Posted in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek Our friends at Partner Power International wrote a blog with a great video featuring PPI Vice President Henning Lund talking about how to prepare for Microsoft Convergence this year in New Orleans. He offers three key pieces of advice: Get a LinkedIn or Twitter account Bring comfortable shoes Wear a rogue hat For companies doing international… Continue Reading
Posted in Week in Geek One in 20 million… It might not sound like much until you hear the 20 million is 10% of the 200 million users of LinkedIn. Late last week, several of our Directors were notified that they were among the top LinkedIn profiles viewed in 2012. Tax Directors, Frank Landreneau and Del Walker were in the top 10%… Continue Reading
Posted in In Our Community, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Week in Geek Last Friday was the FastTech 50, I’ll have my remarks for you later on, but wanted to share this infographic, created by my colleague Raissa Evans. It shows the FastTech 50 Class of 2012 by the numbers.
Posted in Tecknowledgy, Uncategorized, Week in Geek So for the past few years the winner of the Rice Business Plan Competition (BPC) (www.alliance.rice.edu) has been invited to go to New York City and ring the bell at the NASDAQ and get some additional publicity for their startup company. This year’s winner was NuMat Technologies out of Northwestern University from Chicago. It was nice… Continue Reading
Posted in Guest Spotlights, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek Raissa Evans is the Executive Manager of the Practice Growth team for PKF Texas. She is an active member of the Houston Interactive community and 2012 will be the third year in a row she has attended the SXSW Interactive festival. PKF Texas is again joining the ranks of those attending the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive… Continue Reading
Posted in In Our Community, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek As co-founders of the FastTech 50, PKF Texas together with the Houston Business Journal, the Houston Technology Center, Pierpont Communications, the Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship,and the Wealth Design Group would like to invite to nominate your own business or a friend of your firm for the 11th Annual FastTech 50 awards. The deadline… Continue Reading
Posted in In Our Community, Observations, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek On July 8, 2011 a bitter sweet day for our country was noted. That day was the launch of the last US manned space flight for the foreseeable future. I had the honor and the privilege of attending the final launch in Mission Control as a guest of the Johnson Space Center (JSC) through Walter… Continue Reading
Posted in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek HOUSTON – December 10, 2010 – Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, P.C. (PKF Texas), the only Houston-based accounting and technology consulting firm specializing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, has been awarded the Gold Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Competency. Recently Microsoft launched its new Partner Network with increased rigorous standards for professional excellence and partners. Existing Certified… Continue Reading
Posted in In Our Community, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek Well good morning Houston! Today is a new day with the arrival of the Houston Technology Center’s (HTC) Blog. The HTC blog is another successful value proposition for clients and supporters of the HTC. As many of you know, my blog: FromGregsHead.com has been around for about 5 years now and we are very happy… Continue Reading
Posted in In Our Community, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek Has it really been ten years since we had our first Fast Tech 50 event? I was thinking back to our first event, and our first winner, “E-Realty” which was led by Russ Capper. Wow, so much has happened since then with Russ and the other honorees of the Fast Tech 50. It’s would be… Continue Reading
Posted in In Our Community, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek The numbers have been crunched, the envelope has been sealed and the final preparations for the FastTech 50 luncheon are being taken care of as you read this! If you are in the tech community here in Houston, then you better be at the Hilton Americas Downtown on Friday for the 10th Annual Fast Tech… Continue Reading
Posted in In Our Community, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek The moratorium on deepwater drilling has officially been lifted. This is great news for Houston and the rest of the Gulf Coast. I’m interested to see what the economic impact of the moratorium has been on Houston. This morning, I was at the Greater Houston Partnership’s Energy Future Conference this morning and heard from Doug… Continue Reading
Posted in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek As many readers of the blog know, we have long touted Houston’s International view. In fact, many of our firm’s clients are international in scope of operations and results. Many headquarters are based here in Houston with overseas operations, or vice versa. Within our Consulting Solutions Group we have delivered several Microsoft Dynamics NAV and CRM… Continue Reading
Posted in In Our Community, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek I just attended the Gulf Coast Innovation Conference & Showcase put on by the Houston Technology Center. Of which PKF Texas is one of the event’s Platinum Sponsors. If you want to attend this event next year you better sign up early because it sold out two weeks in advance. Walter Ulrich, President and CEO… Continue Reading
Posted in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek CRM for Your Business: The Game Changer The tool to restart your company’s growth engine Join us for a free webinar on Wednesday, October 6th. In this webinar, PKF Texas Senior Manager, Stephen White, CPA, will illustrate how CRM can be used quickly and effectively by your company and how having the right implementation team… Continue Reading
Posted in In Our Community, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek My colleague Raissa Evans,Senior Manager, Practice Grwoth, attended the 2010 Interactive Strategies Conference at the House of Blues last Thursday. She wrote a great report which is below: Last Thursday a few hundred of Houston’s interactive marketers, designers, creatives and technorazzi converged on the House of Blues for the 4th annual Interactive Strategies Conference, hosted by… Continue Reading
Posted in Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek So it’s official, Steve Jobs today announced the iPhone 4 at the Worldwide Developers conference. Engadget live blogged the announcement and provides a thorough look at Jobs’ speech. From video conferencing to multitasking to the 3-axis gyroscope and the new Retina display with increased pixel density, it’s really slick! What are your thoughts on the… Continue Reading
Posted in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek Well I spent a few days in Denmark and visited Copenhagen and some of the surrounding communities to the north. I was very impressed with Denmark and the people. While the weather was hit or miss it was tolerable on the wet/cold days and absolutely wonderful on the sunny and warmer days. Warmer being defined… Continue Reading
Posted in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek I’m in Copenhagen, Denmark for several Partner Power meetings this week. I’m looking forward to reconnecting and meeting with several of the people I met in Istanbul during the March Partner Power World Conference. I’ll be blogging about my trip while I’m there, keep an eye out for posts.
Posted in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek HOUSTON – April 20, 2010 – Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, P.C. (PKF Texas), the only Houston-based accounting and technology consulting firm specializing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, has attained Gold Certified Partner status for the sixth year in a row. The Gold Certified Partner status was awarded in the Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) and Information… Continue Reading
Posted in Week in Geek Just in time for the busy holiday travel season, Google has partnered with airports across the country to provide free WiFi access through January 15, 2010. Google has set up a website listing the 54 participating airports. Both Bush-Intercontinental and Hobby are on the list. Google says, “We’d like to make the holiday travel crunch… Continue Reading
Posted in Week in Geek Count me in as the latest iPhone convert. I bought one a few weeks ago when it was time to upgrade my phone. I was definitely skeptical about being able to use it for business, as it seemed to be more of a “toy.” But the iPhone 3GS I purchased doesn’t seem to have any… Continue Reading
Posted in In Our Community, Observations, Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek Here it is July 20, 2009 and I was reflecting back to that historic day of July 20, 1969. I can remember exactly what I was doing that evening when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. Watching on my parents small black and white TV that evening, I was struck with amazement… Continue Reading
Posted in Tecknowledgy, Week in Geek Last week, I had the opportunity to introduce Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief of Technology Review magazine and technologyreview.com, at the MIT Enterprise Forum April Flagship event. Jason gave a great presentation on the Top Emerging Technologies of 2009. They are: Intelligent Software Assistant $100 Genome Racetrack Memory Biological Machines Paper Diagnostics Liquid Battery Traveling-Wave Reactor Nanopiezoelectronics… Continue Reading
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