Partner Selection Pays Off in Ramping Up Forecaster for Microsoft Dynamics GP

This article is part of an occasional series on performance management. 

Microsoft Dynamics customers are always seeking more and better insight into their business, but sometimes getting to the truth of the matter takes more than just the right tools.  When it comes to budget planning and analysis with Microsoft Dynamics GP, there is no substitute for a well-planned strategy and a wealth of experience from the team designing and deploying the solution.

For example, Susquehanna Association for the Blind and Vision Impaired (SABVI) is using Forecaster for Dynamics GP to give users access to budgeting information. 

"We are in the middle of our second implementation of Forecaster," said Cindi Todd, the association's controller. They first implemented it partially for the last budget year for human resources budgeting and to do production-based budgeting, but some features like certain calculations and other configuration were not set up correctly. 

"We really didn't have a lot of guidance from the partner we used to do the installation of the software," explained Todd. "They have a lot of strengths but Forecaster wasn't really one of them. I didn't ...