Editorial
Comments :
August
31, 2006
We have
missed publishing our hints and tips to our SL community.
This month’s
ezine is the restarting our education and training efforts. Needless to say, creating new ezine articles
is a time consuming effort; but nevertheless still a valuable effort since the
proper training and education of end users can bring many years of extended
service to this great product.
SL, or
Solomon as I like to refer to it, is a great middle market product. Whether you are focused on core financials
(Gl, Ar, or AP) you will be continuously surprised at the power of the FRx
financial report writer and its sister products. The analytical power of the newest BIO tool,
with its OLAP predefined cubes, creates out of the box analysis capabilities
which previously were only available for the upper tier market users like SAP
and Peoplesoft. Now you have Olap
analysis, which I like to call Excel pivot tables on steroids, which allow
great insight to ‘what are the numbers telling me about my business.’ (http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/sl/product/businessportal.mspx
)
For our
wholesale distributors, our tool sets are amazing. From new modules like inventory replenishment,
landed cost, to EDI capabilities, to robust order management taking options,
you have the foundation for greatly improving your management of the
distribution process. In fact, in my
opinion, many of the light manufacturing firms are looking more and more like
distributors as they move away from in-house manufacturing to outsource
manufacturing and doing only final test in-house. With this shift in the basic needs as a
manufacturing software, the managing of
Solomon
has been deemed the premier software in the Microsoft Dynamics line for project
oriented businesses. Whether you are a specialty contractor, residential track
or customer contractor, a software developer, a biotech research firm, you have
been blessed with the great module family of SL Project controller. http://www.systematicsol.com/Solomon_modules.htm
The
entire Microsoft Dynamics family of products has been growing in their web
portal capabilities. If you haven’t
looked at what the BusinessPortal can do to share critical business information
via a web site, you will be amazed. http://www.systematicsol.com/sol_business_portal.pdf
Whether
you want to only have intra or inter connectivity via a web browser, the
BusinessPortal software has expanded through 3 releases, and is truly amazing. At around $50/named user, you can quickly
capitalize on self service of business information which can really make your
organization run more effectively.
As you
can see, we believe that the Dynamics SL solutions are fantastic for both
today’s and tomorrows business needs and reporting solutions. We look forward to working with many of our
readers as you “fine tune” your SL software to change with your business and
the needs of your business.
Regards,
PS. With wish to thank the author Alan Earls for
his journalism skills as he has used eight
of our ezine articles as the basis of hints and tips on better using
Solomon. These articles were published
in the Microsoft Momentum magazine and Momentum community of online articles.