CFO’s and finance managers remain updated regarding every crucial financial detail within their companies

Rochester, MN February 19, 2009 — http://www.metaviewer.com – Metafile, a Minnesota-based content management firm dedicated to providing financial innovations via paperless financial automation solution MetaViewer, has debuted the MetaViewer Document and Workflow Monitor.  Designed as an advanced information management solution, The MetaViewer Document and Workflow Monitor provides CFO’s consistent, real-time updates regarding the state of their companies financial processes.

It is crucial for CFO’s, whose primary responsibility is to ensure the fiscal well-being of their company, to be updated consistently on each detail that makes up the big financial picture of their company.  Details necessary for the CFO to monitor include everything from invoices approaching deadline to processes that may be stalled in workflow.  Because of a CFO’s overwhelming need for information, they often find themselves overly reliant on paper-based reports.

“Like a virtual desktop dashboard, the MetaViewer Document and Workflow Monitor provides paperless reports regarding a company’s critical financial workings,” states Jim Mandt VP of Technical Services for Metafile.  “Much like the gauges of an engine provides instant feedback on engine performance, the MetaViewer Document and Workflow Monitor provides instant full visibility for all financial processes.”

Time spent uncovering elusive financial information hidden in overwhelming stacks of financial reports eliminated with Metafile’s MetaViewer PrintStoreTM Report Archive and Analyzer

Rochester, MN February 12th, 2009 — http://www.metaviewer.com – Metafile, a Minnesota-based content management firm dedicated to providing financial innovations via paperless financial automation solution MetaViewer, has debuted The MetaViewer PrintStoreTM Report Archive and Analyzer.  The latest in a line of advanced information management solutions by Metafile, The MetaViewer PrintStoreTM Report Archive and Analyzer is designed to enable CFO’s full visibility of all vital information in any order, subset, graph or chart they need today, tomorrow and into the future.

In a position whose key responsibility is to ensure the fiscal well-being of an entire company, CFOs often find themselves buried in a pile of paper-based reports and spreadsheets. These reports contain information vital for the CFO to be aware of when analyzing and reporting on the current or new fiscal direction for their company.

“By providing the ability to automatically sort, summarize, search and graph information found in their vital reports, the MetaViewer PrintStore™ Report Archive and Analyzer can help financial executives find the information they need instantly without paper and without producing multiple reports from the same information,” states Jim Mandt, VP of Technical Services for Metafile. “This is true even if those reports contain hundreds of fields and thousands of pages.”

‘Data Center Leaders’ blog interview series shares insight from Microsoft’s Toby Velte, PhD, regarding the bottom-line benefits of green IT practices for businesses

Minneapolis, MN February 18, 2009 — www.evolvingsol.com — Evolving Solutions, a leading business continuity and data disaster recovery solution provider, is alerting businesses to the benefits of green IT and energy efficient data centers, by sharing insight from Microsoft’s Toby Velte, PhD, in its “Data Center Leaders” blog interview series.

“Data Center Leaders: Green IT Equals Data Center Cost Avoidance With Toby Velte, PhD” represents a recent conversation between Velte and Evolving Solutions’ head blogger Judie Van Keulen.  In the interview, VanKeulen looks to Velte to help shatter stereotypes regarding the green movement by focusing on how the power and cost savings benefits of these practices directly contribute to a company’s bottom-line.

Velte, a Global Technology Strategist with Microsoft, is a passionate advocate for green IT practices, having co-authored the book “Green IT: Reduce Your Information System’s Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line.”  To best position green IT against an almost inevitable backlash, Velte ensures any discussion on this topic focuses on a business’s bottom-line.

The accessories provide discrete, high-performance power conditioning plus surge protection all in one SKU for suspended ceiling and in-wall applications.

Minneapolis, MN, USA — (February 2009) – www.chiefmfg.com – Chief Manufacturing, the industry leader in projector, monitor and flat panel TV mounting solutions, as well as progressive online tools, is excited to announce that a new line of Power Management Products is now shipping!

Chief now offers high-performance power conditioning and surge protection built into accessories used for installing projectors and flat panels. This unique design integrates the power conditioner with the outlet for improved audio and video performance while seamlessly integrating with your installation. Chief also saves valuable installation time by preassembling the outlet and electrical box to ensure protection for all of your audio/visual equipment.

Choose from a variety of power-infused products that now include a Power Outlet Conditioner, including the CMS440P™ Suspended Ceiling Kit, the CMS445P™ Suspended Ceiling Tile Replacement Kit and the PAC521P™ In-Wall Box for flat panel TV wall mount applications. The ceiling kit and in-wall box accessories replace the need for an outlet while providing AC cleaning for the best equipment performance.

Lutheran senior housing partnership provides model for expanding ministries and revenues

Sandpoint, Idaho  (February 10, 2009) — http://www.ecumen.org – Churches, such as First Lutheran Church in Sandpoint, Idaho, and their senior housing development partner Ecumen, see aging as an opportunity to help people live better and expand ministries.  The two recently collaborated on Luther Park at Sandpoint, a new senior housing community that opened in December 2008.

“We saw a greater purpose for the vacant land adjacent to our church than simply selling it to the highest bidder,” said Pastor Olson.  “We wanted to build upon the Great Commandment of loving your neighbor as yourself and the Great Commission of spreading Jesus’ word and work.  That led to our congregational vision of creating this community that will keep seniors vitally engaged in our church, will nurture multi-generational relationships, and will help us realize new revenue streams that will support and help us to expand our ministry.”

Ecumen, affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and one of the country’s largest non-profit senior housing, services and development companies, led development of Luther Park of Sandpoint and now manages it for First Lutheran Church, which owns Luther Park.

Insight shared from FOCUS Consulting President Barb Goldworm offers tips on how businesses can reduce IT costs, in part, with green strategies

Minneapolis, MN February 10, 2009 — Evolving Solutions (www.evolvingsol.com)  leader in data center cost avoidance and disaster recovery announces its second interview in the “Data Center Leaders” interview series.

In the “Data Center Leaders: Data Center Cost Avoidance With Barb Goldworm,” posted this month, finds Evolving Solutions’ head blogger Judie Van Keulen sitting down with FOCUS President and Chief Analyst, Barb Goldworm.

Evolving Solutions’ goal in interviewing Goldworm was to understand what strategies could be used to include moving towards green IT and implementing server virtualization as potential avenues for data center cost avoidance.

Goldworm is the author of “Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs,” and has over 30 years in the data systems and storage arena. She is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been ranked as one of the top expert speakers at events such as Storage Networking World, Data Center Decisions and many others. She also chairs the virtualization tracks at Interop, and Blade Systems Insight, and is a frequent judge for virtualization solutions at industry events such as VMworld.