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The Weekly Friday Special |
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Start 2012 mastering the security of Microsoft Dynamics GP! Available TODAY ONLY, the Accolade Publications Friday Special this week is...
25% Discount on:
The Dynamics GP Security Handbook
Use coupon code 1GPS27FRI when placing your order to redeem this week's Friday Special discount! You must order TODAY to redeem this special offer.
Looking for deals? Check back here each Friday for the weekly Friday Special. Orders placed Friday will ship on Monday.
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We're Going to Houston for Convergence! How About You? |
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You will find Accolade Publications, Inc., at Booth 2008 at Convergence 2012 in Houston. We will be on hand as years before to share the value of Accolade's Microsoft Dynamics ERP and Dynamics CRM user manuals and training materials. Will you be there?! If so, you can meet and ask questions of Accolade's publishing team and authors!
Dynamics GP Business Consultant extraordinaire, Accolade's publisher, and author Richard L. Whaley will be on hand at our booth (Booth 2008). On Day Two and Day Three at Convergence, Richard will be hosting the SSRS Reporting Table in the Birds of a Feather sessions of Convergence 2012. Attendees are invited to bring their own questions about the SSRS Reporting System and ask Richard (author of the book Creating Reports with SSRS). The format of the session should provide an intimate setting with only a few people with similar issues at a roundtable. Notably, Richard has authored Accolade books, such as, Information Flow and Posting for Dynamics GP and The Dynamics GP Power User Handbook.
Find these books and other user manuals and training guides for Microsoft Dynamics AX, CRM, GP, NAV, and SL at The Accolade Library Bookstore.
As the premier event for the Microsoft Dynamics Customer and Partner business community, Convergence is your chance to make key business connections and to discover the full potential of Microsoft Dynamics solutions.
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Read more: We're Going to Houston for Convergence! How About You?
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After the Close... What Next? |
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You may not yet have closed your GL module, but you should have closed all others. The current year's purchases from vendors and sales to customers should only show the numbers from the first few weeks of January. Last year's numbers should be in the buckets for last year. When you look closely at what a year-end close does, other than calculate retained earnings in the GL, not much happens.
All of the transactions and history records that were held in the files in December are still in the tables. Very little, if anything, has been deleted. Many people like this... Infinitely detailed history is held in the files for research. For a time, this is good. Yet, there is a point where all this data will create problems.
I walked into a business that had fifteen years of detailed history in their tables! They had never purged any data. Their database was so large that backups could not be properly completed. Something had to be done...
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Read more: After the Close... What Next?
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Accolade Supports Microsoft Dynamics User Groups |
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Accolade collaborates with the Microsoft Dynamics user groups to help get our valuable user manuals and learnming materials into the hands of Dynamics users like you.
Are you a member of your local Microsoft Dynamics user group? If you want to improve your mastery of your Dynamics implementation and get greater value from the Dynamics software, then you should buy Accolade's books and also join your local Dynamics user group. Accolade offers a directory of national and regional Microsoft Dynamics user groups that we have identified. You can browse the user group directory at Accolade's website to find a user group near you.
If you are already a member of GPUG, CRMUG, AXUG, NAVUG, or the SL User Group, then you should know that Accolade Publications can add even more value to your user group experience! For example, if you would like Accolade to provide one of our expert-written Dynamics user books as a door prize at your next user group event, then just refer us to your local group leader, and we will ship-out a complimentary book for your next user group event. Also, if your local user group is planning to present a specific topic for training, contact us here at Accolade so we can provide a special offer to your user group for one of our books that covers that topic. Don't forget that you can list your user group with Accolade's website user group directory and you can post your user group event announcements at Accolade's website events calendar to gain greater visibility and growth for your user group. (Accolade's website has nearly 40,000 visitors monthly.)
Contact us today so we can provide support to your local Dynamics user group!
Accolade Publications, Inc., proudly supports GPUG, CRMUG, AXUG, NAVUG, the SL User Group and the entire community of Microsoft Dynamics users. Accolade Publications is Your Dynamics Education Experts! |
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Switched to SSRS Yet? |
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If you have not yet made the move to MS SQL SSRS, now is the time. Since your firm is on MS-SQL, you get this tool free. If you are on one of the more current versions of SQL, the tool can be installed directly from your installation media. Otherwise, download a free copy from the Microsoft website.
Microsoft's SQL Services Reporting System is growing in popularity. Dynamics GP now comes with several hundred pre-written reporting helps.
The SSRS report designer tools are easy to use. Yes, they are different, and this means a small learning curve. Yet, they contain some additional power to provide graphical displays of data, and with GP's new interface, the tool is becoming more and more popular.
Third-party product-developers have already adopted this report-generation tool. Accountable's Forms Printer, long the standard for easily-customizable documents, has added strong support for SSRS-generated forms and documents. Also, I am sorry to report, it is easier to use and more flexible than the MS Word documents embedded in GP.
If you need to learn this new tool, then Accolade's book, Creating Reports with SSRS, is what you need... It takes new users step-by-step through the process of creating reports with the reporting tool, while expert users are provided hints and tricks to enable them to build better and more flexible reports and documents.
Whether you need to create new reports from scratch, modify the reports provided with Dynamics GP, or enhance forms, you want to get yourself a copy of Creating Reports with SSRS! |
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Reporting Your Data! |
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Getting your information out of a database and on to paper requires several skills... You need to know where your data is located and how to use the reporting tools. Accolade can help with both of these!
Knowing where your data is requires more than just a map of tables. Yes, there are open order tables and order history tables. But when does data move from one to the other? How can you read from both set of tables? Accolade's Information Flow and Posting tells you how and when your information moves through the tables in the system! It explains how to relate payments to invoices, open or historical. It explains where all of the GL account numbers come from for the core modules. This book makes finding your data easy!
We also have several books on reporting tools. From Creating Reports with SSRS to Customizing with The Builders, the most common report writers are covered in Accolade materials.
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Read more: Reporting Your Data!
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