By Brian Terrell
I built my business on automation, and often say I enjoy helping clients do more work with less effort.  And, I sometime flirt with over automation, which occurs whenever an automation costs more to develop that it returns in savings. In other words, over automation results in doing less work with more effort. I feel disgusted when I fall into the over automation trap; howeve...

By Sheila Zeng
I have worked on our fiscal period change utility for quite few years. It is a big part of my Sage 300 ERP database knowledge.
GLAFS (accounts fiscal set) table is one of the most import tables needed to be updated by the utility. So first, I must learn how the data table GLAFS records different type of G/L transactions for each period and over the years. It decides how to re-creat...

by Kristi Feng
Each company has its unique business process.  With Intacc's flexible cloud infrastructure, you can make Intacct your own.
Intacct provides three ways to extend the systems:
Configuration
The following can be configured in the application

• Workflows
• Settings
• Dimensions
• Custom Fields
• Smart Events and Triggers
• Repor...

By Jacky Xu
Recently, we developed some projects through Entity Framework. The framework is great to create database structures and data-access layers. When you design a database for a system, you can create table structures in the database and create data-access layers through the framework. Or, you can create entity and data-access layers in Visual Studio and create a table structure through th...

By Hrayr Galoyan
I recently attended Intacct implementation training. Having more than 15 years of experience with Sage 300 ERP (formerly Sage Accpac), it was very interesting to learn another mid-market ERP. As is usually the case, each of the systems has its strengths and weaknesses, and different customers may prefer different ERP, depending upon their business needs, priorities and corporate ...

By Emma Tsai
Recently, I attended a very interesting and informative Webinar presented by Rick Gallagher. The topic was, “The Customer Service Survival Guide: What to say to defuse even the worst customer situation”. It talked about the skills you can learn to defuse a bad customer situation. Click to view the recorded Webinar, or see below for a quick summary:
1. How to defuse ...

By Derek Du
Yesterday I was wondering, what is the best practice to manage database changes in TFS? In the past we have been using CVS to do version controls. The way to manage database changes was just having a folder to store all the scripts from the day the project starts. So when it comes to TFS, the same idea can be applied – create a folder of database scripts in the solution.
However,...

By Joe Zhou
Have you ever wondered how to integrate Constant Contact seamlessly with your CRM application such as Sage CRM or your website? CodePartners can help. We have developed quite a few solutions for our clients to be able to synchronize their contact list from Sage CRM or their proprietary software with the contact list on Constant Contact. The synchronization happens on demand or at a sch...

By Brian Terrell
To develop my marketing skills, I'm learning to listen to my customer's questions. It makes sense to me that if they need an answer then chances are that others might want to know the same thing. I get it that answering a question that many want to know can be not only informative and helpful but also good for business.
So, here's my question of the day....and I get this one often...

By Sheila Zhang
 
First quarter of 2013 was busy for our Internet Application Development team. We officially launched the CodePartners new website today. We’re very excited to show off our energetic and enthusiastic redesigned website. The team used DotNetNuke to design the site.
What’s new on the website?
- We clearly announce our professional areas Internet Application Dev...