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Kartik Shah’s brag on SharePoint technologies, Microsoft Consulting, communities, business, p2p networking, IT in business > Categories
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8/15/2010Returned from WPC 2010 and phew it was good this time. Everything was good except the distance between Verizon centre and convention centre J
To be honest this time there was not much charm like we had at New Orleans. May be due to shuffle at top level and country level by Microsoft. Exciting word coined throughout the WPC was cloud and private cloud on SharePoint 2010 like bing last year. Spent some time with executives and known peers and it was good. Meeting and interacting with Bob Muglia was pleasing and revealing for server strategies and moving forward with MS. I would wish to share following few pictures from WPC this year. Ashish, me and Bob Muglia.
12/30/2009Ever since i have seen the first live usage of Microsoft Office Excel 2010 at the July 2009 Microsoft Partner awards, I was astonished to see the capabilities. The demonstration on stage with more than 5000 partners watching, the on the fly BI capabilities on more than 100K row excel sheet (i thought wow! Where is DTS package need now!) with simple few clicks on standard laptop computer!.
Boy! That day onwards i am trying to follow entire Microsoft new generation release and even tested technical preview of Office 2010. Its whole new experience and i am also excited as i try, test and receive feedback on SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010 capabilities. Those who want to learn this from Microsoft's prospective can read this interview of Chris Cap http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx .
So get ready for excitement and great IT tool productivity year 2010.
4/9/2009Let me start that I really love SharePoint. The affair started as soon as the beta of MOSS 2007 came out and tried out by me. Boy! That feeling of first love was amazing. I was floating on my business focused sales geek mind to relate it with all my then current client situations where they wanted something that was already available out of box in SharePoint. Starting from document management, to accesses LOB on dash board to sharing enterprise wide colanders and events came to me at that moment as dancing star with possibility of implementation to clients. Now after more than 100+ MOSS solutions delivery by us the bond is getting more and stronger. The one company one product focus evolved somewhere around December 2006. I am excited to see WSS's prominence in all Microsoft products including recently worked Commerce Server 2009 "SharePoint Commerce Service" to news of making "SharePoint Designer" a free tool to having close integration of "Groove" in upcoming release and as on 1st April 2009 PerformancePoint Server 2007 being sold as part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Enterprise 2007..oh..its all exciting.
Let's now forget my above business/sales related brag and talk about what there in SharePoint which made this love affair for me.
1) Collaboration out of box for workspace and effective business process automation.
2) It is not only a collaboration tool but it's much more than that. It has features for MIS reporting, BI reporting, CRM, Process automation, document management, presenting LOB data in executive readable formats, accessing complex ERP data with ease as if using Microsoft Word, and the list goes on….the main thing this is a technology catalyst product for all your organizational IT need.
3) SharePoint a Technology Catalyst for business applications: I have used word catalyst as it is really a catalyst to help those great products achieve their true business goals by presenting and interface between most of business applications in use including ERP, Lobs, legacy applications and any other information
4) Customizable to the need of scenario of implementation or even better, create your bespoke or custom module within it as Web Part.
5) It is already a centralized dash board system in use for many businesses and the trend is already moving in the same direction for remaining.
6) Global diverse group of business needs solution with ensuring all compliance with single stack holder view across companies, branches our countries. – Simple out of box and available for customization.
7) Did you know this is part of Office System so this is a business productivity enhancer and faster user acceptance system I have ever seen or heard from client feedback.
8) My speculation and excitement for upcoming release of SharePoint – (read them all here)
9) It helps businesses to optimize overall IT ownership cost. (read in detail here)
10) See these SharePoint customer evidences of SharePoint Technology utilization in their businesses.
This list is endless, however if you like to continue reading on latest trends, technologies, how tos, and our real life implementation experiences, ensure you book mark our SharePoint Technology Blog and read it often. SAP B1 or SAP Business One is recently started making buzz in local companies here in Ahmedabad Region. I was talking to some of the decision makers about SAP B1 and Microsoft NAV as ERP options. From my knowledge SAP B1 is having following modules
SAP Business One contains 14 core modules:
- Administration Module, where configuration is performed
- Financials Module, where various accounting and financial activities are conducted
- Sales Opportunities Module, where existing customers and potential accounts are structured tracking
- Sales Module, where orders are entered, shipped and invoiced
- Purchasing Module, where purchase orders are issued and goods received into inventory
- Business Partners Module, where Business Partners (customers, vendors, and leads) are contacted and maintained
- Banking Module, where cash is received and paid out
- Inventory Module, where Inventory is valued and managed
- Production Module, where bill of materials is defined and manufacturing is tracked
- MRP Module, where purchase and production planning takes place
- Service Module, where after-service products are managed
- Human Resources Module, where employee information is kept
- Reports Module, where system-default and user-defined reports are generated (as on-screen tables, printouts or Excel files: Print Layout Designer, Advanced Layout Designer (To be Discontinued in 2009 due to purchase of Business Objects), XL Reporter and Crystal Reports 2008 Basic(One Free License per customer))
- E-commerce, allowing customers to buy and sell online to consumers or other businesses.
- WebCRM. Allows employees to manage customer support cases, salespeople to manage prospects, and customers to submit cases all via a web browser client
The major drawback I can quickly identify is lack of "Manufacturing Module", so I am surprise that you have an ERP (Claimed and marketed at least by SAP AG) without manufacturing module. From public records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_Business_One ) and available known public fact I would like to highlight that SAP purchased TopManage Financial Systems – Israel-based Financial System Software and branded it as "SAP B1 ERP", oh come on…just adding Mercedes Car name to Maruti 800 Car doesn't mean it will be as powerful as Mercedes lowest model even. This is what happening in local market and that is annoying me. Instead of hiding all the drawback of B1 if you sell as a Business Automation solution which has financial system, MIS reporting and CRM features it should be fine with customer. However i acknowledge the fact that financial module in SAP B1 is very good (it should as it is native Financial System Software), however in Indian Businesses where Talley represents most of Financial Accounting module in Small Business does they need this comprehensive financial module?, that is what i am unable to understand. This is kind of making business owners fool with name of SAP and claiming SAP B1 as ERP which I think is NOT. I am aware that sales pitch is always saying you can add manufacturing module blah blah blah ….. but really our LOCAL business leaders are so fool to get in to this trap?
Let's not talk on this.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft.
The product is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. More over Value-added resellers (VAR)s can have full access to the business logic source code, and it has a reputation as being easy to customize. This makes in my personal view dynamics NAV a complete ERP for small to mid size businesses in India. Microsoft in India sells Dynamics AX (ERP for Large Enterprise which competes with SAP R/3 and SAP AiO) and Dynamics NAV. More over Microsoft stand by with its ERP product where as I am not sure on SAP's approach on SAP B1 (I have heard from a customer that they have no support for SAP B1 written in Agreement). Microsoft NAV and all Microsoft ERP line is schedule for new releases and the new releases (Microsoft NAV 2009) will be launched with the same new role based user interface, SQL based reporting and analysis, SharePoint based portal, Pocket PC based mobile clients and integration with Microsoft Office which will really help organizations to collaborate and automate their businesses seamlessly. The both ERPs available for India Market from Microsoft is really Business Ready solution for Indian Market as they are heavily customized for India business scenarios and are business ready out of box.
If you search on Google for SAP B1 Vs Dynamics NAV you will find so much more information which will echo my thoughts here.
From my personal views, small to mid size Indian Businesses should go with Microsoft NAV as full ERP rather than Maruti 800 branded as Mercedes kind of ERP from SAP which is B1 J.
Disclaimer: Author of this post is IT consultant and provides services to mid to large size businesses since last 11 years. He is a technocrat and delivers solution per client business need in Indian scenario. The article above is personal expression of his own view based on his experience and expertise in to Indian IT solutions Market. Author can be contacted by using contact me tab above. 4/7/2009Cloud computing is the buzz all around. Microsoft has already geared for this new technology buzz and businesses started adopting is faster than before. For those who had experience with mainframe systems can say “ok, so what’s new except connectivity and collaboration possible with Internet bandwidth now?” no, its not that, if we look closely it has lot of which everyone was waiting since long. However with the complexity of integrating LOBs and other business critical application makes everybody worried until the launch of this Azure Services Platform by Microsoft. Since this is first release don’t expect this to be perfect but yes this is great starting of cloud computing with challenges to address by enterprises on whether to adopt this or not with corporate data security reason except they choose to do on-premise implementation (which is wise and what enterprise should be looking for).
MS Cloud computing platform provides a wide range of internet services that can be consumed from both on-premises environments and the internet though the platform itself will not be made available for on-premises deployments. The Azure Services Platform runs on Windows Azure operating system which is functional on “fabric layer” (a cluster hosted at Microsoft's datacenters that manages computing and storage resources of the computers and provisions the resources (or a subset of them) to applications running on top of Windows Azure.).
The Microsoft cloud computing offers ready to use applications for businesses like Microsoft Dynamics™, SharePoint Online, SQL Online, Exchange Online and other Microsoft Online Services. The Azure Services Platform lets developers provide their own unique customer offerings by offering the foundational components of compute, storage, and building block services to author and compose applications in the cloud. Thus the Microsoft Cloud Computing – Azure Services Platform – offers a range of businesses flexibility, control, and an affordable solution for running browser based applications.
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