Off the back of using SAP Business One for New Zealand Cricket here in teeny tiny NZ, they chose to use SAP Business One and other SAP technologies to get the Cricket World Cup ticking along.

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10 things you need to do before the Mondayised ANZAC Day. The Holidays (Full Recognition of Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day) Amendment Bill or, as it is more commonly known, the ‘Mondayisation Bill’, will have its first big impact on ANZAC Day.

Here are 10 simple things you can to do to make sure your business stays compliant:

1. Know what’s new. The ‘Mondayisation Bill’ states that from now on, when Waitangi Day (6 February) or ANZAC Day (25 April) fall on a weekend, the public holiday must be treated as falling on the following Monday for employees who would not otherwise work on that Saturday or Sunday.
2. Know what stays the same. For employees who would normally otherwise work on that Saturday or Sunday, the public holiday must still be treated as falling on that day. If you close for the holiday, you must pay these weekend workers their regular holiday pay. If your business remains open for the holiday, employees are entitled to at least time and a half pay and a whole day’s alternative holiday (day in lieu) at a later date.
3. Get your ducks in a row. There isn’t much time to get ready. The Monday holiday will first be effective on ANZAC Day 2015 and Waitangi Day in 2016.
4. Meet your holiday-entitlement obligations. If your employee works on a day that is designated as a public holiday for them (either the weekend day or the Monday, depending on their normal working days), they’ll receive time and a half for the hours worked and become entitled to an alternative holiday.
5. Mind your roster. If your employee normally works on the day the holiday falls on (for example, he or she is normally rostered to work every Saturday), you can’t take them off the roster for the holiday weekend in an attempt to get out of paying them holiday wages.
6. Don’t get caught out. Failure to recognise your employees' holiday entitlements, or taking employees off of the roster to avoid paying holiday pay, is a breach of the law. It may lead to enforcement action.
7. Update your files. After each public holiday you must update the leave records in your employees’ personnel files. Be sure to record when the holiday was taken, if and when a day in lieu (‘alternative holiday’) was taken, if any holiday pay was paid, and when this amount was paid to the employee. ** and if you are STILL keeping leave records on paper give Brodie a call to find out how to make your life, managers and employee's lives easier when it comes to leave tracking!!
8. Be mindful of commemorative celebrations. The celebration of Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day (i.e., parades and other commemorative activities) will still occur on the actual holiday date. Keep in mind that it could be important to some of your employees to be able to attend these events.
9. Remember that you’ve already done this. Certain public holidays were already "Mondayised" under the Act. If Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day or 2 January fall on either a Saturday or Sunday (and that day would not otherwise be a working day), then those public holidays have always been treated as falling on the following Monday or Tuesday.
10. Don’t panic. This isn’t going to happen often. Waitangi and ANZAC days only fall on a weekend about twice every seven years.

In 2015 arch enemies and great neighbors played off against each other at the Cricket World Cup 2015. What a nail biter!! One moment we thought we had it in the bag.... then a very stressful wait till we just got the win in time!

Aside from the last few hours, I didnt have time to sit in front of the television to see the action live. We were out with our daughters (and ponies) competing in the country, keeping them hydrated, travelling, then more child wrangling after a very long hot Canterbury day.  However we did have our mobile's with the ICC #CEC2015 app installed - bringing us the latest stats and heart pounding updates.

With the CWC 2015 team running SAP Business One, SAP a Analytics and Cloud sponsor of the #CWC2015 and our local customers New Zealand Cricket, Canterbury Cricket, Otago Cricket, Northern Districts, Central Districts and Wellington Cricket also running SAP Business One we have a keen interest in how SAP technology is being used on the world stage to keep fans informed and up-to-date using Mobile Apps, Analytics and Cloud technologies during the Cricket World Cup.

Keeping and eye on the Cricket World Cup and FIFA World Cup (again powered by SAP) you might be thinking.... "it's logical for sporting organisations to use mobile apps and analytics... how is it relevant for my business?" Ask yourself these questions:

• Do we have an ongoing relationship with our customers we need to keep them informed of?
• Do we need to alert our customers? (eg. job starts Monday, delivery completed, invoices overdue, pending price changes...)
• Are our customers interested in analyzing their business with us? (eg. how much credit do i have left? what did I buy in the last x months?)
• Do we need to keep employees up to date? (eg. jobs allocated, time-sheets, annual leave balances....)
• Do our sales reps have enough information? (eg. last time they visited the customer, what the customer has been buying.... what they should be buying?...)

Where do our people need this information? Is and email with yesterday's figures okay or should they be seeing it live on their smart phone? Today there are so many choices on how information, that you have traditionally kept in your ERP system, can be shared to audiences that need to know what is happening. This is speeding up decision making and business can happen on the go!

How are you sharing your data to people that matter?