Entries from Thinking Tech tagged with 'accounting'

Sage Insights Conference in Washington, DC

It seems that all software vendors have an annual conference. Sage's Insights conference focuses on the Sage ACCPAC ERP product line. Sage ACCPAC ERP is--well, obviously--an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software product. I'm increasingly reading various information that seems to...

Did You Implement This Year?

This is the time of year when businesses seem to think, "I meant to do this all year, better hurry up to get it done by year end." I know this because businesses we've been working with since January make...

Year End Things to Think About

At year end, there are a few things you might want to think about. You'll be closing out your books. You need to evaluate the operations you'll need to do in order to get your software and hardware ready for...

Support Discontinued for Dynamics NAV 3.7

I have trouble calling it Dynamics NAV. To me, it's still Navision. And version 3.6 was new when I first learned Dynamics NAV a few years ago. It's time for the 3.x versions to be retired, and Microsoft is doing...

FREE Business Software From Microsoft

Hmmm...not sure what Microsoft is thinking. FREE is not a word I would usually associated with Microsoft and software. But there it is right on the ideawins.com site: License: FREE. No strings attached. No strings attached? Really? This is a...

Another Take on Dynamics NAV 5.0/5.1

Didn't meet Mark at Directions 2006, but he does have something to say about 5.0/5.1. Everyone's opinion is valuable. Here's another one for you to consider. Mark Brummel : Reporting from Directions 2006...

Project Green Strategy Beginning to Come Into Focus

Microsoft bought four products from the mid and upper market ERP space: Great Plains, Solomon, Navision, and Axapta. Since then, the products have been renamed to Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Microsoft Dynamics AX. Most...

Microsoft: It's What They Don't Say

In their defense, it isn't just Microsoft. I'm still stinging from the software vendor (name withheld to protect the guilty) who threatened to fire employees if they published the internally developed list of 100+ features from the DOS product that...