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Microsoft Axapta Originally developed as a collaboration between IBM and Danish Damgaard Data in the late 90s, Damgaard then merged with Navision Software in 2000 forming NavisionDamgaard, and ultimately being acquired by Microsoft in 2002. At time of Microsoft acquisition 'Axapta' contained 19 core modules consisting of General Ledger, Bank Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Management, Master Planning, and Production. From a development perspective Axapta featured an embedded IDE (Integrated Development Environment) called MorphX similar to the popular Microsoft Visual Studio development suite as well as having its own proprietary development language X++.  Microsoft Axapta stood out compared to other ERP applications with its ease of customization and full featured IDE that compli...

As humans, we are often exposed to views other than our own. It's good that we are. In fact, it's necessary for human progress. As long as you're not being physically harmed or threatened with violence, being exposed to views other than your own is a good thing because it makes you more open-minded and increases your understanding of the world. However, there is also a downside: if you don't know what those other opinions are before hearing them, you might reject them when they're presented to you because you didn't have any basis for comparison beforehand (i.e., experience). This is why so many Americans still think vaccines cause autism despite mountains of evidence proving otherwise—they haven't been exposed enough yet! We should all be making an effort every day to expose ourselves—and our friends/family/colleagues—to new ideas and perspectives through reading articles from different news sources; watc...

Any organization that implements an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is taking a big bet. After all, the ideation, design, and implementation of an ERP system can take anywhere from six to 18 months - not to mention another six to 18 months for the organization to fully implement it. An ERP implementation is like a marriage. The parties enter with optimism and hope for the future, but things can go south fast if one party isn’t willing to compromise or work toward a common goal. If you’re planning on implementing an ERP system any time soon, you should know that no other project has a higher fail rate than an ERP implementation. According to one study that covered over 500 different implementations, only 35% are still up and running after three years. That’s pretty terrifying! So what can we learn from these failures? They almost always come down to a few universal points: Lack of Executive Support + Inexperienced and In...