bank records directly from within the book keeping module of the software.

Reports can be run that allow comparisons with banking records to client records, and also allow transaction profiling for compliance and risk management.

A certain degree of configuration is required to install this module to ensure it fits with the host banks used by the client trust company.

New Version

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

We are in the process of rolling out a new version of the WMS, which includes, among other things, support for Foundations. Clients who have an immediate requirement to setup these new vehicles within their organisation should contact us to arrange for their upgrade to be undertaken. We plan to have a number of releases this year as we have increased our development capacity.

Exchange Rates

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:16:00 GMT

Entering exchange rates manually into any system, can be time consuming, boring, and error prone.

We have developed a system that will automatically download rates from a reliable source each morning and add these rates to all of the TaskForce databases that you have configured on your system.

For a relatively modest daily fee, this system can be installed and working on your system. Please drop us a quick email if you would like to discuss the costs and benefits of this additional service.

Automation

Sat, 30 May 2009 07:14:00 GMT

As I have mentioned before, our current focus here at Taskforce is on finding ways to help our clients automate tasks that are routine and labour intensive.

The big hurdle that we find time and time again is the quality of the data that people enter into both our databases, and databases of third parties such as Banks, Brokers and other related organisations. We always seem to go back to the old phrase of “Garbage in Garbage out”. People still seem to think of databases as glorified card indexes, they fail to see that if the data within their organisations systems was kept in a sane state, then life would be easier for everyone.

Another issue that causes us grief is the lack of consistency and ability to follow standards. As programming as a profession becomes more popular, we, like many professions, get our fair share of cowboys. The trouble is that the people tasked with managing these programmers have never written a line of code in their lives. This is very frustrating, because specification by “Chinese Wispers” just never works. The quality of data that we get provided by 3rd Parties can be decidedly lacking in quality.

TaskForce Release New WebSite

Wed, 27 May 2009 14:39:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that we have today released our new web site. For some time, our web presence has been limited to a single static holding page, as we searched for a content management system, that we were happy and confident with. In the end we settled on a system written in Ruby called Radiant CMS.

Using Radiant had proven to be a joy to setup and deploy. Using the same dynamic language that we use daily for data manipulation and reporting requirements of our clients. As time goes by we hope to add further Ruby on Rails and Sinatra solutions to our current portfolio of applications.