The Dynamics GP Blog

Back on our home page you’ll find some new demos of GP that show you first-hand how the functionality of Microsoft Dynamics GP can benefit your business.

Tom from our UK Team has a new blog posting about Environmental Management for Microsoft Dynamics GP. It points to some great stuff on this topic. Check it out!

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You’ll need Microsoft Silverlight to see this great Demo of GP. Silverlight can be downloaded from here and the GP Demo can be viewed from here.

Enjoy!!

From time to time, they’ll be some posts about some of the great set of features that GP has and the sort of capabilties that it can give a user and an organization. Today we’ll start off with Audit Trails.

Audit Trails captures a snapshot of a Microsoft Dynamics GP document every time a change is made, then makes a record of the time, date and User ID associated with the change. It also captures the before-change data values and the after-change data values associated with the change.

When an audit trail is attached to a table within Microsoft Dynamics GP, the following changes occur:

• An audit table is created in the audit database that duplicates the table you are auditing. Audit Trails adds fields to each table with time, date and user ID information related to the change.

• Triggers are added to the audited tables. When a change occurs to an audited table, the triggers pass the change information to the audit database.

For example, an Inventory table might contain the following columns:

• Item number

• Item description

• Cost

A record in that table includes the following information.

Immediately after applying the audit, the audit table includes the following
information. (The time also is included in the audit database, although it’s not
shown in the illustration.)

If a user changes the cost of the item, this is reflected in the audit database and the
SmartView (Audit Trail) window includes the following information

One of the most respected business orientated software selection sites, The Accounting Library, published some time ago a report titled, ” Top-Ranked Business Management Systems of 2006“.  A few changes have occured since then. For example, Dynamics GP is now at version 10.0 with about 30% more functionality than ver 9.0.

Some of the other vendor offerings have improved considerable since 2006, however SAP B1, still refuses to publish a road map for its product.  It’s a puzzle through out the industry where SAP b1 is heading, obviously without a road map it doesn’t look like it’s heading anywhere. I’ll leave the SAP discussions for another time.

In the meantime, if you are evaluating which business management system to consider, research as much as possible, ask the right questions and use the software selection tools at the Accounting Library.