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Archive for August, 2010
Dynamics AX Role Centres in a challenging business environment
Aug 27th
The economic news is encouraging. Earlier today the Office for National Statistics revised its original growth estimates upward from 1.1% to 1.2% for the second quarter of 2010 as confidence returns to many sectors, particularly manufacturing and construction.
As the recovery gathers pace now isn’t the time to take our collective eyes off the road, companies must remain focused on our corporate objectives and business growth goals. Leveraging visibility of key performance metrics or indicators (KPI’s) has until now been the preserve of specialist, bespoke and rather expensive business dashboard applications. Microsoft Dynamics AX and the Microsoft Partner Ecosystem are changing that with Microsoft Dynamics AX role centres.
As a key component of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, the role based home page is the landing page for users of the system, both internally with the rich client and externally using the Enterprise Portal web browser solution. What makes the role based home page particularly interesting is its ability to clearly and efficiently display current operational performance, correlating this alongside the original business KPI’s. This can be displayed graphically in the format of histograms and pie charts or numerically with the ability to drill down into the detail within.
A number of other tools within the role based home page look to increase personal productivity and a pro-active approach to tasks through the use of Cue’s, workflow business alerts.
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Microsoft changes the ERP market – Again!
Aug 20th
Microsoft is doing it again – ERP solution buying has just got a lot simpler
As of this September, a single pay-as-you-go monthly price will give a user access to all the features of Microsoft Dynamics AX that most users would ever need.
All of this software can be had for probably less than the price of your previous systems annual maintenance.
A” lite” version is available that is so cheap every PC user throughout a business should use it to get connected.
Full details should be available in September – but this market changing approach to delivering software just cannot be ignored.
If there was ever a good time to embrace change, now is it and it won’t cost you the earth
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Death of the IT Manager?
Aug 9th
Long gone are the days when a select few held the keys to the computer room door, through which only the chosen could enter and receive the blessings of prescribed knowledge on reams of green and white listing paper– or are they?
Many businesses are still in the thrall of IT managers who maintain a mystic about what they do and manage to keep a team of “experts” around them to deliver less than spectacular results.
Keeping up with today’s technology, let alone tomorrows, is all but impossible for an individual.
Instead, partnerships can be built with service providers who can deliver those elements of IT more consistently and cheaply than the traditional in house approach.
IT and system management should be sub-contracted in the same way office cleaning is. There are just too many more important things to be doing.
Businesses should instead be employing Information Managers (IM’s) who have responsibility to deliver real time information in a form that time hungry decision makers can easily digest.
This is a long way from just making sure the backup works and the printers do not jam.
Secure, reliable, flexible and cost effective solutions are now available for all areas of a business, and all you need is an Internet connection.
Broadband and Data Centres are changing the face of IT delivery across the world. Those companies which do not face up to these changes risk becoming irrelevant in the market places of tomorrow.
Move on from worrying about IT to delivering on IM. A great Information Manager is a hugely valuable asset to a business and the difference that he or she can make to the bottom line should always be appreciated.
The IT Manager is dead, long live the Information Manager!
