Most CEO’s believe their data is more secure in house compared to the Cloud. They fail to realize that their servers are often stored in a locked closet or other room, vulnerable to theft and natural disaster. They also fail to realize that Cloud providers have much more expertise securing data offsite than their own
Read MoreThe Dynamics Corporate Performance Managment team over at Microsoft has been releasing information about specific features in Management Reporter 2012 for the past 2 weeks. Here is a new set of links with more of the cool Management Reporter 2012 features: Rolling Forecast Headers Viewing dimension codes and descriptions Report group navigation changes Comments Distributing
Read MoreQuestion: How do you make every other row in a SQL Reporting Services report shaded? Answer: In the Table Row’s background color property, enter the following expression: =IIF(RowNumber(Nothing) Mod 2 = 0, “LightGrey”, “NoColor”)
Read MoreRecently, I have been doing quite a bit of thinking about Business Intelligence options for Dynamics GP. The biggest challenge here is that we have so many options. Excel Reports, SmartLists, SQL Reporting Services Reports, Anaysis Services Cubes, Management Reporter…and that is just the options available from Microsoft. When you include third party options, the
Read MoreAs we draw closer to the release of Dynamics GP “12” which is slated for later this calendar year, I wanted to focus a little bit on what may be one of the most under-reported features of the new release: the new Silverlight client for Dynamics GP. This is BIG news…especially for anyone interested in
Read MoreOn Wednesday, February 29 at 10am Mountain Time, we will be hosting a Webinar with Reporting-Central to review two of their award winning products: The Closer is an add-on solution for Dynamics GP that automates the process of reconciling the various sub-ledgers to the General Ledger. With The Closer, month-end and year-end processes are completely
Read MoreAs GP users, we know that there is often much talk about the next release – when is it coming, what will be in it, etc. Well, a few things have been released about what is being planned for the release of GP 12. Here are a few that I think are way cool… •
Read MoreIn this blog entry, I want to take on the financial case for moving your business to the Cloud. First, let’s discuss what the Cloud is and what it isn’t in the context of business applications. According to NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology) “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network
Read MoreSuppose that you have two servers (CRM and GP) that are physically different servers with named instances. You have data in your CRM server that you want to expose through the GP server. In order to do this, I did some research that I found very interesting and very successful. My goal in this process
Read MoreWe have a client who licenses both Dynamics GP and CRM through our NjevityToGo environment. They have CRM users who do not use Dynamics GP. They only have a CRM license. However, pledges and donations will be entered into Dynamics GP. The CRM users need to see the donations and pledges as entered into line
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