Our Top 10 Microsoft Dynamics Stories of 2009: Team Blunders, the Cloud, Integration, Discontinuations, and Upgrades Dominate

As the Microsoft Dynamics product suite expanded its market penetration and influence during 2009, users increasingly agonized about two issues: effective implementation and staying ahead of the product development curve. A review of our most popular articles (in no particular order) during 2009 clearly shows these issues dominating users' concerns. There were, of course, many more than these ten that caught readers' attention, but these articles highlight key issues in the Microsoft Dynamics community during 2009.

Four Microsoft Dynamics GP Project Team Blunders and How I Become a Hero

Where do Microsoft Dynamics GP implementation projects go wrong? Let's just say that if the readership of this article is any indication, such projects go wrong more than we like to think. Mariano Gomez uses his experience to serve up four typical ways implementation projects get lost, and how they are rescued.

Three Steps for Taming Smartlist Sprawl

Smartlist is an ad hoc reporting tool built into Microsoft Dynamics GP, and as simple and powerful as Smartlist reporting can be, it has a big negative: what Mark Polino refers to as "Smartlist Sprawl". He provides guidance for countering the tendency of users to continually create another Smartlist...and ever more sprawl.

A Primer on Workflow Management Using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009

The workflow management capabilities within Dynamics AX 2009 reflect an underlying conceptual model than can be applied to an approval process for an assortment of different situations, varying widely in complexity.   In this popular primer, Scott Hamilton provides a layman's understanding of how this conceptual model can help users frame a solution approach to each situation.&...