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‘SAP Business One’ Category

SAP Business One Overview Demo

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Here’s a great overview demo of SAP Business One.  It takes you through the key differentiators to really show you the strength of the solution.

Features shown include:

  • Alerts and Workflow
  • Drag and Relate
  • Document Flow and trace
  • XL Reporter
  • Dashboards
  • Light Production
  • CRM & Activity Management
  • User Defined Fields and Tables
  • Customized Forms and Reports
  • Outlook Integration

If you have a slow internet connection, here is a lower quality version of the video HERE.

SAP Business One versus (vs.) Sage MAS 500

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

We are always being asked to compare and contrast solutions.  Below is a bulleted list comparing SAP Business One and Sage MAS 500.

  • SAP is a Total Business Solution. Includes Accounting, Distribution, Manufacturing, Sales Force Automation & Customer Service in one integrated solution with one code base, one database with a single installation. It’s your choice as to how much or little to use, but as you use more, its available with the one price per user. Since CRM is part of the standard solution, you can use it in all areas. For example, create to-do’s and followups regarding a purchase order, a General Ledger Entry, or collections activity against an invoice.
  • MAS500 is only ERP, not CRM. You need to purchase Sage Saleslogix for CRM and then use their newly released (and still being debugged) integration. This is the 3rd integration in 4 years as the prior ones have been terrible.

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How to add User Defined Fields (UDF’s) to XLReporter in SAP Business One

Friday, December 4th, 2009

We found the SAP Developer Network Wiki Posting by Noreen Armstrong here.  We think this is something that isn’t easy to find so we are cross posting it for your information as well.

The creation of reports in XL Reporter (XLR) frequently requires information to be extracted from user defined fields (UDF) in the database. As XL Reporter does not automatically know which UDFs have been added to the database, they are not included by default. However, XLR provides the facility to access these UDFs.

For example, a customer that is also a supplier has 2 UDFs defined in the Business Partner (BP) Master Data. These UDFs exist at header level showing the counterpart BP and their respective balance. The financial accountant requires a report detailing how much each of these types of business partners (that are both customers and suppliers) actually owes the company. The accountant has requested that the existing report in XLR showing the customer name, the supplier name and their respective balances should also show the total balance due to/owed by these clients.

In the following example, customer ‘C23900′ is also a supplier (BP code = V60000). The BP Master Data record for customer ‘C23900′ shows ‘V6000′ in the UDF ‘Counterpart BP’ and this supplier’s current balance in the UDF ‘Counter BP Balance’.

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SAP Business One 8.8 – Significantly Faster than 2007

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Unlike the trend in most software, SAP just proved that their upcoming 8.8 release is significantly faster than the prior release, 2007a.

Test were done on transaction entry, both standalone and chained.  Reporting performance was also tested.  In addition, changes to back end processing occurred so that much less data is ‘locked’ and for a shorter period of time during posting so far fewer ‘record in use’ errors will occur. 

This document outlines the result which range from 20% to 100% performance improvements:

Sap Speedup

SAP Business One – How to Manage Sales Targets

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Over at the SAP Blog site, there is a great short article showing through the creative use of User Defined Tables (UDT’s), User Defined Fields (UDF’s) and some queries, how you can essentially setup and manage sales quotas with SAP Business One with no actual program modifications.

This article shows visual examples and full copy and paste code is available such as the image below

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Click HERE to see the article.

Or a PDF version is here:

Setting up sales quotas and targets in SAP Business One