SapphireOne was nominated as a finalist in the prestigious 2019 FINTECH BUSINESS AWARDS.

April 2, 2019 10:06 am | by John Adams

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Firmly established as one of the leading awards programs in the Australian financial technology sector, the Fintech Business Awards seeks to recognise the leading individuals and organisations who display outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship.

This year they received over 200 submissions across twenty categories making it the biggest one yet. Ninety-six unique companies were in the running for the 2019 Fintech Business Awards and in the end, 15 unique companies were recipients of awards.

John Adams, CEO, and his team attended the 4^th Annual Australian Fintech Business Awards. They were held on Thursday 28^th March in Sydney. These awards celebrated the achievements of dynamic people and businesses comprising the fintech sector. The event was an evening of recognising innovation, created by the best innovators and entrepreneurs that live and work in Australia.

Although not winning the category, the team at SapphireOne were proud to be chosen as a finalist in the Software Services Innovator Of The Year AWARD.

Award Winnners in the 2019 Fintech Business Awards

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SapphireOne ERP Business Accounting Application Version 17: Training Day held on 8th October 2018

October 15, 2018 2:43 pm | by John Adams

On 8th October 2018, SapphireOne Business Accounting Application launched Version 17 in the Ros Packer room of the North Bondi Surf Lifesaving Club.

New features and improvements in Version 17.0.1.0 of SapphireOne ERP Business Accounting Application

Performance improvements

There are some amazing performance improvements in the large processing functions in Version 17. For example, when processing Month End or Business Activity Statement (BAS SBR2), which historically have been two of the more time-consuming processes in the SapphireOne ERP Business Accounting Application, we have seen dramatic increases in performance of up to ten times than earlier versions.

New BAS SBR2 and STP working with ATO, adding your AUSkey to SapphireOne

SapphireOne Version 17 incorporates the ATO Standard Business Reporting SBR2, Single Touch Payroll STP and Tax File Declaration TFN for SapphireOne users who have installed their AUSkey into their SapphireOne datafile. These clients now benefit from what used to be a very time-consuming task with the ATO business portal, where they often had to reinstall java or change browsers frequently so they could lodge their BAS. Now with SapphireOne, there is no requirement for a browser as the interface seamlessly connects to the ATO.

SPS Commerce Fulfilment EDI Integration

SPS Commerce’s integrated end-to-end EDI solution, automatically populates orders into Version 17 of the Sapphire and SapphireOne ERP Business Accounting Application, while checking for errors when sending and receiving transactions. It also verifies that all transactions were sent and received successfully, providing critical process controls for vendors and suppliers. Implementing SPS commerce’s fulfilment EDI has brought many benefits into SapphireOne. It has reduced or eliminated manual data entry, saved chargeback penalties, streamlined inventory management, increased the speed time-to-market (TTM) delivery, boosted productivity without increasing staff, expedited receipt verification, improved record-keeping processes. The overall result is greater competitiveness, which will help SapphireOne users to be a major player in the larger enterprise retailer market.

Training Day at SapphireOne

Single Document Interface (SDI)

With the release of Version 17, we have now implemented Single Document Interface (SDI). This new interface provides a menu navigator which allows for every data entry screen, inquiry and reporting and processing screens to be opened simultaneously. This is a major advantage for those power users who require to run reports while still being able to make inquiries and process data entry.

Web Pack upgrade

Version 17 of the Sapphire Webpack has seen an upgrade of the original web interface bringing the application a fresher look to users. This includes a scalable interface which allows for minimal change of user interface from smaller devices such as iPhones through to web browsers being used on large monitors linked to desktop computers. Some new features such as the Sapphire Market WebPack, Leave Request, Time Sheets, Stock List and Stock Count have given users more functionality in our popular Sapphire product.

For more information regarding improvements and features within the latest release of SapphireOne ERP Business Accounting Application please contact our office on (02) 8362 4500 or request a demo.

SapphireOne Alpine Ski Team starts phase two of training at Coronet Peak, New Zealand

July 19, 2018 12:16 pm | by John Adams

After two weeks skills and gate training at Round Hill Lake Tekapo and Mt Dobson the SapphireOne Alpine Ski Team split up as they leave the McKenzie country in South Canterbury. The team had a fantastic time in the region, even having time to go trout fishing, Warwick Crawford was pleased to catch some of New Zealand’s finest trout.

Hugh McAdam and Warwick Crawford now head back to Australia to finish their year 12 studies, Hugh at The Scots College in NSW where he is the current captain of snow sports at the senior school, and Warwick at Mansfield Secondary College in Victoria.

Meanwhile Jack Adams heads down to Central Otago to join team member Theo Coates at the home of New Zealand Olympian Adam Barword in magnificent Queenstown.

Jack has one week before heading home to Sydney, back to University of NWS (UNSW) for a week, then heads back to join the team in Queenstown. Theo will stay with Adam for two weeks before joining Jack and the rest of the team.

Coronet Peak Queenstown offers a world class training facility unique in the Southern Hemisphere.  Ski legends such as Ted Leggity and Michaela Shiffrin regularly train here.

Coronet Peak is the training base and mountain for New Zealand Olympians Adam Barwood, Willis Feasey, Alice Robinson and their coach Nils Coberger, and also past Olympian and former alpine skier  Annelise Coberger (skiing, 1992, ’94). Born in Christchurch, Annelise became the first person from the Southern Hemisphere to win a medal at the Winter Olympics when she won silver in the slalom at Albertville in France in 1992.

The New Zealand Alpine team will all be training at Coronet Peak Queenstown over the coming weeks alongside our SapphireOne Alpine Team for the upcoming New Zealand Championships, to be held on the 12 to 15 August 2018. The New Zealand Alpine Ski Races are always well supported by a large range of international teams from some of the ski nations powerhouses such as the Austria Ski Team and the USA Ski Team.

For a sneak peek at the full capabilities ERP, CRM, Accounting Software, Human Resources, Payroll, Assets and Document Management,  check out SapphireOne and request a live demo, it is everything you’ll ever need to make your company management a success. Know more about us.

Justice Bromwich in the Federal Court of Australia made orders restraining Sapphire Systems Pty Ltd from infringement of our Sapphire Trade Mark

June 19, 2018 5:09 pm | by John Adams

In May 2017, Justice Bromwich in the Federal Court of Australia made orders restraining Sapphire Systems Pty Ltd from infringement of our Sapphire Trade Mark (a copy of the orders can be viewed at this link).

An order was subsequently made that Sapphire Systems was required to pay us $20,000 and also pay our legal costs incurred in the proceedings.

Our company SapphireOne Pty Ltd was delighted to have its concerns of unauthorised infringement of its intellectual property rights vindicated in such a fulsome way.

We were represented by the following legal team:

Bart Adams of Adams & Co Lawyers  

www.adamsandco.com.au

Barrister Andrew Fox 

www.5wentworth.com/junior-counsel/andrew-fox

Barrister Anna Spies   

SapphireOne is an Australian company distributing globally providing an all-inclusive software application for managing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Contact Relationship Management (CRM) and Document Management System (DMS). These offerings consist of a standalone Single User application named Sapphire, our Client Server application named SapphireOne and our Sapphire Web Pack solution. With our clients established globally, SapphireOne has been providing business freedom since 1986.

We registered our Trademark ‘Sapphire’ in 1994, this was our first Trademark registration initially registering it in Australia.

In 2001 we registered our ‘SapphireOne’ trademark. The additional name was brought about by the merger of the Sapphire Financials, Sapphire Assets, Sapphire Point of Sale (POS) and Sapphire Payroll Human Resources (HR) into a single application, hence we added the ‘One’ to signify the unification of all four applications into one.

From this point onwards our Single User standalone application has been known as Sapphire, our client server application has been known as SapphireOne, our html web server has been known as Sapphire Web Pack.

For a sneak peek at the full capabilities ERP, CRM, Accounting Software, Human Resources, Payroll, Assets and Document Management,  check out SapphireOne and request a live demo, it is everything you’ll ever need to make your company management a success. Know more about us

SapphireOne achieved Full Certification Single Touch Payroll (STP) and Standard Business Reporting (SBR2) on 1st May 2018

May 3, 2018 3:24 pm | by John Adams

 

Based on the information provided SapphireOne has been assessed and given Full Operational Framework Approval for SapphireOne who are consuming BAS (PLS) and STP low risk API (payevent services) with the following terms and conditions.

API consumption conditions  

Conditions

1. Full Approval granted SapphireOne for BAS services (PLS) and  STP low risk API (payevent services)
2. SapphireOne have ISO certification with software stored and managed by the client, in accordance with our requirements MFA is not a requirement as the as they are  Desktop application provider storing no data onsite.

Production Verification Testing (PVT)

You must successfully complete the required PVT scenarios with your Account Manager for each PLS API required.

Changes to your situation

The ATO must be notified via your Account Manager of any changes to your business or product environment, in relation to the information you supplied in your questionnaire.

Monitoring 

Monitoring is considered a joint responsibility between the ATO and the DSP.

The ATO conducts monitoring at the network, application and transaction layers; if anomalies or areas of concern are identified, we may re-assess your whitelisting suitability. The ATO will generally contact you or your representative unless exceptional circumstances apply.

Where you identify a breach through your own monitoring controls you must notify the ATO immediately via your Account Manager to ensure appropriate action can be taken.

Please respond with your agreement, understanding and acceptance of the conditions contained within this email.

 

Version 17 Beta is now live at SapphireOne

May 3, 2018 11:39 am | by John Adams

We have deployed 17 beta on our live internal company datafile. We are very excited to announce that we are seeing some amazing performance improvements in the large process functions. When creating the BAS we are experiencing up to 12 times speed increase, processing Month End has shown up to 10 times increase in speed. These very large processes typically can be time consuming and we are very happy to report these huge time improvements, this will be a huge time saving improvement which will have a dramatic effect for all our clients.

Version 17 has hundreds of new features with 64 Bit Mac and Windows forming the foundation. Some of the new features are:-

WritePro

4D Write Pro keeps offering more and more programming capabilities! Let’s say you want to programmatically change the style of a table, paragraph, or image in an existing 4D Write Pro document. With 4D v17, it’s possible! Now you can access any element or part of a document, by programming. These parts, called elements, will be returned either as a collection thanks to the WP Get elements function, or as a single element with WP Get element by ID function.

GDPR

Taking effect on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes new privacy restrictions governing the collection and use of personal data of European Union (EU) citizens. And as a first step to help you get more insight into the GDPR law, we’re pleased to announce the first part of a GDPR dedicated guide: General Data Protection Regulation and 4D.

ORDA

Imagine a way of using your database with an object-oriented approach, without worrying about its physical structure. Imagine that you could maintain multiple current selections at the same time or that you could perform recursive queries in a single line of code. Well, this is now a reality thanks to ORDA. With 4D version 17, your code can be written in an object-oriented mode, and you can easily navigate through your entire data model.

Webpack Security

After introducing Perfect Forward Secrecy, the security level of 4D Web server has been increased again with the support of HTTP Strict transport Security (HSTS). Henceforth, 4D Web server is compliant with the very latest security protocols. Simply upgrade to 4D v17 and enable HSTS to get the A+ ranking (the highest level) from SSL Labs for your web sites.

The SapphireOne ERP, CRM and Business Accounting Software suite is an industry leader in both functionality and features.