Notable updates that can help your business.

I'm pleased at what a difference a year can make. There have been a lot of changes in technology that we were able to pass on due to major improvements.

Here are the top five things you can now offer your customers:

m-Power and the mrc-Productivity Series introduced the ability to create Portal applications and Executive Dashboards, allowing users to get at-a-glance business information, and improve internal communications.

Shopping carts include the ability to make order changes as you go, making it easier for your users to make purchases.

m-Power gives you the option of portability to allow you to run your applications live on other platforms along with the iSeries, giving you control over your workload.

You can create applications to seamlessly pull records from disparate databases into one application.

Retrieving and analyzing records is easier with the new "m-Powered Prompt" feature, where m-Power displays available options to users as they type in search criteria. You can try it out. Just type "Bike" into the search field above the Customer Name field of this application, and you'll see a list of options appear with all companies available with Bike in their name.

These are just some of the changes that small and large could change the way you do business. We know it's changed the way we do ours. If you'd like to see more specific examples of any of the above, just let us know.

And to help us continue hitting the Productivity Sweet Spot you can brainstorm with other mrc users, to flesh out the capabilities you want, and exchange ideas on how to make your consulting agencies embrace the very best practices.

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