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Author :: Andrew Karasev  |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains: exchange & brokerage – implementation notes |
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| If you company is small or mid-size special products or materials exchange broker, you probably have custom in-house made exchange application. Nowadays exchange is done over the internet, so you might have advanced web-based exchange application. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains could play the role of the backend: accounting, sales and purchasing ordering, backordering, allocation, collection. In this case we expect tight integration between your exchange application and Great Plains. In this small article we consider industry / market niche specifics and the ways to realize these requirements:• Exchange Transaction. Exchange transaction usually has two parts: Sale (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Corporate ERP: Standard vs. Rich functionality – Microsoft Great Plains |
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| Traditionally we were considering functionally rich systems, such as SAP, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards as the fit for large publicly traded corporation. There might be multiple opinions for the future corporate ERP/MRP systems. We would like to give you our prognosis: high-end systems will be losing market to generic granulated standard functionality systems. Customization will be in high demand – but it will be appropriate to go for light of medium customization versus purchasing high-end functionality system. It is not a secret, that nowadays multiple companies from Fortune 500 list use midmarket solution, such as Microsoft Great Plains as their corporate ERP. In this (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains: Annual Enhancement Program – How To Be Re-Enrolled |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is mid and even corporate market ERP and as being relatively complex and difficult to do self-support in-house, Microsoft Business Solutions requires you first to have so-called VAR of record, or your MBS partner and second – pay annual enhancement program, which is typically 16% of you software price list. Enhancement program allows you to get new version of the product as well as purchase and add new modules you might need. Plus you get discounts on the technical support cases placed to Microsoft Business Solutions technical support directly.In the recession time of recession 2000-2004 – a lot of clients decided not to pay the enhan (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Corporate ERP: Microsoft Great Plains For The Plant In Brazil – Overview For CIO |
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| Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains as new ERP for multinational corporation manufacturing facility in Brazil.If your company plans to outsource manufacturing in Brazil by purchasing existing facility there, the first step would be to implant new management team and revise business processes and procedures. The way there comes through the new ERP/accounting system implementation from scratch. We’ll show you the way to implement new system on the base of Microsoft Great Plains. You may have two reasons to place Great Plains, first – you company has Great Plains implemented in the headquarters and this is worldwide policy, second – if you have high end ERP at the headq (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Steve Singleton |
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| Article Title :: "Blind CC" (Bcc): Master Its Use When E-Mailing |
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| If you use Microsoft Outlook (or similar applications) for e-mailing, then you are familiar with the fields at the top of a new mail message, right? Of course, in the "To..." field, you enter the name of one or more persons you intend to receive your message. Use the field labeled "Cc..." (for Carbon Copy - remember how they did it back in 1978 BC, "before computers"?) for anyone who needs to view your e-mail but is not the addressee.But there's an additional field that you should know about, labeled "Bcc...," which stands for "Blind carbon copy," or the updated version, "Blind courtesy copy." This field is for the names of anyone that needs a copy of your e-mail without the other (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Selecting Corporate ERP: Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains – Estimation Parameters |
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| As we could imagine, if you are reading this article – you are in the decision making mode, probably replacing legacy system with the new one or abandoning either Unix/Mainframe or Apple direction for your corporation. In any case, nobody should make an outside influence on your decision – you should be maximally objective. Let us give you our estimates and the parameters to check on the pool of the possible ERPs/MRPs.• Lifecycle. Each application has its lifecycle: from inception and initial fighting for the “place under the sun”, to maturing and then slowly or rapidly declining. Great Plains Software Dynamics, which is prototype of our days Microsoft Great Plains wa (read full article) |
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Author :: William Siebler |
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| Article Title :: 7 Things to Consider Before Buying Small Business Accounting Software |
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| The world of small business accounting software can be a minefield for any business owner. However choosing the right package is one of the most critical business decisions you will make.Here are the seven things you must consider before making a purchase that will help you achieve your businesses goals.1. ScalabilityBusinesses change over time so it's critical that the small business accounting software you choose can change too. Some
things that often change are the number of products and services offered and the number of employees. When you choose your package try and imaging the business in 5 years or 10 years time and how different it will be. Use this informat (read full article) |
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Author :: Demetria Zinga |
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| Article Title :: Getting Patched with Windows Service Pack |
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| Are you one of those people that keeps track of recalls, just in case one of your most recent purchases gets recalled? Well, some of us do, but many of us don’t.For those of us who don’t keep up with recalls in general, it’s just as easy to be unaware of the fact that Microsoft Windows offers us this wonderful service called a Service Pack, which is essentially a recall service for Microsoft Windows. Most people are not aware of service packs, what they’re for, and how to use them. Let’s talk for a minute about how service packs can help save or even lengthen the life of your PC.First, you’ll need to set up your PC to receive those service packs on a regular ba (read full article) |
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Author :: Demetria Zinga |
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| Article Title :: The Dirt on Screensavers |
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| Remember back in the days where screensavers were the coolest thing at the office? You could stare at your co-worker’s “fish in the ocean” screensaver at the cubicle next door for hours and actually have a full afternoon of conversation about that one screensaver.Well, screensavers are still “in”, but not as “in” as they used to be. In fact, back in the old days, screensavers were essentially used to keep monitors from getting their images “burned in”. Back in those days, the phosphors could be burned out of a monitor by leaving items displayed on the screen. Nowadays, we don’t have that problem. Our high resolution screens don’t get “burned in” anymo (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Diane Hildebrandt |
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| Article Title :: Review of TikiWiki Content Management System |
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| TikiWiki is open source software — it is written in PHP, uses phpAdmin for mySQL database administration, and uses the Smarty Template Engine.Installation - Since our host installed the TikiWiki, I cannot comment on ease of installation.While TikiWiki has many features, only the features used on the Spotlight on Lake website will be reviewed.Administration - It is hard to determine what some features are and do, such as the Ephemerides feature. Documentation is sadly lacking! The most complete documentation is for Version 1.6, and Version 1.9 is the current release — so many of the newer features do not have any documentation. While there are Forums and a document (read full article) |
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