From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Teaching New Tricks

November 29, 2008

Wow, that was fun. I haven’t the chance to do that for a little while.
The other day I met and spent a couple of hours with a very nice fellow who’s been around the IT world for some time. Lately he’s been working with ASP, Access, Dot Net, SQL Server, that sort of thing. He [...]

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Restoring the Last 8 Seconds

November 24, 2008

For the last couple of years I’ve been running a particular report generation every week. This Excel custom VBA program acquires new data with Monarch, of course, and creates a distributable file that shelters the recipients of the file from the behind the scenes calculations required to get to the end result. One of the [...]

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Smart Budgeting with Monarch

November 11, 2008

With the end of the calendar year fast approaching, this also means that the end of the fiscal year is right around the corner for a number of companies too.
If that means that it’s time to develop budgets for next year, I have an idea that might save you some time. If your budget is [...]

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Address Your Addresses with Monarch

November 10, 2008

It’s usually around this time of year that the panic starts in offices everywhere.
It often begins with “We need a clean list of contact information for the annual mailing”, and is just as often followed by an inordinate amount of stress on the part of the person who’s responsible for compiling the list.
The trouble spot, [...]

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Just Monarch It

November 5, 2008

I remember it like it was just yesterday. It was February 2005, and I was in a conference room in a hotel in Las Vegas, giving an hour long introductory Monarch presentation to a room of some twenty accountants and controllers. I started my talk with the words “I love Monarch”. That’s when the whole [...]

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How Monarch Makes Quick Work of Long Term Improvements

November 3, 2008

Not every process improvement task that you undertake needs to take weeks or months to accomplish. Sometimes you can genuinely produce terrific long term benefits in mere minutes.
I was recently approached by someone began the conversation by saying that he needed my help to “automate a report update with some programming”.
He had been manually updating [...]

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