Released on: October 6, 2008, 3:27 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum LLC

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: SAP B1 is on the way to take its ERP and MRP applications
market share for small and mid-size businesses. This publication should help you
with your SAP Business One consultant, VAR, reseller and implementation partner
selection. When you are implementing new accounting application, you have to come
through several phases and one of them is data migration, massage and conversion,
including beginning balances, master records (business partners customers and
vendors, general ledger accounts, etc).

Press Release Body: SAP B1 is on the way to take its ERP and MRP applications market
share for small and mid-size businesses. This publication should help you with your
SAP Business One consultant, VAR, reseller and implementation partner selection.
When you are implementing new accounting application, you have to come through
several phases and one of them is data migration, massage and conversion, including
beginning balances, master records (business partners customers and vendors, general
ledger accounts, etc). Normally you do initial data integration through SAP
Business One Work Bench, where you typically fill out Excel template files and then
move them to SB1 objects respectively. Let’s come through data migration
highlights:

1. SB1 Workbench. As most of us, including accounting folks, have substantial
experience and even formal training classes in such applications as Microsoft Excel,
SB1 gives you Excel templates to fill for initial data conversion. This approach
was tried thousand times and it really works. Of course it requires specialist time
to export your legacy accounting application records likely into text files, from
where you should import them into Excel, and then further format them to fit SB1 WB
Excel templates format. Please note, that various types of imported records
requires their own templates and even templates clusters

2. SB1 Workbench advanced topic. If you are SQL programmer, then you can deploy
ODBC connection to external database, instead of preparing Excel templates, you can
prepare SQL statements and then link their fields to Workbench objects

3. Sap Business One SDK programming for initial data conversion. If your
organization has IT budget and several C# or VB .net programmers, who are versatile
with SQL scripting, then you can try SAP B1 SDK programming for initial or ongoing
data conversion. SB1 SDK allows you to access SBO database from external
applications, such as eCommerce website, EDI integration interface,

4. High End Integration tools. If your organization belongs to larger SAP Business
One installation and implementation platforms, then you should consider luxury
add-ons, such as iBolt


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