Congratulations to AIMsi user Joel Menchey of Menchey Music Services. Menchey Music Services was voted Independent Retailer of the Year in the 2006 Retail Excellence Awards.

 

The Koala Music Products database has just been added to the active-e servers.

 

Grove Tools Seat Lock has their pruducts listed in the active-e database. Here is an example of how their products will look on your website.

 

Sher Music Co has joined the active-e bandwagon. Data and images are both available to active-e users.

 

Music Minus One (MMO) is the newest data provider that is working with active-e. Their data and images are loaded and ready for download.

 

Pat Murphy, Vice President Client Technology, just returned from another very productive B2B Interest Group Meeting in New York. NAMM formed this committee to develop business-to-business Industry Standards.

The committee’s progress and results will be tracked and published on NAMM’s B2B micro-site, which is open to all NAMM Members.

The committee, which is composed of technical experts not represented on NAMM’s Board, includes Paul Ward, Roland US; Robin Walenta, West Music; MaryAnne DelMundo, Guitar Center; Steve LaMonde, Kaman; Greg Bryniak, D’Addario; Amy Pearson, Sweetwater; William McGloine, Korg; and Pat Murphy, Tri-Tech.

Alfred Publishing has just been added as the newest active-e data provider. Their inventory information and images are available to all active-e users.

 

Daisy Rock (The Girl Guitar Company) is the newest active-e data provider. Their inventory information and images are available to active-e users.

 

The newest AIMsi v7.0 update has been released. Log on the account passport to download the update.

 

Quality Bicycle Products is the newest data provider for active-e users. In addition to providing catalog information, you can also send your PO’s electronically and check QBP’s inventory availability prior to submitting your order.

Other Bicycle data providers include: Giant, Louis Garneau, Serfas, Hawley, Marin, Deuter, BTI, BikeMine and J&B Importers.

 

Contact your sales rep for more information on active-e.

 

NAMM has formed a new Ad-hoc Technology Committee which will address B2B technology standards in the music industry. Read the NAMM Press Release .

The new committee is comprised of technical experts from manufactures, distributors, retailers and Tri-Tech. The committee meet in August at the NAMM headquarters and plans to meet again in October.

The meeting agenda includes finalizing version 1.1 of the Purchase Order and Functional Acknowledgement. Other documents include Advanced Detailed Acknowledgement, Shipping Notice, PO Request Change, PO Status, Invoice and Electronic Payment.

Tri-Tech encourages any suppliers that want to start trading electronic documents with dealers using the AIMsi software to contact Pat Murphy 563-556-3556.

 

This is the first post for our new RSS News Feed . You may have noticed the little orange XML, RSS or the radio broadcast buttons appearing on websites. These buttons will take you to the news service link. To use this service you must have a news aggregator/reader loaded on your computer. You will need to subscribe to this link in your news reader program. There are several news reader programs available for download. The new internet explorer 7 will have a built in feature to subscribe to news services. The idea is that if you dont always have time to check your favorite sites for content update, you can have your news reader program poll the web sites you subscribe to and it will inform you when new content is available. Active-e users may want to consider using a news feed as a way to bring more people to your internet site.

 

The Shawnee Press data has been loaded into the active-e database.

 

In an effort to better serve you :) we are in the process of installing a new phone system. The transition to the new system will start Friday June 23 in the afternoon. The new phone system will be fully functional by Thursday June 29. We will do our best to make the transition as smooth as possible for our customers.

 

The newest update has been posted on the account passport.

 

Check out the new AIMsi Forum. This can be found on the Account Passport page.

 

A new update was posted today. This will take care of a couple of minor issues in the 7.0 update. If you have not run the Version7.exe, you must run that first before running the June 9th update.

 

We are working with The Lorenz Corporation to give active-e users the ability to send electronic purchase orders. Look for this feature in the near future.

 

TheKendor Music catalog information is now loaded into the active-e servers and available for download.

 

Welcome to our new Tri-Tech News format.

 

The Lorenz Corporation catalog information is now loaded into the active-e servers and available for download.

 

RPMDA Update: Thanks to everyone that stopped by the both. We found out that we still have a couple of DOS users out there. We won’t name any names. We made connections with Alfred Publishing, Kendor Music, Shawnee Press and Lorenz. All are working to provide their catalog information to active-e.

 

Rhythm Tech's inventory catalog information has been added to the active servers.

 

Roland's inventory data is now available on the active-e servers. Roland plans to provide images and long descriptions in the near future.

 

Giant Bicycle is now accepting electronic PO's from AIMsi. Active-e users can download the setup documentation from the account passport. (Giant.doc)

 

An AIMsi patch has been released on the account passport.

 

The development team is putting the finishing touches on the next update. It should be available next week.

 

active-e Update. Yamaha is currently in beta testing. Roland will be moving to beta testing shortly. Look for a Yamaha and Roland rollout soon.

 

The su060222.exe update is available for download.

 

Important Note: Our Account Passport has been moved to our new active-e C2B platform, if it is your first time visiting the new Account Passport link you will be instructed to register. After you register we have to verify your information, once verified you will receive e-mail notification letting you know you can use the new link; please allow one business day for verification prior to contacting us (in most cases you will be notified within one hour).

Team development is working on creating the next update release. It should be available in the next day or two.

 

Winter NAMM Show Update: Thanks to everyone that stopped by the both. The NAMM show was a great success for Tri-Tech. We brought several new stores on board. The new active-e technology and version 7.0 was very well received. We made several new active-e supplier relationships, and received renewed commitment from many others.

 

Stop by the both 1400 at NAMM to learn more about active-e and see some hot new AIMsi features.

 

The SU060111.EXE update is available for download on the Account Passport.

 

Tri-Tech welcomes our newest dealers that signed up in December:
Allegro Music Centre, Inc. Casselberry FL
Gran Fondo Cycles, Nashville TN
Oz's Music, Ann Arbor MI
Brassworks Llc, Raleigh NC
Boomer's Music, Wellington FL
Wentworth Music, Kelowna BC
Huntsville Violins, Huntsville AL
Tracy Cyclery, Tracy CA
Capitol Music, Seattle WA
Marshall Music, Lansing MI
Willcutt Guitar Shoppe, Lexington KY
Clovis Music Center, Clovis CA
Eckroth Music, Bismarck ND
Matt's Music Center, Inc., Weymouth MA

 

Tri-Tech would like to wish all our dealers a SUPER Happy and Prosperous new year.