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Year-end processes always seem to take up a lot of time on the management schedule. Gathering all of the past year’s financial data and having up to date and accurate reports are vital when constructing budgets for upcoming fiscal years. Management can easily end up spending weeks or months budgeting. Furthermore, tracking all pertinent data, which is continuously changing, in one place is always a challenge. Microsoft Dynamics GP has provided a simple and convenient way for you and your team to collaborate and easily move data in and out of the system in order to analyze and report the company’s financials. Microsoft Dynamics GP combined with Excel provides an extremely easy and simple user interface to get your data into excel. By utilizing ODC Connections, GP creates an organized file structure on a company share that conveniently places up to date excel reports at your fingertips. Therefore, during budgeting […]

San Diego based Microsoft Dynamics GP partner contributes to new Microsoft Dynamics ERP White Paper. San Diego, CA, December 6th 2012  – FMT Consultants, a leading Southern California provider of IT Management solutions, announces the release of a new white paper titled 25 Brilliant Ideas to Outsmart Your Competition with Microsoft Dynamics® ERP. Download White Paper FMT Consultants, LLC was chosen by the ERP Software Blog to be part of a panel of 21 ERP and accounting software experts from North America and Europe who contributed knowledge and experience to this project. The report includes examples from real-world companies from a wide range of industries, including a food manufacturer, an engineering firm, a restaurant chain, a movie studio, a physician's clinic, a non-profit, a correctional facility, an office supply distributor and many more. Each example of increased productivity is connected to the way these businesses use Microsoft Dynamics ERP software as […]

Award recognizes local industry leaders’ great achievements within their companies and in the community. San Diego, CA – November 28, 2012 – FMT Consultants, LLC is proud to announce that its CEO, Eric Casazza, has been selected as finalist for the 2012 Most Admired CEO of the Year Awards. As CEO of FMT Consultants, Eric Casazza sets the strategic direction for the company and helps guide the team to continually grow. Founded in 1995, FMT Consultants, LLC leverages the power of a broad array of software applications including Microsoft Dynamics GP, SAP Business ByDesign, Dynamics CRM, Office 365 and Microsoft SharePoint to help their clients address challenging business and technology issues. The Most Admired CEO of the Year Awards recognizes local industry leaders’ achievements within their companies and in the local community. The winners and finalists are lauded for demonstrating determination and insight yielding huge successes for their organizations. These executives […]

FMT Consultants, LLC helps Dynamics GP users prepare for Year-End Close San Diego, CA, November 20th, 2012 – FMT Consultants, a leading Southern California provider of IT Management solutions, invites all Microsoft Dynamics GP users to a complementary GP year-end close training session in San Diego. The event takes place December 11th from 9:00-11:00 am PST at the Microsoft San Diego Office, 9255 Towne Centre Drive, 4th Floor, San Diego, CA 92121. During the session experienced GP consultants from FMT Consultants will share best practices related to month-end and year-end processes and cover closing procedures related to General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Inventory and Payroll. Interested GP users can register at www.fmtconsultants.com or by sending an email to jbechgaard@fmtconsultants.com. The training is free and training materials will be provided at the event (parking is available for a fee). Space is limited and reservation is granted on a first come […]

A new white paper recently published by the ERP Software Blog provides 25 real-life examples on how companies in a wide range of diverse industries utilize Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions to streamline operations and stay on top of competitors. Download the white paper below and learn how: A physician’s clinic utilized Dynamics GP to manage allocations and gain valuable insights into cost patterns and trends. A Care retirement community optimized and consolidated its budgeting processes and eliminated the need for paper and manual data entry. A Hollywood studio enhanced profitability and risk management by optimizing accounts receivable and collections processes. An office supply distributor utilized Dynamics GP to gain better control of their product margins through real-time visibility into ever-changing inventory cost. A subscription-based marketing and technology company optimized its billing processes and grew from 16,000 to 100,000 subscribers without increasing expenses. And much more… FMT Consultants is a contributing […]

Have you been considering virtualization? Virtualization can reduce your operating cost by consolidating several servers onto a single physical server. A typical small configuration consists of 2-8 physical servers connected to a SAN (storage area network) for high-availability running between 20-100 virtual servers. That’s right; you could be running 100 virtual servers on only a handful of physical servers. Virtualization would also provide you with highly-available servers and applications. If one of your physical servers were to have a hardware failure, your virtual servers would migrate to one of your other physical servers automatically. In addition, your IT staff would have the flexibility to roll out new virtual servers within minutes instead of having to order new hardware every time a department requests a new application or service. Therefore, if you haven’t already jumped on the virtualization bandwagon, now might be the perfect time. The first step is deciding which […]

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 will include a number of enhancements for the Fixed Asset module that should be a welcome change for fixed asset end users. Below is a list of the enhancements included in the Dynamics GP 2013 release. I’ve highlighted four of them that merit further discussion: Historical Depreciation Reports Reset History in Detail Restrict Displaying Reset Transactions Lock Fixed Assets Year Process Progress Bars Mass Depreciation Reversal Independent Fixed Assets Calendars Define Short/Long Calendar Years Auto generate Next Asset ID Intercompany Asset Transfer Fixed Assets Transactions Batches Post in Detail to General Ledger Analytical Accounting Integration with Fixed Assets Documentation Updates for MACRS Historical Depreciation Reports Prior to Dynamics GP 2013, users would have to make sure they processed and generated depreciation and depreciation reports before starting to depreciate in the current year. This often caused confusion and generated the question “Am I able to run prior […]

Cloud-computing is without doubt one of the big buzz words of the modern world’s technology arena. While cloud-based applications and services targeted personal users and small businesses have been around for decades (e.g. Hotmail, Dropbox, Google Docs), the most recent years have seen the proliferation of more complex, enterprise level applications and management tools hosted in the cloud. With these applications available, companies now face alternatives to on-premise and, in many cases, more resource intensive solutions. ERP, accounting and CRM systems, email and storage hosting solutions, document management applications and conferencing tools are just a few examples of the business tools now available in the cloud. Microsoft’s flagship of cloud-based business applications is Office 365 – a comprehensive suite of business tools targeted at organizations of all sizes. The present blog briefly describes the applications included in Office 365: Exchange Online Lync Online Office Web Apps SharePoint Online Office Professional […]

The Challenges As in most companies, IT is a cost center and as IT professionals we face certain challenges. These challenges include unpredictable/costly downtime, managing IT costs, time management, prioritization, risk and exposure as well as strategic issues. Each of these challenges revolves around time and money. Often, these challenges are aggravated by time constraints, lack of prevention, low department knowledge levels and unpredictable costs. All of these factors can lead to many IT setbacks and most of all potential data loss. According to a peer review journal from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, data loss is caused by the following reasons: In order to mitigate these challenges, IT management must become more proactive. We hear this term in many different contexts. We hear “work smarter not harder” or “don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today”, and in many cases IT professionals […]

F.O.S.H. Stands for Finance, Operations, Sales and Human Resources and denotes four areas in an organization where SharePoint can have an immediate impact. SharePoint is a tool that can be tailored to any business to enhance communication and automate repetitive business processes within and across departments. In ‘SharePoint and the F.O.S.H. Life – Human Resources’, we discussed how SharePoint can enhance and optimize HR processes, exemplified by the Employee Life Cycle. The second part in the series, SharePoint and the F.O.S.H. Life – Finance, focused on how SharePoint can streamline some of the various Finance functions within an organization. In this third installment in the F.O.S.H. series, we will discuss how SharePoint can help improve organizational operations while helping an organization respond quicker to changes in its operational environment and efficiently manage internal requests. Legal Discovery In an increasingly litigious society it has become more important than ever for an […]

Major California deep water port boosts productivity with Microsoft Dynamics GP, Prophix and KleinPort Management Information System. San Diego, CA, October 24th, 2012 – Port of Stockton recently went live with its Secure System (“S3”) Project comprising of comprehensive integrated port and financial management solutions. FMT Consultants, LLC and Klein Systems Group Ltd. have successfully implemented and integrated multiple technologies including Microsoft Dynamics GP, Prophix, Microsoft Business Portal and KleinPort. The launch of the new system comes after four months of close collaboration with FMT Consultants and Klein who were selected as service providers earlier this year. FMT Consultants, a leading Southern California provider of IT Management solutions, has managed and carried out the implementation and integration of Microsoft Dynamics GP, a robust ERP solution used to manage the Port of Stockton’s financials, payroll and human resources. In addition to Dynamics GP, FMT installed Microsoft Business Portal for employee self-service […]

With the next release of Microsoft Dynamics GP, you get a comprehensive, customizable business management solution that provides scalable financial and operational functionality. With Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 you can: Transform the way your people work by putting timely information and easy-to-use tools in their hands when they need them, no matter their location. Connect the people inside and outside your organization and give them insight and context to drive better decisions and boost productivity. Streamline systems, so that your IT team can think about ways to support growth instead of maintaining software. Improve your margins and enhance the bottom line, generating cash to fund growth. What's New in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013: Web Access Provide all of your employees easy access to Microsoft Dynamics GP with the new web client , so they can connect and contribute wherever they are, from their PC or mobile device. Work more efficiently with […]