The Key to a Secure Password

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Whether you’re an aspiring computer hacker or just someone who values their privacy, password security is an inherent concern of the internet era.  If you value your data then you should value a good password.  The password is one of the gateways to your information, confidential or otherwise, and therefore must be as secure as possible.

Introducing the DMS Universal DataPort

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Data is the currency of the information age, so it should come as no surprise one of the more frequent tasks integrators, users, and system administrators encounter when implementing or maintaining a Microsoft Dynamic NAV installation is data migration.  The four common approaches to getting the data from where it resides into NAV are: manual entry in the NAV client, using SQL server’s database tools, using NAV's Excel mapping, or via a NAV Dataport or XMLport.

In-Depth Bank Reconciliations in Microsoft NAV

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I like it when thing lines up as they're supposed to.  Maybe it’s a slight degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder on my part, but my personal well-being is dependent upon keeping certain aspects of my life in a state of tranquility.

When it comes to my operations, and especially my finances, I don't want to come across any unexpected surprises.  At the end of the month, I need to know that my bank statements all sync up with my bank transactions.  I don’t think that’s too much to ask???  In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, performing a bank reconciliation is quick and easy to do and helps ensure that all is in order, and here’s how:

Barcodes, We Love You

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Unless you’ve never been in a grocery store or shopping mall, barcodes aren’t exactly a novel technology.  We’re all familiar with ubiquitous UPC codes, but in recent years the advent of complex barcode technologies and the proliferation of QR codes for social purposes has people reevaluating just how important barcodes can be.

How to Balance Project Agility and Predicitability

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A project manager is often seen dancing in the wilderness of scope creep, balancing resourcing constraints on the head of the budgetary needle, dealing with the inevitable boogeymen on the road to integration.  Your role as a PM, in short, is to remove obstacles that enable real progress. 

Funding the Digital Economy

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 To Invest or Not to Invest…It’s Not Even a Question

The debate on whether or not to invest in times of economic uncertainty has been raging in the years since the recent financial crisis.  In Canada, the latest budget has revealed the extent to which our government is willing to fund growth projects.  Budget 2012 has set aside nearly $500M ($400M via the private sector and $100M via government) for venture capital funding to invest in early-stage risk capital, and to support the creation of large-scale venture capital funds led by the private sector.

The Power of Collective Knowledge

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At DMS we strongly believe in the power of collective knowledge.  In the history of mankind, never has there been more information so readily available.  Today there’s almost anything can be learned through intuitive searching, message boards, and web videos.  Granted, it may take more than a minute to learn the quantum physics (or does it? Minute Physics) but as our collective information sources grow, so does our ability to leverage the experience of the people around us.