ManuDynUSA Announces First North American Reseller GWA Business Solutions

Miami, Florida (PRWEB) November 01, 2011

ManuDynUSA today announced that GWA Business Solutions, Inc., a Sage reseller and technology services provider based in Toronto, Canada has been named the first Premium Business Partner for the ManuDynTM Cloud 9 SaaS Manufacturing Solution in North America.

Using a browser-based SaaS approach, ManuDyn Cloud 9 is the first low-cost manufacturing solution that also integrates the new Apple iPad2 and other tablet PCs to provide operators, supervisors and management real-time information with unparalleled access.

Because the solution is provided as a service via the internet, all applications, queries, management reports, approval functions and shop floor operations are now easily accessed through the new Apple iPad2 or desktop using a wireless network or 3G/4G data service. Utilizing the estimated 10-hour battery life, new lighter weight and two-way, built-in video conferencing capability, users can now review and actually see operations or review quality issues on the shop floor from around the corner or around the world.

GWA has been named a Top Sales Performer for 2010 at the annual Sage BusinessVision Integration Partners (BViP) conference as well as top Accpac sales for North America in 2009 at Sages prestigious Presidents Circle. GWA has over 25 years experience of successfully implementing accounting, distribution, manufacturing solutions and asset management systems. With offices in Toronto, Lancaster, New York and the Cayman Islands, the firm also provides Sage Accpac and Sage CRM to businesses throughout the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean.

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ManuDynUSA is very proud to announce that GWA Business Solutions will be delivering a comprehensive manufacturing solution combining our Software as a Service ManuDyn Cloud 9 solution with the Apple iPad2. GWA has a proven track record of delivering outstanding customer service while optimizing their clients time and resources in accounting, manufacturing, distribution and CRM applications. GWA Business Solutions and ManuDyn together bring over 50 years of expertise in successfully delivering client solutions in North America, the Caribbean, Europe and Australia, said Jim Roach, president and chief executive officer of parent company, Manufacturing Software Pty Ltd.

According to GWA Business Solutions (http://www.GWAbiz.com) founder and President Gail Wilson,

ManuDyn Cloud 9 will offer my clients an entry level solution to their manufacturing requirements. We are very excited to be part of the ManuDyn family and look forward to supplying this to our clients that have this need.

About GWA Business Solutions Inc.

GWA Business Solutions Inc. based in Lancaster, New York is a subsidiary of GWA Business Solutions Canada Inc. As Sage Select partners they continue to provide solutions for their clients utilizing Sage Accpac, PRO, BusinessVision, CRM, HR/Payroll and technology consulting services to businesses throughout Canada, North America and the Caribbean with value added expertise. With offices in Toronto, Lancaster and the Cayman Islands, the GWA team is growing to meet their clients needs. GWA Business Solutions (previously Gail Wilson & Associates Inc.) has been providing a total solution for their clients requirements since 1983.

For more information about GWA Business Solutions, visit http://www.GWAbiz.com

About ManuDynUSA

ManuDynUSA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Manufacturing Software Pty Ltd. based in Kirrawee, New South Wales, Australia (Manusoft). A leader in providing optimized solutions for Job Shop Manufacturing environments, ManuDynUSA and the parent company Manusoft, offer a unique combination of a browser-based, SaaS environment for manufacturers that eliminates the need for expensive servers, internal IT staffs and costly implementations.

For more information about ManuDynUSA, visit http://www.ManuDynUSA.com

Trademarks

ManuDynTM Cloud 9 is a trademark of Manufacturing Software U.S.A, Inc.

iPadTM 2 is a trademark of Apple, Inc.

Contact Information

GWA Business Solutions

Toll free Canada: 1-800-658-4245

Canada & US Direct: 416-410-4245

Bahamas & Nassau: 416-410-4245

Email: info(at)gwabiz(dot)com

CANADA

GWA Business Solutions Inc.

675 Cochrane Drive, East Tower, 6th Floor

Markham, Ontario. L3R 0B8

USA

GWA Business Solutions Inc.

3725 Walden Avenue, Suite 45

Lancaster, NY 14086

ManuDynUSA

Americas

Bruce McCalley, Regional Director

ManuDynUSA, Inc.

+1 (678) 743-2913

bmccalley(at)manudynusa(dot)com

http://www.manudynusa.com

Australia, Europe, Asia Pacific

David Eaglesham, Operations Manager

Manufacturing Software, Pty. Ltd.

+61 (2) 9542-3066

david(at)manusoft(dot)net.au

http://www.manusoft.com.au

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Thousands of North Carolina Public School Students to Participate in "Jazz in America" Education Programs

Washington, DC (PRWEB) October 6, 2006

With generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, a non-profit education organization, will introduce its Jazz in America: The National Jazz Curriculum to thousands of public school students in North Carolina during the week of October 9-13. Jazz in America (http://www.jazzinamerica.org) is the Institutes Internet-based jazz curriculum that is being made available to all 5th, 8th, and 11th grade public school students in the United States. Designed to be a regular part of each schools social studies or American history classes, Jazz in America is the first jazz curriculum to use state-of-the-art Internet technology that is offered free of charge on a national basis.

Throughout the week-long visit to North Carolina public schools, the Institute will present a series of jazz assembly programs, jazz band clinics, and vocal master classes. Each assembly program will feature a five-piece jazz combo led by internationally renowned saxophonist Bobby Watson, a presentation called What is Jazz? by Dr. J.B. Dyas, and a question-and-answer session with students. In addition, jazz drummer Thelonious Monk, Jr., Chairman of the Institutes Board of Trustees and son of the legendary jazz pianist and composer, will make remarks about jazz and its role as Americas greatest musical contribution to the world.

Members of the press are invited to attend any of the following events:

MONDAY OCTOBER 9: ROCKY MOUNT

Rocky Mount High School, 308 South Tillery Street

10:00-11:00am: Assembly Program for 600 students in auditorium

TUESDAY OCTOBER 10 (Birthday of Thelonious Monk): RALEIGH

Knightdale High School, 100 Bryan Chalk Lane

8:30-9:30am - Jazz band clinic in Room 1306

8:30-9:30am - Vocal master class in Room 1330

9:45-10:45am - Assembly Program for 900 students in auditorium

Ligon Middle School, 706 E. Lenoir Street

12:00-1:00pm - Jazz band clinic in Room 6116

12:00-1:00pm - Vocal master class in Room 6114

1:15-2:15pm - Assembly Program for 900 students in auditorium

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11: DURHAM

Hillside High School, 3727 Fayetteville Street

9:00-10:00am - Assembly program for 300 students in auditorium

THURSDAY OCTOBER 12: CHARLOTTE

Harding University High School, 2001 Alleghany Street

10:30-11:30am - Jazz band clinic

10:30-11:30am - Vocal master class

Myers Park High School, 2400 Colony Road

1:00-2:00pm - Assembly Program for 300 students in auditorium

FRIDAY OCTOBER 13: CHARLOTTE

Northwest School of the Arts, 1415 Beatties Ford Road

9:00-10:00am - Assembly Program for 300 students

10:30-11:30am - Jazz band clinic

ABOUT THE CURRICULUM

The Jazz in America curriculum (http://www.jazzinamerica.org) presents an introduction to jazz as it evolved in America and spread throughout the world. It defines the characteristics of jazz, explains how to listen to the music, details the many styles of jazz, and highlights some of the musicians who have advanced the art form. The curriculum also focuses on the development of jazz in America by highlighting the major cities that influenced the music. Further, each lesson plan explores the social, economic, and political contexts within which jazz evolved. In addition to the lesson plans, the curriculum website includes a teachers manual, assessments, and a comprehensive Jazz Resource Library.

ABOUT THE MUSICIANS

The tour will be headlined by internationally renowned saxophonist and recording artist Bobby Watson (http://www.bobbywatson.com), who rose to prominence as a member of Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers, and will feature vocalist Lisa Henry, a winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition. The members of the rhythm section are Richard Johnson, piano; Derek Nievergelt, bass; and Otis Brown III, drums. Brown attended the Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Colony in Aspen, Colorado in the summer of 1999. Nievergelt and Johnson are 1999 graduates of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, a specialized graduate level college program that enables the worlds most gifted young musicians to study tuition-free with the greatest living jazz legends including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Clark Terry.

ABOUT THE THELONIOUS MONK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ

The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (http://www.monkinstitute.org) is a non-profit education organization established in memory of Thelonious Monk, the legendary jazz pianist and composer. Monk believed the best way to learn jazz was from a master of the music. The Institute follows that same philosophy by bringing together the greatest living jazz musicians to teach and inspire young people. The Institute offers the most promising young musicians college level training by America's jazz masters and presents public school-based jazz education programs for people around the world. Helping to fill the tremendous void in arts education left by severe budget cuts in public school funding, the Institutes education programs are provided free to the public and use jazz as the medium to encourage imaginative thinking, creativity, a positive self-image, and respect for ones own and others' cultural heritage.

ABOUT THELONIOUS MONK

Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) is recognized as one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz. He was one of the architects of bebop and his impact as a composer and pianist has had a profound influence on every genre of music.

Monk was born on October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. His parents, Barbara Batts and Thelonious Monk, later moved the family to New York City. Monk began piano lessons as a young child and by the age of 13 he had won the weekly amateur contest at the Apollo Theater so many times that he was barred from entering. At the age of 19, Monk joined the house band at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, where along with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and a handful of other players, he developed the style of jazz that came to be known as bebop. Monk's compositions, among them "Round Midnight," were the canvasses over which these legendary soloists expressed their musical ideas.

In 1947, Monk made his first recordings as a leader for Blue Note. These albums are some of the earliest documents of his unique compositional and improvisational style, both of which employed unusual repetition of phrases, an offbeat use of space, and joyfully dissonant sounds. That same year, he married his long-time love Nellie Smith and later had two children, Thelonious, Jr. and Barbara (1954-1984). In the decade that followed, Monk played on recordings with Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and Sonny Rollins and recorded as a leader for Prestige Records and later for Riverside Records. Brilliant Corners and Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane were two of the albums from this period that brought Monk international attention as a pianist and composer.

In 1957, the Thelonious Monk Quartet, which included John Coltrane, began a regular gig at the Five Spot. The group's performances were hugely successful and received the highest critical praise. Over the next few years, Monk toured the United States and Europe and made some of his most influential recordings. In 1964, Thelonious Monk appeared on the cover of Time magazine, an honor that has been bestowed on only three other jazz musicians. By this time, Monk was a favorite at jazz festivals around the world, where he performed with his quartet, which included long-time associate Charlie Rouse. In the early '70s he discontinued touring and recording and appeared only on rare occasions at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival.

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