Small Business Server 2003 - Is It For Me? by Joshua Feinberg
Small Business Server 2003 is an excellent choice for your computer consulting business. It is sold as a suite so you get a lot of great features. And Small Business Server 2003 is designed strictly with the needs of small business computer consultants in mind. ... Small Business Server 2003 Features It includes a reporting tool that allows you to get log files emailed There are different performance model thresholds for when windows space is running low or when the virtual space is running low There are access logs for the server There is web proxy, Internet caching and acceleration...

Online Software by Donna MacMillan
You have heard about it, may even know someone who uses this type of service, but is it for you? Mostly likely the answer will be yes and below you will see the benefits. Because this is a site dedicated to the bookkeeping industry, we will be looking at online bookkeeping software. ... You don’t have to buy a server or server software, you don’t have to hire an IT consultant and you or your personnel can access your information using a secure log-in from anywhere in the world as long as they can access the internet.

Corporate ERP Selection: Microsoft Great Plains by Andrew Karasev
In our opinion, traditional approach when you select ERP/MRP system for large or mid-size company by functionality, database and hardware platform should be revised. We are convinced that new generation of Windows servers plus the reliability of relatively inexpensive database platform, such as... When Microsoft introduced MS SQL Server 7.0 and later on 2000 – the problem of maintenance in our opinion was resolved and the database maintenance is now considered as part of data workflow side: application logic data fixes SQL queries, data feeding into SQL Server tables, data archiving and...

IT Service Contracts: How Do You Find the Best Ones? by Joshua Feinberg
In the technologically advanced world, IT service contracts can be found anywhere. But because there are so many computer service companies out there, finding the best company to provide IT service contracts for your particular business can be overwhelming. ... Regardless of what you need, an IT consultant that is right for your company will give you IT service contracts that will meet your needs and exceed expectations. ... These solutions can be anything from RAM and hard-drive upgrades to server overhauls.

Microsoft CRM Implementation: Employee Time & Billing – Notes for Consultant by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 1.2 and now 3.0 could be considered as extremely flexible platform, suitable for small, mid-size and corporate businesses, it is easily customizable via C# or VB.Net in MS VisualStudio, however you can deploy MS CRM as is for sophisticated task, such employee timecards,... You will probably need two reports: consultant/employee time, were you should be able to see budgeted, actual, written off time – here you evaluate consultant performance. ... You activate contract, open two cases for Installation: SQL Installation and Client installation.

Corporate ERP Selection: Microsoft Dynamics GP by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Dynamics GP is new name for Microsoft Great Plains Standard & Professional. Microsoft Dynamics GP will have its first release with Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0. which would be the next version of Great Plains. Funny enough – Great Plains Software pioneered with Great Plains Dynamics in... When Microsoft introduced MS SQL Server 7.0 and later on 2000 – the problem of maintenance in our opinion was resolved and the database maintenance is now considered as part of data workflow side: application logic data fixes SQL queries, data feeding into SQL Server tables, data archiving and...

Microsoft Navision Customization Upgrade – Tips For Programmer/IT Specialist by John Kleb
Currently Microsoft Business Solutions is on the way of creating so-called suites: Microsoft Financials, Microsoft Distributions, Microsoft HR, Microsoft Manufacturing. It is very difficult to say which product will be the core of which suite, but the best guess is this: Microsoft Great Plains -... If you remember the history - Navision actually merged several dictionaries couple of versions back - this was very tough time for customization upgrade SQL Server side - from this side upgrade is smooth, because Navision doesn't use complex SQL functionality and SQL Server itself is rather...

IT Consultants: Desktops, Notebooks and PDAs as Profit Centers by Joshua Feinberg
If you’re one of those IT consultants who breaks out in hives at the thought of getting your hands dirty with low-margin sales of desktop PCs, notebooks or PDAs, you may not be looking far enough beyond the box. In this article, we’ll look at how to profit from your clients’ needs for... New Advances in Technology Despite all the advances during the past few years, the venerable desktop, notebook and server have remained the staples of the PC hardware world. ... But the main PC hardware world has not seen much change by IT consultants.

Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP Upgrade Checkpoints-Overview For Consultant by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Dynamics GP currently version 9.0, in Spring 2007 we expect version 10.0 to be released. Let’s looks into historical versions and their upgrade, paying attentions on technological challenges, database platform switch over and things like that. ... If we are talking about Microsoft SQL Server, then these versions upgrade is very smooth, without known major issues, when you had to do data repair on SQL scripting level • Version 7.0 and 7.5 on Pervasive SQL 2000 or Ctree Plus / Faircom. ... With version 7.0 Dynamics was available for MS SQL Server as Microsoft Great Plains for SQL...

ERP Implementation: Success Factors by Andrew Karasev
As seeing large number of implementations – in our case these are Microsoft Business Solutions Products: Great Plains, MS CRM, Navision – we would like to give you our opinion on what should you consider to do to secure implementation success. These principles should work as for large... Well, complication of computer networking and its security, plus the fact that SQL is now standard for the database platform (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, etc.), plus internet connection line and its support make it inevitable to have IT expertise in the company – this might be the whole department...