After a [socially distanced] visit to a company, we were reminded of how so many businesses rely on a few people who struggle to just about cope with the systems they have in place. Often for many years. An all too common story The situation was familiar, key staff updating a few separate systems – […]
We recently had a request come through from a customer who wanted their drivers to sign for their goods on a touch screen. The change was primarily to save time on and speed up admin workload. Current manual ‘sign on paper’ process Currently, the customer prints out the Proof of delivery (POD) and hands them […]
No two ways about it. It is not straight forward to know which Finance solution from Microsoft you should go for by reading the information on Microsoft’s web site. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central does finance as does Dynamics 365 Finance (the names do not help things here either!). Both solutions are: an excellent choice […]
Flexibility is vital in any business, and no more so than in the current economic and political world, we live in. For the first time outside wartime, companies have had to close overnight and try to continue to operate with reduced staff, remote working, dramatically changing customer requirements and supply chain challenges. The finance function […]
In the world of ERP solutions, there are a large number of providers often with particular target markets. At the mid-level, there are three significant players Microsoft, SAP and NetSuite. The following is a comparison of Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP Business One and NetSuite. Area Dynamics 365 BC SAP Business One NetSuite Pricing £52.80 […]
Cloud financial management is based upon the concept of managing a business’s commercial activities in “the cloud”. Typically this provides the company with a suite of integrated tools to enable management, reporting, payments, payroll and budgets. Cloud financial management solutions are an integral part of the success of your business in the future. Business is […]
Are you looking to improve your financial reporting? The following are two examples of tools we recommend to our customers, enabling them to produce great looking and accurate reporting from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Astral Reports Astral reports have been designed from the ground up to be used by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central […]
Dashboards are great for getting a ‘heads up’ on what is going on in your business, department, and/or role. They focus you to the area that needs attention and answer key questions on “how are we doing in…”. Inevitably, the answer to those questions elicits further questions. So, what can you do when your dashboard […]
As businesses have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of people are currently working from home. This has led to several challenges for businesses. These include: Companies seeing sudden growth and their accounts software is no longer suitable for their needs Finance teams struggling to manage with systems that cannot cope with remote […]
To help support businesses that use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Dynamics NAV) – and other products – who are struggling in the current lockdown situation, Microsoft have created a new promotion.The aim of these is to help customers stay on their Enhancement Plan (EP) – formerly called the Business Ready Enhancement Plan (BREP) – […]