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Tuesday, Sep 20, 2011
Malcolm Bramley
It’s the little things that make a difference…
21. OOO
Noooo… as I recently found out this is not the sound one makes as one suffers the agony of kidney stones. That sounds more like ARRRRRRRHHH! OOO, or more commonly known as “Out Of Office” is a nifty little piece that the Lync developers got right. Update your Out Of Office... Read More
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Sunday, Aug 28, 2011
Alex Fauth
As mentioned in my post a couple of weeks ago about the inherent BI available in Dynamics GP thanks to Office , Dynamics GP and Office are undoubtedly “better together”. In my second post on this topic I’m going to give an example on how everyday tasks are made easier and faster (or, dare I cite that over-used phrase, “more efficient”) thanks to the duo.
This... Read More
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Monday, Aug 22, 2011
Malcolm Bramley
So let me start my next post with one of my favourite and little known Lync gems.
11) The Windows Mobile client.
Now right about now you’ll probably be wondering what I’m on about or even thinking – hang on a mo – it’s not out yet! So let me explain.
I’m using an HTC HD2 with Windows Mobile 6.5 and the HTC Sense interface. I... Read More
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Thursday, Jul 28, 2011
Kim Nankivell
Both consumers and the media are obsessed with social media. Popular social networking sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, are experiencing unprecedented growth and inspiring marketers in new and exciting ways. Smart companies—large and small—realise that the opportunities presented by social media are too good to pass up. And why wouldn’t an organisation want to be... Read More
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Wednesday, Jul 27, 2011
Malcolm Bramley
So I’ve been talked into speaking my mind. Typically I don’t have a problem with this. But in a somewhat public forum such as this – maybe I should watch what I say. But instead, let me say now… the views expressed below do not necessarily reflect the views of the organisation (Olympic Software NZ) and I make no apology for any unintentional offence that... Read More
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Tuesday, Jul 26, 2011
Alex Fauth
For at least as far back as version 8 (released in 2004 ), our beloved Dynamics GP has been marketed by Microsoft using the notion of “better together” – talking of its relationship with the Microsoft Office Suite. This story gets stronger each time we see a new iteration of either GP, or Office. Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to walk through some basic examples... Read More
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Tuesday, Jun 14, 2011
Alex Fauth
We’re currently in final preparations for the CIO Summit of Monday week – NZ’s Premier Event for Chief Information Officers. The Summit will be held at the SKYCITY Convention Centre on Monday/Tuesday 27-28 June.
We were impressed by the relevant and topical thought promised to be included by Summit organisers (Bright*Star Conferences, CIO Magazine... Read More
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Alex Fauth
Next Thursday (June 9) we will be out showcasing Ariba’s industry-leading SaaS technology at the 5 th CIPS NZ Strategic Procurement Forum at SkyCity.
Highly anticipated events among Procurement communities across Australasia, CIPSA (Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Australasia) Forums address a broad range of key issues facing the procurement... Read More
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Joe McLeod
Over the past few weeks I have been involved in several separate discussions with clients about the use of technology to create collaborative platforms to enable better external networks; for both customers and suppliers.
The intensity of interest in each of these encounters is a little surprising, entirely coincidental and completely unrelated. There is an air of urgency and wonder.
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
Alex Fauth
Late last year Microsoft ran a great promotion for Dynamics GP – 3 user licenses for $1. After its resounding success, something similar is back – “Buy 1, Get 3”.
This deal allows you to BUY one license of Dynamics GP, but GET 3. Worth investigating for sure!
The other great news that really validates my title of “Microsoft Dynamics ERP for... Read More
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Joe McLeod
A new and real winner of a feature, available in the recently released GP 2010 R2 is Business Analyzer. It gives you the ability to see reports from your desktop, as below:
You also can use Business Analyzer to select and view SQL Server Reporting Services reports in Microsoft Dynamics GP from primary lists and list views. Business Analyzer is automatically displayed... Read More
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Heather Roggeveen
Hi
We all know that money can be saved by considering EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) options and automating Accounts Payable processes. But we also all get bogged down in just doing the job, so that putting a business case together to support the decision to change can be too much of a hurdle.
Well here is the answer - I just downloaded this white paper ... Read More
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Friday, Apr 29, 2011
Alex Fauth
The other day I quoted an article written by Bruce Richardson , Chief Strategy Officer at Infor.
Bruce joined Infor in January 2010, coming from AMR Research, after it was acquired by Gartner . He was known as a bit of a rock star analyst and so his openness, thoughts and knowledge are now well appreciated on the other side of the fence, at Infor.
The article talked about feedback he... Read More
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Monday, Apr 25, 2011
Heather Roggeveen
The ability to link a debit to a credit within the General Ledger was introduced in Version 9.0 of Dynamics GP. I looked at it then thinking that this would be a great way to reconcile clearing accounts. The process we used to go through (back in my user days) to clear recharge accounts, was the accountant would download a Smartlist of the new transactions into the clearing account... Read More
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Saturday, Apr 23, 2011
Alex Fauth
I just had to share this blog, written a few days ago by Bruce Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer of Infor. While in London to be part of the launch of Infor FMS SunSystems Enterprise last week, he was stopped by executives of three seperate companies, all who wanted to tell him "I love your software" - referring to SunSystems. Read on for his account of events - Cheers, Alex
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Thursday, Apr 21, 2011
Heather Roggeveen
I have dealt with a few AR reconciliations over the last couple of weeks so thought it might be timely to address some of the areas that you, as a Dynamics GP user, can do yourself to troubleshoot. Of course we are more than happy to help our clients out with such issues, but often you end up spending money on our time to do tasks that you can easily do yourself. Often it is quicker... Read More
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Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011
Joe McLeod
Here is another old post of mine. Written in September of 2009, it talks about our internal adoption of Web 2.0 in deploying Olympic Care , and the adoption of such technology by some of the visionaries within our client base.
Even though we are edging toward the Web 3.0 age , it is still highly relevant to take a look at, and draw inspiration from these nearly 2-year old cases of Web 2.0... Read More
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Sunday, Apr 17, 2011
Heather Roggeveen
Hi
I have just finished scanning through an excellent white paper from CAL Business Solutions Inc. which thoroughly discusses the questions to ask and the process you should go through when considering software.
Now I think this is relevant if you are considering upgrading, changing or adding to your current software.
There is only one part of the document... Read More
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Thursday, Apr 14, 2011
Joe McLeod
Carrying on from my article yesterday afternoon , here's the 2nd & 3rd points that stood out back in 2009, in a paper from 1983, by Warren D. Devine, Jr. in the Journal of Economic History called " From Shafts to Wires: Historical Perspective on Electrification " - when considering cloud computing.
The transition to full exploitation of the new technology was long,... Read More
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Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011
Joe McLeod
Hello all. This is an article that I put together for our client Olympic Care portal in mid/late 2009, but I thought I would re-post it here 'as is' - to prove the point I was trying to communicate then, and one which is still to be made even now nearly 2 years on in our exponentially fast-moving world..... The move to cloud computing is proving a slow and long one, but it is... Read More
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Monday, Apr 4, 2011
Alex Fauth
Titled a Solution that allows you to “change without changing”, our favourite UL (unified ledger) solution has had a marvellous spruce-up, with a new web-based user interface, and new reporting capabilities.
The strength of Infor FMS SunSystems is in its name – it’s a FMS (Financial Management System) as opposed to ERP – and so is well suited in... Read More
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Monday, Apr 4, 2011
Heather Roggeveen
Hi,
A small user tip given the time of year :)
Question: Have you ever clicked the Mass Close button in the Financial Period Setup Window? That is the window that you go to when you want to open and close periods in your ledger.
Most, if not all of you would close Sales within the first day or so of the month, then Purchases and few days later... Read More
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Sunday, Apr 3, 2011
Heather Roggeveen
Today we welcome a new blogster to Olympic's I.T. Matters - Heather Roggeveen.
Heather is one of our most senior and most trusted consultants. Heather works mainly with Microsoft Dynamics GP - but her perspective is much wider, as you will see by her below post.
Keep an eye out for more succinct application relevant and financially-fantastic content from her from now on :) - Alex
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Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011
Alex Fauth
Infor, our Partner in Infor SunSystems , has announced it is on the hunt for 400 Engineers - in tune with a promise to ship significantly more new features and releases than ever before this year.
This comes at the same time as a reported Q3 software license growth of 17%.
With a history of acquisition , and the glorious partnering with Microsoft last... Read More
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Monday, Mar 28, 2011
Alex Fauth
About one-and-a-half months ago now, team Olympic got our behind's organised and became the first NZ Dynamics GP Partner to attain "Gold" against the ERP competency, under the new Microsoft Partner Network.
The PR release left the outbox of our friends at Microsoft on Monday the 21st - and so coming back to work a good 6 or so business days after... Read More
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