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Author: System SuperUser Created: 8/27/2008 11:24 AM
Wheat Systems News and Articles

By System SuperUser on 7/16/2008 10:22 AM

Situation
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is far-reaching federal legislation signed into law in July 2002. It requires higher accounting standards, improved trustworthiness in corporate reporting, and greater financial transparency. The Act affects all public companies, United States-based and international, whose stock is traded on United States exchanges. Failure to comply can result in high personal financial (up to U.S. $5 million) and criminal penalties (up to 20 years in prison) for CEO/CFO false certification. Two key sections of the law that have drawn the most attention are:
Section 302: Requires executives to personally certify the validity of financial statements.
Section 404: Requires complete d ... Read More »

By System SuperUser on 6/19/2008 5:23 PM

We recently established a full catalog of everything we sell.  As you know, typically you don’t know what any of our products cost unless you request an estimate.  Now, you can get a full catalog (digital or printed) of everything we sell with special pricing for our organization.  Whatever special discounts we’ve reserved for your organization in the past will now be applied to every item, showing you exactly what kind of custom pricing you have available to you.

What are the benefits of having our catalog? 
- Access to a full list of everything we sell
- Pre-negotiated discounts on everything
- See what we offer that you didn’t know about so you can buy it fr ... Read More »

By System SuperUser on 5/11/2008 11:32 AM

After a year of collaborative development with the management team at Total Anesthesia, Wheat Systems deployed the client's first interactive web portal.

Total Anesthesia has unique needs because they manage a large team of doctors, CRNAs, and administrators who work in many different Richmond area hospitals - and they frequently work in different locations on different days.  Communication was spread across many mediums and required different management and different kinds of archiving.  A lot of important company time was spent simply keeping track of people, sending schedules everywhere, and driving all over town to move paperwork around.  They have to comply with HIPAA practices as well as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

We imagined with them: if there were a way to make all commu ... Read More »

By System SuperUser on 4/28/2008 12:49 PM

The City of Richmond Procurement Department officially announced which vendors were awarded inclusion in the new Richmond Supply Schedule today, and Wheat Systems was one of the chosen few selected who will be able to sell information technology products to the agencies of the City of Richmond.  You can see where we have been listed in the awards on the official City of Richmond website here.

If you are an information technology vendor who would like to sell to the City of Richmond but have not been included on the Richmond Supply Schedule, contact Bethany McQuillen about possible partner opportunities either here at LinkedIn Read More »

By System SuperUser on 3/20/2008 4:09 PM

        
Wheat Systems partnered with Assured Packets, a local virtualization firm and sister company, for integration and deployment of VMware Virtualization Solutions.

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By System SuperUser on 2/14/2008 10:04 AM

RICHMOND, VA, February 4, 2008 – Wheat Systems Integration announced today that Deborah Wheat, President, has named Tod Balsbaugh to serve as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer.

Balsbaugh, 62, served as Executive Director of the Virginia Home for Boys and Girls for twenty-seven years before stepping down at the end of 2004 to become Director of External Affairs.    During his thirty-seven year tenure he oversaw the addition and expansion of new programs and services, such as the Youth Emergency Shelter, the John G. Wood School, and the Pathfinder Independent Living Program, as well as ... Read More »

By System SuperUser on 1/8/2008 5:20 PM

Microsoft is making some of those sci-fi movies into reality – check it out here:
 

By System SuperUser on 12/10/2007 5:13 PM

We’ve had complaints about increased spam and spam filters malfunctioning from most of our clients, so we did the research to find out what can truly be done about it without diverting lots of false positives to the Junk mail folder.  Apparently, a synchronized group of thousands of Russian hackers cracked into databases and hijacked hundreds of thousands of computers and turned them into spambots that are connected into botnets without the owners knowledge.  Worldwide spam tripled within a few months.
 
Here’s the article about what happened < ... Read More »


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