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
This particular issue has both Dynamics NAV and general business related articles so whether you use Dynamics NAV or not, there is alot of great content here.
Topics Include:
Microsoft Customer Source
ERP Optimization
Champion Containers, a Success Story
Bio Analytics- Business Intelligence for Dynamics.
General NAV tips & tricks from Chris Young, our resident guru.
You may not be aware, but SAP Business One includes integration to Microsoft Outlook for free as an add-in that ships with the base product. This allows you to exchange and share data to keep everybody up to date about account and Business Partner developments, business opportunities, appointments, contacts and tasks. You can have this synchronization run manually or automatically on a timed basis.
For example, if you enter a calendar entry in Outlook, you can press a toolbar button and select the Contact and optionally Opportunity that this entry relates to. Then, upon synchronization, that entry will appear in the Activities log of the Contact and also on the SAP Business One Calendar.
If you create a meeting in SAP Business One, the same meeting will appear in the outlook calendar. You can choose which of your contacts will sync to Outlook and vice-versa. Tasks and ‘to-do’s’ will also sync.
Another component of the integration is the ability to hit a button when viewing an Outlook email and have that email automatically attached to the SAP B1 CRM record as an activity. It even copies the email as an attachment so you can drill down to the email including email attachments!
In addition, it offers the ability to attach an Excel Spreadsheet that overviews the Business Partner Information. This spreadsheet appears as a related document within the Contact in Outlook. You can drill down on things such as Open Accounts Receivable and Payables, quotes, orders invoices etc. You can even enter a quote in Outlook and have it synchronize and become a quote within SAP Business One.
This latest Service pack is now officially compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.
Microsoft is still testing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 with Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Furthermore, the compatibility for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 does not include Business Notification for Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Commerce Gateway.
In addition, Help source files have been released for Dynamics NAV 200 Service Pack 1 (one) as well. They are available to partners on PartnerSource and includes versions in 8 different languages across 16 countreis/regions. If all this were printed it would stack up to about 30 feet high!
Now we at Clients First Business Soutions can tailor the help files to any modifications you may have had made.
Did you ever want better step by step documentation on how to use XLReporter for SAP Business One? This guide goes through various instructions, and illustrated lessons and examples to teach you how to use it.
Here is a new overview guide of what’s new in the upcoming release of SAP Business One 8.8 scheduled for Q1 2010.
Highlights include:
Full native SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports Integration
All built in forms are now Crystal Based
Most built in reports are Crystal Based
Custom reports can be created and added in seemlessly
Reports provide the ability to drill back into source SAP Business One Transaction screens
Available to Promise (ATP) is available during order entry
A new Accountings Receivable Aging and Accounts Payable Aging Report
Support for embedded Crystal Xcelsius views
An option for a new fresh Look and Feel in the GUI. Users can choose between the classic and new views.
Data Archiving is now available to copy outdated history to reportable tables. This will speed up daily activities since they don’t have to hash through long outdated information.
Changes have been made to the SDK that should allow add-on products to run faster
This version can directly upgrade 2005A/B and 2007A/B installs. The new version is now one version for all localizations which should simplify future upgrades and third party development.