[Lou Spevack]

I recommend listening to the latest MSDW Podcast on Contemplating a Dynamics GP customer’s place in the future of Microsoft.
They interview Jeff Frye, a veteran Microsoft Dynamics GP user at Hunt Brothers Pizza in Nashville.  I am on the same page with much of what he says about Dynamics GP.

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Lou Spevack
Systems Accountant | Dynamics Credentialed Professional
American Council on Education
Washington DC
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[Steve Burney]

Great job Jeff!

Very interesting discussion and a lot of great points made!

I look forward to hearing more of these conversations.
Steve

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Steve Burney
Senior Financial Systems Administrator
Correct Care Solutions
Nashville, TN United States
sburney@correctcaresolutions.com
615-312-7272
Twitter @SteveBurney
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[Jeff Frye]

Thanks very much for recommending my very long interview.  It feels good to vent on all the things making the user base (at least this very small part of it) a little uneasy.  

There has been some attempts to reassure coming from members of our community, but overall the body language coming out of Microsoft looks bad to me.  Combine that with their history with FRx, Management Reporter, the roadmap and it makes the ground underneath my feet feel not so firm. 

It would be nice of Microsoft to stop beating partners with the ‘join the cloud or die whip’  while they are reassuring us customers that our product will continue to go on.

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Jeff Frye
Systems Analyst
Hunt Brothers Pizza, LLC
Nashville TN
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[Blair Christensen]

Great interview and Fry makes many points I echo whole-heartedly.

If Microsoft wants to see GP continue, it does need to stop pushing Dynamics 365.  It is still at least three generations away from being a serious product – it lacks add-on capability, can’t support multiple open windows at one time, and can’t interact with external documents (integrations).  Those are all major feature capabilities that are going to have to be there before we even look twice.  And we use Office 365 and CRM online, so it isn’t as if we aren’t familiar with web-based solutions.

I was glad to see Microsoft back off on the feature releases to every year.  I still think that may be too often to incorporate tested major functionality, but twice a year was just a ridiculous imposition on supporting IT departments.  It typically takes me 2-3 months to sufficiently test the effects of an upgrade on our infrastructure because GP is such an integral part of what we do.  It’s not hard to do the math and see that even annual upgrades are a major cost for us.

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Blair Christensen
Database Administrator
Oppenheimer Companies, Inc.
Boise ID
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