Let us explore the future of Business Intelligence. Last week I spoke about Windows 8 and it’s impact on computing. However, let’s further explore the problems, yes problems, with Business Intelligence. Until today, Business Intelligence has been primarily provided by Hyperion, Cognos and other solutions. Many years back, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Analysis Services. However these
Read MoreTraditionally, when purchasing ERP software, it was common to spend $100,000 or more up front to purchase necessary hardware, software licenses and all the implementation and training costs that came with such a costly enterprise investment. Before looking at how ERP was purchased in the past, let’s understand the difference between capex (capital expenditure) and
Read MoreMaintaining accurate inventory balances and costs seems to cause a lot of headaches for users. I have been working with customers who were not watching the costs they were entering inventory adjustments, thus making their valuation grossly overstated. To resolve we decided to run the Historical Inventory reset tool. This was a customer that went
Read MoreMost 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… •
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