May 25, 2011, Minneapolis, MN --- Boyer & Associates, (Boyer) a leading provider of business management solutions for mid-sized businesses, announces the completion of an ERP financial management project for Walker Methodist, a nonprofit organization founded in 1945 that serves seniors throughout the Twin Cities with senior housing communities, assisted living, skilled nursing, transitional care, and rehabilitation therapy.To update the non-profit’s antiquated financial management system, Boyer & Associates implemented Microsoft Dynamics GP , an industry leading financial accounting solution. “Our old software was difficult to maintain and keep updated with newer operating systems, and we knew Microsoft Dynamics GP was the right … [Read more...] about Boyer & Associates Helps Walker Methodist Improve Financial and Operational Efficiency with Microsoft Dynamics GP
Software as a Service and IT Professionals
ZDNet published an interesting post on a blog that is linked here toward the bottom of this post.The article is about how some IT Professionals see Microsoft providing them less “love”, that is free services, convenient user interfaces, free software, etc.As Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL partners and consultants, our MSDN memberships and Gold Status have not changed in ways that favor our developers more than our infrastructure support person for these platforms. Here in Minneapolis, not much has changed in terms of how Microsoft treats us perhaps in part because we have developers and an IT Professional to support our Dynamics products.The argument is that Microsoft sees the cloud as a development platform and is beginning to court … [Read more...] about Software as a Service and IT Professionals
Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL-Making and Testing Backups
If you make bad backups for 6 consecutive months and your system doesn’t crash-are you lucky? …or does it depend on whether or not you learn that you’ve been making bad back ups and change your behavior?As Dynamics Consultants based here in Minneapolis, we try to check clients’ SQL backups each time we go out. It’s not always possible. Sometimes the list of things clients need help with doesn’t fit in the time for ensuring clients are getting a good backup.More often than we would like to admit, our Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL consultants learn the database maintenance plan has stopped running for a variety of reasons, for example: ran out of disk space, the owner of the backup job had a password change, a configuration change in SQL … [Read more...] about Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL-Making and Testing Backups
Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL Reporting Reflections
Boyer & Associates staff just held two well-attended Dynamics events at the Microsoft office in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) area.Many of the presenters prepared for more than 8 hours to present what they had to show despite most already having over 10 years in experience with their chosen product-Dynamics SL or Dynamics GP.What surprised me the most about the surveys and thoughts on the minds of our (mostly) Minnesota based clients? The focus that clients still have with getting the data out in a format that is useful to them.For both events-Dynamics GP clients were focused on Smartlists, Smartlist builder and some nice add-on tools from Rockton software. They liked seeing Management Reporter and what those … [Read more...] about Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL Reporting Reflections
Dynamics SL 941 Updates Available
Microsoft recently updated their 941 Crystal Report for 2011 to rename and remove the fields previously used for the Hire Act. The report and revised SQL statement can be downloaded from CustomerSource or PartnerSource.If you are a Dynamics SL payroll user, and are not familiar with either of these Microsoft sites, but need to download these updates, please feel free to do so from CustomerSource if you are on a plan.If you are a Boyer client and you would like a step-by-step walk through in how to download these types of files in the future, please feel free to contact Colleen McCoshen (CMcCoshen@boyerassoc.com or 763 412-4309).If you are not a Boyer client, your existing Microsoft Dynamics SL reseller should be able to do this for … [Read more...] about Dynamics SL 941 Updates Available
Survey Results Dynamics SL 2011 Launch Event
55 of the 56 attendees answered “Yes” to the question “Was your time investment in the event worthwhile?”. The other response was “Yes and No”-but with positive comments to the other questions.Many of the surveys enjoyed how prepared Jon Augdahl, Erik Vigesaa, and Tim Jones were. Most commented that they enjoyed the open-ended question and answer format for the event.20 of the surveys mentioned that “Quick Query” is a big improvement. 15 pointed out that they enjoyed learning about Management Reporter’s replacing FRx and the many enhancements this upgrade will provide.Several commented that they liked the paper saving options such as being able to publish any report to a Sharepoint site as well as the ability to attach documents to … [Read more...] about Survey Results Dynamics SL 2011 Launch Event
Cloud Outage
My enthusiasm for cloud ERP has dampened a bit in the past few months.The only cloud outage that affected me even slightly was when Blogger lost its ability to allow me to post anything for 20 hours. It certainly was nothing like having no access to your email or the outage that Platform as a Service vendor Amazon experienced recently.My concern is that if the cloud can still be this fragile for giants like Google, Microsoft and Amazon…are any of us truly safe in the cloud? Sure they have better data centers for backup, but what if we can’t get access at all for even a day or two? It’s not like being asked to hold your breathe for a couple of days, but it might feel a bit like being water boarded for an hour or so.I read a good … [Read more...] about Cloud Outage
Dynamics SL and Sharepoint
Jeff Suwyn wrote a nice article on the community site with regard to using Dynamics SL 2011 in order to publish reports to a Sharepoint site rather than printing the same reports over and over again.As many of you know, the Period Sensitive Aging reports in Dynamics SL allow you to print aging reports “as of” March 31st or September 30th but most Dynamics SL reports do not have this capability.With the newest version of Dynamics SL, you can now publish or “print” your standard and customized reports that use the ROI screen (the screen you see before you print a report that allows you to sort/select or load a template). This means you can use this function to print any report that changes where you might want to file “what was the … [Read more...] about Dynamics SL and Sharepoint
Cloud Computing for Project Managers
Today someone emailed me an excellent article on Cloud Computing for Project Managers. The article was in a very project-centric magazine promoted by the Project Management Institute.One practical point made in the article is that “instead of installing, upgrading and maintaining multiple licenses for a particular piece of software, or upgrading hardware, IT project team members will have time to make sure their colleagues understand the software, to implement best practices, to deal with security and train. This will free up their schedules to lend their expertise to projects, presentations, and client issues.”Additional time managing projects and training people on new software is always welcome to just about any software … [Read more...] about Cloud Computing for Project Managers
Dynamics GP 2010 R2
Dynamics GP 2010 was wonderfully successful in a number of areas. For those who want to integrate GP in a more seamless and real time way, the additional web services offered out-of-the-box were wonderful.Our clients also love the ability to suppress inactive records such as vendors, customers and inventory items that are no longer desired in look up windows.We believe R2 will be even better. We expect R2 to be available in June of this year 2011.Following the successful launch of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) announced that the upcoming release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 will provide midsize customers with new contextual business intelligence capabilities and additional ease-of-use features that … [Read more...] about Dynamics GP 2010 R2
