Sales and Use Tax changes for two Central California tax codes are changing on April 1, 2010. The notification of the sales and use tax increase comes from the California State Board of Equalization, and go into effect on April 1st, 2010. Read more to find out additional tax changes, see how to change tax codes in B1, and more.

Orchestra has scheduled our first Crystal Reports Training Course for SAP Business One. The course is designed for experienced SAP Business One users looking to take their reporting and business intelligence to the next level. The course includes live instruction, exercises, examples, and template reports to use in your company operations. Join us for this exciting course and find out why the SAP community is so excited about Crystal Reports being a native part of SAP Business One.

SAP Business One 8.8 Patch Level 08 is the current version available. This is the single most feature rich and stable version of SAP Business One to date, and is the current preferred version by Orchestra. If you are on a different patch than PL08 and have an active support plan, remeber that upgrades are included and take only an hour or two. Call Orchestra Support today to schedule an upgrade to this latest version.

Well everyone it is official, Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate in both the 32bit and 64bit variants are now officially supported by SAP Business One. For version 8.8 official support begins as of PL06 and for 2007A (The US and Canada are both A) official support began as of SP01 PL07. As a side note for our international readers who may be in countries using 2007B, it is also supported as of PL15.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SAP Business One Shortcuts and Hot Keys Guide

SAP Business One short cut keys are here. As Business One consultants, we get requests for a concise list of shortcut keys more than any other documentation. In response, we've created the SAP Business One Shortcut Keys Guide.

In the guide you will find shortcut keys for Sales, Purchasing, Payment, Inventory and Production Documents.

Click the title or the Read More button below to download the guide.