Last month, we held one of the largest Microsoft Dynamics SL client events yet, and if you missed it, we wanted to share with you some of the highlights:

• We kicked off the day with keynote by Jon Augdahl covering many new enhancements available in Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011, which began shipping in April 2011. Learn more about SL 2011 here. 
• Erik Vigesaa's presentation of Management Reporter was a highlight.  Management Reporter is Microsoft's SQL-based upgrade to FRx.  The product looks similar to FRx but does a number of things better including running on a database that your IT department already maintains and can back up as part of their routine other SQL database backups.FRx uses Microsoft Access to store rows, columns, and trees. Moving the financial reporting component to a SQL platform safeguards data.
• Tim Jones showed the newest data export tool called "Quick Query".  For those of you that have used our Microsoft Dynamics GP product as well, it is similar to "Smartlists".  For a non-technical audience, there were a lot of questions and participation in this section of the event especially.  The tool makes getting data out of Microsoft Dynamics SL much easier and does not require Crystal Reports expertise or as much familiarity with the database tables and fields to get the data you want.
• Over lunch (sponsored by Independent Software Vendor, Avalara, who specializes in sales tax and use tax solutions), Jack Boyer shared one  client's experience with Microsoft Dynamics SL and Avalara.  Using Avalara's sales tax web services, the client went from four hours to process a sales order to just 15 minutes per sales order.  They automated this process by importing many thousand line sales orders and having the web services insert the sales taxes after checking to make sure that neither the tax rate nor the taxability of the items had changed. 

With 56 attendees on hand, everyone had time to network, and share their best practices.  It was a great learning experience for everyone.  If you weren't able to attend and would like to learn more, contact us for more information or click here to access the content from the event.

We look forward to seeing you at our Year-End Client Event in December and thank you again for your business.

P.S. If you haven't already, we recommend that now is a great time to schedule an upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011.  Say goodbye to logging in and out of companies as 2011 allows you to login in to as many companies and screens as you would like.  Use Quick Query to extract that hard to reach data "you know iss in there".  The integration between projects and distribution modules also greatly improved. And finally, web services were added for quicker and less manual integration capabilities.

Spots are filling up so please contact Carol Simonson if you would like to schedule your Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011 upgrade later this summer or fall. 

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Microsoft Dynamics SL Webcasts

Please join us for some exciting Microsoft-hosted webcasts exclusively for Microsoft Dynamics customers. These FREE one-hour webcasts include content designed to ensure you have full exposure into how you can maximize and extend your current Microsoft ERP investment.  

• June 15 - 12:00 PM CT - Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011: System Wide Enhancements and Financials

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