I’ve always been a huge Microsoft fan. After all, where would the world be without Microsoft? Bill Gates had a dream: a computer in every home. Certainly in the developed world, we’re not far from that. Yes, I know. Microsoft has been accused of some high handed tactics. And it’s true, I know people who [...]
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How Reliable is the Microsoft Cloud?
How reliable is the Microsoft Cloud? It‘s a question we hear a lot. We can talk about fail over systems and service level agreements. But that’s often not enough for skeptics. So when I came across this recent video about the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure, I realized that I had found a gem. It’s a 10-minute [...]
continue reading...Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting – Book Review
By Marcia Nita Doron, Altico Advisors This review is for: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting (Paperback) Full Disclosure: I was provided a no-charge paperback edition for the purpose of this review by the publisher, Packt. What piqued my interest in the first place was actually the fact that Errol Schoenfish, a monument in the Microsoft [...]
continue reading...Microsoft Dynamics GP – So much more than GLAPAR
By Karen Jernstrom, Altico Advisors I’ve been into retail analogies lately. Don’t ask me why. In a recent post here on the ERP Software Blog I talked about the iconic red “easy” button that has become synonymous with Staples. And for some reason, when pondering what I’d like to write next about Microsoft Dynamics GP, [...]
continue reading...20 Things Every CIO Should Know Before Starting an ERP Implementation
By Jim Hickey, Vice President, Altico Advisors I’m all about giving credit where credit is due and I just stumbled across this great blog post from Panorama Consulting Group out of Denver, Colorado. Before we get started, I should note that I had never heard of Panorama before and have no connection whatsoever with them [...]
continue reading...Solving the Problem of Software Systems That Don’t Talk to Each Other – It’s the #1 Complaint
By Jim Hickey, Vice President, Altico Advisors If you’re running more than one software application, which is true for most companies, and these disparate programs don’t talk to each other, you have a problem. It’s called duplicate data entry and it’s tedious, time consuming, and costly. Based on my experience chatting with hundreds of prospective [...]
continue reading...Microsoft Delivers a Better ROI on Maintenance and Support Versus Oracle and SAP
By Mike Kean, Altico Advisors Thanks to Jason Carter on PartnerCompete and the Microsoft team for this insightful piece on the cost and value of maintenance and support contracts. In a tight economy the big vendors are coming under more scrutiny regarding their maintenance fees and what customers receive for those fees, Microsoft says it [...]
continue reading...New Trends in ERP and CRM Software Selection
By Jim Hickey, Altico Advisors As vice-president of a company that is a Microsoft partner specializing in Microsoft Dynamics GP and Dynamics CRM, I’m in a position to look beyond the software applications and see the bigger picture. And I can tell you that we are witnessing a growing trend in how companies are approaching [...]
continue reading...We Live the Same Life as Our Clients, Because Microsoft Dynamics GP Is Our Accounting Software System, Too
By Mike Kean, President, Altico Advisors I was scrolling through the hundreds of posts on the ERP Software Blog where I found many articles on software selection criteria and the top questions you should be asking before purchasing an accounting/ERP system. And it struck me that one question had been overlooked. Is the vendor actually [...]
continue reading...Back from Convergence, here’s what techies and others have to say about Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010
By Marcia Nita Doron One reason for the popularity of Convergence (the annual Microsoft customer event that attracts thousands of attendees) this year, is that Microsoft chose Convergence as the site for unveiling the new release of Dynamics GP. The official name is GP 2010, which is a new naming convention for Microsoft’s business solutions [...]
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