Mark Polino's Blog, page 243
April 11, 2012
A Couple of Recent Backup Stories
In our Worst Mistakes You Make With Dynamics GP presentation for GPUG John Lowther and I harped on backups. Two articles out today show why.
Jack Boyer describes recent backup lapses with Dynamics SL and GP
Doug Pitcher offers a cloud based example on the importance of backups
I do want to point out one thing. "The Cloud" generically is not a panacea for backups.
For example, NetSuite is a cloud based competitor. Despite what folks say in their marketing, companies don't really lie to the SEC.
From NetSuite's March 2010 10K filing:
"We currently operate and maintain an offsite facility for customers who specifically pay for accelerated disaster recovery services. For customers who do not pay for such services, although we maintain tape backups of their data, we do not operate or maintain a separate disaster recovery facility, which may increase delays in the restoration of our service for those customers."
Tape backups are notoriously unreliable and the accounting literature is full of accountants responsibility for managing risk. Performing backups may be IT's responsibility but the financial statements belong to us. Ensuring that the data is available is part of our job as well.
Some great scripts that John Lowther recently found - Microsoft Dynamics GP DBA
John Lowther shows off Some great scripts that he recently found.
I feel like this is a good time to point out the SQL Script section of DynamicAccounting.net
April 10, 2012
How To Install Management Reporter 2012 – Client Installation | azurecurve
Ian Grieve wraps up his terrific Management Reporter 2012 series with a look at How To Install Management Reporter 2012 – Client Installation
GPUG: 50 Tips for Closing the Month Faster with Dynamics GP (April 10 2012)
Please join me today at 1pm ET for a lunch and learn encore presentation of 50 Tips for Closing the Month Faster with Dynamics GP
This was a big hit at DayONE of Convergence and I'm looking forward to presenting it again.This is an open event. All members are welcome.
April 9, 2012
Capturing Purchase Use Tax on Payables Transactions | onza blog
Onza looks at Capturing Purchase Use Tax on Payables Transactions
I feel like this is a good time to plug my Use Tax for Dynamics GP Best Practices Guide available for free on the Best Practices page.
