HVACR Week- "Where the Industry Meets"
September 21-23, 2011
Indiana Convention Center-
Indianapolis, Indiana
VMS is pleased to announce participation in “HVACR Week” scheduled September 21st through 23rd, 2011 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. We will be located at Booth 661.
HVACR Week brings together three events to create a single, comprehensive industry expo under one roof. This mega-event will be a true destination for the HVACR industry, covering the gamut from design to installation to maintenance and service.
Residential and commercial HVACR contractors will team with designing/specifying engineers and facility managers to learn about the latest trends in the industry and the best business improvement tactics. Plus, the top manufacturers and industry suppliers will be on hand to show off their latest products and services.
We look forward to seeing you at Booth 661.
Highlights from the 8th Annual VMS Users' Conference
Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort in Destin, Florida May 5th-7th,2011
This past month we held our annual VMS Users’ Conference at Sandestin Beach and Golf Resort in Destin, Florida. It was a great opportunity for us to show everyone where we are with Ventus and to get feedback from our users about what we need to do next in the product. Thanks to everyone who attended this year’s conference. Your participation and interaction are what helped to make it so successful.
For those of you who weren’t able to make it to this year’s event, here are some of the highlights.
The first day of the conference was focused on the Ventus product, what has happened over the past year, where we are at today, and what we have planned for the next year.
 
 
Ventus Product
The following are the major applications that we’ve completed over the past year since the last conference:
- Mobile Data
- Estimating
- Check Reconciliation
- T&M Billing
- Automatic Updates
- Dispatch Board:
- 90 day view Dispatch Board
- Week at a Glance
- Schedule Multiple Days
- Payroll Inter-company Billing
These are the major applications that we will be working on completing throughout 2011
- Asset Depreciation (currently 50% complete)
- Bar code scanning (currently 75% complete)
- Help (F1 keys) (currently 50% complete)
- Report Scheduling
- Project Management
- Paging
- Document Management
- eService
We also reviewed many of the smaller enhancements that have been done throughout the year. For a complete list of those, please see the VMS forum at www.vmsforum.com.
Ventus Conversions – we have had some delays in converting VMS clients to the Ventus product and we have made some changes to the process to make it more effective. We are currently scheduling for the late summer and fall timeframe. For those who are interested in scheduling a time for your conversion, or if you would like to discuss the status of our conversions in more detail, please contact Angela Brutto at 850-476-0094 or email angelab@vertical-market.com.
A special thanks to one of our customers, Yvette Wilmot from Sarracco Mechanical Services for her very informative presentation on ODBC and report writing.
And congratulations to Chad Vaughn and Jim Denney, winners at the annual VMS golf tournament for the longest drive and closest to the pin!
Thanks again for making this a great event and we look forward to seeing you all again next year!
Estimating
VMS Estimating is an application that enables you to prepare a quotation on either Job Cost jobs or Service jobs. It is highly integrated with other VMS applications eliminating double entry of information.
Date: Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Session Length: 1 hour
Session Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Central Time
Location: WebEx (login instructions to be provided upon registration)
Cost: No Charge
Trainer: Jim Snyder
This webinar will cover the following:
- Establishing your estimating item database
- Building assemblies
- Pricing options
- Adding notes to an estimate
- Printing quotation letters
- Transferring successful bids to Job Cost jobs or Service Work tickets
- Printing of PO’s for needed material for a job
- Building a pick list of stocked items for a job
- Integrating Excel spreadsheets to estimating
We expect a high number of attendees for of this session and would encourage you to sign up as soon as possible.
To register please call or email Linda Bishop: (800)-476-0094.
Ventus- Preventative Maintenance:
How to successfully set up and use PM Scheduling
The information contained in this webinar will provide insights into the best practices of PM management.
Date: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Session Length: 1-2 hours
Session Time: 1:00pm Central Time
Location: WebEx (login instructions to be provided upon registration)
Cost: $200
Trainer: Diana Hall
This webinar will cover the following:
- Setting up Tasks/subtasks for Frequency Management
- Site File set up including the PM and Equipment Tabs
- Understanding how the PM Auto Scheduling routine works
- Optimizing the Dispatch Board with PM ticket management
- How to print tickets with the Tasks/subtasks
We expect a high number of attendees for of this session and would encourage you to sign up as soon as possible.
To register please call or email Linda Bishop: (800)-476-0094.
Ventus- Service Billing- Fixed Price Invoicing
The following explains how fixed price invoices are entered in Ventus SB.
Click HERE to read more and follow the steps.
VMS Referral Program
Please click image to open up pdf document.
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