News & Events

2011
Aug
BizTools announces the appointment of Randy Johnston to the Advisory Board.

John Power, BizTools CEO, said, "We are very fortunate to have someone with the industry stature, background and expertise of Randy Johnston join our advisory board. We look forward to leveraging Randy's extensive experience as a technology and industry leader to ensure that BizTools continues to provide innovative, practical solutions that exceed our clients' current and future needs."
 
Aug
BizTools announces the appointment of Graeme Strange to the Advisory Board.

John Power, BizTools CEO, said, "We are very fortunate to have someone with the industry experience, skills and reputation of Graeme Strange join our advisory board. We look forward to benefitting from Graeme's broad experience as a leader in the IT industry to ensure that BizTools continues to develop the right strategies to grow the business and deliver compelling solutions to our customers."
2010
Dec
BizTools is pleased to announce the release of the BizTools Analytics 2011 product line. The 2011 release further delivers on our promise of quick and easy KPI monitoring, Analytics and Reporting for users of QuickBooks and MYOB in the US and Australia.
 
Nov
All BizTools solutions have been upgraded to include the latest SQL Server 2008 R2 STD Edition release and support both Office 2010 and 2007.
 
Sep
BizTools Analytics now supports both 32 bit and 64 Bit - (x86 and x64) windows platforms.
2009
Sep
BizTools is pleased to announce the release of the BizTools Analytics 2009 product line. “BizTools Analytics” is an affordable, easy to use, KPI monitoring, Analytics and Reporting solution built to provide “Out of the Box” integration with leading small business accounting packages such as QuickBooks and MYOB.
 
Aug
BizTools Analytics Solutions officially pass the Microsoft Windows 7 compatibility testing program.
 
Feb
BizTools is pleased to announce that Clayton Oates has accepted an invitation to join our Customer Advisory Council. “BizTools is fortunate to have Clayton as a member of our Customer Advisory Council, as he is an acknowledged expert in his field” said John Power, CEO. “Our focus is on developing the very best solutions for SMBs, their accountants and advisors. With leading practitioners such as Clayton providing practical, real world advice and customer driven feedback, we believe that BizTools has a real advantage in developing and delivering next-generation solutions.” Learn more about Clayton and his firm, QA Business
 
Jan
BizTools announces plans to form a Customer Advisory Council. The council is a broad forum intended to solicit the voice of key customers and leading professionals on issues of strategy, product development, and future directions. Key objectives are to: - Establish an executive-level forum to solicit feedback from representative SMB customers, professional accountants and consultants to proactively solicit their viewpoint on a continual basis regarding the direction & effectiveness of BizTools’ products and solutions.
 
Jan
BizTools completes the migration of all development programs to the latest Microsoft .NET platform leveraging Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007 and the Windows Server 2008 & Windows Vista platform.
2008
Nov
BizTools is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Anthony Lococo as a director of the company. Anthony is an accountant who has been in professional practice since 1985, and a CPA since 1990. He completed a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) in 1984 and has been a practising accountant in his own business since 1991. Anthony will also be taking up the role of company secretary.
 
Jun
Our CEO, John Power participates in the first ever delegation of Australian financial services technology and solutions providers to Microsoft's Redmond headquarters, organized by Austrade and in coordination with Microsoft.
2007
Aug
BizTools announces development of a packaged BI and Performance Management solution planned for release in 2009, designed for Intuit's QuickBooks® Enterprise Solutions. Built on the Microsoft SQL Server platform this solution will deliver affordable Performance Management to small & medium business users around the world.
2006
Aug
BizTools attends the Microsoft ANZ Partner Conference at Hamilton Island meeting senior Microsoft executives and other Asia Pacific partners over the course of several days.
 
Mar
BizTools develops custom enterprise analytics solutions designed for Microsoft Dynamics™ GP built on SQL Server 2005 & Office Excel technologies
 
Jan
The company completes the migration of all development programs to the Microsoft .NET platform leveraging Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, VSTO and the Windows Server platform.
2005
Jun
BizTools achieves Microsoft Certified Partner Status along with the ISV / Software Competency.
 
May
BizTools joins with Microsoft again to participate as on exhibitor on their stand at CEBIT in Sydney, NSW
2004
Dec
"BizTools BI” achieves Microsoft ISV Certified product status.
 
May
BizTools participates as an exhibitor on the Microsoft stand at CEBIT in Sydney, NSW
2003
Dec
BizTools exhibits at the 2nd annual Intuit Developer Network Conference in San Jose, California. This provided opportunities to meet with ProAdvisors and CPAs and learn more about their needs. A hectic week in all, including many meetings with Intuit Executives, fellow IDNAC members, lunch with Steve Bennett (Intuit CEO) and a visit to our stand by Scott Cook (Intuit founder).
 
Oct
Our CEO, John Power, is invited to become a founding member of the Intuit Developer Network Advisory Council (IDNAC). He sat as a main council member and also chaired the Non-North American Developers subcommittee.
 
May
Intuit publishes a number of articles, including "Profit Point: The Business Advisory Service" written by our CEO, John Power in the May edition of the "Intuit ProConnection Newsletter", read by 1000's of accountants and QuickBooks® ProAdvisors across the US.
2002
Oct
BizTools establishes offices in Southbank, Victoria.