Twin Lights Group Newsletter

Welcome to Twin Lights' April newsletter.

You mean you're STILL working with paper?

Paper as a business medium, particularly for your employees probably means you're daily headaches include lost forms, illegible entries, inaccurate information and a need to re-enter data into your electronic record keeping system. Who needs it? This month Twin Lights is spotlighting Prontoforms, a new way to manage your company's forms electronically from the web, available in real time to you and your staff.
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Around the Industry

Bring on IPv6
NetworkWorld reports "The Internet ran out of IPv4 address space in early February when the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority assigned two of the remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses - each containing 16.7 million addresses - to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre. This action sparked an immediate" Continued Here...

Facebook Movie Rental to Be a Box Office Smash? ASPnews reports The Facebook-Warner Bros. video-on-demand movie rental service may be in the experimental phase, but has ramifications sure to be felt throughout the entertainment and tech industries as it piggybacks on several larger trends that suggest it could be a blockbuster hit.Full Article

Twitter Aims to Clean up Fractured Landscape
From ASPnews " In a lengthy post on the direction of the company, Twitter Platform Director Ryan Sarver said the research indicates consumers continue to be confused by the "different ways a fractured landscape of third-party Twitter clients displays tweets and let users interact with core Twitter functions." Full Article

Google bestows 1Gbps fiber network on Kansas City, Kansas From Ars Technica, "Kansas City, Kansas will have a new Internet provider next year, one that operates a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home network, provides "open access" to any ISP wanting to use the pipes, and charges fees in line with current rates for much slower connections. That new Internet provider? Google". Read More

AT&T Recognized by Frost and Sullivan for Cloud Computing Offer
AT&T announced today that it has been granted the Frost & Sullivan 2011 North American Price Performance Value Leadership Award1 for its recently enhanced enterprise cloud solution, AT&T Synaptic Compute as a ServiceSM. Frost & Sullivan highlighted AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service as an easy-to-use, feature-rich cloud infrastructure as a service offer with integrated security and high quality customer support.Full Article

Partner News

AT&T Roars Back in 3G Tests
PCWorlds independent testing reveals 'AT&T’s 3G network is now the top performer in our 13-city tests, with download speeds 67 percent faster than its competitors''. Click Here for the full article

Box.net CEO: Amazon Cloud Drive needs to share content Venture Beat reports "Amazon Cloud Drive, the online retailer’s most recent foray into web-based storage and media streaming, has a fatal flaw, according to online storage provider Box.net’s chief executive Aaron Levie — it can’t share content between accounts.

M5 Networks' Hoffman Interview About Clients, Services.
On Bloomberg "Dan Hoffman, chief executive officer of M5 Networks, talks about the company's clients. Hoffman also discusses cloud computing and M5's services. He speaks with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock."Watch the Interview

Two Tier ERP Goal For Netsuite, Informatica
On Business Cloud 9, "NetSuite is pitching itself higher into the corporate ecosystem with a little help from data integration firm Informatica. The two have announced a strategic partnership designed to allow staff in subsidiary offices to send key financial data from the NetSuite OneWorld system to their companies' main Oracle or SAP system."
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Zoho launches Books to round out its suite, targets QuickBooks
On ZDNet "Zoho launched Zoho Books, an application that is aimed at Intuit’s QuickBooks franchise and rounds out its suite of applications." Full article

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In The Spotlight

ProntoForms - Ditch that paper!

This month Twin Lights is spotlighting Prontoforms, the modern alternative to your data collection requirements.

For companies taking in data from field staff, getting accurate reports and forms has always been a challenge. Sometimes the issues are technical, such as ensuring all employess use the current form revision, or have the proper training and discipline to gather all the necessary information. Sometimes the problems are logistical and deal with the backend assimilation of field collected data, and the conversion from paper to digital records back at home base.

The reality is, to date paper had been the cheapest and easiest way to gather information from staff in the field across a wide range of industries, despite its shortcomings. And while device based solutions for remote workers have existed for some time, they have been prohibitively expensive for all but the largest organizations.

Prontoforms aims to change all of that. Realizing the prevalence of mobile data capable devices like blackberries and iphones, and the need for companies to be able to take in real time and accurate digital records, ProntoForms set out to create an easy to use and widely appllicable data collection solution.

This offering puts high end data collection tools at the disposal of any size organization through highly affordable pricing.

Some of ProntoForms features include:

Eliminate paper forms in field
Fast and easy creation of new forms in Web portal
Forms auto pushed to devices in field
real-time access to field data and inventory
Exports data in PDF reports, email, XLS, CSV and XML
No servers needed - a cloud computing solution!

Twin Lights is currently running a promotion with ProntoForms that can get you up and running right away. If you reach out to Twin Lights we will take one of your company's existing forms and create a digital Prontoform to match it, for FREE. We will also set you up with a ProntoForms trial account so you can see how easy it is to manage the submissions you could be getting, hassle free.

Twin Lights Briefs

Come See Twin Lights Group at the 2011 Eastern Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce (EMACC) Super Expo. Please come visit us to learn more about our latest on-demand technologies to acquire new enterprise functionality, reduce IT costs and gain exciting new collaborative capabilities. Learn more about the expo here.

Twin Lights launches a brand new website and blog Twin Lights is proud to announce our new website and blog. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and bookmark our blog for relevant industry news!

Twin Lights is now a Google Partner! Twin Lights is proud to annouce that we are formally a Google partner and reseller. Check out www.twinlightsgroup.com for an announcement with new services and offerings soon.
Need to Reduce Your Mobility Costs or Access Your Data On the Go? Contact us now to find out more about our AT&T mobility plans.
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About Twin Lights Group

Twin Lights is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions provider that seeks to revolutionize the way companies implement and utilize enterprise solutions. By joining your team and guiding new process change, we simplify and improve your business. Our solutions enable companies to escape the weight and overhead of traditional systems infrastructure, while improving their network. Our goal is simple; We want to help companies manage, simplify and improve their business operations in an increasingly mobile world.