Written By Jeff Onesto, Director of Business Development, ASi (Originally released on MSDynamicsWorld.com)
This week Gartner analysts released findings that U.S. economic factors have deteriorated to the point where they are advising organizations to start considering reductions in IT spending. Cutting IT can be a double-edge sword for those responsible for annual Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) IT budgets for the simple reason that what is cut today can have a severe impact on where an organization lands tomorrow.
This doesn’t mean executives can’t save money in their AX budgets. I have had the opportunity to work with many senior technology executives and have recommended a number of creative methods and practices for getting more from enterprise systems and partners. Following are just a few:
Review Shelfware Often
With Business Ready Licensing (BRL), Microsoft and most of the industry did away with Module Based Licensing (MBL). Many companies implement modules in logical phases and often forget about or assign less value to many of these non-implemented modules that I refer to as “Shelfware”. It may be worth a second look. One of the most overlooked modules in the Microsoft Dynamics AX Advanced Management Edition is Project 1. For mid-market organizations juggling capital projects this often ignored module can be easily implemented and will produce immediate and amazing value and insight into capital spending in the areas of R&D (innovation) and marketing.
Review VAR Performance
Microsoft requires each Microsoft Dynamics customer to be associated with one partner (VAR-value added reseller). Many customers do not know that a VAR can be changed without reason, 365 days a year. Just because you purchased from a particular partner does not mean you are locked to that partner indefinitely. Changing resellers has absolutely nothing to do with the renewal of annual software and should be reviewed often and separately. If you aren’t meeting with your Microsoft Dynamics AX partner routinely you are missing many opportunities. If your partner is NOT delivering value routinely consider working with one that does.
Review Software Enhancement Plans for Untapped Benefits
Microsoft offers customer software maintenance contracts starting at 16%. This plan provides customers with version upgrades/product updates i.e. service packs, tax updates, access to CustomerSource, Transformational Assurance, Transition Investment Credit, and System List Price Protection as well as access to publisher support plans. What many customers overlook is the benefit of unlimited, FREE, online training accessible from anywhere, available anytime at a self-directed pace.
Review Software for Automation Capabilities
Microsoft is delivering some great things around WWF (Windows Workflow Foundation) in the next version of Microsoft Dynamics AX (2009). An often overlooked way to do more with less is to automate with Workflow, enabling you to get more out of your systems. The most important aspects of any Workflow application are monitoring of required actions, escalation of overdue activities to various employees, managers and/or departments. Capture of data such as date, time, employee, and departmental response used within the defined process as well as assuring adherence to company defined processes can provide immediate value. Many directors have indicated that it is quite possible to receive additional funding for process automation projects when they can map them into larger enterprise-wide compliance initiatives such as Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Quality Assurance.
Finally, when you look at your Microsoft Dynamics AX budget for next year or review for possible cuts, remember that not all costs are equal. Special attention should be paid to costs that can excel the organization’s capabilities in the areas of product development and human capital. Speed-to-market and knowledge are two assets that will position the company well when the economy starts to heat up again and opportunities in the marketplace increase.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
For Microsoft Dynamics AX Development, Offshore Winds May Be Blowing Onshore
Written By Jeff Onesto, Director of Business Development, ASi (Originally released on MSDynamicsWorld.com)
Thomas L. Friedman wrote about the transition toward globalization in the best-selling book “The World is Flat - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century”. This widely accepted metaphor of visualizing worldwide commerce and competition with equal opportunity to local competition has started to receive criticism. It is easy to challenge the ‘level playing field’ view by asking:
•Why has 90% of the world’s phone, web traffic and investment remained local?
•Why do global companies hire local professionals to run foreign operations?
•Why are more and more call centers coming back to the States?
While we cannot deny that the Internet and other business and political developments have enabled borders to be crossed and have expanded many companies’ reach, there remains a clear preference by many—especially smaller and mid-size companies—for local support and competition. It is safe to assume that certain business elements can be effectively purchased or performed abroad, while others should not.
Looking at manufacturing in general, fierce competition, industry pressures and cheap overseas labor continue to lure many manufacturers into trade agreements and/or contract manufacturing offshore. Yet, almost every company struggles with on-time deliveries from their Asian or Latin America resources. Because of this, custom, make-to-order or engineered-to-order production typically remains in the U.S while lower margin, make-to-stock type-production has transitioned to overseas.
Yet as budgets tighten in today’s ERP market, we are already beginning to see an increase in offshore development for Microsoft Dynamics AX. But, is it the right fit?
I know there are always exceptions to the rule, but my experience has found that most mid-market companies lack the time, expertise, and resources to safely evaluate and take advantage of Offshore Development Centers (ODCs). Under no circumstances should mission-critical Microsoft Dynamics AX development, defined typically as functional design specs, development design specs and/or any quality control be outsourced.
If you do decide to consider this option, I strongly recommend that you carefully review the Microsoft Dynamics AX partner’s local track record first. If the partner has trouble performing locally, you need not look any further. Microsoft Dynamics AX partners who do not have reputable onshore delivery models have no business venturing into these complex offshore models until organizational capabilities have matured.
Secondly, as a procurer of these services, I suggest you look closely at your own organization’s tolerance for risk and your internal available resources. Mid-market ODCs’ offerings do not have enough volume to warrant compliance or certifications with strict standards from Software Engineering Institute (SEI) such as Capability Maturity Model (CMM), International Standards Organization (ISO) or Six Sigma. This means that your company will most likely be responsible for managing the quality of these far-away resources. Any hourly price savings is quickly lost through only a small amount of project overruns or mis-steps.
Finally, make sure you review the components you are looking to outsource. Is this something that gives your organization a competitive advantage? And if so, is this something that you want your competition to have? With an open source code structure such as with Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can bet at least one disgruntled, underpaid offshore resource may be tempted to CUT/PASTE your code. And, any legal council will tell you that enforcing NDA’s internationally is expensive, and often more trouble than it’s worth.
In my eyes, the average volume of safe, non-critical Microsoft Dynamics AX customizations that can be shipped overseas for mid-market implementations of Microsoft Dynamics AX does not provide enough benefit via costs savings to outweigh the increased level of risk. If you want high quality, the answer probably begins and ends with your partner’s location, location, location!
Thomas L. Friedman wrote about the transition toward globalization in the best-selling book “The World is Flat - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century”. This widely accepted metaphor of visualizing worldwide commerce and competition with equal opportunity to local competition has started to receive criticism. It is easy to challenge the ‘level playing field’ view by asking:
•Why has 90% of the world’s phone, web traffic and investment remained local?
•Why do global companies hire local professionals to run foreign operations?
•Why are more and more call centers coming back to the States?
While we cannot deny that the Internet and other business and political developments have enabled borders to be crossed and have expanded many companies’ reach, there remains a clear preference by many—especially smaller and mid-size companies—for local support and competition. It is safe to assume that certain business elements can be effectively purchased or performed abroad, while others should not.
Looking at manufacturing in general, fierce competition, industry pressures and cheap overseas labor continue to lure many manufacturers into trade agreements and/or contract manufacturing offshore. Yet, almost every company struggles with on-time deliveries from their Asian or Latin America resources. Because of this, custom, make-to-order or engineered-to-order production typically remains in the U.S while lower margin, make-to-stock type-production has transitioned to overseas.
Yet as budgets tighten in today’s ERP market, we are already beginning to see an increase in offshore development for Microsoft Dynamics AX. But, is it the right fit?
I know there are always exceptions to the rule, but my experience has found that most mid-market companies lack the time, expertise, and resources to safely evaluate and take advantage of Offshore Development Centers (ODCs). Under no circumstances should mission-critical Microsoft Dynamics AX development, defined typically as functional design specs, development design specs and/or any quality control be outsourced.
If you do decide to consider this option, I strongly recommend that you carefully review the Microsoft Dynamics AX partner’s local track record first. If the partner has trouble performing locally, you need not look any further. Microsoft Dynamics AX partners who do not have reputable onshore delivery models have no business venturing into these complex offshore models until organizational capabilities have matured.
Secondly, as a procurer of these services, I suggest you look closely at your own organization’s tolerance for risk and your internal available resources. Mid-market ODCs’ offerings do not have enough volume to warrant compliance or certifications with strict standards from Software Engineering Institute (SEI) such as Capability Maturity Model (CMM), International Standards Organization (ISO) or Six Sigma. This means that your company will most likely be responsible for managing the quality of these far-away resources. Any hourly price savings is quickly lost through only a small amount of project overruns or mis-steps.
Finally, make sure you review the components you are looking to outsource. Is this something that gives your organization a competitive advantage? And if so, is this something that you want your competition to have? With an open source code structure such as with Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can bet at least one disgruntled, underpaid offshore resource may be tempted to CUT/PASTE your code. And, any legal council will tell you that enforcing NDA’s internationally is expensive, and often more trouble than it’s worth.
In my eyes, the average volume of safe, non-critical Microsoft Dynamics AX customizations that can be shipped overseas for mid-market implementations of Microsoft Dynamics AX does not provide enough benefit via costs savings to outweigh the increased level of risk. If you want high quality, the answer probably begins and ends with your partner’s location, location, location!
Advanced Systems Integration to be a Gold Sponsor at Apparel’s Tech Conference West
Apparel’s Annual East-Coast Based Tech Conference Heads Out West in 2008
LAKE FOREST, CA – March 4, 2008 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) a Microsoft Dynamics AX Gold Certified Business Solutions and Learning Solutions Partner is delighted to be a gold sponsor for Apparel’s first ever west coast Tech Conference West event. This annual must-attend event is historically held in New York in the fall. However, this year Apparel saw the opportunity build on the strength and success of the New York show by adding the west-coast event in the spring.
The one-day conference on April 2, 2008 will be held at the Orange County Campus of the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) in Irvine, CA. The event will feature a keynote technology presentation, technology vendor tabletop displays, more than a dozen educational sessions and a networking reception. Attendees will have the opportunity to gain technology and business insights across the total supply chain, from concept to consumer, with content addressing: Design and Product Development; Manufacturing; Information Technology; Sourcing, Logistics, Transportation; and Retailing.
Advanced Systems Integration will be presenting a 30 minute afternoon presentation on “How Apparel Companies Can Leverage Technology for Increased Visibility and Supply Chain Optimization”. ASi session description:
Successfully managing a complex and highly seasonal inventory is all about information and visibility. Whether it is a shortage in materials, product allocation or managing overseas production, the perfect Supply Chain Solution must be quick to implement, familiar to your employees, scalable, and provide real-time information at the touch of a button. In this 30-minute presentation, Advanced Systems Integration (ASi), a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics AX Solution Partner, will introduce the Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) platform and discuss why it is tailor made for rapidly growing fashion companies. ASi will present case studies related to supply chain visibility and optimization and demonstrate why using Microsoft technology is good but using the Microsoft Dynamics AX platform is better!
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. is a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics™ AX and Learning Solutions partner founded in 1991 that delivers comprehensive enterprise class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASi also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta). ASi uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASi is based in Lake Forest, CA and has sales offices in strategically located throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com.
About Apparel: Apparel provides apparel and retail executives with information, research and strategic insight in a variety of formats in order to help them improve their business performance. Apparel magazine serves 18,0601 subscribers. Its targeted focus is Technology & Business Insight - From Concept to Consumer, which encompasses the market, retail intelligence, supply chain, sourcing and logistics, concept-to-spec and fiber-to-fabric. Apparel has proudly served the industry for more than 48 years. A commitment to editorial excellence and quality content for the benefit of the industry is the foundation of its value. http://www.apparelmag.com/
About Microsoft Dynamics AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx.
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
LAKE FOREST, CA – March 4, 2008 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) a Microsoft Dynamics AX Gold Certified Business Solutions and Learning Solutions Partner is delighted to be a gold sponsor for Apparel’s first ever west coast Tech Conference West event. This annual must-attend event is historically held in New York in the fall. However, this year Apparel saw the opportunity build on the strength and success of the New York show by adding the west-coast event in the spring.
The one-day conference on April 2, 2008 will be held at the Orange County Campus of the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) in Irvine, CA. The event will feature a keynote technology presentation, technology vendor tabletop displays, more than a dozen educational sessions and a networking reception. Attendees will have the opportunity to gain technology and business insights across the total supply chain, from concept to consumer, with content addressing: Design and Product Development; Manufacturing; Information Technology; Sourcing, Logistics, Transportation; and Retailing.
Advanced Systems Integration will be presenting a 30 minute afternoon presentation on “How Apparel Companies Can Leverage Technology for Increased Visibility and Supply Chain Optimization”. ASi session description:
Successfully managing a complex and highly seasonal inventory is all about information and visibility. Whether it is a shortage in materials, product allocation or managing overseas production, the perfect Supply Chain Solution must be quick to implement, familiar to your employees, scalable, and provide real-time information at the touch of a button. In this 30-minute presentation, Advanced Systems Integration (ASi), a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics AX Solution Partner, will introduce the Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) platform and discuss why it is tailor made for rapidly growing fashion companies. ASi will present case studies related to supply chain visibility and optimization and demonstrate why using Microsoft technology is good but using the Microsoft Dynamics AX platform is better!
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. is a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics™ AX and Learning Solutions partner founded in 1991 that delivers comprehensive enterprise class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASi also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta). ASi uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASi is based in Lake Forest, CA and has sales offices in strategically located throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com.
About Apparel: Apparel provides apparel and retail executives with information, research and strategic insight in a variety of formats in order to help them improve their business performance. Apparel magazine serves 18,0601 subscribers. Its targeted focus is Technology & Business Insight - From Concept to Consumer, which encompasses the market, retail intelligence, supply chain, sourcing and logistics, concept-to-spec and fiber-to-fabric. Apparel has proudly served the industry for more than 48 years. A commitment to editorial excellence and quality content for the benefit of the industry is the foundation of its value. http://www.apparelmag.com/
About Microsoft Dynamics AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx.
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Advanced Systems Integration is a Featured Column Contributor for MSDynamicsWorld.com™
MSDynamicsWorld.com is Launched as New, Independent Authority for Microsoft Dynamics
LAKE FOREST, CA – January 29, 2008 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) a Microsoft Dynamics AX Gold Certified Business Solutions and Learning Solutions Partner is pleased to be a featured column contributor for the newly launched MSDynamicsWorld.com website.
Jeff Onesto, Director of Business Development, will write thought-provoking and informative monthly columns focused primarily on Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) utilizing ASi experienced and tenured background with complex and varied Microsoft Dynamics AX implementations, consulting, and training.
Online media company, GuidePoint Media LLC, is behind the technology-focused website, MSDynamicsWorld.com. The new site is aiming to become recognized as the leading independent authority covering the world of Microsoft Dynamics. The Microsoft Dynamics product suite includes such packages as Dynamics CRM, Dynamics GP Dynamics AX, and Dynamics NAV. Visitors to the site can access the site’s wide range of resources, including:
• News and analysis about key Dynamics developments and trends;
• Columns from leading industry experts;
• White papers;
• Case studies
• Product-demos
MSDynamicsWorld.com is independent of Microsoft Corp. This independence enables MSDynamicsWorld.com to act as a platform for industry leaders to provide unbiased assessments of Dynamics products, third-party software and tools. ASi is excited to be part of the exciting new resource for ERP users and those researching the Microsoft business product channel.
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. is a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics™ AX and Learning Solutions partner founded in 1991 that delivers comprehensive enterprise class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASi also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta). ASi uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASi is based in Lake Forest, CA and has sales offices in strategically located throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com.
About MSDynamicsWorld.com™: MSDynamicsWorld.com is owned by GuidePoint Media LLC, a publisher of online technology content. MSDynamicsWorld.com is its first product. MSDynamicsWorld.com is independent of Microsoft Corp. It was formed to benefit the users and partners of Microsoft Dynamics products. This independence enables MSDynamicsWorld.com to act as a platform for industry leaders to provide unbiased assessments of Dynamics products, third-party software and tools. MSDynamicsWorld.com also provides opportunities for independent software vendors, consultants, and partners to cost-effectively communicate with customers. Please visit the website for further information: www.msdynamicsworld.com.
About Microsoft Dynamics AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx.
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
LAKE FOREST, CA – January 29, 2008 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) a Microsoft Dynamics AX Gold Certified Business Solutions and Learning Solutions Partner is pleased to be a featured column contributor for the newly launched MSDynamicsWorld.com website.
Jeff Onesto, Director of Business Development, will write thought-provoking and informative monthly columns focused primarily on Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) utilizing ASi experienced and tenured background with complex and varied Microsoft Dynamics AX implementations, consulting, and training.
Online media company, GuidePoint Media LLC, is behind the technology-focused website, MSDynamicsWorld.com. The new site is aiming to become recognized as the leading independent authority covering the world of Microsoft Dynamics. The Microsoft Dynamics product suite includes such packages as Dynamics CRM, Dynamics GP Dynamics AX, and Dynamics NAV. Visitors to the site can access the site’s wide range of resources, including:
• News and analysis about key Dynamics developments and trends;
• Columns from leading industry experts;
• White papers;
• Case studies
• Product-demos
MSDynamicsWorld.com is independent of Microsoft Corp. This independence enables MSDynamicsWorld.com to act as a platform for industry leaders to provide unbiased assessments of Dynamics products, third-party software and tools. ASi is excited to be part of the exciting new resource for ERP users and those researching the Microsoft business product channel.
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. is a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics™ AX and Learning Solutions partner founded in 1991 that delivers comprehensive enterprise class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASi also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta). ASi uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASi is based in Lake Forest, CA and has sales offices in strategically located throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com.
About MSDynamicsWorld.com™: MSDynamicsWorld.com is owned by GuidePoint Media LLC, a publisher of online technology content. MSDynamicsWorld.com is its first product. MSDynamicsWorld.com is independent of Microsoft Corp. It was formed to benefit the users and partners of Microsoft Dynamics products. This independence enables MSDynamicsWorld.com to act as a platform for industry leaders to provide unbiased assessments of Dynamics products, third-party software and tools. MSDynamicsWorld.com also provides opportunities for independent software vendors, consultants, and partners to cost-effectively communicate with customers. Please visit the website for further information: www.msdynamicsworld.com.
About Microsoft Dynamics AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx.
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
Monday, December 10, 2007
Microsoft Releases New Case Study Highlighting Successful Partnership between Advanced Systems Integration and Zurn
Advanced Systems Integration Helps Empower Major Plumbing Manufacturer with Successful Implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX
LAKE FOREST, CA – December 10, 2007 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics AX Solution & Training Partner is pleased to announce the release of a new Microsoft authorized case study on its recent Microsoft Dynamics AX implementation and training support at Zurn.
The new case study, funded and written by Microsoft, highlights the immediate benefits and cost savings that Zurn was able to achieve after the successful implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) by ASi, including:
• Maintaining Low Total Cost of Ownership
• Eliminating Redundancies and Automating Processes
• Increasing Inventory Visibility
Zurn, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, manufactures commercial-grade plumbing products and accessories. The company’s three incompatible enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems (including Oracle) made it difficult to efficiently share information across business units. Upper management was left without a real-time enterprise view of sales and warehouse data, resulting in costly redundancies. With help from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Advanced Systems Integration, Zurn deployed Microsoft Dynamics AX business management software, which addressed IT concerns at Zurn and provided the IT team the means to fix, operate, and customize the ERP system on its own.
For complete details and a copy of the November 30, 2007 released case study, please visit the ASi website at: www.advancedsystemsintegration.com or Microsoft Case Studies at: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001073.
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. is a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics™ AX partner founded in 1991 that delivers comprehensive enterprise class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASi also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta). ASi uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASi is based in Lake Forest, CA and has sales offices in strategically located throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com.
About Zurn: Zurn was founded in 1900 in Erie, PA. Zurn originally manufactured a patented backwater valve, and now manufactures and distributes one of the largest plumbing products packages in the world! Zurn includes: the Specification Drainage Operation, AquaFlush flush valves, AquaSense sensor-operated plumbing products, AquaSpec commercial faucets, Wilkins, Zurn Light Commercial, Flo-Thru, the Chemical Drainage Systems, Zurn PEX Plumbing Systems and Zurn Radiant Heat. This wide variety of products and its commitment to quality make Zurn a leading manufacturer of plumbing products and accessories. Please visit the company’s web site at www.zurn.com.
About Microsoft Dynamics AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
LAKE FOREST, CA – December 10, 2007 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics AX Solution & Training Partner is pleased to announce the release of a new Microsoft authorized case study on its recent Microsoft Dynamics AX implementation and training support at Zurn.
The new case study, funded and written by Microsoft, highlights the immediate benefits and cost savings that Zurn was able to achieve after the successful implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) by ASi, including:
• Maintaining Low Total Cost of Ownership
• Eliminating Redundancies and Automating Processes
• Increasing Inventory Visibility
Zurn, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, manufactures commercial-grade plumbing products and accessories. The company’s three incompatible enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems (including Oracle) made it difficult to efficiently share information across business units. Upper management was left without a real-time enterprise view of sales and warehouse data, resulting in costly redundancies. With help from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Advanced Systems Integration, Zurn deployed Microsoft Dynamics AX business management software, which addressed IT concerns at Zurn and provided the IT team the means to fix, operate, and customize the ERP system on its own.
For complete details and a copy of the November 30, 2007 released case study, please visit the ASi website at: www.advancedsystemsintegration.com or Microsoft Case Studies at: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001073.
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. is a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics™ AX partner founded in 1991 that delivers comprehensive enterprise class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASi also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta). ASi uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASi is based in Lake Forest, CA and has sales offices in strategically located throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com.
About Zurn: Zurn was founded in 1900 in Erie, PA. Zurn originally manufactured a patented backwater valve, and now manufactures and distributes one of the largest plumbing products packages in the world! Zurn includes: the Specification Drainage Operation, AquaFlush flush valves, AquaSense sensor-operated plumbing products, AquaSpec commercial faucets, Wilkins, Zurn Light Commercial, Flo-Thru, the Chemical Drainage Systems, Zurn PEX Plumbing Systems and Zurn Radiant Heat. This wide variety of products and its commitment to quality make Zurn a leading manufacturer of plumbing products and accessories. Please visit the company’s web site at www.zurn.com.
About Microsoft Dynamics AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Advanced Systems Integration (ASi) Launches New Website
New Site Features Comprehensive Product Information on Microsoft Dynamics AX and Boasts Streamlined Navigation with a New Appearance
LAKE FOREST, CA – October 19, 2007 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) a Microsoft Dynamics AX Gold Certified Partner is delighted to announce it has recently launched an all new website. The company’s website address has remained the same www.advancedsystemsintegration.com, but the new site features new and detailed product information on Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) as well as streamlined navigation menus with an all new appearance.
The new site was designed to include something for all visitors seeking additional and detailed information on Microsoft Dynamics AX and Advanced Systems Integration.
• Customers just starting their ERP software search will find the full offering of Microsoft Dynamics AX product literature and valuable on-demand product demonstrations. The key product features and benefits for Microsoft Dynamics AX can also be reviewed by company role such as IT/technical versus sales and marketing. Typically, each business area in an organization has unique and specific areas of interest.
• Site visitors seeking more information on ASi and its success in the Microsoft Dynamics AX partner channel will find the company background, key executive bios, client testimonials, and important case studies now included on the site.
• For those companies already using Microsoft Dynamics AX, the new site features information on the AX-SMART training facility. Website visitors can search for courses applicable to their role in the organization, review the detailed course outline, obtain hotel and driving direction to ASi, and register online for a Microsoft Dynamics AX end user training course.
“Response to the new site has been exceptional,” say Jeff Onesto, Director of Business Development for ASi. Jeff goes on the indicate, “The site was built using the feedback of current ASi customers and was modified to answer the most common questions and areas of interest typically encountered as business professionals are learning, researching and navigating the complex ERP business software market. Jeff notes that a website can not replace the important role of live person-to-person interaction and product demos but he adds, “A useful website is important as it fulfills the needs of customers seeking 24/7 availability of information and connectedness in today’s fast paced business environment.”
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) is a Microsoft Dynamics™ AX Gold Certified Business and Learning Solutions Partner. Founded in 1991, ASi delivers comprehensive enterprise-class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASi also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform. ASi uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise, and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise-class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASi is based in Lake Forest, CA and maintains sales offices in strategic locations throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s newly redesigned web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com
About Microsoft Dynamics™ AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
LAKE FOREST, CA – October 19, 2007 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) a Microsoft Dynamics AX Gold Certified Partner is delighted to announce it has recently launched an all new website. The company’s website address has remained the same www.advancedsystemsintegration.com, but the new site features new and detailed product information on Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) as well as streamlined navigation menus with an all new appearance.
The new site was designed to include something for all visitors seeking additional and detailed information on Microsoft Dynamics AX and Advanced Systems Integration.
• Customers just starting their ERP software search will find the full offering of Microsoft Dynamics AX product literature and valuable on-demand product demonstrations. The key product features and benefits for Microsoft Dynamics AX can also be reviewed by company role such as IT/technical versus sales and marketing. Typically, each business area in an organization has unique and specific areas of interest.
• Site visitors seeking more information on ASi and its success in the Microsoft Dynamics AX partner channel will find the company background, key executive bios, client testimonials, and important case studies now included on the site.
• For those companies already using Microsoft Dynamics AX, the new site features information on the AX-SMART training facility. Website visitors can search for courses applicable to their role in the organization, review the detailed course outline, obtain hotel and driving direction to ASi, and register online for a Microsoft Dynamics AX end user training course.
“Response to the new site has been exceptional,” say Jeff Onesto, Director of Business Development for ASi. Jeff goes on the indicate, “The site was built using the feedback of current ASi customers and was modified to answer the most common questions and areas of interest typically encountered as business professionals are learning, researching and navigating the complex ERP business software market. Jeff notes that a website can not replace the important role of live person-to-person interaction and product demos but he adds, “A useful website is important as it fulfills the needs of customers seeking 24/7 availability of information and connectedness in today’s fast paced business environment.”
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) is a Microsoft Dynamics™ AX Gold Certified Business and Learning Solutions Partner. Founded in 1991, ASi delivers comprehensive enterprise-class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASi also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform. ASi uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise, and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise-class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASi is based in Lake Forest, CA and maintains sales offices in strategic locations throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s newly redesigned web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com
About Microsoft Dynamics™ AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
Friday, September 21, 2007
Advanced Systems Integration is AX-SMART in Microsoft Dynamics AX Training
Advanced Systems Integration (ASi) Earns Microsoft Learning Solutions Competency
LAKE FOREST, CA – September 15, 2007 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) a Microsoft Dynamics AX Gold Certified Partner is pleased to announce it has earned an additional competency, Learning Solutions. The Learning Solutions competency is designed for Microsoft partners focused on providing high-quality training and learning solutions for Microsoft software to individuals and organizations worldwide.
ASi, under the AX-SMART brand name, plans to specialize its Learning Solutions competency in Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) and Retail Management Systems (RMS) training. ASi will offer the official Microsoft courseware curriculum for both Microsoft Dynamics AX and RMS with MCT instructor-led classroom training in its new, state-of-the-art offices and training facility in Orange County, CA. In addition, ASi provides custom courses and on-site training programs for those Microsoft Dynamics AX users requiring a specific or unique training focus.
ASi has also recently redesigned its website to add the new AX-SMART training facility information. Website visitors to www.advancedsystemsintegration.com under the ‘Training & Events’ tab can search for courses applicable to their role in the organization, review the detailed course outline, obtain hotel and driving direction, and register. ASi’s various Learning Solutions courses are also listed in the official Microsoft Learning website at:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/default.mspx; under ‘Find Training’.
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) is a Microsoft Dynamics™ AX Gold Certified Business and Learning Solutions Partner. Founded in 1991, ASi delivers comprehensive enterprise-class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASi also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform. ASi uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise, and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise-class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASi is based in Lake Forest, CA and maintains sales offices in strategic locations throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s newly redesigned web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com
About Microsoft Dynamics™ AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
LAKE FOREST, CA – September 15, 2007 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) a Microsoft Dynamics AX Gold Certified Partner is pleased to announce it has earned an additional competency, Learning Solutions. The Learning Solutions competency is designed for Microsoft partners focused on providing high-quality training and learning solutions for Microsoft software to individuals and organizations worldwide.
ASi, under the AX-SMART brand name, plans to specialize its Learning Solutions competency in Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta) and Retail Management Systems (RMS) training. ASi will offer the official Microsoft courseware curriculum for both Microsoft Dynamics AX and RMS with MCT instructor-led classroom training in its new, state-of-the-art offices and training facility in Orange County, CA. In addition, ASi provides custom courses and on-site training programs for those Microsoft Dynamics AX users requiring a specific or unique training focus.
ASi has also recently redesigned its website to add the new AX-SMART training facility information. Website visitors to www.advancedsystemsintegration.com under the ‘Training & Events’ tab can search for courses applicable to their role in the organization, review the detailed course outline, obtain hotel and driving direction, and register. ASi’s various Learning Solutions courses are also listed in the official Microsoft Learning website at:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/default.mspx; under ‘Find Training’.
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi) is a Microsoft Dynamics™ AX Gold Certified Business and Learning Solutions Partner. Founded in 1991, ASi delivers comprehensive enterprise-class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASi also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform. ASi uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise, and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise-class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASi is based in Lake Forest, CA and maintains sales offices in strategic locations throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s newly redesigned web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com
About Microsoft Dynamics™ AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
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