Why QuoteWerks?
Apr 22, 2010
Hilltops IT supply software and website solutions for small and medium sized businesses. We’re fairly ‘solution agnostic’ in that we don’t supply just one solution or brand of products and don’t just supply products which fulfil one need. But why does QuoteWerks feature in so many of the solutions that we deliver? Put simply: because […]
READ MOREWhat would you want from QuoteWerks Quote Valet?
Apr 22, 2010
Following the ‘official’ news from Aspire Technologies (authors of QuoteWerks sales quotation software) in this evenings QuoteWerks Reseller boot camp, and our unofficial post of the news(!), QuoteWerks Quote Valet is more of a reality today than the rumour of yesterday. From what we understand, the QuoteWerks development team have already ‘boxed off’ most of […]
READ MOREQuoteWerks and Sage MAS integration – Purchase Orders and Products
Apr 12, 2010
The Hilltops IT ConnectIt Software development team are very pleased to announce that the release of ConnectIt-MAS to include the creation of P/O Purchase Order and Products in Sage MAS90 (or MAS200) from QuoteWerks will be available from 17th May 2010. The ConnectIt QuoteWerks to Sage MAS link will then support creation of S/O, A/R and P/O documents, […]
READ MOREWho said upgrading Sage MAS 90/200 ERP add-ons was tough?
Apr 02, 2010
Having read some of the rumours, speculations and stories around the recent Sage MAS 90/200 ERP v4.4 release since… well for over 18 months in total I guess, the Hilltops IT ConnectIt Software development had been ‘looking forward’ to receiving the copy of the Sage MAS software with some trepidation. Following the Sage MAS formal production […]
READ MOREConnectIt-Workflow for QuoteWerks RFQ module hits the mark
Mar 18, 2010
Following yesterday’s beta release of ConnectIt-Workflow – QuoteWerks business process manager, we have been receiving resoundingly positive feedback on the new ‘RFQ’ (Request For Quote) feature addition. What’s really exciting for us here (and what we’d like to get across to the QuoteWerks and ConnectIT user community) is that we can do these things… EASILY […]
READ MOREConnectIt-Workflow: RFQ module for QuoteWerks
Mar 17, 2010
Today sees the release of a first beta of an extra module for the ConnectIt-Workflow product which allows the user to create ‘RFQ’ (Request For Quote) documents to send out to multiple Vendors. If you commonly ask Vendors to tender their latest prices for an order that you need to fulfil, then this additional module will […]
READ MOREDEVELOPMENT: good software development practices
Jun 08, 2009
Here’s a list of 5 Good Programming Habits we picked up from Amy Bennett in her article at IT World: The best trick I have is to type the sequences/use cases like a story before I write any code. The outline I create is read over and over, tweaking as I go.” (Dan Douglas) Solve […]
READ MOREDEVELOPMENT: Cannot obtain the schema rowset “DBSCHEMA_TABLES_INFO” for OLE DB provider “SQLNCLI” for linked server
May 08, 2009
Running a query from SQL Server 2008 over a linked server connection to a SQL Server 2000 server causes the following error: OLE DB provider “SQLNCLI10″ for linked server “mylinkedserver” returned message “Unspecified error”. OLE DB provider “SQLNCLI10″ for linked server “mylinkedserver” returned message “The stored procedure required to complete this operation could notbe found […]
READ MOREDEVELOPMENT: issue with DateTime datatype in SQL Server Reporting Services
Nov 02, 2008
We recently upgraded a client’s SQL Server 2000 business intelligence reports to SQL Server 2005, and from a Visual Studio .net 1.1 software development environment to Visual Studio 2005. It should be a simple transition we thought, which it was… apart from some anomalies around the datetime parameters in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. There […]
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