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What is Cloud ERP?

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is going through a revolution. It is time to loosen the grip of inefficient and expense legacy ERP systems. It is time to look to the cloud.   Embracing a Cloud ERP can empower your resource-strapped accounting and IT teams and help everyone work more efficiently. Cloud ERP can help your business make a digital transformation. But, what exactly is Cloud ERP?

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Acumatica 2020 R1 New Feature Highlight: Using AI To Create Expense Receipts

Acumatica 2020 R1 has added hundreds of improvements to the product, but for this blog, we will focus on just one. With the help of Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer, Acumatica users can now take a picture of an expense receipt with their mobile device and the system will recognize the values and map them to the correct fields in Expense Receipt screen.

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Acumatica vs Dynamics SL: Approving Documents

We all understand the importance of getting source documents approved for accounting before they can get processed. But each ERP can handle the approval process a little different. In this blog we will compare how Acumatica and Microsoft Dynamics SL approve documents.

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Dynamics SL 2018 CU3 Is Now Available

Journal Transaction Approval

Microsoft has released Dynamics SL 2018 Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) and it is now available for download. Below is a summary of some of the enhancements:

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Is Now the Right Time to Upgrade Your ERP Software?

Working Remotely

Enabling a remote enterprise has become a priority for all companies during this COVID-19 outbreak. Many organization may have thought they were ready for their employees to work seamlessly from home. But, for many companies the cracks in the foundation are showing. And businesses that can’t maintain access to critical business functions, including ERP systems are more likely to fall behind a competitor that is prepared. But, is now the right time to upgrade your ERP system?

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Acumatica 2020 R1 Now Available

Acumatica-2020-R1-Features-400x250Acumatica has announced the 2020 R1 release is now generally available. Acumatica praised their development teams around the world for another on-schedule release. Superior usability, new native modules and cross connected workflows highlight the areas in this release. Some of the improvements are highlighted below:

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Acumatica vs Dynamics SL : End User Licensing

Your ERP system can handle a lot more than just accounting. If you track inventory your users will need to enter receipts, inventory transfers, etc. If you are project-centric your users will need to enter time and expense entries. If you have service techs, your employees will need to update Service Orders, ideally from outside of the office. If you are a manufacturer then your employees will need to update Production Orders as they move through your factory. Your ERP system can touch a lot of employees and adding users to your ERP system can get expensive and complicated. That is one of the reasons Acumatica has taken a different approach.

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Acumatica Summit 2020 Day One Recap – Acumatica Has Arrived

Seven years ago, at my first Acumatica Summit, I left knowing Polaris Business Solutions needed to become a partner. There was an excitement and a sense of community that I hadn’t seen since early Solomon Software events. At that Summit, cloud ERP was in its infancy and Acumatica’s competitors, and many others, were still doubtful of Acumatica’s future. It was still another year before Acumatica would break the 1,000 customers threshold and the company was only 6 years old. But, the enthusiasm from Acumatica’s employees and partners was convincing. Today, after the first day of Summit 2020 in Las Vegas it is now obvious – Acumatica has arrived.

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Dynamics SL Year End Updates for 2019

Microsoft has released the year end updates for the 2019 tax year for Dynamics SL. Although there were no changes to the 1099 or W-2 form, the update did include some changes for Payroll.

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Acumatica vs. Dynamics SL: Dashboards

Your ERP system has a wealth of information about the health of your business, so getting the right data to the right users in a timely fashion can help you take corrective action if necessary. One of the most popular ways to provide users with relevant data is through dashboards. When comparing the options current Dynamics SL users have compared to Acumatica users there is certainly a big difference.

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