GPUG Pre-Game General Session

The GPUG Pre-Game general session came in with some nice announcements – most importantly – Dynamics GP 2013 SP1 will be available mid April.

Jesse Byam, Etelligent Solutions, Inc set things off. Canadian guy in shorts, in freezing weather, certain thing - nobody got bored.

 

Jay Manley – took over with the important announcements.

Kim Peterson- came in to start the MVP session

 

The MVPs tacking the questions

• Belinda Allen
• Frank Hamelly
• Mark Polino
• Mariano Gomez
• Leslie Vail

 

 

I was thrilled to be in such fantastic company, and we took upon interesting questions ranging from – “What keeps you up at night” to “Impact of new limited users”.

Also announced was the shiny new GPUG Community site - http://community.gpug.com

I want that Dynamics GP Demo Now!

Well ERP prospects always want the Demo – “now”! John Dooley, Dynamics GP PTA and his team have come up with an intermediate solution for all the overworked consultants.

Dynemo-is a demonstration tool that can help deliver the first demos relatively quickly. Its aimed at helping sales people to do and or drive early simple demos.

In a few simple steps – Dynemo can create a clickable demonstration, create an email with case studies and an invitation. If you are running the GP Demo Virtual Image, it can create the clickable shortcuts for you as well!

Go check out John’s post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/captain_stack/archive/2012/12/17/dynemo.aspx

 

 

 

RapidStart for Dynamics GP–A must see set of tools

Imagine configuring new companies in Dynamics GP in minutes rather than hours or days. In the Rapid Implementation session at (GPUG Pre-Game) – Jay, Gloria and Scott showed how they have done this in the past few months. Dynamics GP has great new tools for speeding up configurations, migrations for new implementations – RapidStart. Microsoft is going to start marketing this tool heavily, so make sure you are up to speed with the tool!

This session had the following stalwarts -

• Jay Manley (Sr. Product Manager – Microsoft)
• Gloria J. Braunschweig, (CMA President)
• Scott Dimmick (Practice Manager – Tribridge)

 

Naturally, the seasoned Dynamics GP consultants would go – well that would only work in some cases. And, you would be absolutely right! What I loved in Rapid start was the ability to create templates that you could reuse across industries.

RapidStart comes with inbuilt integrations for Quickbooks, Peachtree and excel templates that can be used with other software.

 

However, this being the first version there are some caveats -

• Not all modules are supported (project accounting / canadian payroll, australian GST to name a few )
• The tool does a complete sync of all setups supported (not a partial sync)

Still it would be a great starting point, and all GP Partners should be looking at this. Get the tool for FREE at 

RapidStart Download Page
https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/deployment/resources/migrationtools/MSDGP2013RapidStart

For more information about the Rapid Implementation Tools, please visit
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4071

Gloria has written a book on Rapid Implementation – check it out at http://rapidimplementation.com/

ERP Software Blog has a video at

 

RapidStart for GP 2013

Meet me at Convergence 2013!

I will be making the 25 hour trip from Perth to New  Orleans – and am looking forward to catching up with all of you attending Convergence this year. Unfortunately ‘the David Musgrave’ is not making the trip – so he has asked me to take Tim Tams for any of you fans out there. Let me know if you want a special flavour, and I’ll grab a few for you.  

I’ll be at the the Ask the GP MVPs session at GPUG Pre-Game, and the Dynamics GP Expo during Convergence at the times below.  Anyway, I shouldn't be difficult to miss. 

GPUG Pre-Game (Mar 17)

1:00pm - 2:30pm :  General Session with Ask the MVPs Session

 

 

Convergence – Dynamics GP Expo

• Mar 18 [5.30 PM to 7 PM] – Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client
• Mar 19 [ 4 PM to 6 PM] – Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client
• Mar 20 [4 PM to 6 PM] - BI and Reporting
• Mar 21 [10.30 AM to 12.30 PM] – Dynamics GP 20130 System

I am looking forward to attending the following presentations and sessions by Dynamics GP MVPs (Mark Polino, Mariano Gomez, Belinda Allen, John Lowther Frank Hamelly, Charles  Allen, Leslie Vail and other experts in the Microsoft Dynamics world.    

Reconciliation Best Practices in Microsoft Dynamics GP CSGP08-R2
Thursday, March 21   5:30 PM - 6:30 PM   Room: 271-273
Speaker(s): Frank Hamelly

Getting Better Reporting with Business Analyzer for Microsoft Dynamics GP CSGP09-R1
Wednesday, March 20   11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   Room: 278-280
Speaker(s): Brian Meier

50 Tips in 50 Minutes for Microsoft Dynamics GP: The Next Generation CSGP12-R2
Wednesday, March 20   11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   Room: Theater C
Speaker(s): Mark Polino

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP & Microsoft Excel CSGP13-R2
Thursday, March 21   2:30 PM - 3:30 PM   Room: 278-280
Speaker(s): Jared Hall, Mark Polino

New Users in Microsoft Dynamics GP: Introduction CSGP26-R2
Thursday, March 21   4:00 PM - 5:00 PM   Room: 278-280
Speaker(s): Beat Bucher, Mark Polino
 
Microsoft Dynamics GP for Prospects CSGP27-R1
Tuesday, March 19   3:30 PM - 4:30 PM   Room: 281-282
Speaker(s): Belinda Allen, Craig Crescas
 
The Microsoft Dynamics GP Support Debugging Tool CSGP30
Thursday, March 21   2:30 PM - 3:30 PM   Room: La Nouvelle AB
Speaker(s): Mariano Gomez

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client For Smaller Companies CSGP32-R2
Thursday, March 21   5:30 PM - 6:30 PM   Room: La Nouvelle AB
Speaker(s): Daryl Anderson, Kevin Racer, Mariano Gomez
 
Microsoft Dynamics GP Project Accounting for Advanced Users DDGP04
Wednesday, March 20   9:00 AM - 10:30 AM   Room: 281-282
Microsoft Dynamics GP
Speaker(s): Abby Moore, Sandra Dodge
Deep Dive

Getting Inspired with Microsoft Dynamics GP GENGP01
Tuesday, March 19   11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   Room: Hall IJ
Speaker(s): Andy Hafer, Bob McAdam, Brian Meier, Chad Sogge, Errol Schoenfish, Jay Manley, Jeff Trosen, Jennifer Ranz, Mariano Gomez, Mark Polino
General Session

Sex, Lies & Refreshable Excel Reports UBGP09
Monday, March 18   12:00 PM - 1:00 PM   Room: 343-345
Speaker(s): Mark Polino

Wait! Don’t Check that Box: Learn Your Setup Options in Financials UBGP11
Monday, March 18   12:00 PM - 1:00 PM   Room: 352
Speaker(s): Leslie Vail

What to Know Before the Auditors Ask:  Risk Management & Controls in Microsoft Dynamics GP UBGP12
Monday, March 18   1:30 PM - 2:30 PM   Room: 350-351
Speaker(s): Andrew Snook, Mark Polino

Read the following Posts regarding convergence sessions -

• The Dynamics GP Blogster: Microsoft Dynamics Convergence is around the corner!
• Counting down to the Convergence Closing Celebration: Spark The Future! - Microsoft Dynamics Convergence - Site Root - Microsoft Dynamics Community
• DynamicAccounting.net: Convergence 2013
• Book Reveals The Benefits of Rapid Implementation

SmartConnect for GP 2013 Released

eOne has just announced that - SmartConnect Now Compatible with GP 2013

I was definitely waiting for this announcement, as SmartConnect is my tool of choice for integrations to Dynamics GP.

Winners of Free Dynamics GP Development Book

Time to announce the winners for the Free Developing for Dynamics GP Book by MVP Leslie Vail (2 copies only!) giveaway. I used the Random Choice tool at http://jklp.org/public/html/choose.html.

The two winners are

• Beat Bucher 
• Prasad Sawant

Congratulations guys!

If you can send me your email ID’s at jivtesh AT gmail DOT com – I’ll get this completed!

Free Developing for Dynamics GP Book by MVP Leslie Vail (2 copies only!)

I have a couple of free e-copies of MVP Leslie Vail’s red hot Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications book to give away. As I wrote earlier – this book is a must have reference for everybody who is involved with any of the following  -

• Developing small customizations for Dynamics GP
• Developing applications for Dynamics GP
• Administering Dynamics GP

If you are interested in a copy – just post in a comment below by voting for your favourite Dynamics GP resource (or resources) on the internet. I’ll pick two random winners, and also announce the results of the poll on Feb 11, 2013.

 

Here are some options to begin with, but feel free to put in choices outside this list. In order of how often I personally use the resources

The blogs

• MVP Mark Polino’s DynamicAccounting.net – Home Page of Dynamics GP News on the Internet.
• David Musgrave and GP Developer Support Team’s -  Developing for Dynamics GP Blog – Must have resource for Dynamics GP developers, and consultants [SDT, Samples]
• The Dynamics GP Blogster (MVP Mariano Gomez's Blog) – Cutting Edge stuff
• MVP Victoria Yudin's Blog – For the SQL Scripts
• MVP Belinda, the GP CSI (Belinda Allen's Blog) – Fantastic Help Videos
• Inside Dynamics GP Blog – Feature of the Day
• azurecurve (Ian Grieve's Blog) – GPBloginator based on the speed at which he is going
• MVP Mohammad Daoud's Blog – Excel Paste and a lot more
• Dynamics GP Learn & Discuss (Vaidy Mohan's Blog) – Examples and great inquisitive approach to problems
• Dynamics GP Land (Christina Phillips, Steve Endow & Lorren Zemke's Blog) 
• GP2theMax (Frank Hamelly's Blog) – The original feature of the day series
• Interesting Findings & Knowledge Sharing (Sivakumar Venkataraman's Blog) – The only former MVP who is not unhappy to no longer be an MVP.

The forums / resource

• DynDeveloper – by Steve Gray
• GPWindow.com - Your window into Dynamics GP Resources 
• Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner Forum
• Microsoft Dynamics GP Community
• MSDynamicsWorld.com
• Microsoft Dynamics GP Solution Center (PartnerSource)

Naturally, the list above is not exhaustive.

David Musgrave maintains a more complete listing at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/developingfordynamicsgp/archive/2008/09/30/microsoft-dynamics-gp-blogs.aspx