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Armanino McKenna LLP announced today that it has
acquired 1 Source Solutions,
also known as Fullscope West, to grow its US west coast presence as a Microsoft
Dynamics VAR for GP, CRM, and AX.  The 1
Source staff of 28 employees will join the firm and 2 former 1 Source
executives, Bruce Kirschenbaum and Chris Moore, have been named as new partners
within the Consulting department of Armanino McKenna. 

The
transaction includes acquisition of 1 Source’s software modules that work in
conjunction with MS Dynamics AX including manufacturing, distribution, revenue
recognition and supply chain management.  1 Source clients include technology, manufacturing, medical devices and pharmace…

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On
September 20, Olive-3 Technologies will
be releasing a suite of cloud-based, on-demand editions of webOps TMM powered
by Microsoft Dynamics AX to help companies manage and maintain their
assets-from requisition to disposition-in the cloud

The
offerings, which are all developed in Dynamics AX, are designed to help
mid-size manufacturers maximize the return on investments of their assets by
optimizing the management and maintenance of those assets, said Ali Aksut,
President and Founder of Olive-3 Technologies, a provider of provider of on-demand and on-premise operations management
solutions to manufacturers and distributors.

"This is
the next step in our product road-map to offer ‘easy-to-use’ and ‘affo…

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Swedish-based global organization, Lagerstedt &
Krantz Group, has chosen Zap’s business intelligence software to help manage
its 16 international companies.

According to officials, LK Group, which uses
Microsoft Dynamics NAV as its standard Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
system, becomes Zap’s first Swedish client, as the software company expands in
Europe.

LK Group said it will use Zap’s Business Analytics
for Microsoft Dynamics NAV to better communicate performance to its board, a
well as analyze production and sales in the heating, plumbing, shipping, real
estate management and finance industries.

According to Kristoffer Gustafson, LK Group IT
Manager: "We wante…

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Forrester Research Inc. has
recognized Microsoft Dynamics AX a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Order Management
Hubs for August 2010.

According
to the report, Microsoft has reached Leader designation for the first time
based mainly on the strength of its strategy, including a top three product and
go-to-market strategy as well as market-leading ownership costs.

To
participate in the Forrester Wave, vendors had to meet specific requirements,
including an ability to provide support for market-leading industries, to
demonstrate a broad business process footprint and to target organizations with
500 or more employees.

These
vendors were then evaluated against 112 criteria based on current off…

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Call it
a marriage made through Microsoft’s Partner Channel Builder Program.

Microsoft
ISV Tensoft Inc. has entered into a
partnership whereby RMS McGladrey Inc., a Gold
Certified Partner of Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Solutions, will promote and
sell the Tensoft Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Suite for Dynamics GP, with a
focus on technology businesses.

Although
partnerships between ISVs like Tensoft, an ERP and supply chain solution
provider for the semiconductor, software and high tech industries, and
resellers like McGladrey, a large assurance, tax and consulting services
provider aren’t all that unusual, the Microsoft Partner Channel Builder Program
that put them toget…

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It’s
that time again. Nigel Frank International, a specialist global
Microsoft Dynamics recruitment agency, is conducting its annual survey of
Microsoft Dynamics professionals’ salaries and is asking for input to paint the
most accurate picture of the current salary trends. 

The survey is currently underway:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Microsoft_Dynamics_Salary_Survey_2010

Last year 5,800 people, mainly from Europe and
North America, who either worked, or had worked in the Microsoft Dynamics
community responded to the survey, according to the company.

Some of
the highlights of the 2009 survey included:

• The average …

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For process manufacturing and
distribution firms evaluating or implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX as their
ERP solution, the depth of the product’s capabilities is both one of its
greatest benefits and challenges. 
Learning the range of features and functions is essential for leveraging
the business models embedded in the software, and the relevant information varies
for different teams and organizations. 

Aware of these challenges after
years of teaching and implementing Dynamics AX, consultant and author Dr. Scott
Hamilton’s latest book, Managing Process Manufacturing using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, examines
the software capabilities for supporting business processes in different type…

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Tallan Inc. has announced a new Microsoft
Dynamics CRM practice.

Founded
in 1985, Tallan has adopted technology to accelerate its ability to deliver high-quality
systems to its customers including through integrating the capabilities of
Microsoft BizTalk, Windows Communication Foundation or the .NET Enterprise
Library, according to CEO Craig Branning.

"The
increased speed with which our developers are able to build systems to manage
structured data with Dynamics CRM is impressive," he said in a statement.

…

Microsoft
partner, Columbus IT said it has grown
its business in the first half of this year. The Nordic region, Western Europe
and t…

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The
Microsoft Dynamics AX Sustained Engineering Team recently announced
the compatibility of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with Dynamics AX 2009 Service Pack
1.

And
that’s good news for customers, said Joe Marcus, Director,
Solution Architecture, Ideaca Knowledge Services Limited

"Knowing
what SharePoint 2010 offers, I would say one of the benefits is the future-proofing
of the stack," Marcus said.

Without
this compatibility customers would be limited to SharePoint 2007, which means
if they wanted to upgrade their infrastructure to SharePoint 2010 they wouldn’t
be able to do t…

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Sure
Step is Microsoft’s implementation methodology for all its Dynamics
products. Recently I had the opportunity to take Microsoft’s implementation
exam for Dynamics and in the process, I learned that many customers and even
some partners really don’t understand what Sure Step is.

It
should be obvious that a successful implementation of Microsoft Dynamics GP
provides the foundation for happy users later on. Since all of the Dynamics
products are implemented by partners, it’s in Microsoft’s interests to
facilitate consistent implementations whenever possible. Microsoft’s vehicle to
provide consistency is its Sure Step methodology.

Sure
Step is an implementation methodology similar to methodologies already used by
many partners. With the standardizati…

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