Online booking for the COINS Conference 2008 is now open ...

Following on from the success of the 2006 COINS Conference we are looking forward to this being the biggest and best COINS event yet: we have the capacity to accommodate up to 300 COINS clients. The conference will be held at Beaumont House, Old Windsor from Monday 20th October to Wednesday 22nd October 2008.  Be sure to reserve these dates in your diary now so that you don’t miss out on the most informative and exciting COINS event so far.

The COINS Conference 2008 theme this year is 'Beyond Transactions' and will again feature the winning formula of Product Showcases, Presentations, Special Interest Group Meetings, and Training Workshops.  There will be a greater emphasis this year on business processes and looking beyond individual transaction processing to wider business issues. To reflect the emphasis, each Product Showcase will cover a broad business process area rather than a single COINS module. These will be supported by client case studies to illustrate, in context, the benefit of the effective application of COINS software.

The conference has plenty to offer to a wide variety of directors, managers and staff-whether from IT, Finance, General Management, Procurement, HR, or other dpartments; in fact, anyone who wants to learn how to obtain more benefit for their business from COINS. New this year will be a specific Executive Track, offering a high level overview of key areas for senior executives of both contracting and house building construction business in a single day. 

In addition there will be plenty of opportunity for networking with other construction and IT professionals and for enjoying good food and first class evening entertainment – with the comedy club returning on Tuesday evening by popular demand. 

All of this will take place in the beautiful surroundings of Beaumont House, Old Windsor just a few minutes drive from Windsor Castle and the Great Park.

Hot Topics include:

• Realising benefits from COINS beyond transaction processing
• Long-term strategic partnerships between COINS and Construction Businesses
• ‘Business Intelligence’ delivered by COINS
• Integrated approach to Procure to Pay processes
• COINS out of the office
• Process improvement using COINS Workflow
• Business Consulting and Managed Services
• New and enhanced COINS solutions including:
  • Cash Flow and Profit Forecasting
  • Cost Value Reconciliation
  • Data Marts and Multi-Dimensional Analysis
  • Human Capital Management including Site Health and Safety
• COINS Foundation, COINS Clients and the Community  

Details of the full agenda are available on the conference website, where we can also take bookings online.