Your Microsoft Dynamics GP Product Management & Marketing team:
Errol Schoenfish
Pam Misialek
Jay Manley
Jen Dorsey
Gerice Anderson
Darrin Hawley
While this blog is technically "owned" by the Microsoft Dynamics GP Product Management and Marketing team, it truly belongs to ALL of those who call themselves a part of the Microsoft Dynamics GP community!
Classroom training is coming in the US in November. Please make plans to attend this important training. We’ve cut the marketing “fluff” and are focusing on the most important things you need as a technical pre-sales consultant.
Things covered:
Wednesday, November 3, 2010: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Thursday, November 04, 2010: Denver, CO, USA
Monday, November 08, 2010: Bloomington, MN, USA
Tuesday, November 09, 2010: Overland Park, KS, USA
Tuesday, November 09, 2010: Bellevue, WA, USA
Wednesday, November 10, 2010: Reston, VA, USA
Monday, November 15, 2010: Irvine, CA, USA
Tuesday, November 16, 2010: San Francisco, CA, USA
Tuesday, November 16, 2010: Irving, TX, USA
Wednesday, November 17, 2010: Waltham, MA, USA
Wednesday, November 17, 2010: Chicago, IL, USA
Thursday, December 02, 2010:Southfield, MI, USA
Please make plans to have your pre-sales technical people attend!
Take Care,
Pam
As many of you are aware Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 was released to market in May 2010. The product has been extremely well received by analyst, partners, and most importantly, our customers! Please review and leverage the following upgrade resource kit and put your plans in place to promote upgrades within your customer base.
The timing is right for customers to upgrade
The support lifecycle for customers running Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 ends on January 11, 2011 and release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 SP 1 are two key reasons to begin upgrade campaign efforts. Now is the time to move remaining customers on 9.0 to the latest release and show the value to our many customers running GP 10.0
Maximize the lifetime value of our customers
By helping customers understand the business value and benefits upgrading to the latest release we secure future service plan renewals, increase the likelihood of add-on purchases and additional user licenses while increase customer satisfaction and retention.
Leverage the following supporting resources to drive GP 2010 upgrades!
Item
Description
Format
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010—The New Way to Do Business Overview
Learn about all the great features associated with Microsoft Dynamics GP and the value they add to our customers
PDF
Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010
Short and sweet. A great one-page summary of the top 10 reasons to make an upgrade to GP 2010
Microsoft Dynamics GP Upgrade Comparison Summary
Quick chart summarizing the top feature enhancement across GP 9.0 GP 10.0 and GP 2010 to show customers the value in upgrading
Coming soon to the GP 2010 Partner Resource Page
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 EC Upgrade PowerPoint
Need to present the business value to customers…leverage this supporting PowerPoint presentation
What’s New PowerPoint
EC Presentation
Existing Customer Upgrade Webcast Series
Let us do the heavy lifting and promote the EC Upgrade webcast series that will be offered consistently throughout the year.
Webcast Calendar
Webcast Invitation Email Templates
Use the invitation templates attached to promote the Microsoft led webcast series or customize to promote partner events/webcasts.
The New Way to Do Business Demo
Use the same killer demo that was shown at Convergence. One look and customers are convinced that Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 really is the new way to do business.
Demo Mate and WMV file
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Customer Video
Use these videos at events or share with customers as a fun way to see how customers are benefiting from GP 2010
GP 2010 TAP Video Wmv file
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 RTM VPC
Need more demo capabilities? Leverage the new GP 2010 VPC.
Core Plus VPC on PartnerSource
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Customer Success Stories
You don’t have to wait for great customer success stories. This great collection of customers showcase the business benefits and ease of upgrades to help you communicate the value of this release in our customers own words.
· Primo Water (US)
· Spy Optic (US)
· EMIT Technologies (US)
· Careflite (US)
· Allan Candy (Canada)
· YMCA London (UK)
· Dorset Software (UK)
For addition Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 readiness, sales and marketing or other supporting resources visit the GP 2010 Partner Portal.
Before I pack up a bit early to enjoy what's left of a beautiful afternoon in Fargo (as in 81 degrees beautiful!), I thought I would get a quick post out about a new licensing guide we just released this week that highlights for Partners how to properly license SharePoint technologies when integrated with Microsoft Dynamics GP. We had an older version that covered SharePoint 2007, but with the changes in both SharePoint 2010 and our Light User licensing, the guide needed a refresh. Enjoy!
PartnerSource: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/partneressentials/guides/MSDYGP_SharepointLicenceGuide
AndyW
After getting lots of feedback from customers and partners, we've got two important things to annouce related to our Analysis Cubes:
1. We have released Analysis Cubes for Analytical Accounting. That’s right folks, AA for Analysis Cubes!
2. Now you can make modifications to the SSIS packages (it was password protected before meaning you couldn't make any changes)! This is HUGE. Now you can modify the cubes and add third party and other information you want to analyze.
On the links below there is more than just the downloads, there is a whitepaper that gives you more of the techy details.
Links:
CustomerSource: https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/downloads/servicepacks/MDGP2010_AnalysisCubes
PartnerSource: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/downloads/releases/MDGP2010_AnalysisCubes
Happy cubing!
In my blog post two weeks ago about Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 releasing, I made a brief mention of some online services coming on-board soon. While I was short on details in that post, today I'm extremely happy to announce exactly what those services are and when they will be available!
Beginning November 1st, 2010, Microsoft Dynamics GP Partners and Customers will have access to the following services:
• Payment Services: Enables customers to accept electronic payments via credit or debit cards, directly through the ERP, by phone or through an online solution. This service integrates to Receivables Management and Sales Order Processing, and is available with Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack 5 and Dynamics GP 2010 Service Pack 1 effective November 1st, 2010. Customers of any licensing edition of Microsoft Dynamics GP (BE, AM, Pro, and Standard) who are current on a Business Ready Enhancement Plan (BREP) will have free access to this functionality. I should note that the typical transaction fees will apply of course, however the provider agreements for accepting credit cards are handled by the payment providers and customers themselves...not through Microsoft.
For Partners who may have customers or prospects interested in this functionality, go sign-up today for the upcoming Partner Readiness webinar focused on these new Online Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Also, be sure to check out all of the new resources posted on PartnerSource and CustomerSource to learn more:
PartnerSourceCustomerSource
I think these services will be a huge benefit for many of our customers and prospects, and for a long time now I have heard these types of features on the wish list of many Partners. I am definitely looking forward to November 1st when these services become a reality!
For the readers out there who are either a current user of Microsoft Small Business Financials, or are a Dynamics partner with existing customers using the product, boy have I got great news for you! Since the last day for support from Microsoft on this product ends in January 2011, we've just launched an incredible offer to MOVE NOW to Microsoft Dynamic GP...for as little as $0 for the cost of the licenses! The promotion is comprised of up to a 100 % discount on your first 5 full system users and a 50% discount on users 6-10. In addition, limited A La Carte functionality is available at up to a 100% discount.
There has NEVER been a better time to move to Microsoft Dynamics GP for our SBF customers. Now is the perfect opportunity to make a seamless transition to the application that SBF was based on for next to nothing! There is a migration tool that can help you migrate 100% of your SBF data into Microsoft Dynamics GP. We've heard of customers up and running on the new system in less than 1 day, and the learning curve is very small since SBF was based on the Dynamics GP codebase.
If you are a current SBF customer and this sounds like something you would be interested in, I would encourage you to attend the upcoming webinar on October 28th to learn more about how other customers have benefited from moving from SBF to Microsoft Dynamics GP. Register today here: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032464145&Culture=en-US
Partners, if you want to find out more about this exciting offer, visit the following page on PartnerSource: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/sales/promotions/fy11_movenowoffer.htm
Take care and good luck with your "moving" projects!