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SAP Business One 8.8

SAP Business One 8.8 Information Resource

This page is going to contain all of our resources and links regarding SAP version 8.8. We wanted to get our first impressions out to our clients and partners regarding this new product. We'll be starting with a few video links and posts about our impressions of the 8.8 preview version and moving on to a more in-depth look at all of the new bells and whistles. Updates are available via our rss feed.

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Small Businesses Benefit from Drupal

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Orchestra is now offering Drupal - Small Business Edition. Designed specifically for small and midsize businesses, Drupal SBE is a package product and service offering that can get your business online on the best Content Management System available. Orchestra has streamlined the website design and implementation process for small business, creating a solution that is perfect for companies that need to improve their web presence.

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Crystal Reports Free Trial Download

Crystal Reports 2008 Free Trial

Crystal Reports 2008 is available for download as a 30-day free trial. The trial is fully functional and allows you to explore all the functionality and benefits of Crystal Reports. Orchestra utilizes Crystal Reports to build business critical reports for our clients on SAP Business One, as well as to create highly functional print layouts for their documents. Contact Orchestra today to get started with Crystal Reports, or follow the links below to download a free trial.

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SAP Partner Summit 2010 Las Vegas

SAP Partner Summit 2010 Las Vegas

Orchestra is attending the SAP Partner Summit 2010 event in Las Vegas, NV. The annual event for SAP Partners runs from February 28th - March 2nd and is held at the The Venetian Hotel. The Orchestra Team is looking forward to networking with our partners, meeting new channel members, and talking shop with SAP. We'll see you there.

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Project Managing a Drupal Website

Drupal Project Management - Designing a Tire Swing

When I was in college I had a professor, Mauricio, ask me what I wanted to do when I graduated. I loudly and enthusiastically exclaimed that I was going to be a Project Manager for a software consulting company. I remember him saying "Why in the world would you want that job? A software PM is a person responsible for everything in a project with no control over any of the project resources! You should TEACH people how to Project Manage instead." Admittedly, now that I'm living my dream at 5 AM when a client inevitably has a question or runs into a workflow that I never thought of (i.e. I've trained my pet terrier to make blog posts - can you make it so the web pages post with everything translated into audio for small dogs?) I sometimes wish I had decided to take his path instead.

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User Defined Fields for Everyone

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User Defined Fields Introduction

User defined fields are becoming a standard feature of business software and can be an incredibly powerful tool. As with all tools though they are only useful if you can use them so I wanted to take a moment and I do mean a moment and show you how easy it is to start bending SAP Business One to your specific requirements with this short three minute how to video.

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XL Reporter Sales Report for Previous Day

XL Reporter for SAP Business One

In this post, we'll see how to run a report automatically for the pevious days sales. This is a very cool report that allows small businesses to get a clear grasp on how their business is doing on a day to day basis. Often used by business owners to keep up on their company, this type of report provides on-going visibility into operations that only SAP Business One and XLR can provide the small business.  Check out this post on how to do just that with SAP Business One and XL Reporter.

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Tools to Help You Compare ERP Applications

ERP Applications Comparison

 I've been getting a lot of feedback from people lately in the sales process that it's really hard to find adequate comparison tools for SAP versus other products.  This has led to my own quest for knowledge about how to find out how to compare the best ERP systems for a business.  Here is what I've found...

 

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SAP Business One is HOT

SAP Business One and Dave's Insanity Sauce

In this great post and video, we'll see how a small, but fast growing, company utilizes SAP Business One. Meet Dave Hirschkop, founder and mad genius at Dave's Insanity Sauce, maker of the "hottest sauce in the universe". Dave's has grown dramatically in the past 5 years with only nine employees, using SAP Business One. Check it out.

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SAP Business One Forum Hits Million Views

SAP Community Network

The SAP Business One forum team announced recently that they have had over 1 million views on the forum in just two and a half years. The forum is a great resource for anyone needing to know more about B1, troubleshoot an issue, or simply ask other for help.

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SAP Business One Sarbanes Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley US SEC

SAP Business One and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is an important topic. Companies running SAP Business One that will go public or need to meet the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley will benefit from this post. Below you will find information about how SAP Business One can be utilized in becoming compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley. Business software cannot make a company compliant, but it can play a role in helping a company gain compliance through u se of tools and settings within the software. SAP Business One has many of these features and capabilities, which are discussed in the post.

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ASUG California Northern Chapter Meeting

SAP California User Group - ASUG

ASUG, America's SAP User Group, will be holding the Northern California Chapter Meeting on January 19th, 2010. The meeting includes keynote speakers, information sessions, and breakout discussions, all among other users of SAP software, such as SAP Business One, All in One, and MySAP. The meetings in 2009 were a hige success, so this year is expected to be even better. In 2010, we're hoping to see more presence from the SAP Business One user base to attend and participate in ASUG.

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SAP Business One Demo

Request a Demo of SAP Business One

Demo SAP Business One Today

If you are interested in taking an in-depth look at SAP Business One, give Orchestra a call.  We can setup a live demo, viewable over the internet, or if you are near one of our offices, we're happy to come out to meet you and show you the software in person.

You won't get a canned demo from Orchestra, but rather a flexible discussion and demonstration about what you want and need to see in the software to help you in your search for new business management software.

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Drupal Tip CCK Hide Node Show View

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Drupal how to tip on hiding a CCK field on a node, but displaying it in a view. Sometimes you might want to create a field using CCK, and use the field for a view. However, you might also need this field to not show on your node, so you need to "hide" it on the node while leaving it accessible for all other uses. This post walks through how make the setting in Drupal.

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DiCentral is EDI with Southern Hospitality

On a cold December day in Portland, Brad Windecker and I embarked on a journey into the heart of Texas to spend a few days with one of our partners, DI Central. While we were there, we had the chance to talk to their management team about their solutions, fulfill my lifelong dream of visiting NASA in Houston, attend a spectacular company party, and enjoy some southern hospitality. It's great to do business with a firm that provides a great product and knows how to throw a party.

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SAP Resource and Social Media Networking

SAP Social Media

Blog post on SAP resources to find out more about SAP, connect with the community, or get in touch with SAP on the web. SAP operates dozens of websites and social media profiles, so there are myriad ways of connecting with SAP. In the post, you will find links to many of SAP's web pages, social media sites, and accounts as well as other places that consolidate them all for ease of use.

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Mikogo Free Screen Sharing

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Orchestra has been featuring free business tools this year, so we thought we'd close out 2009 with a special post about one of our favorites. Mikogo is free software that allows you to share your screen with anyone in the world for web conferences, remote support, and more. We use it on a regular basis here at Orchestra for everything from official remote support sessions to impromptu screen sharing within the team.

Mikogo is built by BeamYourScreen, a company that provides high end web sharing technology to large enterprises. A few years ago, they heard the need for a free screen sharing tool, so they started Mikogo to satisfy the demand. Now we have a great tool that allows up to 10 people to connect online for free!

Read more to download this tool and start sharing your screen for free.

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SAP Business One Windows 7 Update

SAP Business One on Windows 7

SAP Business One on Windows 7

SAP Business One on Windows 7 is a hot topic right now, so we thought we'd post an update. Now that Windows 7 has been available for some time and the early adopters have bore the brunt of exploring a new OS, businesses are taking a closer look.

Orchestra has a few techies on staff that are a bit maniacal about their computers, so we've gone ahead and tried just about everything on Windows 7 and even gone through the experience of uprading Vista to Windows 7.  To take it further, one person here even switched from Linux to Windows 7, which I must keep secret for fear that a giant penguin might hunt him down in his sleep.

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SAP Business One Year End Closing Tips

SAP Business One Year End Closing

Year End Closing in SAP Business One

It's that time of year again for, well, year end closings. Closing out the year in your business accounting software has traditionally been something of a pain in the butt, but with SAP Business One it is a much better experience.

Below you will will find basic instructions, a video, and some additional resources for closing out your year and completing the year end process in SAP Business One. Best of all, this process that traditionally takes weeks or even months in older systems, now takes a day or two in SAP Business One.

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SAP B1 Warehouse Management Solution 2.0

Accellos One for SAP Business One

On Tuesday December 7th, Accellos, a top provider of warehouse management systems, launched Accellos One 2.0 for SAP Business One. This new version of their top flight solution provides numerous improvements to their WMS solution for SAP Business One. Read more about this new version of our WMS solution by clicking the Read More button below.