Category: ERP

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.

Intuit to acquire MailChimp

On By tounca officialIn CRM, ERP, Intuit, Mailchimp, QuickBooks

Yesterday we got an info announced on September 13, that Intuit is acquiring MailChimp for approximately $12 billion in cash and stock advances. This acquisition will be definitely the largest made by intuit to date as the biggest one previously was Credit Carma for significantly less amount. Intuit is already one of the biggest players in business software world that makes QuickBooks, Mint, TurboTax ant other service, but this will help them to advance their goals of becoming an AI-driven expert platform as well as to become the center of small business growth and to disrupt the small business mid-market.

We think that the most of you already know what MailChimp is, but if not, MailChimp is Atlanta-based digital marketing and automation company with 1.200+ employees and pioneer in this industry. The company started out offering email marketing solutions before evolving u=into a global leader in customer engagement and marketing automation powered by a cutting-edge AI-drive technology stack. And what is important and non so usual is that MailChimp is one of bootstrapped startups founded in 2001.

(Image credit: Intuit)

By their words, together, Intuit and MailChimp will work to deliver on the vision of an innovative, end-to-end customer growth platform for small and mid-market businesses, allowing them to get their business online, market their business, manage customer relationships, benefit from insights and analytics, get paid, access capital, pay employees, optimize cash flow, be organized and stay compliant, with experts at their fingertips. Delivering on the promise to be the single source of truth, small and mid-market businesses will have the power to combine their customer data from MailChimp and QuickBooks’ purchase data to get the actionable insights they need to grow and run their businesses with confidence.

Dynamics 365 Ecosystem Map August 2021

On By tounca officialIn CRM, D365 Business Central, D365 CRM, D365 F&O, ERP, Low-code, Power Apps, PowerBI4 Comments

Recently we republished an article about Dynamics 365 Ecosystem from October 2020, but as we know this is already obsolete as Microsoft is publishing new versions of their Dynamics 365 solutions two times per year. In a meantime, thanks to Vadim Korepin we have new version of Dynamics 365 Ecosystem. On the following picture you can find an overview of this ecosystem:

But what is more interested is to see full one page poster about Dynamics 365 Ecosystem as this business solutions’ ecosystem is really great. You can see and, of course download this unique ecosystem from our blog:
microsoft-dynamics-365-ecosystem-map-august-2021Download

Enjoy in this poster and reed our blogs.