Rose Business Solutions Dynamics GP

Microsoft has an annual event where they call partners into Fargo and discuss support and service offerings for the year. Since I was already in Fargo attending The Partner Event I stayed over a day to attend this event.

We started realitively early and the agenda was packed. I really like the shorter conferences/events for content as it seems like the most important things are talked about and very little time is wasted.

Here are my notes written up from the sessions:

• Microsoft’s cloud strategy contiues to be the most common theme/discussion
• There seems to be a mergering of smaller partners in the industry. I met a few groups that have merged in the past year and MBS seems to be squeezing the smaller partner out. Gone are the days where a one or two man shop can really survive as a certified Microsoft Partner.
• Dynamics GP 2010 demo. We’ve been using GP 2010 for a while now and find quite a few enhancements. Not nearly the change from GP 9 to 10 but there are a bunch of features added.
• Windows 7 phone demo. Cool stuff.
  • Everything is integrated between search, Facebook, Outlook, Zune (music), pictures, etc.
  • Releases October/November time frame.
  • And supposedly the phone actually works. ha.



• Management reporter (MR) overview – Here is a blog I did regarding some learning points I had using Management reporter.
  • Undo function now in MR.
  • Can right click on a row, column or tree and choose associations and it will identify where it is used. You would use this function to clean up MR building blocks.

   

  • Pulling accounts from MR ????? are not needed. Can use * character.
  • In the tree you can do add ranges or subtract
  • Report Library in MR
    • Can generate to different report locations and can add security to those locations
    • Reports have history of when reports are generated. So you can look back to previous versions of the report.
    • Can also add other reports such as Excel or Word reports to the report library

  

  • Formatting in MR
    • Can add images such as logo’s to reports
    • You can add page breaks on the column area. You would use this on a trended report such as a 12 month report

   

  • Currency translating is coming out with feature pack 1 – Saw a demo of this
    • Translation will pull from GP and you add the currency to the column of the report. Really simplified the currency translation process
  • Blog for MR updates is at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dynamicscpm/
  • Training for MR – Course #80255 webinar
  • MR in the future will eventually replace forecaster. But that’s down the road
  • No auto sum in MR. Which is less effective.

This is getting too long I’ll break this up into a few blogs.

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