Cloud Computing is an unavoidable topic for business professionals and there are so many different ways the Cloud can be interpreted. So what should you consider when deciding if the Cloud is right for your business? Cost Savings In the present economy, does your business need to save money? Of course it does! Good business
Read MoreOkay, confession time: this blog is late. I usually publish my blogs on Friday’s and an endless number of things have gotten in my way. However, the biggest thing that has gotten in my way is simply this: Writer’s Block! Oh yeah, good old Writer’s Block! But then, recent events have brought me to thinking
Read MoreWhen you are considering ERP or CRM software, what factors do you weigh when thinking about deploying on premise or in the cloud? Do you like the flexibility of deploying in the Cloud with scalable users and fixed monthly billing? Are you more confident with the perceived security of deploying on premise? Who owns your
Read MoreI recently came across an article called “Building the business case for a server refresh,” written by Daniel Eason, an IT Executive who strategized how to justify a hardware refresh to stakeholders and decision makers. A typical refresh should take place every 3-4 years, however, when the economy dipped in 2008, many companies have put
Read MoreThe anticipation of my first Convergence had been building up since January. Convergence is a gathering of Microsoft Dynamics users, partners and ISV’s who come from around the world to crash a city for a few days to learn more about the Microsoft Dynamics family of products and network with fellow business product users. As
Read MoreMicrosoft announced moments ago at convergence in Houston that the next version of Dynamics GP will be called Dynamics GP 2013 and will release in 2012 Q4. Dynamics GP 2013 will have over 100 new features including prepayments on purchase orders and a Silverlight client that will surface up the full Dynamics GP desktop experience
Read MoreContinuing the conversation about Cloud Computing, I ran into this article through a Google Newsfeed this week. It seems to me and to the author of this post http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/03/personal-cloud-2014/ that some companies are not taking Cloud seriously. Tagging onto my post from a couple of weeks ago, the author agrees with my conclusion that deploying enterprise applications
Read MoreA perpetual problem exists: how to keep your ERP system current. When you upgrade your ERP environment, which happens every couple of years or more, there is always another version that follows right in its footsteps with better functionality that you are missing out on. There is no way to justify the cost of upgrading
Read MoreWhen upgrading Dynamics GP we like to delete any test companies that have been set up. This can greatly reduce the time it takes to upgrade the databases. Every once in a while we forget to delete the actual database. This can cause issues if we try to create company later with a database that
Read MoreWhile working on a current customer that was upgrade from Dynamics GP 10, we ran into an issue regarding the following error ‘Unable to ascertain product version information’. We ran through our normal steps of making sure there wasn’t a straggling company in the database. That didn’t resolve it. After some time consuming research, we
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