Press Release: Solver and eOne Announce Strategic Partnership

FARGO, ND, August 14, 2014 – Today, eOne Integrated Business Solutions and Solver, Inc. announced a global, strategic partnership to enhance the experience and ROI of their mutual customers and partners. Solver is the global leader in complete Business Intelligence suites for Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL and other enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Fargo based eOne is the leading provider of integration, migration, and data productivity tools for Microsoft Dynamics systems as well as other platforms and web services including SQL Server, ODBC, and Salesforce.com.

“We are excited to partner with eOne, one of the most well-known and respected Independent Software Vendor’s in the Microsoft Dynamics space,” said Nils Rasmussen, CEO of Solver. “With this partnership our customers and partners using Dynamics GP or Microsoft CRM will immediately benefit because they can configure an integration using eOne’s SmartConnect and load data into our BI360 solution in record time and with no technical skills required.”

“This is a great example of a partnership aimed at putting customers and partners first, and at eOne we are excited to be working with Solver to enable higher productivity and better Corporate Performance Management for our joint customers,” said Martin Olsen, Director at eOne Integrated Business Solutions. 

The first stage of the partnership is an integration using the eOne SmartConnect extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) tool to populate the BI360 Data Warehouse. With Pre-built SmartConnect integration templates specifically for BI360, the partnership simplifies and automates the loading of data from Dynamics GP and Microsoft CRM.

A webinar overview will be held on August 19th to showcase the new functionality.

To register for online session or for more information, visit: http://eone.solutions/solver-webinar.

About eOne Solutions

Headquartered in Fargo, ND, eOne Solutions is the proud creator of smart, configurable, and integrated software tools for business platforms and web services including Microsoft Dynamics GP, CRM, Microsoft SQL, and Salesforce.com. Founded in 2001, eOne has a family of seven flagship products specifically designed to enable business users with the easiest way to view, automate, report, and take action on information. In 2005, Microsoft and eOne built one of the most successful OEM partnerships in the history of Dynamics. With more than 13,000 companies trusting eOne tools daily and over 21,000 installs worldwide, eOne helps more Dynamics customers and partners than any other ISV or service provider.

For any questions, visit eOne’s website, or contact info@eonesolutions.com.

About Solver

Solver provides BI360, the leading Business Intelligence suite for Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL, Sage 500 and X3, Intacct, Acumatica and other ERP systems. Solver is a Microsoft Gold ISV Partner and the winner of the Microsoft BI Partner of Year Award and has a presence on the Gartner Group CPM Magic Quadrant. BI360 is sold through a world-wide network of resellers and is ideal for companies looking to find a user friendly, yet highly functional Reporting, Budgeting, Dashboard, Collaboration Portal, and Data Warehouse solution to give them deep insight and actionable information across all facets of their organization.

For any questions, visit Solver's website or contact Solver at info@solverusa.com.

Tech Tuesday: Automatically changing Dynamics GP SOP distributions based on business rules

The Flexicoder product is one of the most interesting ones in the mix offered from eOne. Businesses that need it, REALLY need it while the businesses that don't, REALLY don't. Let me explain, when you have an internal business need to track your Sales or COGS (or other accounts) by something other than just the account attached to the item or customer you introduce a manual process. Manual processes introduce humans into the equation and humans make mistakes!

Flexicoder helps you eliminate the time-consuming and error prone processes by defining the business rules one time and having the system automatically apply the rules for each transaction. I will outline two scenarios where you can see Flexicoder applied to change one or more of your account segments based upon the rule you setup.

Scenario 1: Change the first account segment based on Salesperson

One common scenario we see is a need to recode one of your Segments based on a Salesperson or Sales Territory. Both of these options are available to you with a host of others as well. In the image below you can see that it will automatically fill with the values for your Salespeople and then you can assign the values that are appropriate for your business case. The example below shows assigning some of the segments and leaving others to stay with the standard account.

This is a simple example of using the Sales distribution type but you have the ability to recode Accounts Receivable, Cash, COGS, Freight, Inventory, Markdown, Miscellaneous, Sales and Trade Discount types in the Sales Order Processing area and quite a few others in the Receivables area.

Scenario 2: Change the first and third segments based on Salesperson and additional Extender fields

This scenario shows that we can recode multiple segments and can use Extender windows to hold information to recode a segment. In this example I have an Extender window on the Sales Transaction Entry form in Dynamics GP that simple tracks a Subscription Type field as Monthly or Annual. I will see any Extender window attached to the Sales Transaction Entry, Item, or Customer windows in Dynamics GP.

One other thing to point out is that in the image above is the Exception area on the bottom right corner. This is a great tool to have if you need to exclude certain accounts, document types, batches or customers from the predefined process.

Finally, in order for this to work, you simply save the transaction and then pull it up again to view the distributions that have changed.

If you have a need for this try it out in the sample company and see if it will reclaim an hour a day to do something better than change distributions manually.

If you have any questions regarding Flexicoder or simply would like more information please email sales@eonesolutions.com and we would be happy to assist you!

Two eOne Pros Nominated for 2014 GP Community All-Stars!

FARGO, ND, August 07, 2014 – We are excited to announce that two members of the eOne team have been nominated for this year’s Dynamics GP All-Stars.  Nicole Albertson and Martin Olsen have been selected among 11 other candidates for the 2014 award. 

“Nicole is outstanding in the GPUG Community,” stated Kim Peterson, Director of GPUG, regarding the nomination.

“She is and has been instrumental in the educational aspects of the products eOne produces. She helped form SmartList Monday, which has morphed into Builder Monday, with monthly webinars on all of the builder products.  She’s a high demand presenter at conferences and always active in answering questions on GPUG Collaborate.  I don’t know what we’d do without Nicole! I’m very proud, and not surprised that she made the nomination list for GPUG All-Star 2014."

Martin Olsen, Product Director at eOne, is also on the candidate list, but has attributed the nomination solely to the work of his team. “If there are any congratulations in order, they should go to Nicole and the work of the amazing team here at eOne,” he stated.

“This year marks a major milestone for Nicole. With over 15 year of contributions to Dynamics GP, and approaching a decade of service with eOne tools like SmartList Builder, Extender, and SmartView, she has been nothing but a humble servant, dedicated to the success of the GP community.”

Voting for the community-based awards is now open and available at this link.

If eOne tools like SmartList Builder, Extender, or SmartView have made your GP experience better, please join us in congratulating Nicole and Martin in their efforts.

For the complete list of nominees, and to cast your vote for this year’s GP All-Star visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/voteAllStar2014

About eOne Integrated Business Solutions:

Headquartered in Fargo, ND, eOne Solutions is the proud creator of smart, configurable, and integrated software tools for business platforms and web services including Microsoft Dynamics GP, CRM, Microsoft SQL, and Salesforce.com. Founded in 2001, eOne has a family of seven flagship products specifically designed to enable business users with the easiest way to view, automate, report, and take action on information. In 2005, Microsoft and eOne built one of the most successful OEM partnerships in the history of Dynamics. With more than 13,000 companies trusting eOne tools daily and over 21,000 installs worldwide, eOne helps more Dynamics customers and partners than any other ISV or service provider.

For any questions, visit eOne’s website, or contact info@eonesolutions.com

About GPUG:

The Dynamics GP User Group (GPUG) is a user-driven, independent organization powered by Dynamic Communities, Inc.  GPUG’s leaders strive to help individuals and company members maximize the value they receive from Microsoft Dynamics GP.  Members learn, network, and share expertise through a number of educational events, webinars, training courses, virtual collaborative meetings, regional networking opportunities and a vibrant online community.  Learn more at http://www.gpug.com.

Continued Growth at eOne!

Our new office has steadily been filling up these past 12 months since we've moved and we couldn't be more excited about it! At this rate we overheard Martin debating whether we should get rid of the ping pong table to make room for future employees (no updates on that one)!

Meet Mark Anderson:

Mark joins us as our newest Senior Technical Consultant, who will focus primarily on assisting our ever growing support team. With over 19 years of experience in the Dynamics GP world Mark has a strong developer background. Having worn many hats throughout the years, Mark has also excelled at support and training. He is passionate about helping customers and teaching them how to be able to do their jobs more efficiently.

Outside of the office Mark's top priority is his family and loves spending time with his wife, son, daughter and son-in-law. In the fall you can find him cheering on his favorite football team the Minnesota Vikings! He and his wife are also self claimed Disney fanatics - most winters you will find their family spending a week in the "Happiest Place on Earth" making long lasting memories! To give you a look at how serious the fanatic part is, his wife has a custom license plate that reads DSNYFAN!

We're looking forward to the expertise, personality and skill-set Mark has to offer our team and we hope you do too! Please feel free to join us in dropping him a line at mark.anderson@eonesolutions.com!

Meet Nick Waverek:

Nick has joined as our Marketing Manager. With a diverse background spanning CRM consulting, partner channel development, and product management, Nick comes to eOne from ClickDimensions, the leading Marketing Automation Platform for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Prior to ClickDimensions, Nick was a Dynamics CRM Consultant for a MSFT Gold Partner in Minneapolis where he specialized in marketing process planning. He also operated his own consultancy architecting and implementing a wide variety of online productivity and SAAS based sales/marketing technologies. We are excited for the transformations and enhancements he will add to the eOne experience.

Expecting their first child in the next few weeks, Nick and his wife live here in Fargo, where he enjoys photography, playing and watching hockey, hunting, fishing, and various technology based projects. Secretly (well I guess not secretly anymore…) he is really, really bad at Ping-Pong, but he’s working on his game and simultaneously assisting the rest of the eOne team with their winning streaks. We’ll think he’ll fit in just fine here. Nick can be reached at nick.waverek@eonesolutions.com.

Please join us in welcoming Mark and Nick!

A Business Manager's Perspective on The Ease of SmartView

Upon being employed as the Business Manager at eOne, I realized my most valuable tool was SmartView. Not only for fast reporting, but because it was extremely easy to learn. 

I had never used GP, only other accounting software like Quickbooks. When learning GP, one of the most frustrating parts for me was to see if someone had paid their renewal and what method they used to pay. Or if someone would call, to have quick access to the invoices they were referencing and all the information in one spot. I thought, why does this have to be so painful?! 

With the help of our SmartList Builder Expert, Nicole Albertson, we were able to customize a couple of lists for me to move into SmartView and also manipulate the canned lists that were already existing within SmartView. It took me a couple days of just playing around with SmartView to really grasp what I could do with it. I now have approximately 25 favorite lists I’ve created myself. These range from daily sales, to monthly sales, to project accounting tracking for commission reports. The greatest part about this is I can share these lists with whomever I want in our office!

I also have had several chances to install SmartView. It’s a running joke at eOne as to when I will break my next computer. I’m on number 3 so far and I’ve only been here for 10 months. With each computer I’ve had to reinstall SmartView External and all I needed to know was the server name (I know this by memory now). So the ease of install is incredible (no nerd involvement needed).  ;)

SmartView took me a very short time to learn and I’m now able to give demos on the product. If you can use a mouse, you can do a SmartView demo. This product saves me around 5-8 hours a week of admin time and I highly recommend it as it is truly my favorite tool here at eOne. 

Please take a look here at SmartView. I promise you can’t report quickly without it! 

Best,

Alicia Bement

Business Manager

Tech Tuesday: SmartConnect Web Service Destination

This week's Tech Tuesday is from our Senior Technical Consultant, Chris Hanson, who has provided a video demonstration on SmartConnect's web service destination! 

This week we are looking at using the web service destination within SmartConnect, which allows for integrations that can be setup to systems or web sites that use web services as their primary means for communication. The setup for the web service destination is a two step process where the web service connection has to be defined initially and then after that it can be used in any map you setup. There is also an option to use a web service as a data source which we will cover in a future article to illustrate how to pull data out from them as well. 

Want more SmartConnect info? Email sales@eonesolutions.com!

The Easiest Way to Find Tables in GP - Table Finder (SmartList Builder)

We love it when customers jump in and take advantage of new product features. Last week we received a message from a long time customer who shared her love of Table Finder - one of the 8 new features we added with our build of SmartList Builder for GP 2013. 

"Hey Martin - 

I just had to drop you a note to tell you that Table Finder is my new favorite feature in GP! 

I use it time and time again to figure out what is where, especially when dealing with new things.  Right now I am setting up the HR system and I opened my master excel sheet that has all the tables list in it (old way to find tables), I was overwhelmed with where to even begin to find what I needed and then I remembered TABLE FINDER!!  5 seconds later, I have my answer!!!

I LOVE IT!

Michelle Kocher

Internal Operations Manager

Delta Medical Systems, Inc."

So, have you taken a moment to learn more about Table Finder - to help you find the exact tables you need in GP? Take a minute to learn more. 

Have questions? Let us know - email sales@eonesolutions.com.