Jack Boyer’s ERP Blog-Dynamics AX

Dynamics AX: Re-thinking and Expanding the Market Range

2012-05-14T21:52:32Z

This interview is with Dick Lee of High Yield Methods- a firm which, like Boyer & Associates is also located here in Minnesota. Dick has been a process consultant for 30 years. Dick’s firm is about helping businesses become more “customer-centric” and less “self-centric”. Even Dick’s blogs stay on this theme-how to become more customer-centric. Dick’s firm created the chart below around comparing Professional Services process with Manufacturing process. As an organization that focuses on Service...(read more)

Project and Resource Management

2012-03-13T15:50:10Z

I recently read an article in Consulting Magazine that discussed Project Management and Resource Management in a meaningful and helpful way. As an organization that focuses on how to help Professional Services Organizations become more efficient and more profitable, this article certainly captured my attention. You can download this “ Why PSO’s Need Improved Financial and Resource Management ” white paper for free from our website using the hyperlink. The article is interesting to me both as...(read more)

Dynamics AX 2012 Services Industry Summit in Jacksonville, FL February 13-16

2012-02-17T15:55:02Z

When I signed up for the Jacksonville Dynamics AX Summit I did not expect to be working for one of a handful of partners that were slightly under 5 million in sales. In fact, at the event I started to be a bit self-conscious about our size, until I started to see the product demonstrated. When Tom Higginbotham demonstrated the integration between Sharepoint and AX 2012, I started to realize-we can sell and manage this Microsoft story quite well. One of the main themes of the event was demonstrating...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics Shootout SL versus GP versus AX

2012-02-09T14:33:23Z

While servicing 275 Dynamics SL and Dynamics GP clients, we are going to make a run at Dynamics AX as well. Next month, March 28th, we are going to be showing all three products in a competitive environment. I’m a little concerned as our Dynamics SL Practice Manager has implemented many accounting systems for Professional Services firms-which incidentally is the audience we are marketing to for the event. Our GP Practice Manager has over 12 years of experience with GP. I will be showing Dynamics...(read more)

Dynamics AX 2012 Momentum

2012-01-21T17:20:07Z

It’s hard to ignore the amount of improvement between Dynamics AX 2009 and Dynamics AX 2012. We have supported Dynamics SL for 18 years and Dynamics GP for 10 years. Dynamics SL has always been the leader in project accounting across the board for the Microsoft options. Dynamics SL has handled multi-company far better than the other Dynamics ERP options. What I see now is Dynamics AX has added tremendous functionality in the project accounting area and multi-company areas. Two improvements...(read more)

Welcome to Dynamics AX 2012-Expert in Services Industries

2012-01-14T16:03:56Z

If you’ve ever had a neighborhood bully kick your butt only to have the same thing happen to them by an older sibling, you’ll understand my delight in Microsoft deciding to focus its impressive Dynamics AX product on Services Industries. There is one particular software firm we used to lose to larger engineering firms. Engineers love process and workflow. They want to see a product’s whole flow from project scheduling of resources, to timecard, to timecard approval to project...(read more)

An Interview with Microsoft Executive Pat Fitzhenry, Director Global ISV Recruitment and Enablement

2011-12-02T14:21:07Z

Pat Fitzhenry has been a friend of mine since the late 1980’s. Pat has always had a special place in the hearts of the many of us that have loved, sold, and supported Dynamics SL . Pat was the one that wrote the PC Magazine review in 1985 that “put Solomon Software (Dynamics SL now) on the map”. Pat was working for Price Waterhouse and those PC Magazine reviews meant everything to software developers at the time. If it weren’t for Pat, I would probably still be living in Pennsylvania rather than...(read more)