consumer reports. Award winners are a valuable asset to their community and exemplify what makes small businesses great.

Established in 1991, WA specializes in working with small businesses throughout the Northern Indiana and Southwest Michigan corridor.  We offer services in the latest network platforms and management tools for clients as part of our newly released Productivity Assurance Services© Program. We use managed services to ensure your network is always efficient, safe, and productive. Through our certifications and partner relations we are capable of providing a full line of hardware, software, training and support services.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 15, 2010  The Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA) is pleased to announce  that Welborne Associates, a northern Indiana company, was selected for the 2009 Best of Business Award in the Consulting category.

All of us here at Welborne Associates are honored to have received this award in consulting.  We would like to thank all of our clients who over the last 19 years have trusted us to solve performance issues and to

implement positive changes in their companies. Without you, we would not be here, let alone receive such tributes as this!

The SBCA 2009 Award Program recognizes the top 5 percent of small businesses throughout the country. Using consumer feedback, the SBCA identifies companies that they believe have demonstrated what makes small businesses a vital part of the American economy. The selection committee chooses the award winners from nominees based off information taken from monthly surveys administered by the SBCA, a review of consumer rankings, and other

Welborne Associates Receives SBCA Award

Microsoft Launches BigEasy 4.0 (Top)

The Big Easy Offer gives you choices on Microsoft products and solutions that fit your needs. For every qualifying product you purchase, Microsoft pays you partner subsidy funds that can be used with Welborne Associates to help with the implementation of your Microsoft solution including

software, hardware and services.

What is a subsidy?

A subsidy is Microsoft funding that allows you to purchase additional products or services from Welborne Associates thus lowering your Total Cost of

Ownership. The subsidy is in the form of a check delivered to you and made payable to Welborne Associates. This subsidy can be used to enrich and implement your Microsoft solution.

For more information go to welborne.com/BigEasy.

Inside this issue:

February, 2010

Volume 4, Issue 1

Quarterly News

HP 6500 Printer

 

Boost productivity with built-in wired networking and fast speeds. Get professional quality results while cutting color print costs and energy use by up to 40% versus lasers. Maximum print speeds of 32 ppm black, 31 ppm color, two sided printing, a large capacity paper tray and separate ink cartridges (Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow)

 

 

At Welborne Associates, we know you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Our 24 x 7 Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM) service provides us with the information, data, network performance trending analysis and security vulnerability information critical to service, plan and manage your IT environment. 

You have invested in your IT infrastructure and rely on its performance, security and reliability. Welborne Associates’ Productivity Assurance Services^© not only ensures that you have a qualified team ready to service this critical asset but also the real time data to ensure its being done on time, when needed, using the most advanced network asset tracking and

performance monitoring .

Our service includes a complete asset inventory and regular health, security and performance analysis reporting so that you can see what you have and how well those IT assets are working for you.

For more information visit

welborne.com/services

savings. You will also qualify for preferred pricing on products from any of SonicWALL’s other product lines when purchased at the same time. You get the latest innovative SonicWALL technology, all at an affordable price—and hassle-free.

Protect your business from rapidly changing viruses, spam, botnets and other threats with the new SonicWALL Customer Advantage Program. Now you can upgrade older SonicWALL appliances or trade-in select competitors’ products, to qualify for

The Customer Advantage Program provides two key mechanisms for keeping your network secure and up to date—Secure Upgrade Plus and Customer Loyalty Bundle.

welborne.com/swcap for more information.

Productivity Assurance Services—RMM (Top)

SonicWALL—Customer Advantage for SMBs (Top)

The two parts of the Customer Advantage Program from SonicWALL

The Executive Summary is 1 of many reports provided by Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM)

Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition provides easy to use, enterprise-level protection that optimizes performance and system resources so small businesses can get their protection up and running quickly. The simple management capabilities, 20-minute deployment, and pre-configured settings make it ‘ready-to-go’ so you can focus on running and growing your business rather than worry about security.

Don’t believe us?  Here is what the Computer Resource News (CRN) test center said: “Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition is a nice example: Security is smart, well-tailored to small business, and easy to manage. And, yes, it takes about 20 minutes to install -- from start to finish -- so a small network can achieve nice security with minimal hassle”

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) provides more than antivirus and it protects to the same level as the largest global business.

Fast install and performance provide minimal productivity impact and reduces overhead across all aspects of your computing environment.

For pricing, contact us at info@welborne.com or (219)879-3584

Symantec Endpoint Protection for Small Business(Top)

equipment, servers, storage and networking equipment. Certain restrictions apply.

Financing available through Hewlett-Packard Financial Services Company (HPFSC) to qualified commercial, education, and state, local and Federal government customers in the United States and Canada and is subject to credit approval and execution of standard HPFSC documentation. Offer valid through April 30, 2010, on transactions in the United States between $1500 USD and $150,000 USD and in Canada between $5000 CAD and $150,000 CAD. For U.S. Federal customers, a minimum transaction size of $50,000 applies. Zero percent financing assumes transaction is documented as a lease with a $1 end-of-term purchase option (or local currency equivalent), assuming lessee is not required to pay any nominal end-of-term purchase price at the end of the lease term and

Invest while preserving precious capital—Take advantage of Hewlett Packard’s Financial Services’ Zero In financing promotion.  0% lease for SMBs.

Two options:

12-month lease with $1 buy-out or 36-month Fair Market Value lease

Transactions must be between $1,500 -$150,000

Available on wide variety HP products including various notebooks, desktops, workstations, monitors, imaging and printing

disregarding any charges payable by lessee other than rent payments (such as maintenance, taxes, fees and shipping charges). This offer cannot be combined with any other rebate, discount or promotion without prior approval by HP and HPFSC. Rates are based on customer’s credit rating, financing terms, offering types, equipment type and options. Not all HP products are eligible for 0% lease rate. Not all customers may qualify for these rates. Other restrictions may apply. HPFSC reserves the right to change or cancel this program at any time without notice.

HP Financial Services’ Zero In financing promotion(Top)