Interesting article about how to understand the difference between Microsoft Dynamics NAV, SL, AX and GP for your ERP Manufacturing needs. Read the rest of this entry »

The field of ERP is vast and very complicated.  I have been doing this for longer than I care to remember now and am still learning new things, both technical details and broad concepts.  As every person who is involved in technology knows, the ground we stand on changes every minute. Read the rest of this entry »

Experience
We recently had a existing customer of NAV call us up and ask us to help them out.  They had bought NAV from a different reseller.  It had taken them a year to implement NAV and now that they were live they had a lot of issues that their current partner was reluctant to help them with.  Talks of lawsuit were in the air.  The deal had been a fixed price deal where the expectations were not managed in the sales process.  The owners were disappointed and the staff was exhausted.  Some departments had seen a 100% turnover. Read the rest of this entry »

I struggle with the usability of being notified via e-mail.  I have been to many companies where people have an excessive amount of e-mails being delivered daily.  I often ask these people how they manage to do anything else but read and answer their e-mails.  The routine answers I get back are either a smile of false importance or (for those who are brutally honest) that they simply read perhaps 5% of the e-mails coming in. Read the rest of this entry »