Holiday Notice: Mark Your Calendars! Next Weeks Is it!
It's coming fast! The week we tell you about every year is almost upon us. Are you OK? Any last minute things? As they say at the altar, 'Speak now or forever hold your peace!'. 

Being a family run business it is extremely difficult to get everyone together all at the same time. For our twentieth anniversary, we're getting everyone together from all four offices for a week-long love-fest in Dublin. And the net effect of this is:  we will be closed from business for all except absolute emergencies from Monday February 19 through Friday February 23th. We will re-open on Saturday, February 24th for our normal weekend hours. Again, if there are real emergencies (database crash, earthquake, etc.) there will be someone available to help, but unless it is urgent. please bear with us until we're back.

As we've said, we picked this week, because it seems that business is slower for most of you (the tax forms are done, we hope?) plus our office networking is being re-configured for faster networking and Windows Vista so things would be slower here anyway.
(Ed. Note: We'll be having an article on how these changes can help you in an upcoming article.)

REMINDER: But if there's something you've forgotten that we neeeeeeeeeeeeeed to know about, you're not totally out of luck. We'll be here (as per usual) until Saturday, February 17th at precisely 3:00PM PST.

New Year Discounts For Ollie Extended (But Not Much Longer!)
Now is your chance to either purchase a new copy or upgrade from your earlier versions of Ollie to the brand spanking new Ollie 8.1 and save 15% We've extended this offer after one too many requests for just a little more time. (Plus, since we're not going to be available next week, it seems only fair to extend things a bit.

OK! You've got it! Take until February 28th to decide you want the most flexible e-commerce system available to forms distributors, but if you haven't signed up for your personalised demonstration web site, do it now, (we're running out of accounts on our server.)

Ollie 8.1 has the following features you've been asking for...

• NEW! Web Gallery View (think Amazon.Com)  lets users compare various products within a given category on a single screen.
• NEW! Order tracking, time of delivery and price estimation for UPS, Fedex and DHL carriers
• NEW! User-definable Product Templates. Now each customer can create their own Product Templates.
• NEW! Enhanced Notification Options. E-mails can now be sent to up to six recipients as it's status changes.
• NEW! Faster report generator. Results are now usually displayed instantly, but users still can sort or filter on virtually any report column!
• NEW! Reports can now be saved for re-use and forwarded to approvers.
• NEW! On-line Help System with full indexing and table of contents that you can modify for individual clients.

Coming In Two Weeks: SAFE/9!
When we get back, there will be a complete run down on the new features coming in SAFE/9 including the two features we're most excited about: Instant Messaging within SAFE and the Universal Finder. To whet your appetite, you can click here for a quick summary of the major New Features In SAFE/9.

Ciaran's Corner: Taking A Break?
Well, not really. But I am taking a break from this column for a couple of weeks to keep an eye on all the changes to our network. Hopefully it will make it easier/faster for us to help you. (And yes, that means that there's no being away from the office for me. Grrrr.... )

Til Next Time!

Ciarān Marron
Technical Support Manager
 

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