Sap Business One And Dynamics Gp Or Which Erp To Choose? By: Andrew Karasev | - SAP acquired a while ago accounting application initially architected and programmed in Israel. Around 2005 SAP Business One had good market gain here in the United States with version 2005A. Great Plains Dynamics in its turn is older and it was introduced on Windows and Mac platforms in earlier 1990th as one of the pioneering applications completely in graphic user interface. Each system has its pros and contras and consulting to both communities of users we would like to share our impressio ... Tags:SAP Business One, Dynamics GP
Sap Business One Sales Order Batch Style Negotiation Via Web Interface By: Andrew Karasev | - Have you seen the scenario where you do not want to commit sales order while price negotiation continues. How about the creation new sales order from the historical one with respect to the price tag? If you are franchisor and running franchisees network then you might like the idea to grant your franchisee sales reps access to their orders but restrict them from seeing what is going on with another franchisee. Similar requirements could be attributed to dealerships, grocery or oriental foods ... Tags:SAP Business One, Web User Interface
Sap Business One Consolidated Profit And Loss Statement How To Build By: Andrew Karasev | - Business One is good solution when you are midmarket organization with attributes of multinational corporation, such as branches in foreign countries and headquarters and research facility in the United States. SAP B1 is popular in international business scenarios as it is localized in such popular regional powers as China, Brazil and Russian Federation. There are known cases studies when companies with non-SAP Corporate ERP applications launched Business One for their branches in Brazil and l ... Tags:SAP Business One, Consolidated Financial Reporting
Sap Business One Interconnection With External Application Or Database By: Andrew Karasev | - By one reason or another there is opinion in consulting community that when you need ongoing data move to SAP B1 from external database then you have to appeal to third party tools such as iBolt for example. We would like to review how one-way integration could be done with native tool Data Transfer Workbench and then two way integration with Software Development Kit programming. There is no need to pay to ISV partners in the case of DTW deployment however you should know the method of connect ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Customization And Reporting In Chicagoland By: Andrew Karasev | - ERP applications have their own life cycles and at this time SAP B1 is in expansion mode here in Northern Illinois as well as in the United States. At this point we assume that you have already acquired and implemented Business One and thinking about second phase with custom integration or sophisticated Crystal Report design. We would like to give you some background in technology and consulting firm selection recommendations. Before we begin we should let you know that there are third party ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One And Secondary Market Of Erp Consulting By: Andrew Karasev | - Such things as initial Small Business ERP software license purchase with generic implementation and following technology oriented projects might be not possible with the same consulting firm. Lets speculate about the business model where you are selling software licenses to new customers. First of all you have to pay sales people in order for them to call leads, channeling your offer through various chambers of commerce, trade shows and personal networks. When your sales folks find new pro ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One As Part Of Global Erp System By: Andrew Karasev | - This application is often considered as entry level for small to midsize businesses to replace small business accounting packages such as QuickBooks or Peachtree. However we see growing interest in implementing Business One as second tier or Corporate ERP in multinational companies. Important points here in our opinion are strategic hosting architecture, integration with the first tier as well as consolidated financial reporting. SAP B1 is geared to serve as ERP application with distribution, ... Tags:SAP Business One, International ERP
Sap Business One Implementation And Walking Away From Great Plains Dos Accounting By: Andrew Karasev | - When you are switching from one software vendor to another one chances are high that you have to do data export, cleansing and migration to newly selected accounting application. SAP B1 is hosted in Microsoft SQL Server and data import is typically done in Data Transfer Workbench by filling CSV templates each per logical table. In our opinion real challenge is in exporting legacy accounting transactions especially when they are hosted in proprietary database platform or maybe in Btrieve with c ... Tags:SAP Business One, ERP Data Conversion
Dynamics Gp Versus Sap Business One Or Which Popular Route To Undertake By: Andrew Karasev | - At this time we are observing rapid evolution in Small Business Accounting and Corporate ERP systems architectures. If in the recent years competition was around flexibility and ability to be customized with minimal exposure to programming then now it is probably around Cloud concept and web or thin client user interface. Achievements of the past were able to port customization metadata directly to the SQL database. Web user interface is breaking through the differences of remote and local co ... Tags:Dynamics GP, SAP Business One
Sap Business One Modification And Programming By: Andrew Karasev | - Accounting applications have to be flexible in order to compete on the software market and Business One is not an exception. Modern concept is to cover generic business requirements in standard logic and whatever is not covered is subject for custom programming and integration. Applications that were architected in decade of 1990th tried to open limited modification via so-called User Defined fields. Good example is Great Plains Dynamics. However if you would like to add new tables or fields ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Erp And Some Comparisons To Competition: Dynamics Gp, Peach Tree Plus Cloud By: Andrew Karasev | - When you are selecting your next Small Business ERP application it is good idea to talk to consulting firm where they sell and implement several products. When you are talking to somebody who is selling just one accounting solution then you often hear the assurance that our product is the best and it will definitely do the job. Lets take a look at SAP B1 and its competition from both upper and lower pricing diapasons. Lets begin with Microsoft Dynamics GP or formerly known as Grea ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One How To Secure Implementation Success By: Andrew Karasev | - Lets begin with functionality match to your business requirements. Good recommendation is to stick to native functionality of the application with possible several exceptions where you cover lacking functionality with customization. Try to be neutral and avoid possible sympathies and antipathies and look at the functionality match. Review major ERP brands and pick the one with maximum functionality coverage. When you are done with selection lets now take a look at implementation phases ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Accounting, Erp And Mrp Modules Implementation With Custom Elements By: Andrew Karasev | - Small Business ERP market is experiencing stiff competition between such brand names as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and Sage. As Business One is relatively new player on this market it often is considered when you have to replace outdated DOS based accounting application with something more contemporary. Traditionally mid and small business ERP market is divided between Dynamics GP formerly known as Great Plains and Sage products such as MASXXX. Plus competition from the small accounting packages ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Consulting On The Secondary Small Business Erp Market By: Andrew Karasev | - Accounting system selection, executive demos, licenses acquisition and initial implementation are just the first steps in your ERP application life cycle. Even if you believe that you did detailed homework in reviewing functionality, compiling and matching specifications later on you might decide to change procedures and deploy alternative business logic. In other words you are leaning toward something that could be categorized as second phase in your implementation project. And here you may ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Data Migration To Sap Business One Or Walk Away From Legacy Accounting By: Andrew Karasev | - Native data conversion tool for Business One is Data Transfer Workbench. If your data cleansing and migration project is reasonably modest in its scope and number of records to bring over then all you need to do is to fill out so-called CSV template files. Natural tool to do the job is Microsoft Excel. We do not expect you to read this publication just to reassure yourself that CSV templates are the way to go. We rather expect you to get some issues with CSV templates due to enormous number ... Tags:SAP Business One, Data Transfer Workbench
Sap Business One Data Migration Service Exporting Historical Documents From Great Plains By: Andrew Karasev | - Data Conversion phase should be taken seriously as it is one of the most popular reasons for Corporate ERP implementation project to fail. It is recommended to do testing and final data import into Business One in Data Transfer Workbench where you first have to work out CSV templates population process in Excel. This is not really a challenge except probably manual data massage in Excel with numerous templates. Today we would like to talk about exporting data from Microsoft Dynamics GP, Small ... Tags:SAP Business One, ERP Data Conversion
Sap Business One Programming Integration Interface In Software Development Kit By: Andrew Karasev | - It is not recommended to send records to native SAP B1 tables directly via custom SQL insert statements. And it is also not recommended updating existing records via SQL. Business One has three tiers architecture and data integration should be done via Application Server. There is Data Transfer Workbench which allows you to login and feed data either from filled CSV templates or via ODBC connection to something like SQL View where CSV template file structure is imitated. We already published ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Designing Crystal Reports For Sap Business One: Sql Views And User Defined Fields Plus Customization By: Andrew Karasev | - A while ago SAP acquired Business Objects and now Crystal Reports is one of the recommended tools for Business One. Assuming that you know how to research table structure and spot the fields name Crystal should be very friendly and learning curve is reasonably short. We would like to help you in the sense of pointing out to the most typical mistakes that you may expect to make while designing your first reports. Also this Small Business ERP is flexible in letting you create user defined table ... Tags:SAP Business One, Crystal Reports
Sap Business One And Crystal Reports Installation Pitfalls And Design Notes By: Andrew Karasev | - Each Small Business ERP knowledge base is precious collection of known issues and their fixes. Some issues are pretty unique but others are common and we would like to share one of them with your today as well as give you some Crystal Report design recommendations
There are multiple posts in web forum where Crystal Report 2008 installation produces error 1904 and in popup dialog there is message that WebIntelligence.dll failed to register. If you keep ignoring the error the instal ... Tags:SAP Business One, Crystal Reports
Sap Business One Integration Programming In Software Development Kit And Dtw Options By: Andrew Karasev | - There are third party B1 integration tools available on the ISV market but before you take that direction we would like you to review the options available in native modules and coding tools. SAP B1 SDK will definitely do the job but you need reasonably experienced programmer. Plus in the future version updates SDK related code should be reviewed on the subject of compatibility with the new version and patch and recompiled. Data Transfer Workbench on the other hand is reasonably version neutr ... Tags:SAP Business One, DTW Integrations
Sap Business One Customization Via User Defined Objects And Programming By: Andrew Karasev | - In contrast to other small business and mid-market ERP packages Business One allows you to create so-called user defined tables and add user defined fields to existing tables directly in user interface. Simple interface is added automatically to edit newly created user defined tables as well as added user defined fields. If this is all you need then no custom coding is required and enjoy deploying these custom objects and include them into queries and even Crystal Reports. However often you a ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One Modifications Combining User Defined Settings And Sdk Programming By: Andrew Karasev | - This is true that Business One allows you add user defined fields to existing tables and create new tables with automatically available user interface. And this fact is sometimes emphasized in executive presentations and presented as complete flexibility and customizability. Modified business logic should be analyzed on several parameters. First one is the question: Do we need just additional field in user interface for reporting purposes or it should be animated via our own programming? ... Tags:SAP Business One, SB1 Software Development Kit
Sap Business One 8.8 Is Now In General Availability By: Shankhadip | - SAP Business One 8.8 is in general availability from May 2010. SAP Business One 8.8 has a revolutionary look and feel than other SAP Business One versions. SAP Business One 8.8 has some significant changes in user interface as well as in architecture. Major architectural changes were took place to improve the performance.
Also SAP Business One 8.8 provides the flexibility to control different companies with different local settings under one business solution.
Sap Business One 8.81 In Preview Now !!! By: Shankhadip | - SAP Business One 8.81 is currently available as preview version. It is now open for feedback from partners before it goes into Ramp-Up in November 2010.
What is New with SAP Business One 8.81?
As per the new Release Family Concept, SAP Business One has now a dedicated, flexible and controlled shipment channel to provide legal changes and additional minor new functionality on a regular basis to further enhance the product in shorter cycles.
Facts About Dimensions - Profit Centers - Distribution Rules In Sap Business One By: Shankhadip | - . We feed amounts (either Debit or Credit) to the Profit Centers through Distribution Rules only. The amounts can be feed through any account of any type (Assets, Liability, Expenditure, etc.). The Debit amounts are treated as Expenses and the Credit amounts are treated as Revenues, in Profit Center Report. In other reports/statements (Trial Balance, P/L Statement, etc.) the accounts will be selected as per the selected Distribution Rule and the reports/statements basic criteria.
eCommerce, Todays most used word in the internet world. Today not only big corporations or business houses depend on e-commerce for selling their products but e-commerce can be compared as a gods gift for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) or Small and Medium-size Businesses (SMBs). Even individuals or single person managed businesses heavily depend on e-commerce for selling their products or services.
Now setting up of an e-Comm ... Tags:SAP Business one, ecommerce for SAP Business One
Sboeconnect 2.0 : Revolutionized Way To Integrate Magento With Sap Business One By: Shankhadip | - Are you a business owner using Magento e-commerce storefront for your online business and SAP Business One as your back office business solution or are you using SAP Business One to streamline your business process and planning to implement an integrated e-commerce storefront?
Do you ever deals with tons of web transactional data that are difficult to track by your back office staffs?
Introduction To Erp And Sap Business One By: Shankhadip | - System that is used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a business. The full form of this abbreviation is Enterprise resource planning.
Few facts about ERP:
1.Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a term usually used in conjunction with ERP software or an ERP system which is intended to manage all the information and functions of a business or company from shared data stores. It is a commercial software package that promotes seaml ... Tags:enterprise resource planning, SAP Business one
Sap Business One Mobile Application For Iphone By: Shankhadip | - This mobile app for iPhone lets you stay in touch with your business and customer data while away from the office. It enables you to instantly connect with your SAP Business One application via iPhone to check on inventory and customers, access reports, receive alerts, and process approvals.
REQUIREMENTS
Apple iPhone or iPod touch with iOS3.2 or higher
SAP Business One professional user license
LANGUAGE
Supports all SAP Business One languages
Sap Business One Consultants In Chicago Suburbs: Implementation, Conversion, Recovery By: Andrew Karasev | - With the release of SAP B1 version 8.8 we expect new Small Business ERP sales peak. SAP BO is good option for small or mid-size enterprise with challenging requirements to its Corporate ERP platform: discrete production, ERP (planning wizard), warranty contracts, field service, Opportunity Management (often referred as CRM), customer vendor consolidation (you can build such industry specific features as Freight Forwarding Agent Settlement report, for example - without custom logic), shipping an ... Tags:SAP Business One
Supporting Sap Business One: If Your Implementation Failed - What To Do Next? By: Andrew Karasev | - This small article is written with the international focus. SAP B1 was initially targeted to small businesses, however its reasonably rich Corporate ERP functionality dictates mid-market user license cost (especially for SB1 professional user, where license is close to k$3 in USA). There is large number of Certified SAP BO consultants on the Corporate ERP consulting market, however in our opinion SAP B1 requires closer attention to such technologies as Crystal Report, SB1 SDK (Microsoft Visual ... Tags:SAP Business One
Sap Business One Consulting Usa Nationwide: Workbench, Sdk, Crystal Reports, Ecommerce By: Andrew Karasev | - Sometimes we hear complains about this wonderful small and mid-size business Corporate ERP and MRP application. Well, the software itself is probably perfect, but the reason might be inexperienced SB1 consultant or programmer. In any case, we recommend you do not give up and seek for second opinion - SAP B1 is wide spread Small Business ERP and you should be able to locate experienced local SAP BO Partner just by entering key words in Google, MSN or Yahoo. In fact, SAP Business One is current ... Tags:SAP Business One
Dynamics Gp And Sap Business One Tandem As Corporate Erp For Multinational Firm By: Andrew Karasev | - This small publication is intended to current Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains customers, who are expanding internationally and would like to choose ERP system for relatively small foreign subsidiary. As you know Dynamics GP is localized in English speaking countries (including South East Asia, where English is the used in business), plus in Quebec (in French Canadian), to some extent in Spanish speaking Latin America and Caribbean states, Oceania. There is good support for Arabic in GP (wit ... Tags:Dynamics GP, SAP Business One
Sap Business One Integration Technical Notes By: Andrew Karasev | - SAP B1 is good option for small organization, where you would like to have some advanced Corporate ERP and MRP features as discrete manufacturing, service management (including warranty support), CRM functionality, Sales Order and Purchas Order processing, picking and packing. SAP Business One is also good in international implementation scenarios, as it supports most of the World alphabets and localized in wide range of countries, especially consider SB1 if you are multinational corporation an ... Tags:SAP Business One
Ecommerce For Sap Business One And Microsoft Dynamics Gp Custom Programming By: Andrew Karasev | - Corporate ERP is typically open for ecommerce shopping cart, item catalog, price list integration. However if you are SAP Business One or Microsoft Dynamics GP customer, you may not know the right tool or integration method. We often hear from our customers very generic ecommerce integration questions and even requests. We assume that you are midsize or small company, and budget is important for you. And we think it is very practical to publish SB1 and Great Plains ecommerce FAQ and guidelin ... Tags:Dynamics GP, Great Plains Dynamics, SAP Business One
Sap Business One: Shipping And Receiving, Light Assembly Notes By: Andrew Karasev | - If you are mid-size or smaller business, and you have picking and packing, repackaging with light manufacturing or bill of materials features (when you repackage initial product from large boxes, containers, bottles into smaller packs, boxes, etc and using your own boxes and materials, which is not technically heavy discrete manufacturing, but something one step above picking and packing), SAP B1 might be perfect ERP, Accounting, CRM application with some elements of MRP. Plus you may consider ... Tags:SAP Business One
Sap Business One Implementing Notes: Adding New Fields And Tables By: Andrew Karasev | - In comparing to other ERP and Small and Midsize Business Accounting applications, SB1 is more flexible and where traditional system may require programmer to code the custom logic and then integrate it with existing user interface and the database - SAP BO may have this custom logic to be easily set up in User Defined Tables and User Defined Fields, and SAP B1 software developers already supplied simple user interface to work with newly created objects, let's us show you how. We will be assumin ... Tags:SAP Business One
Sap Business One As Corporate Erp For Midsize Business: Elegance And Flexibility By: Andrew Karasev | - This is relatively new ERP, MRP, CRM and Accounting package in USA, however this application is very popular Internationally: Latin America, Brazil, Europe, Asia, Africa. As it is ERP from SAP, we recommend you to consider it in the case if you have high-end SAP ERP domestically and need Accounting for your overseas branch. It is localized in the sense of translation to local language and tuning to local fiscal requirement. If you work for Internal Audit department in US, and you would like t ... Tags:SAP Business One
Sap Business One As Small Business Erp And Mrp: Chicago, Atlanta By: Andrew Karasev | - If your small or mid-size business requires Manufacturing Resource Planning and Enterprise Resource Planning in addition to regular accounting, and you are at the point when you outgrew small business out-of-the-shelf accounting: PeachTree, QuickBooks, MYOB, we recommend you to take a look or better request executive and in-depth functional and technical presentation of SAP Business One, often also referred in abbreviation as SAP B1, SB1 or SBO. This small publication should be initial introduc ... Tags:SAP Business One
Corporate Erp For Midsize Company: Dynamics Gp Or Sap Business One By: Andrew Karasev | - When you outgrow small business accounting packages: Quickbooks, Peachtree or you name it, there is always a risk to make the next Corporate ERP pick to be in dissonance with your business processes, Accounting, MRP and other requirements. As you can expect, there is no universal Corporate ERP application, each vendor has advantages and disadvantages. In this small publication we will try to review selection criteria and make initial comparison of Microsoft Dynamics GP and SAP Business One; we ... Tags:Dynamics GP, SAP Business One
Corporate Erp For Multinational Firm: Microsoft Dynamics And Sap Business One By: Andrew Karasev | - Globalization trend is real and many mid-size manufacturing organizations went into international business field. While you may get good advantage on international job market and outsource production to such countries as Brazil, you will have to be prepared to more complex accounting. In this small publication we would like to walk you through multinational firm corporate ERP selection and implementation phases, where we are using real case studies from our international ERP consulting practic ... Tags:Dynamics GP, SAP Business One
Sap Business One Consultant Newsflash: Crystal Reports For Sb1 By: Andrew Karasev | - SAP B1 is popular small and mid-size business Accounting, ERP and MRP application. Typical configuration is on Microsoft Windows and MS SQL Server, and these two facts make SAP BO open for various generic reporting tools: Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, MS Access, or generic .Net web HTML and XML development with web reports. CR seems to be the trend for current SB1 2007A/B versions as well as for the future releases. In this small publication we would like to give y ... Tags:SAP Business One
Sap Business One Consultant Newsflash: Sb1 Selection And Implementation By: Andrew Karasev | - SAP B1 is relatively new ERP and MRP application for small and mid-size business. We recommend you to consider SB1 if you are feeling that you outgrew small business accounting, such as PeachTree, Quickbooks. It should fit to the majority of small businesses, however some of the industries might capitalize on pretty cool SAP BO modules and features. We would like to give you information session in this small publication:
1.CRM. If you have sales people, who are doing full cy ... Tags:SAP Business One
Integrating Sap Business One With Legacy Databases And Systems Notes By: Andrew Karasev | - If you already have SAP B1 implemented in your organization, or if you would like to consider SB1 license purchase with following implementation, and if your IT infrastructure has various legacy platforms and applications: Oracle, Lotus Notes Domino, mySQL/PHP, EDI interfaces, ecommerce, you may need to consider batch or even real time integration to and from SAP BO. In this small publication we would like to give you orientation, based on SAP Business One native integration and data import too ... Tags:SAP Business One
Oracle To Sap Business One Integration Notes For Programmer By: Andrew Karasev | - SAP B1 is taking the momentum in getting ERP and MRP applications market share, especially for smaller firms as well as the subsidiaries of large corporation, where Oracle custom solutions or Oracle Financials eBusiness Suite are implemented, especially in Sales and CRM, Vendor management and EDI (Electronic Document Interchange), Oracle based B2B and B2C ecommerce and partner source web sites. If you have some of these circumstances, you probably need SAP Business One to talk directly t ... Tags:Oracle, SAP Business One
Sap Business One Reseller Chicago, Atlanta Newsflash: Db Structure Notes By: Andrew Karasev | - If you have implemented SAP B1 and now have phase two integration with legacy system or external CRM application needs, then you should first research SAP Business One Data Transfer Workbench and its ODBC integration options. This publication should ideally help you with your SAP Business One consultant, VAR or technology partner selection. If you need advanced integrating application with custom screens, you should consider developing in C# or VB.Net with SAP Business One SDK gateway to your ... Tags:SAP Business One
Sap Business One Var Newsflash: Workbench Integration Highlights By: Andrew Karasev | - SAP B1 is dedicated to small and mid-size businesses. This ERP and MRP enriched accounting application becomes more and more popular, especially since the release of SB1 version 2007A. The intuitive and very simple SAP BO interface often comes with the fact, that SAP Business One certified consultant comes without solid technical background in data conversion, customization, SDK programming and also in making ad-hoc SQL queries. In this small publication we will give you technical highlights ... Tags:SAP Business One
Sap Business One Partner Atlanta, Chicago Newsflash: Data Conversion By: Andrew Karasev | - SAP B1 is on the way to take its ERP and MRP applications market share for small and mid-size businesses. This publication should help you with your SAP Business One consultant, VAR, reseller and implementation partner selection. When you are implementing new accounting application, you have to come through several phases and one of them is data migration, massage and conversion, including beginning balances, master records (business partners customers and vendors, general ledger accounts, etc ... Tags:SAP Business One
Sap Business One Chicago, Atlanta Partner Newsflash: Rental Contracts By: Andrew Karasev | - SAP B1 gets its ERP and small business MRP market share in US, especially with the release of SB1 version 2007A. In this small publication we would like to give you practical highlights on deploying SAP Business One in Rentals business, where you rent your serialized item and then service it while contract is active, incurring cost, such as spare parts and replacement, labor hours and expenses either covered by warranty or billable to the customer. This publication should help you locate your ... Tags:SAP Business One
Sap Implementation,sap Business One,sap Support,abap Development,sap Partner,sap Erp By: romamareyaj | - Software developed during one unit of time is referred to as an iteration, which typically lasts from two to four weeks. Each iteration passes through a full software development cycle, including planning, requirements analysis, design, writing unit tests, then coding until the unit tests pass and a working product is finally demonstrated to stakeholders. Documentation is no different from software design and coding. It, too, is produced as required by stakeholders. An iteration may not add enou ... Tags:SAP implementation, SAP Business One, SAP Support, ABAP development, SAP Partner, SAP ERP
