Clients First knows their software, but they are also astute business people, and they really understand manufacturing and distribution in particular.
Jimmy Witcher, COO, Merrick
We’ve just posted up a comprehensive sub-site at Clients First focusing around SAP Business One. This site covers technical information, customer reference videos, demonstration and how-to videos, and business goal achievement.
It also has information and materials on Crystal Reports and Xcelsius for true business intelligence. Everything is wrapped up in an entertaining and visual video and avatar presentation format.
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:
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
While listening to one of the expert sessions, I caught that XL Reporter will not show any information unless a measure (i.e., quantity, Dollar Sales, Etc.) is selected. I had created a simple customer list just to test it out and it kept returning no information. Once I added a value (measure) it produced the list.