Posting Groups in Project Madeira

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When you create a new company in Project Madeira, you will get the new Chart of Account by default. This Chart of Account is created in this case by US legislation (this version is only for US); I hope it will contain for all countries as we will have localisations.

The same thing is with all posting groups. We have these posting groups already created from the beginning, and we need to use them in data migration process. Of course, if you need more posting groups, you need to add new and setup them as well. By default, we have limited set of posting groups:

Customer/Vendor Posting Groups: DOMESTIC
Gen. Business Posting Groups: DOMESTIC
Get. Product Posting Groups: NO TAX, RETAIL and SERVICES
Bank Account Posting Groups: CASH, CHECKING and SAVINGS
Inventory Posting Groups: RESALE

And when you open Inventory Posting Setup for your existed group, you will see that we can add GL accounts, but is has not Locations.

That means we have not locations in the Project “Madeira”. This is not connected only with setup; that also means we cannot use locations in inventory process. You also cannot find fixed assets in Project “Madeira”.

It also means setup is not so hard, but it still requires some specific knowledge about the main thing of system and we cannot expect from client to configure it by himself.

Project Madeira and Power BI

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If you have demo Project “Madeira”, you can also try to use Project “Madeira” automated Power BI. You need to use the same credentials and log to powerbi.com

Then, you need to run Services and choose Project “Madeira” package:

Choose “Connect” and put your OData Feed URL. You can find this URL in your Project “Madeira”. You need to find Web Services page using search and copy OData URL until your company name, as the following model: https://[navserver]/[instance]/OData/Company(‘Sample%20Company’).

Wait some time and type your credentials, using the basic authentication method. You need to use your O365 username, but as your password, you need to use your “Web Service Access Key”. To create your “Web Service Access Key”, go to the your User card in Project “Madeira” and use “Change Web Service Key” command to generate your “Web Service Access Key”.

After that, you need to continue with logging to your PowerBI. You don’t need to take care about certificates and similar; everything is already prepared. When you finish, you will get page similar as my. Then, you can check and try to make it funny…

Pretty easy. Enjoy.

Project Madeira – The Final Configuation

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In few previous articles, I’ve already wrote about configuration of our new product “Project Madeira”. Now I want to finish with configuration.

I’ll continue with Office Add-Ins set up. When we start wizard, first we can choose to set up only our mailbox or completely organization. Then, system will ask us to fill our exchange online credentials (email and password). If we choose My organization, then we have to have an administration rights.

After that, we just need to click on Finish and everything is finished. Then, I’ll continue with setting up approval workflow. After reading of small manual, we can chose to activate Purchase Invoice Approval or Sales Invoice Approval; or both of them. We need to choose approver person and amount limits.

After that, just click Next > Next and Finish. Very easy (of course, if you know and understand what you actually want to configure and use). And finally, we can configure email logging. We can set up Exchange public folders and rules, so that system processes incoming and outgoing emails to create Interactions. Just fill your Exchange Online administrator credentials. After we finished with this, system will create a few public folders:

After that, system will ask to create and activate incoming and outgoing email rules.

Nothing else. Your “Project Madeira” is configured. Of course, we can do some additional work, but about this in some other articles.

Project Madeira – Preview

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Today, Microsoft has published the first public preview of “Project Madeira”. I’ve just installed and opened this version. This will be the first Microsoft ERP as SaaS. Microsoft continues with their vision “cloud-first-mobile-first”. We can use this software as App on WP, iOS and Android phones and tablets and as web application. When you look this on the first sight you can see, it look like as Microsoft Dynamics NAV and this is basically NAV, but only in the root.

You will see, this system has only the basic features, something similar as Small Business Role Center in older NAV versions, but this is not the same. There are a lot very interesting things and this is only first impression about it, but it look awesome.

For example, you can see your items on three different ways (bricks, tiles or list) as you can see on this picture:

This is only one nice features and I need to check more to give you a complete user experience. I’ll spend few next days with Madeira and you will find more about this product soon. I expected something new and awesome, but this is really something amazing. Currently I can just repeat Microsoft words: Microsoft is reinventing business productivity with Project “Madeira.”