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Victoria Yudin’s Book – Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Implementation – My Humble Views

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To Victoria:

1. Congrats Victoria for coming up with such a treasure. It’s your sheer excellence written all over this book.
2. Thanks so much for sharing your abundant experience in GP.
3. All the best for a great year 2011; for this book to be fast selling one among Dynamics GP books, for this book to be on all Consultants’ hands and for much more books from you to us.

What’s special about this Book?

This book stands out from other “How to implement … blah blah” books on several factors:

1. Content – It does not dive into each and every trivial step involved in a TYPICAL implementation. Instead, it takes you thru’ some of the unimagined concepts including; GP Application Structure, SQL Server interaction with GP Application, GP Application Technologies, et al.

Very importantly; Recommendations on how to form your Implementation Team (Customers & Implementors), Planning Infrastructure for GP Environment, Studying Business Requirements practically, et al.

2. Structuring of Content – What’s the use of a book having a great content, but lack in the flow of it? This book teaches many out there on how to structure your thoughts on a book.

This book practically walks us thru’ a GP Implementation. It starts with telling us What’s GP 2010 Application is all about and ends with Training & Add-On Tools for GP 2010; without forgetting to take us thru’ Integration Manager for Initial GP Data Integration. NOPE, it does not teach us how to use Integration Manager to the detail of each and every Field Mapping involved. But it gives you ample knowledge in what you must expect with respect to Basic & Necessary Data Integration in GP2010.

By the time you finish reading Appendices, you would feel like you have personally implemented GP on a Customer’s site. No exaggeration when I meant it, absolutely.

3. Victoria’s Experience – I bought this book for just one single reason: Victoria’s Experience. It’s just not mere luck or coincidence of her grabbing hold of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for a record 7th Straight year.

It takes immense efforts to write a book, which must make sense to appropriate audience. It takes time, energy, thoughts, efforts and almost everything that you possess. This in addition to what you MUST do as part of your day to day job. And pulling off such a book, is great. Simply great.

4. Audience of this Book – This book is intended to anyone (I insist, ANYONE) who wants to sincerely implement Dynamics GP 2010. All we have to possess is some SQL Server knowledge to understand the Application Interaction and some Accounting Basics. Even if you are a newbie to Dynamics GP 2010, you can proudly announce the world that you have learned GP 2010 Implementation, after sincerely reading this book.

If I am an experienced Consultant / Implementor, and I feel like Ahh come on, why do I need a book? I have already done more than 10 realtime implementations, then trust me, I do have something in this book to learn. And I won’t complain after (reading it).

Where to get this Book?

Get yourself this book from Packt Publications, link: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Implementation – By Victoria Yudin.

Note:

Most importantly, remember to thank Victoria for sharing her experience and expertise with us. This book surely is a treasure for all of us.

VAIDY

Microsoft’s Cloud strategy in perspective of Microsoft Dynamics

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I just read this article on Navigate Into Success by Vjekoslav Babic, about his views on a post that’s published in Software Advise.


The article, Microsoft’s Cloud strategy in perspective of Microsoft Dynamics, goes on to agree / disagree certain points. 


Very good post up there and I am sure this would bring some thought process inside us.


VAIDY

DGPB Learning Resources Page

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The DGPB (Dynamics GP Blogster), Mariano, has updated the Learning Resources page with GP Word Template Series and GP Architectural Foundations Series.

His post explains how to navigate. Read it here: Learning Resource Page Update.

VAIDY

Victoria Yudin’s Book – Microsoft Dynamics GP2010 Implementation

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So we have a book on GP overall functionality Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Cookbook, by Mark Polino. Now we have another one, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Implementation, by Victoria Yudin.

Read more on Victoria’s post: Dynamics GP 2010 implementation book coming soon.

For those who want to preorder this book, you can reach Packt Publications’ exact page here: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Implementation.

VAIDY

Why does Microsoft Dynamics GP use a Data Folder? – David Musgrave

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An informative post from David for all Consultants who face the same query from a Customer.

Read it here: Why does Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 and later use a Data folder?

VAIDY

Autocomplete Information in GP – Additional Info.

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This is another interesting post with loads of information about Autocomplete Data in GP. Leslie Vail explains us what’s it all about Autocomplete Data in GP and where it’s stored.

Read it here: Autocomplete Data for GP – It’s not really a Mystery.

I would like to share one more interesting information along with this post.

Because of the path where this Autocomplete Data is stored, if you have two different GP versions (10 & 2010) and you have the same Company DB name (such as TWO), then whatever you see in GP10 as Autocomplete Data will also be shown in GP2010.

For instance, I enter a value “VAIDHY” on a Customer ID field in GP2010, this new value gets stored in Autocomplete Data file. When you open GP10 and try to enter a Customer ID starting with letter “V”, this value “VAIDHY” will be listed as well.

Purely because, irrespective of versions (only from GP10), GP stores it’s Autocomplete Data in User Roaming Data folder under “Microsoft Dynamics GP”, as explained by Leslie.

Sometimes good, sometimes a drawback. Depends on how you use two versions.

VAIDY

Temporary Tables in Dexterity – David

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Excellent post for all Dexterity Developers.

David walks us thru’ the Temporary Tables concept in Dexterity. It explains the types of Temp. tables and when to use what type.

Another simple and complete reference post from David for all of us.

Read it here: Working with Temporary Tables in Dexterity.

VAIDY

Online Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP

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This one’s going to be very interesting and widely used features in Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP has got a post that explains couple of new Online Services that are going to be available from November 1, 2010.

Those features are:

1. Payment Services: Enables customers to accept electronic payments directly thru’ ERP.
2. Commerce Services: Build and publish new sales catalogs on demand and extend the sales reach across multiple online channels.

This is going to be available for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 SP5 and Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010.

More details here: COMING SOON – Online Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP.

This will be an excellent feature once we understand how it works and how effectively we can use it.

VAIDY

DexSense – Intellisense For Dexterity – Tool Updated

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Before anything, this one’s got to be first.

For all of us, Dexterity Developers, this excellent tool is a boon. This tool has got an update and the new version is v1.8.

David’s article here for more details: Intellisense for Dexterity – DexSense 1.8 Released.
Mariano’s addendum here: Intellisense for Dexterity… the gift that keeps on giving.

Do start using it if you are already not. It certainly saves tons of time in typing.

VAIDY

Get The Most Out Of GP Community

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David superbly summerizes the most useful resources available for us to look into.

Start from here to enter a world of GP Resources: Getting the most out of your Microsoft Dynamics GP Community.

VAIDY