Merit Solutions Launches New Web Site 

Merit Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of our new website, www.meritsolutions.com.

As we celebrate our 10 Year Anniversary, we felt a complete website revamp was in order. The new site has been redesigned with a fresh new look and feel meant to enhance the user experience. It has been updated with information about the latest products and services, providing deeper, more content-rich landing pages.

The most significant changes to the site include:

• More Resources – We have expanded the number of Microsoft Dynamics resources. The creation of a Demo Lab has increased the number of demos on our site to 35 and counting. We have also increased the number of white papers, fact sheets, and brochures.

• Easier Navigation – The new drop-down menu allows easy navigation to all of our main pages from any screen on the site. The addition of hierarchical “breadcrumb trails” provide one-click access to higher pages within the current site folder / category.

• Going Social – We invite you to follow along as we continue to increase our presence in social networking communities. Our new page footer provides links to many of our social profiles, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Check out screenshots of home pages of the old and new sites below:

Please send any site suggestions or errors to webmaster@meritsolutions.com.  

MeritCare Training Session: Dynamics GP 10 SQL Server Reporting Services Reports

Microsoft SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) offers a powerful report writing capability for any SQL Server based system. Specifically for Dynamics GP 10, Microsoft has created a library of over 200 pre-built reports to use. These reports can publish on your internal website just like any SQL Server Reporting Services reports you might already have, and also include report models that make it easier to create more reports. In this session, you will learn how to access and leverage the SSRS Library that is provide by Microsoft and to upload it to your Dynamics GP system. Also, you will learn the basics of using SSRS to create reports on your own.

Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT

Register now for this Free MeritCare Training Session.

Also - view other upcoming events below:

Microsoft Office SharePoint Practices: Usage of Content Types

Site content types in the Microsoft Office SharePoint platform are defined as a reusable group of settings for a category of content. In this training session, we will present their usage to manage the metadata, templates, and behaviors of items and documents consistently. We will show you how to organize the content of your collaboration portal in a meaningful way and associate the same capabilities to your content across your document management solution. 

Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am CDT

Microsoft Dynamics GP Manufacturing Costing: Tips and Tricks

Costing in Microsoft Dynamics GP version 10 enables manufacturers to accurately track and manage product costs. With understanding, Dynamics GP users can analyze their costs, distribute costs to the proper accounts in the General Ledger, and better understand their true margins. In this session, we cover basics of the Actual and Standard costing methods available in GP, some setup required in GP to properly cost items, and Standard Cost Revaluation. Following review of the prerequisites for costing, we review accounting transactions resulting from manufacturing activity such as Component Issues, MO Receipts, and Labor Data Collection. We conclude with a review of the MO Variance windows to analyze product costing issues.  

Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT

Using FRx for Multi-Company Consolidations

Scenario: You have three companies in Microsoft Dynamics GP and one company in QuickBooks. To make matters worse, all four of these companies have different GL account structures! What to do to get them all on the same financial statement? Move the QuickBooks company to Dynamics GP of course! Short of that, FRx allows Dynamics GP users to consolidate financial information from systems outside of GP into one consolidated statement. Attend this informative one hour session to sharpen your knowledge of FRx in general, and learn some specific tricks related to multi-company consolidation.

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT

Tips and Tricks of the Month: Processing Batch Jobs in Dynamics AX

The purpose of the Dynamics AX batch job system is to be able to run certain processes according to a predefined schedule or simply during off-peak hours. Many system forms including jobs and reports in Dynamics AX have a tab named Batch, where users can set up the process to execute as a batch job.

Because executing batch jobs can significantly impact the performance of a system, it is common practice in the Dynamics AX community to dedicate a physical server to this purpose, commonly designated as a batch server.

The most common problem with job processing is that users forget to attach a job to the batch group. In order to process batch jobs you need the batch server running.

Goto Basic -> Inquries -> Batch -> Batch processing and select the batch group you want to process.

Your job must be attached to this group. Click OK and you will get your job running in the scheduled time.

This tip came to us from the Development Matters Blog.