Why is Excel-based budgeting still so incredibly popular?Earlier in December we held a year-end closing event for both our Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL clients. 70 people attended the event.Because there were too many people to have each person introduce themselves, I asked a series of questions to make people feel welcome and involved. One of my questions was “How many people use Excel to budget?” I was shocked. All but 3 of our largest clients raised their hands.Why was this so surprising to me? I hear a lot of complaining from accountants around budget-time. Most don’t like Excel for budgeting.Specifically, this is what I hear: 1.) There is no time to analyze numbers due to the fact it took us so long to get the numbers. 2.) … [Read more...] about Excel-based Budgeting
Dynamics SL Custom Application Error when running on 64-bit OS
We have recently been working with more clients that are choosing to operate their Dynamics SL version 7.x product on a 64-bit (X64) operating system. While the Dynamics SL product is written as a 32-bit application, Microsoft started officially supporting the option for a 64-bit OS for the applications in SL 7.0 FP1.While we have experienced positive results installing and operating in this environment, we have run into an issue where custom applications that are written in the Dynamics SL SDK toolset may have an error when trying to run the application. The error will typically be generic in that is just states that the application has stopped working. If you read in the details it will have a Problem Event Name of "CLR20r3".This … [Read more...] about Dynamics SL Custom Application Error when running on 64-bit OS
