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Microsoft Dynamics 365 – 6 Signs You Need To Upgrade Your Business Accounting Software

Bobby Varghese

Business leaders are so focused on growing their business that they often neglect the infrastructure needed to support their growing business needs. But, how do you know that you’ve outgrown your current system? Business leaders experience a number of pain points which communicate that it may be the time to upgrade to a more scalable solution, such as Dynamics 365. We’ve compiled a list of 6 such signs and how Dynamics 365 helps you overcome it:

Data Entry, Reporting, and Updating is slow

With the continuous increase in demands, the software systems become slower. A slow performing software acts as a hindrance to your business growth. If you’re continuously waiting for your information to process or reports to be generated, there is a good chance that your software is not able to handle the pressure. Also, if your system freezes occasionally for no apparent reason, that is another sign of your accounting system being outgrown.

Manual entries take up a lot of time

When businesses grow, teams spend most of their time in re-entering sales orders in their accounting software or copying any kind of data between different systems to work on budgets, forecasts and cash flow. These are the signs of accounting systems being pushed out of their capabilities. You should only need to rely on a single system to perform all tasks independently if you want to reduce the heavy drag on time and resources. Also, re-entering the data manually increases the risk of user error.

Reporting is inadequate

An accounting software can store all kinds of information but faces challenges when it comes to presenting the information in the right format. The template-based reporting functionality is very limited to the basic information and as the business grows, the need for a sophisticated, comprehensive, customizable and easy to interpret reports increases in order to suit different business units and purposes. The answer is a fully integrated business management system, like Dynamics 365, that stores and presents the information in the easiest way possible.

Real-time reporting is difficult

Having access to the real-time data is critical to the success of every business. Not having the ability to view your data in real-time increases the risk of errors and missing opportunities to correct errors before they cause too much damage. The right ERP solution can give you your real-time data at your fingertips. It helps business managers make important decisions, effectively manage cash flow and continue to support future growth.

The Data is scattered across multiple systems

The basic, entry-level systems can only support a small number of users. If your accounting system prevents multiple users from operating simultaneously or if it freezes when multiple users are working, there is an urgent need to upgrade your software. Microsoft Dynamics 365 can integrate with 3rd party programs for you to access all your customers, vendors, supply chain, manufacturing, inventory, project, HR and financial data from a single platform.

Lack of useful insights

For any business to succeed in the long run, managers need to know exactly what’s working and what’s not across all operations. If your current accounting system doesn’t integrate with business functions like warehousing, inventory, CRM, etc. there is a chance that it’s holding your business back. An integrated business management system will give your business a 360-degree view of your business while allowing you to perform a detailed analysis to turn information into useful insights which can be used to make important decisions for business growth.

Did you determine that you’ve outgrown your accounting software?

Contact one of our experts today and we will help you find the perfect solution for your business. Write to us at info@sysfore.com or give us a call at +91 (80) 4110 5555.

Achieving Application Portability with PaaS

Bobby Varghese

Today, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is increasingly gaining popularity as a Public Cloud offering compared to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) because of its simple operations and lower costs. These days, most PaaS customers get locked-in because of the specialized OS or middleware features but for the customers looking for flexibility in working across multiple Cloud platforms and providers, a portable PaaS environment is a feasible choice.

Before we see how organizations can implement a portable PaaS model, let’s first see the primary reasons behind the adoption of PaaS services:

  • Lesser costs of licensing and supporting because of the pre-installed OS and middleware.
  • Streamlined Hybrid Cloud deployment with standardized application services.
  • Improved application performance and functionality by creating a PaaS environment within the IaaS Cloud using the available web services.

How a portable PaaS model fairs across these three areas and how it moves within the various cloud and private environments is important but a single PaaS approach might not be enough to address this. Thus, enterprises need to prioritize their PaaS goals and combine different options to create the desired PaaS environment.

 

Here are the top 4 ways to achieve a Portable PaaS model:

Adopt Container Technology for Application Hosting: The container architectures share the Operating System, but the middleware and file system elements can be copied to each container to standardize the middleware across container images. This allows the creation of specialized container images for the application and the component which can then be moved across environments to be run on any container system hosted in Cloud or the Data Center. Read more →

Instant File Restoration – A whole new ball game for Data Backup on Azure

Bobby Varghese

Since its inception, Azure Backup has played a vital role in helping enterprises back-up their data on-premises or in the Cloud. Recently, besides Backup-as-a-Service, Microsoft introduced Restore-as-a-Service for instant restore of enterprise data.

Using this service, enterprises can recover their data from previously created restore points without paying additional costs. With Instant Restore, you can not only create a writable snapshot of the recovery point but once you do this, you can create one or more ISCSI based recovery volumes. These can be browsed to recover items by simple copy-paste method from recovery volumes to your favorite destinations.

Benefits of using Azure Backup for Instant File Recovery:

  1. Single restore process – an enterprise may use Azure Backup Agent to back its on-premises data or may use Azure VM Backup to protect Azure VMs. They can instantly restore their data using Restore-as-a-Service model. It acts as a one-stop mechanism to immediately recover an enterprise’s files and folders.
  2. 2. Instant recovery – the option to instantly recover files from Cloud backup of Azure VMs or on-premises file servers, is one of the main advantages of Azure Backup. Whether an enterprise has accidently deleted a file/folder or is simply validating a backup, instant restore helps in reducing the downtime drastically while recovering the files.
  3. Review before restore – users can run and check files with the help of applications such as Oracle and SQL directly from the Cloud recovery point snapshots, without having to first restore them. In this way, they can review the final list of files before restoring them.
  4. Flexibility in recovery – Since Azure Backup provides the entire snapshot of the recovery point and relies on a copy of items for recovery; enterprise users can restore many files from multiple folders to a local server or even to a network share of their choice.

According to a recent update from Microsoft, customers using Azure Backup Agent and Azure VM Backup (Windows VMs) can avail Azure Backup Instant Recovery of files for preview. Click here to check how to instantly recover the files from Cloud recovery points using Azure Backup Agent.

 

Contact Sysfore’s Cloud Disaster Recovery & Backup experts for your no obligation / no cost in-depth analysis to see just how simple and cost effective it is to implement a robust cloud Backup / Disaster Recovery plan for your Enterprise. Write to us at info@sysfore.com or call us on +91-80-4110-5555 to know more.