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Empower Yourself at #UC2016 – Recap
For the past 11 years, KTL Solutions has directed their Annual Mid-Atlantic Technology User Conference, mostly known as our User Conference or Empower the User Conference. It has been a success since the first launch, but with growth, it has succeeded in becoming a leading User Conference. This
Compare Your Reporting Tools: Management Reporter, BI360, and Jet Reports
KTL Solutions wants to keep you in the loop! This is our
#UC2016 – Take a look back at our CRM Track
KTL Solutions celebrated their 11th annual Empower the User Conference on May 19th at the Microsoft Center in Reston, Va. This year, as in year’s past, KTL brought 3 unique tracks to the event allowing users to customize their own experience and gain the knowledge they deemed the most valuable. However, we understand that not everyone could make it to all of their sessions. Below is a breakdown of what you may have missed from the CRM Track at UC 2016.
The Expansion of a New Track at #UC2016
On Thursday, May 19th, KTL Solutions held their 11th Annual Mid-Atlantic Technology User Conference. Not only was it a success, but it was a testament to where KTL Solutions is headed in the next few years, becoming a full technology consulting firm. Part of this testament was the expansion of their Technology Track.
Help! I Can’t Access My Opportunity in Dynamics CRM!
That is the frantic call you receive when, during another day at the office, a User goes to check on one of their open Opportunities. When they click on the Opportunity in their view, the record won’t load and they receive an error message:
Mekorma MICR: What is It and How Can Your Company Benefit From Using It
What is Mekorma MICR?
Mekorma MICR is an enhancement for Microsoft Dynamics GP that allows your company to print checks in the desired format that directly relates to your operations. The checks are printed through the same standard check printing practice within Microsoft Dynamics GP. Mekorma MICR adds the layer to pull from the customized format designed within the Mekorma MICR check configurator, rather than the internal GP check configurations, making the check printing process seamless within Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Jet Express for Excel, The New Management Reporter
KTL Solutions wants to keep you in the loop! This is our follow up blog from “Microsoft Announces the End of Management Reporter.”
As many people are slowly finding out, Microsoft and Jet Reports have ventured into a partnership to provide Jet Express for Excel. Jet Express is an Excel-based, financial reporting tool that will not only allow you to create basic reports in minutes, but also ad hoc reporting that will pull from all GP tables.
Microsoft Announces the End of Management Reporter
If you are a Microsoft Dynamics user, your world has once again been shaken up. Microsoft announced on Sunday, at their Amplify event in California, that they will no longer develop Management Reporter. Yes, this feels eerily similar to a few years back when they announced that they were sun-setting FRx and replacing it with Management Reporter. Now, don’t let this send you in to a tizzy. Microsoft will continue to support Management Reporter until 2026. However, it’s not recommended to stick with a tool that is no longer going to be updated or enhanced.
Third-Party Phobia
If you have ever attended Microsoft Convergence (may it rest in peace) and have walked the expo hall, then you are aware of the hundreds, even thousands of add-on products to Microsoft Dynamics. Any industry, any problem – there’s a product for it. However, some people are still against the idea of using third-party products. Why is that? Here are some third-party phobic myths I hear often.
