where is everyone from!? I'm from Colorado

I'm from Oregon, born and raised!

Virginia

Beautiful Lake City Minnesota

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OHIO!!

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Welcome everyone! if you have a video camera on your computer we would love to see your smiling faces!

Walter Skinner NY

Tim From Ohio

Idaho

Jim Peters Iowa no camera or microphone

Yesica from Washington

Jeff from Harlan, Kentucky

Hello from Ohio

California

I have robbed several

Upstate NY

Penny from Eastern Insuring Upstate NY

Based in Jackson WY but remote The Villages, FL

Western NJ

good afternoon!

hello everyone

Dick Farrell Western NJ

Casey Armstrong, Armstrong Fairway Insurance from sunny California. :-)

NY here

thank you everyone for joining us!!

Enter your questions here! :)

If you see me looking down, its because I'm writing down questions that come up here ;)

Hello, As a new agency (3 weeks live) what is the one piece of advice you would give us while using the system?

Great question! I have captured it and we will answer it near the end of the presentation (if not before)

You know we want the release date. lol

will this replace my need for 3rd party desktop

As Sean just alluded to James, yes -- if your agency wants to move away from HSO then HawkSoft 6 will enable that.

will we still be able to have our server based in 6.0?

Will we be able to have two way intergration with our partners? Two Factor authorization?

Great questions Rob and Steven, I'll queue these up at the end of Sean's planned topics

Please mute your phone if you are not speaking as I can hear you breathing and talking to clients...PLEASE!!!

host can mute all right?

because it's set up as a "meeting" (so we can see faces), vs. a "webinar", then we have to manually mute people one at a time when it becomes an issue. :-) but looks like we're set for the moment. thanks!

what will it do to costs of system sever is 1/2 the price of web right now

Will this be a desktop where we can access other programs such as QuickBooks & Office

what kind of uptime standards will Hawksoft work to maintain? it seems like service interruptions are common challenges with online users vs local users.

Daniel - we're leveraging aspects of Azure that are focused on 99.99% uptime.. That doesn't include standard maintenance windows in which we might be pushing updates to various systems, etc.

thanks Matthew!

James - CMS will continue to do much of what it does today. We're also adding support for the QuickBooks Web Connector for a more "modernized" integration between CMS and QuickBooks.

will it still need QuickBooks to do the final work?

when is HS accounting changing

StevenKramer - Multi-factor authentication is one of our focuses moving forward..

Will HMS be trained on the HS Accounting Changes?

Add a pencil template to the printed comment.

yes staff training

HMS is heavily involved in the design new accounting...

Web base will Allow to set it up on Static IIP for Security /Safety?

Will reporting have the ability to go into the past Vs having to print our each Month end or Year end Agency Intelligence screens

I would like to see you guys come up with a pipeline similar to insuredmine…...one where we can track statues of commercial new business leads and renewals

i love what you guys are doing!

Michael.M - there are ranges of IPs for various azure resources. Some of them will be fairly broad as we're focusing on leveraging "services" vs. running our own machines in the cloud.

what about operating accounts

will you publish a list of possible launch date ranges for all of these changes

Will the multi-office architecture change?

we will also have accounting classes at HUG National! :-)

Will company set up be streamlined as well? And will we be able to run a company report showing all the info entered into the companies in the set up area?

with Hawksoft 6 will the agency still need to run their own backups, freshen indexes, etc??

Our current plan, Daniel, is "No." We'll handle those things for you.

thx Kenny

Paul - The multi-office architecture won't change but how it is setup will be made easier

We won't break your multi-office setup once your agency is able to change to HawkSoft 6, but tweaking that setup may feel different after.

Will set up automatic downloads from Ivans, Please!!!

Will there be an added field for customer language preference?

I absolutely love the automated tasks! This has been my dream for so long as well. Thank you!

StevenK - Ivans-based downloads will move to the cloud ;) We'll be giving that a great deal of focus...

Ahh! Now I know that "John" is dear friend of the team, John Morton -- I will make sure to advocate for language preferences with the team :)

will the tasks center be set up to auto setup emails and texts to go out?

The overall ambition for **Automated** Tasks and Communications is automated processes based on triggers ;)

As far as the automated communication - can here be more than one communication? Let's say we email, then in a day or two send a text, then in a day or two send another email, or even give us a suspense to call in the list.

Pat -- we're taking all of the knowledge we've gained through our own marketing efforts to plan out functionality. Drip campaigns and sequential communication are in consideration.

a lot of systems that are being updated, the aesthetics and end user experience are being left out. how is hs 6 making the processes flow well

Fantastic question Daniel (bribes in the mail ;) -- I'll queue this up at the end when we have time to talk HawkSoft 6 again.

It would be great at some time in the future to take fillable PDFs, word docs & spreadsheets to merge fields into documents that include supplemental applications.

Can you address security with HS 6.0 and permissions?

Absolutely, I'll add this to the list for the final live Q&A.

Will Hawksoft ever add commercial supplemental application filling / data mapping to CMS similar to 3rd party solutions like Indio or Broker Buddha?

Policy numbers in certificates & Binders?

Need to be able to merge premium breakdown (Separate Taxes and fees)When pulling accord forms policy numbers do not transfer on all accord forms (Excess/Umbrella as an example)

How do they get involved in these if they would like to?

when there are openings for CABs, we'll reach out to HUG membership

These are great suggestions -- I've documented them but we may not have time to address them specifically on this webinar, limited time remaining.

we put out an application process about a year ago and had 90 applicants so we've started with these agents to fill the current cabs. we may have openings this summer.

Will the cloud and or future updates address the company set up in order to simplify that workflow?

As a former HUG board member, I am so thankful for all of the work they do. They really do great work to help the members without any pay. They are so dedicated and really help us all out!

Thanks Kenny, my pleasure.

We love YOU as well, Paul!

Great company, great family! Thank you for ALL you do Paul, Sean and team.

To get him away, take his computer and cell away!!!

Thanks, Jerry! Proud of these gray hairs!

I hope Jerry tells us what he does for HawkSoft and how we can get our companies to interact with him.

Jerry is our VP of Carrier Relations :)

John, Working with carriers to form all kinds of integrations. I want to improve your connections to carriers both in and out. I will talk to any carrier about what ever they would like to discuss. Send them my way jfox@hawksoft.com.

Hire good people and treat them with respect and that will be felt by your customers

We need to keep pushing GA's/MGA's to allow downloads directly into HS. This is happening with a few but we need way more.

Dan Sage! A man of so many talents!

Two scoops please, Dan!

Good question Aaron!

Dan, I can SEND you a animatronic Mickey if you need one LOL ;)

I need one!!!!

2-way integration is so important because as you use an insuretech tool and you decide to cancel their service or move to another vendor, HawkSoft must be the TRUE source of data.

Couldn't agree more, John!

Now insuretech controls part of that data.

Excellent point John

I love Sean's comment: Never outsource your most valuable asset (relationships) -- use tech to augment those relationships, not replace them.!

Absolutely, Claudia!! GREAT point!

You also have to CONSIDER if you TECH MATCHES your client base...

I need to jump off. Great meeting. It was great to be on the call.

thank you Pat! Always great to see you!

TTFN pat

To Dina @ new agency. Get your processes set up! More upfront work, but you'll be so glad that you did it.

Awesome advice! Thank you so much!

HUG website has some awesome webinars (coordinated by Kelly Endicott) that you can view and use as training topics for team meetings. They are FREE!

YES! Claudia. thanks! Here's the link:

https://hawksoftusergroup.org/events/webinars-recorded/

Some great people helping one another succeed.... LOVE this group! :)

Don't forget to look at the free templates at the HUG library. They will help you standardize your work, making it much more efficient with potentially less E & O risk.

template library (you will need to be logged in to access members only content):

https://hawksoftusergroup.org/resources/template-library/

Hawksoft Training videos (available under Help on your left navigation bar) are also so helpful! Most are short and you could ask your team members to commit to viewing one each day or week and then report back to the team what they've learned.

Awesome Webinar. Thanks for all the information.

love this company!!! Be safe!

thank you!!