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.

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.

In this quick video, we'll see an introduction to SAP Business One and how it benefits small and midsize companies. SAP Business One is a single business management and accounting software solution, built specifically to help SMEs reduce costs and increase profits and growth. Orchestra is a dedicated SAP Business One Channel Partner, devoting ourselves to this top flight solution for small and midsize companies.

If you are interested in purchasing new software or want to know more about SAP Business One, give us a call today at 877-683-2648.

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.

SAP Business One is a completely real-time business application, with inventory and accounting figures being updated automatically when transaction occur. When an Invoice is created and added to the system, the Inventory is immediately deducted from the in-stock amount and the Cost of Goods Sold are booked to the General Ledger, along with the other entries created by an Invoice. No batches to process, no end of day or end of month processes. It all happens in the background, in real-time, all the time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Websites and E-commerce for Small & Midsize Businesses

Orchestra provides websites and E-commerce for small and midsize companies. Built on Drupal, a leading open source content management system, Orchestra's web solutions bring big enterprise level technology down to small business.