Dynamics 365 SMB Ecosystem Map – October 2022

On By tounca officialIn Uncategorized

We already published Dynamics 365 Ecosystem maps previously, but this one is different – this is the ecosystem for Microsoft Dynamics 365 SMB portfolio, and it looks impressive.

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You already know Microsoft publishes new releases two times per year (wave 1 in April and wave 2 in October). You can find all news in Microsoft’s release plans. There is also an amazing ecosystem map by Vadim Korepin about all solutions in Dynamics 365 family.

But as I’m most connected with SMB solutions inside Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, I wanted to share more details on what is available for SMB users and companies from Microsoft Dynamics 365 family. Three business applications (Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sales Professional, Customer Service Professional) covered ERP and CRM parts but with plenty of features. I’m sure no other vendor currently can offer more for SMB customers worldwide.

You can look at and download the Ecosystem map for Dynamics 365 SMB solutions I created (resolution is 3840×2160):

I hope this SMB ecosystem map will be helpful for you, and we will…

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Tounca Platform – What is new – July ’22

On By tounca officialIn Tounca Project Marketplace

We published our platform 7 months ago. In a meantime we made some great results. There are just some of the most important news:

  • We have 1.600+ registered experts from almost all business areas.
  • That means we can implement any well known ERP, CRM, HRM, BI, or similar business software.
  • And we can do it worldwide as our experts speak almost all known languages.
  • Our offering can be minimum 2 times (sometimes even 10x) cheaper from any implementation partner company.
  • From January this year we are incorporated, so now we are Tounca, Inc. with the headquarters in Delaware.
  • We launched special campaign for other startups New ERP or CRM for Startups – ONLY $999.

This spring we were presented on two startup events: StartupGrid in Redwood and TechCrunch Early Stage in SF. We have more plans in the future. You can find more about us on https://www.tounca.com/

But for this fall we are preparing one surprise. We will launch our first SaaS product. This product can work if you are using our platform or independently. And this is really something new… unseen product up to now. Stay tuned…

Tounca Project Marketplace – First Month

On By tounca officialIn BI, CRM, ERP, HRM, Low-code, Payroll, Tounca Project Marketplace

Tounca LLC has just announced results after first month of working with their new platform Tounca Project Marketplace. If you don’t know what it is, this is unique online project marketplace for business solutions. This is the first online marketplace for projects and by their own words this is something similar as Airbnb or Uber, but for the business solutions. But as this is project engagement, this is a bit more complicated as platform has to prepare completely project team for implementation. But they also provide absolutely free-of-charge support for all potential clients for choosing the most fit solution based on their requirements as well as finding the best team.

After one month from starting, they had to find their own place on the web. But in this period they attracted almost 300 experts worldwide and they are already ready in Tounca Expert’s Community. Tounca also signed first project for implementation. We will wait some period to get first feedback and hope they will have new projects. They are available globally and you can find experts there for almost all global business solutions. You can find more information related with their first month on their report below:

Tounca LLC is an American Limited-Liability Company with headquarters in Dover, Delaware, filed on May 24, 2021. Tounca is a privately held, bootstrapped company, meaning it operates on its own profits without external investors up to date. Company is new but built on strong and long-term expertise. Even so, our plan is to become the global leader in next-generation services.

If you want to see how they work, you can start from here: Tounca | How it works ?

If you want to register as an expert (an individual or as a company), do it here: Tounca | Join expert community

Oh, TempBlob! What did you do?

On By tounca officialIn AL, D365 Business Central, ERP

Marije Brummel Blog | Business Central, Azure and more...

The alternative title for this blog post would have been something like… TempBlob, why did you waste my time! Or waste thousands of hours accross our community.

The topics of my blogs tend to be about what happens in the freelance projects I work on, and last week this was two extensions that have a substantial size (1000+ objects) that had to be BC19 Compatible.

BC19 is the first version of Business Central where warnings about obsoleted objects became errors. The most commonly used are TempBlob and Language.

Language

Language is easy. Functions that used to exist in the table moved to a codeunit and the codeunit has the same name.

In both projects doing a Find/Replace on Language: Record with Language: Codeunit was enough.

Unfortunately for those who use Hungarian Notation, You also have to change your variable names.

TempBlob

This one is a lot more difficult. Not because…

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Risks in old fashioned ERP implementation

On By tounca officialIn ERP

Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is typically a massive undertaking for any company, from the smallest to the biggest enterprises. And this is mostly not only massive undertaking, but also time consuming, and very risky. If you look at the history of the ERP implementation projects, you will probably find a lot of challenges and very often failures.

Of course, there is no way how to overcome all risks in advance and to create absolutely safe implementation and because of that we need to have properly risk management on the project. But it is possible to reduce the most of them and overcome some of them with a great impact.

As a story about successful ERP implementation is story about satisfy customer, we will try to explain what customer can do to overcome the most important risks. There is not a magic wand, but there are some instructions how to avoid issues and you will see, they are not complicated, and you just need to organize yourself and to ask for help sometimes.

Choosing the best solution

Choosing the right solution is probably the most important task, but even if it looks easy, this is mostly one of the most complicated. This is because that in most cases you will make research on your own, you will use your or your colleagues experience, or you will start to discuss with some of partners you believe they can provide this solution for you.

If you try to make your own research, probably you will not catch all information…

Full text is available here: https://www.tounca.com/business-software-advice/1/risks-in-erp-implementation

Tounca Marketplace Platform has been launched

On By tounca officialIn ABAP, Acumatica, ADP, AL, Apex, Appian, BI, Ceridian, Cloud, CPQ, CRM, D365 Business Central, D365 CRM, D365 F&O, DevOps, Epicor, ERP, Gusto, HRM, HubSpot, Infor, Intuit, Lighting Platform, Low-code, Mailchimp, Mendix, NetSuite, Odoo, Papaya Global, Payroll, Power Apps, PowerBI, Qlik, QuickBooks, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Tableau, Tounca Project Marketplace, UKG, WorkDay, Zoho

A few days ago, Tounca Marketplace Platform has been launched. What is new with this marketplace platform? Is this only one new online marketplace or something more?

This time we are witnesses of something new. As there are many different marketplace in recent years, we didn’t have Project Marketplace until now. This is the first global Project Marketplace… currently only for business software implementations. Founders want to make business software available for everybody who needs it. If you need any type of ERP, CRM, HRM, SCM, BI, or similar solution, you can contact them and they will help you first to find the most fit solution and after that company or individuals in virtual team who will implement such solution.

What is interesting here? Completely process of evaluation of customers’ needs is absolutely free for customers. Tounca Platform will help you to evaluate your requirements, to choose solution you really need, to prepare Request for Proposal, to provide a few really comparable offers and to choose implementer… and all of these for free. They don’t have any interest in choosing some specific solution, and because of that they will provide really and valuable support to find solution the most fit with your requirements. When you start with the project with chosen implementers, Tounca Platform will provide project management portal where you can track progress, but Tounca will provide additional project management supervision for free, to provide out-of-the risk environment. If you just want to check what you can get and what steps you can expect, we will suggest to start with ‘How it works’ page: Tounca | How it works ?

On the other side if you are an expert, you can easily make registration and wait to be engaged for full project or some specific task, depends what customer needs. Register here: Tounca | Join expert community.

Depends on your interest, we will write more about this new unique project marketplace as this is something really worthy of your attention.

Dynamics 365 Ecosystem Map – November 2021

On By tounca officialIn BI, Cloud, CRM, D365 Business Central, D365 CRM, D365 F&O, ERP, Low-code, Power Apps, PowerBI3 Comments

Microsoft publishes its Dynamics and other business applications’ updates and new solutions/features two times per year. Near a month ago Microsoft announced as they call it – 2021 Wave 2 update.

Thanks to Vadim Korepim who prepared and posted this great poster with Dynamics 365 ecosystem, we can have insight in an overview of Microsoft business applications portfolio. This picture represent just part of whole product portfolio, and you can download whole poster on a link at the bottom of this article.

Once more, all credits are going to Vadim who made it. You can download whole poster with Dynamics Ecosystem November 2021 here:
Dynamics 365 Ecosystem Mam – November 2021Download

ERP Benefits: Do Not Count on Employee Staff Reductions

On By tounca officialIn ERP

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Prior to launching an ERP implementation, usually an analysis of project costs and savings is necessary in order to secure project funding. From a financial return on investment (ROI) standpoint, sr. management is typically looking for the hard numbers. While there are many potential benefits associated with ERP that can positively impact the financials, many organizations mistakenly base a significant portion of the project justification on employee staff reductions.

Of course, a new system may result in fewer employees. But when evaluating ERP packages, many become dazzled by the vendor’s software demonstrations and then failed to do their homework to understand the real productivity affect. Other managers have a tendency to insist on staff reductions that are not really feasible. After all, it is brand new software and it costs a lot of money. In either case, ERP becomes all things to all people and then staff reductions are way…

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Dynamics 365 October Release – 2021

On By tounca officialIn CRM, D365 Business Central, D365 CRM, D365 F&O, ERP, Power Apps, PowerBI

In a few days we expect that Microsoft will announce their new releases for all Dynamics 365 solutions as we are used to. In a meantime until we wait for this new release, you can look what you can expect to get.

The October release for Dynamics 365 and industry clouds brings new innovations that provide you with significant capabilities to transform your business. The release contains hundreds of new features across Dynamics 365 applications, including Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Human Resources, Commerce, Fraud Protection, Business Central, Connected Store, Guides, Remote Assist, Customer Insights, Customer Voice, and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, Financial Services, and Nonprofit. You can reed about all these news here.

But there is also release plan for the Power Platform features summarized in a separate document. Microsoft Power Platform today comprises four products: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents. It also has two add-ins: AI Builder and Power Apps portals and completely release plan can be found here.

Looking forward to see those news in a practice.