As midsized companies have embraced technology to maintain their competitiveness, they have quickly learned a fundamental truth: technology can move a company forward only as far as its business processes allow. Especially with enterprise resource planning, or ERP, organizations with 1,000 to 5,000 employees are uncovering significant benefits from entering customer and vendor data just [...]
continue reading...Archive for August, 2011
Manage your Data Before ERP Software Installation
Some companies are lucky enough to start an ERP Software implementation from scratch, but most of us have data overload and need to manage the information before installing the software. Making the decision to invest in ERP software is the easy step. Working with your vendor to install the software and transfer your existing data [...]
continue reading...How Integrating Microsoft Dynamics GP with E-Commerce Can Save You Resources and Money
A lot of companies who run either a business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), or sales order entry e-commerce website do not realize the potential cost that could be saved over time from having an online store that is able to seamlessly integrate to a backend ERP financial system like Microsoft Dynamics GP. Before we explain where [...]
continue reading...The Cloud and Your Company: Governing a New Way Forward
CIO’s are increasingly looking toward cloud hosted solutions to solve their most pressing problems in 2011. As we all know, there is the potential for significant cost savings to an organization in “moving to the cloud”. The most common ways are through reduced infrastructure, operations, and maintenance costs which are outsourced to a trusted third [...]
continue reading...Dashboard Design: Go Beyond Fancy Designs and Pretty Colors
Prioritizing Information Utilizing your dashboard space in the correct manner is crucial to the future success of your company. Typically, you’ll have to display the most important business indicators of your company’s operations. Selecting the most important indicators is one of the most stressful tasks of dashboard design. For instance, some of the key performance indicators [...]
continue reading...Seven Early Warning Signs That It Could Be Time To Change Your ERP Software
Successfully implementing an ERP system can take significant time, effort, and resources from nearly all areas of a business. Even when this effort is starting to become a distant memory, as long as the system seems to be working OK, it’s not easy start thinking about changing it. Often an organisation will only consider changing [...]
continue reading...Integrando Sistemas de Información con su ERP: Ventaja Dynamics GP
Este es el escenario: Su empresa desea instalar un ERP para poder hacer sus procesos administrativos y operacionales más eficientes, pero tiene uno o varios sistemas especializados corriendo en áreas operativas críticas que no desea (o no puede) eliminar porque son muy particulares para su mercado y su función es irremplazable. Más aún, estos sistemas [...]
continue reading...ROI of Software-as-a-Service
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has grown far beyond its early roots of popularity in a few select application areas such as HR and CRM, and is now gaining acceptance across a broad range of applications for business and IT user populations alike, including ERP. Many companies today consider SaaS as a cost-advantage over on-premise in the short-run [...]
continue reading...Upping the Ante on “Community” for the Microsoft Dynamics Ecosystem with Social Media
When I first joined the community nearly 7 years ago, “community” mostly revolved around the major Microsoft-hosted events. But as Microsoft has expanded its commitment to the Dynamics space, so has the idea of “community” within this vast, yet oddly close-knit professional network. While Microsoft’s conferences will always hold value in the unique face-to-face experiences [...]
continue reading...Organization Models – What’s New in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 makes the organizational structure easier to manage with new organizational modeling capabilities. The new model in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 supports more complex business hierarchies and greater customization of details to better reflect the business structure. Sharing data between organizations is also easier and more secure. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 offers [...]
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