In a couple of weeks, ArcherPoint is co-hosting a Lunch & Learn webinar with one of our partners, BI4Dynamics, on Business Intelligence. As the guy in charge of the website, it’s my job to provide relevant content around the various events we host, so I went looking for a clear, succinct overview of the high… Continue reading If I want to build a data warehouse, do I go to Home Depot?
Protracted Campaigns
This is the first of what I hope to be a series of blog articles in which I attempt to share and reflect on my experience as it relates to the world of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). Jazz in the 50s and 60s tended to let the improviser “stretch out”, so to speak, or take… Continue reading Protracted Campaigns
The Two Most Abused Words in IT
Okay, okay! The title of this blog is designed to get some attention. The words chosen here are only my opinion, but I suspect most will agree that the IT industry engages in its unfair share of word abuse. During my many years in sales, I have called on more companies than I can count. … Continue reading The Two Most Abused Words in IT
Living an Agile Life
First, let me introduce myself. I’m the web developer for ArcherPoint. However, many moons before joining the ArcherPoint team, I was a developer and a project manager. My experience was based in good old-fashioned waterfall techniques…and dang it, they worked. They worked well. And I was comfortable with them. Yeah. Okay… there was that time… Continue reading Living an Agile Life
Open Questions on Configuring the NAS on NAV 2009 RTC and NAV 2013
Yesterday I wrote an article about the importance of setting the MetadataProviderCacheSize on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server (NAS) or Service Tier to something much great than the default of 150 http://www.archerpoint.com/blog/Posts/performance-tuning-microsoft-dynamics-nav-2009-and-nav-2013. If you read my article, you know that I am recommending a value of 5,000. However, there are several additional properties, which can bet set on… Continue reading Open Questions on Configuring the NAS on NAV 2009 RTC and NAV 2013
Charlie is out Feeding the Chickens
Growing up I heard about a distant relative named Charlie who was often AWOL when dinner was ready to be served. “Where is Charlie?” would be the question asked by the grandmother, and the response by the kids in unison was always “Charlie is out feeding the chickens”. Charlie often choose the wrong time to… Continue reading Charlie is out Feeding the Chickens
Performance Tuning Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and NAV 2013
We recently discovered that a single property on the Service Tier for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 RTC and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 has a bigger impact on performance than almost anything else we have done to date in performance tuning Microsoft Dynamics NAV in a 3-Tier environment. The setting that every client and partner should… Continue reading Performance Tuning Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and NAV 2013
A Dream So Big – A Story about my pal Steve Peifer
So often, we wonder if our lives have meaning, if what we are doing really matters. We are always waiting for the right moment to change the world and make a difference if we haven’t already given up and decided that the best we can hope for is putting our kids through college, collecting the proverbial… Continue reading A Dream So Big – A Story about my pal Steve Peifer
A bright 2012…an even brighter 2013
An open letter from ArcherPoint CEO Greg Kaupp 2012 was a banner year for Dynamics NAV. October marked the release of NAV 2013, which means Dynamics NAV is now the most technologically advanced of the Microsoft Dynamics ERP products with its three-tier model, one-click deployment, cloud-ready architecture, one-click web services, browser-independent web client, and completely… Continue reading A bright 2012…an even brighter 2013
You Need to Look Long and Hard for Stakeholder Requirements
When performing a business analysis for Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations you often need to look long and hard, for deep and insightful stakeholder requirements. As a boy growing up in the mid-west I heard the occasional story from my family about my grandparent’s cat named “Blooey” that they owned starting around 1917. Blooey’s name came… Continue reading You Need to Look Long and Hard for Stakeholder Requirements