We're back from Dallas!

JustFoodERP's User Event finished last week.  Three days in Dallas, less than seasonal weather made up for with warm relations with customers.  I dont think a company can have better customers than we have.  It was great to see the time commitments made.  All but one h...

Posted: 01/03/2010 10:21:35 AM by Marc Digiorgio | with 0 comments


It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s an Industrybuilt computing cloud!

It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s an Industrybuilt computing cloud!

IndustryBuilt has invested in cloud computing infrastructure for its internal systems. With the growing needs of customers, and increasing integration between Dynamics NAV ERP and t...

Posted: 05/02/2010 3:56:02 PM by Dan Oughton | with 0 comments


Get ready for changing government regulations, calculate CO2 emissions using your ERP

In my view, changing ERP systems to gather CO2 emissions data would not be difficult to achieve when considering that the backbone of the measurement system is already in place. This can allow more companies to start measuring their emissions on a voluntary basis before government regulation m...

Posted: 20/01/2010 9:31:59 AM by Jeff Burke | with 0 comments


Extend ERP to commodity market prices for more efficient pricing

In a variety of industries, finished and raw inputs such as grains, fish, metals, and forest products, have market price availability on the web. Links to these markets can be created and utilized by modern erp systems using web services. The Urner Barry seafood letter is an example of web mar...

Posted: 12/01/2010 9:29:07 AM by Jeff Burke | with 0 comments


Another acronym for you to ponder, xRM

You will be seeing “xRM” quite a bit from Microsoft in the next year.

What is the ‘x’ in xRM? Well, it’s the roman number “x” denoting a variable. Think of it as Anything Relational Management.

Microsoft has realized that...

Posted: 14/12/2009 10:08:07 AM by Marc Digiorgio | with 0 comments


Coming wave in web services

Web services are part of the new middle-tier server, which is the cornerstone of the new 3 tier architecture introduced for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. The services are the new standard for “application-to-application” integration. This means that you can use any program ( page or...

Posted: 01/12/2009 2:27:53 PM by Jeff Burke | with 0 comments


Hello existing GP, SL, and NAV food industry customers

Here is a statistic that boggles my brain each time I think about it. One quarter of JustFoodERP customers came to us as existing Microsoft Dynamics customers.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, every Microsoft Dynamics customer has access to something called Transformational...

Posted: 20/11/2009 9:45:34 AM by Marc Digiorgio | with 1 comments


Senior Business Analyst muses on theories of ERP implementation

Senior Business Analyst Jeff Burke muses on some theories of implementation. This post focuses on how he connects Spiral development to best practise implementation for food companies.

In the field of Systems Development, you often hear the term Spiral development. It defines a ...

Posted: 10/11/2009 1:00:00 PM by Jeff Burke | with 0 comments


I love Share

We are starting to give everyone in the company nick names associated with SharePoint, or “Share.”, get it? Such as “Hey Share.Dan whats going on with Share.Dave and the new BCS component? Or “Share.Edwin, can you whip me up some of that Visio integration on the 2010 im...

Posted: 29/10/2009 10:10:23 AM by Marc Digiorgio | with 0 comments