The Project Summit BA World event is coming to Minneapolis June 13th through June 16th and will be held at the Marriot in St. Louis Park, MN.Project Summit & BusinessAnalystWorld is the Project Management and Business Analysis industry's leading conference. They uniquely empower Business Analysis & Project Management professionals with the resources and tools necessary to ensure that projects are clearly defined and executed.If you use the Dynamics SL Project Series, this event could be something worthwhile for your Project Managers. There will be a lot of education toward your PMP certification and no travel required. … [Read more...] about Project Summit and BusinessAnalystWorld
Sales Commissions Ideas and Payment Methods
When you support accounting software, you get a good feeling for how many different ways people pay their sales commissions. Some are straight forward, and some are so complex that they have to be done in a Excel.Like most things that are motivating, simple is better with sales commissions.Generally there are (to me) four rules that make sense to follow. Your best bet with salespeople is the same as it is with every other type of hire.First, you need to find someone that is going to do the right thing for clients-regardless of how you pay them. Part of doing the right thing is truly understanding the clients issues and your potential solutions.Second, paying only “when paid” makes sense. It is more difficult to compute but … [Read more...] about Sales Commissions Ideas and Payment Methods
Project Accounting and Project Scheduling
It is difficult to find a Project Accounting program more capable than Microsoft Dynamics SL. This solution for years has lead in its ability to handle flexible project billing formats, create unique billing and allocation transactions based on a variety of other transactions, and allow project timecards/expense reports to be approved by multiple project managers rather than simply the workers’ immediate supervisor (assuming most people work on more than one project and that those projects have different PM’s rather than one’s immediate supervisor).The software has a nice “project-centricness” to it also in that projects were designed into the software seemingly from the beginning with most reports having a “by project” option or ability … [Read more...] about Project Accounting and Project Scheduling
Multi-Company or Multi-Facility Automated Transactions
There are a number of solid programs to automate Multi-Company transactions in good accounting software and ERP programs. One of the best is Dynamics SL. Who really likes making lots of journal entries at the end of a month to keep balance sheets in balance by organization?What I like about this one is that it works great on the Accounts Receivable side as well-not just General Ledger and Accounts Payable. It also is a module that not only is available without having to go third party or ISV (Independent Software Vendor), but is available in the less expensive Business Essentials option of Dynamics SL.Dynamics GP has nice features for Multi-Company if you are mostly interested in having those transactions automated on the general … [Read more...] about Multi-Company or Multi-Facility Automated Transactions
Integrating CRM and ERP
Which data typically gets re-keyed from CRM to ERP and vice-versa?For most organizations it is adding a new customer or vendor as well as changing an address for a customer or vendor. Most people would like this integration to work both ways regardless of where the new customer or change in address occurs. Most organizations want only a few people to be able to add vendors.New projects to bill time against and sales orders are not far behind in demand from users of both a CRM and an ERP product.We have worked on large and small ERP/CRM integration projects with a capable CRM Consulting firm with a local office here in Minneapolis. Their name is PowerObjects. They wanted to see project actuals, project budgets, and estimated to … [Read more...] about Integrating CRM and ERP
Boyer & Associates Named to Acumatica 2010 VAR Honor Roll for Efforts in Cloud ERP Software
Boyer & Associates recognized as a top Acumatica VAR for their contribution to the growth and success of Cloud ERP software in the mid-marketMinneapolis, MN - February 11, 2011 – Boyer & Associates, a leading provider of business management solutions for mid-sized businesses, today announced that it was named to the Acumatica 2010 VAR Honor Roll of distinguished resellers that contributed to the advancement of Cloud ERP software. Recognition on the Acumatica VAR Honor Roll demonstrates that Boyer & Associates is one of the best positioned resellers to drive sales, customization, and service for Cloud ERP software.Boyer & Associates was elected as a winner in the category of Highest Level of Engagement based on results … [Read more...] about Boyer & Associates Named to Acumatica 2010 VAR Honor Roll for Efforts in Cloud ERP Software
Qualities of the Right ERP Consultant
Our business has the same problems that many consulting organizations have that support more than one ERP product.While prospects like choice and being recommended the appropriate product, consulting organizations go through frequent periods where consultants on product A are too busy while consultants on product B are not busy enough…then 6 months later…the opposite is often the case.Clients want consultants who know their products intimately. If the consultant has 8-10 years of experience with the product they are helping with—that’s ideal for client and consultant.I will say that Boyer & Associates was a more profitable organization when we had three consultants on staff that considered themselves ERP consultants rather than a … [Read more...] about Qualities of the Right ERP Consultant
Why is Microsoft’s Dynamics GP so unsettling to competition?
When you watch Netsuite videos poking fun at Dynamics GP-you realize how threatening GP is to its competition. They are making fun of Fargo and it is a little funny-but there’s a bigger purpose to the teasing.Microsoft’s competition is trying to make their point about cloud computing, and maybe have some fun too at Fargo’s expense (like the movie). The impression I was left with is that competitors want to appear to be harmlessly teasing; they are however poorly hiding their fear of the Microsoft competition. Below are the reasons I believe GP still unsettles competitors:1. Dynamics GP has 42,000 active organizations using GP and paying maintenance on the product. This is an enormous number considering that hundreds of thousands of … [Read more...] about Why is Microsoft’s Dynamics GP so unsettling to competition?
Dynamics GP Integration Manager versus Dynamics SL Transaction Import for Importing Data
Importing data via web services is quickly becoming the best way to create new integrations due to the fact that integration is possible with systems in a different location, on a different operating system, or written in a different programming language-or even all three simultaneously.For those that don’t have the patience, staff or experience with XML-there are the trusty data import tools. Unlike web services, these tools only work one-way. You can import data into your accounting/ERP system with them.Here in Minnesota, we offer the two most mainstream Microsoft ERP products (in terms of number of US organizations using). So let’s look at the differences between these two products’ import tools-Dynamics GP (formerly Great … [Read more...] about Dynamics GP Integration Manager versus Dynamics SL Transaction Import for Importing Data
The ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Reseller
John Howell, the founder of Solomon Software International, and an author of an excellent article on cloud computing, once said to me “if you are a reseller, you should be a reseller-and be the best one you can be. Don’t try to be a software developer and a reseller because you will exhaust your resources and end up being great at neither the software development part nor the reselling/consulting part."For 17 years, we’ve resisted the temptation to turn one of the hundreds of useful programs we’ve created for our Minnesota-based Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL clients into a for-resale product.What are the differences between a consulting (reseller) organization and a product-creating reseller organization?1. Quality of documentation. … [Read more...] about The ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Reseller
