Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

Over 100 powerful and effective recipes to help you solve real-world Dynamics GP problems

About This Book

• Switch to Dynamics GP 2016 to take advantage of improved cloud support, workflow enhancements, and a more intuitive user experience
• Understand the various tips and tricks to master Dynamics GP, and improve your system's stability in order to enable you to get work done faster
• Discover how to solve real-world problems in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 with easy-to-understand and practical recipes

Who This Book Is For

The book is for Dynamics GP users or Dynamics GP partners. It assumes that you have a basic understanding of business management systems and Microsoft Dynamics GP.

What You Will Learn

• Explore the new enhancements in Dynamics GP 2016
• Personalize Microsoft Dynamics GP to improve accessibility and efficiencies
• Maintain Dynamics GP and ensure proper operation of the system using optimum processes
• Efficiently organize Microsoft Dynamics GP to improve processes
• Leverage the power of SmartLists using proven tips and techniques and undocumented search functionalities
• Connect Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 to Microsoft Office 2013
• Enhance the usability of Microsoft Dynamics GP with hacks
• Expose the hidden features in Microsoft Dynamics GP to improve efficiency and get more from the system
• Deploy and use the Support Debugging tool to trace, locate, and resolve problems encountered by users
• Explore PowerBI and how it can be used with Dynamics GP 2016

In Detail

The latest release of Dynamics GP 2016 offers a powerful, adaptable, and cloud enabled enterprise accounting software solution. The new version has experienced changes in serviced-based architecture, workflow, existing functionalities, and the introduction of plenty of new features. This book will help you get the most out of Dynamics GP quickly and effectively.

This book picks up where implementation training leaves off. Whether you are new or experienced, you will find useful recipes to improve the way you use and work with Dynamics GP. The book starts with recipes designed to enhance the usefulness of Microsoft Dynamics GP by personalizing the look and feel of the application.

Most of the recipes are designed to give you tips for a typical installation of Dynamics GP, including core financials and distribution modules. The book then moves through recipes that include automating Dynamics GP to allow users or administrators to focus on value adding tasks, connecting Dynamics GP to Microsoft Office, exposing hidden features in Dynamics GP, PowerBI, and much more!

Style and approach

This book follows a recipe-based approach with a problem-solution mind-set. Each recipe is independent of the others; real-world tested, and designed to be used immediately.

Ian Grieve

Ian Grieve is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Dynamics GP. He is also a certified Dynamics CRM consultant, specializing in the delivery of Microsoft Dynamics GP. He is the ERP Practice Manager at Perfect Image Ltd., a Microsoft partner, and VAR in the North-East of England, where he is responsible for the delivery, by his team, of all Dynamics GP projects. Ian has worked with Microsoft Dynamics GP since 2003, and over the years, he has dealt with all aspects of the product's life cycle, ranging from presales, implementation, technical, and functional training post go-live support to subsequent upgrades and process reviews. Ian is the author of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Financial Management by Packt Publisihing and Microsoft Dynamics GP Workflow 2.0 and Implementing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client by azurecurve Publishing. He is also the co-author of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook by Packt Publisihing. Additionally, he has produced the Microsoft Dynamics GP Techniques online learning course and was the technical reviewer for several books on Microsoft Dynamics CRM published by Packt Publishing, including Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook. In his spare time. The most recent offshoot of running his blog is that Ian has started writing plugins to extend the functionality of the blogging platform, WordPress.

Mark Polino

Mark Polino is a Microsoft MVP for Business Solutions, a certified public accountant, and a Dynamics Credentials professional for Dynamics GP. He runs the premier Dynamics GP-related. Mark has worked with Dynamics GP and its predecessor, Great Plains, for more than 15 years. He has worked as an author and co-author on five Dynamics GP-related books. He works as the Director of client services for Fastpath.