is now available to our customers for download on LCS, Customer and Partner source. Cumulative Update 8 build number is 6.2.2000.14. You must have Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 installed or Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 to apply this cumulative update. For installation instructions, download the Installation guide for cumulative update 8 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2
The release notes is another great place to start with Cumulative Update 8 for Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2012 R2 deployment.
To learn about known issues in cumulative update 8, log into LCS by using CustomerSource or PartnerSource account. Then, in the Issue search box, enter “CU8 known issue” as the query for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2.
The mobile app provides the opportunity to use existing iOS, Android and Windows mobile devices to track assets, making the task easier and more cost effective. RAM’s asset tracking software allows you to perform regular audits and keep a central, up to date asset register at all times.
This solution integrates fully with RAM’s fixed asset accounting module if depreciation is required. There is no need to purchase expensive scanning equipment, just use your existing smart devices!
This app provides an ideal solution where routine asset tracking, physical auditing or the building of a central asset register is required.
Find out how you can:
• Minimise the number of lost assets
• Improve asset utilisation and reduce costs
• Quickly build a central asset register
• Keep an up to date asset register for insurance purposes
• Manage the issue and return of items
• Record asset lending
• Flag items as transferred, located or missing
• Upload audited data to a central asset register
This new report (Feb2015), from the EBA sub-group on vulnerabilities (SGV) 1 , provides a global overview of the
potential implications for business models resulting from the collective implementation of the regulatory measures developed since the financial crisis: (CRR/CRD IV capital requirements, Basel III leverage ratio (LR), liquidity coverage ratio (LCR), net stable funding ratio (NSFR), reforms in banking structures, resolution regimes and EMIR).
The analysis focuses on the potential implications of regulation for business models after the financial crisis and the likely first-round affects of the new banking regulations during the transition period during which the new rules have to be implemented. These potential implications of the regulatory changes were assessed in a qualitative manner using supervisory expert judgement and the assessment. is not mean to be an impact assessment of regulation, neither does it evaluate the long-term benefits of regulation for the economy. The report also provides a matrix giving supervisors an overview of the global trends that might affect banks’ business models following the implementation of the new regulatory framework.
The analysis shows that there are significant potential implications of the new regulatory measures for certain components of banks’ business models. There is likely to be pressure on the future profitability and the returns of the banking sector as it changes to meet the new requirements.
The complexity and costs of managing the change in the regulatory environment will be high and some banks will need to develop new business models, which will be successful once the regulatory framework is finally in place. The other important aspect of changes in banks’ business models are the potential implications for lending to the real economy as banks ascertain which areas of lending are the most favourable.
Changes in a bank’s business model is also likely that aspects of lending will move to the shadow banking sector. Non-traditional banking institutions will start to participate in markets that ‘traditional’ banks, either for reasons of profitability or complexity, decide to leave. This trend is already evident in the increasing role that private equity firms and hedge funds are playing in the commercial real estate segment in some countries.
There is also cross-sector interplay/ Insurance firms have started to participate in areas of lending/financing, leading to some overlap with the banking industry. As a result of measures taken by various NSAs it is also likely that banks will re-consider the markets in which they wish to be involved and the way in which they themselves are organised.
There is need for further work to explore the impact on banks ‘counterparties and to support the analysis using a more quantitative approach based on existing internal and industry impact assessments. A quantitative assessment will be challenging given that some of the regulatory rules have not yet been finalised and there are few studies that consolidate the various effects of regulatory changes.
In today’s changing economic environment, finance is critical to ensuring the growth of the business while controlling risk and optimizing efficiency.
Microsoft Dynamics Ax implemented by Synergy’s industry qualified and experienced financial consultants helps organizations to harness technology to gain better business insights. Turn Financial data into actionable business information to plan, control and transform the business and increase productivity. Watch this video to learn how Microsoft Dynamics AX can help finance leaders to reimagine
As business environments become increasingly complex and competitive, resources need to be managed efficiently and effectively. Watch this video to learn how the planning, budgeting, forecasting and control capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics AX can help organizations monitor and optimize business results and improve the ability to manage corporate strategy.
There has never been such an abundance of available and useful information to organizations. They ave access to mountains of data inside the corporation as well as across the web. Your people need the right tools to analyse your company’s data, to accelerate decision making and drive your business in real time. Watch this video to learn how Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 and Power BI can help you explore and discover your data so you can accelerate your insights, and deliver amazing experiences.
This is a Microsoft video showing Management Reporter 2012 in a real-world example workflow. Management Reporter is the Dynamics ERP application used for the creation, distribution and analysis of financial statements. Management Reporter empowers decision makers to provide real-time insights into organizational results allowing you to take action and align employee behavior with overall goals. The 2012 version is shown here.
Although the term mrp was coined by Joe Orlicky back in the 1940s and ERP came along in the late 80s there are still many organizations that don’t truly understand the value of ERP.
While streamlining and automating your financial processes is a huge benefit, that is only one piece to a much larger puzzle.
Successful ERP solutions enable businesses to capture, manage and translate data into business insight from a wide range of activities.
An erp system is not just a typewriter- it makes the right data available in the right context for informed contextual decision making at all levels of the operation.
Both for key business tactical operational decisions, the Sales and Operation plan, the budgets, forecasts and strategies, the short and the long term, erp is the glue that aligns your business processes, plans delegates work, monitors and reports and notifies progress and helps to evaluate changes, threats and opportunities and to manage constraints and priorities
Erp can help create new levels of efficiency and reduce manual tasks through streamlining, and directed process automation, a and exception reporting and dashboards.. It can reduce errors with profiles, policies and templates, and provide more control with workflow processes, and analysis tools.
ERP provides a platform to re-engineer your business processes to fit with best practices, and adapt to changing technology and market demands and opportunities. Understand your real across and how you make profits-which customers and products. What if different scenarios.
Ultimately, ERP is a platform on which to design a better business. Organizations who don’t share this vision for ERP will struggle to reach a solid ROI.
ERP used to be reserved for large organizations, who could afford to take on such an expensive transformation. However, thanks to advances both in technology and infrastructure, and changes in licensing modules, and the emergence of cloud technology ERP solutions are accessible and affordable to businesses of any size through the cloud.
Organizations no longer have to invest half their earnings into hardware and IT staff, and can get up and running much quicker than ever before.
Be open to change
ERP is not about fitting your existing practices to a technology system. While that may apply in some aspects, the goal is really to improve your processes with a system that can enhance their accuracy, automate them, and integrate with your partners and suppliers.
While a budget usually can put a cap on ERP projects, don’t settle for less than what’s possible. There are many ways to utilize ERP when you understand what others have done and what is possible. Don’t buy a Ferrari and drive it in first gear and skimp on servicing and driver training. Don’t spend money on endless reports and customisations to suit every employee’s whim. Be prepared withy our report design, business processes and data – use self elearning resources, get involved early so you can do your own testing, and use consultants for where they can most add value without wasting their time.
Key factors
An ERP implementation can literally transform your business, but also carries a certain level of risk. Projects can fail to reach positive ROI if the following factors aren’t met:
◾Support from senior management
◾Planning: time, roles, scope, budget and process analysis
◾Consultation and support, both functional and technical
◾Go-live process: phased vs. big bang
◾Training, available resources, and user willingness to adopt. ◾Test! Test every aspect of the system with each of your users as much as possible before going live.
Find out why every Synergy project goes live on time to budget- in 23+ years no Synergy project has ever failed to go live and none has ever needed reimplementation.
Ask our customers. Find out why we were awarded highest customer satisfaction by Microsoft.
Before Dynamics Ax 2012 R3, the HR modules were seldom implemented. A customer needed to buy HR user licenses, HR modules 2 and 3, Questionnaire Module, ESS licenses, EP development tools, Employee records, Employee ESS licenses etc. So Synergy was one of the few practises with any experience of implementing Ax HR at versions: 3,4 and 2009 – even then there was no suitable Ax Payroll for the GCC, so external applications were needed and the HR module also needed localization e.g. to support PRO activities.
With the changes in Ax 2012 licensing the HR module is now available to all.
– It has also been integrated into Production and Projects ) schedule by employee calendar and skill), and Budgets (approval hierarchy, manpower planning)
and
– It has been strengthened with: Case Management, new workflow engine, Role based portal, Time and Expense management etc.
Summary of Features Workers (Employees and Contractors)
•Workers, which includes, employees and contractors, are shared across the enterprise. ◦Basic worker information and worker competencies are shared across companies.
◦Employment, absences, compensation and payroll data are specific to a company.
•The primary relationship between a worker and the company is defined through employment. Employment history is retained for each worker.
•Injuries and illnesses can be tracked for workers with ability to print OSHA preparation reports.
•Past absences can be recorded for a worker, and future absences can be requested for a worker, which can be approved or rejected.
•Drug and medical tests can be recorded.
•Education, skills, certificates, courses, and work experiences can be recorded.
•Skill-mapping profiles can be set up and used to find workers with a set of skills.
•Loaned equipment can be tracked.
•Transitions for workers changing positions is recorded. In addition, personnel actions can be used for workers as they are hired, transferred/promoted, and terminated, with an option of workflow approvals.
Organization Setup
•Departments, Teams, Jobs, and Positions are shared throughout the enterprise eliminating duplicate data entry. ◦Departments are operating units that represent categories or functional areas of an organization.
◦Jobs are a collection of tasks and responsibilities.
◦Positions are a specific instance of a job that can be occupied by employees and assigned to organizational units. Positions can be assigned to departments.
•Workers are organized based on their positions within departments and jobs.
•Positions and organization structures (hierarchical, matrix, and team-based) are retained over time to get an accurate picture of historical, current and future changes.
•Personnel actions can be used to track new positions and modifications to positions with an option of workflow approvals, and also an option to track budget/cost information.
•The human resource manager role center provides KPI and key decision making information, as well as alerts, links, common tasks, and reports, which makes it a good starting point for the HR Manager.
•HR and Payroll cubes are available in CU7 for more adhoc reporting.
Recruitment
•Recruitment projects can be created for new and open positions and can be posted to the Enterprise portal.
•Applicants can submit applications for a recruitment project.
•Applicants can be shared across the enterprise.
•The recruiter can correspond with applicants by using templates and bookmarks and sending e-mails using Microsoft Office Outlook.
•Competencies, tests and qualifications for applicants can be recorded. The competencies for the applicant can then be compared with what is recorded on the job to determine the best candidate.
•The staffing manager role center provides KPI and key decision making information, as well as alerts, links, common tasks, and reports, which makes it a good starting point for the recruiter.
Compensation
•Fixed and variable compensation plans can be created, which includes grade, band and step compensation structures.
•Compensation structures can be mass adjusted.
•Eligibility rules can be defined, and process event streams can be created and executed.
•Pay for performance based on employee and organizational performance goals can be enabled.
Benefits
•Current and future benefits can be set up for workers. Benefits are defined by benefit types, plans and options.
•Benefit eligibility rules can be defined.
•Workers can be enrolled in benefits for which they meet the eligibility requirement, this can be done individually or through mass assignment.
Performance
•Goals can be set up for workers, and the progress for the goals can be tracked as part of a development plan.
•Discussions can be scheduled for workers to propose goals and review goals.
•Performance plan can be defined and employee ratings tracked against each plan.
Course Management
•Courses can be set up with logistical information, and can include sessions and agendas.
•Workers can sign up to take courses.
•Attendee signup lists, waiting lists, and withdrawals are available.
•The training and development manager role center provides KPI and key decision making information as well as alerts, links, common tasks, and reports, which makes it a good starting point for the Training manager.
Self Service
•Users with employee and manager self-service capabilities are empowered to maintain and view competencies and personal information.
•Users can apply for jobs, register for courses, maintain performance goals, complete questionnaires, enter and approve absences, and enter and approve expenses.
Questionnaire
• A Questionnaire is a set of questions that is used to collect information into a database for a variety of purposes. Questionnaire includes the following tasks: ◦Designing questionnaires, which involves setting up prerequisites, answers, questions and a questionnaire
◦Distributing questionnaires to respondents
◦Completing questionnaires
◦Viewing and evaluating results from completed questionnaires
• Within Human Resources, questionnaires can be used to survey employees, to evaluate employee job performance, test course participants at the end of a course. The module provides a workflow and notifications and statistical reporting
Synergy Software Systems has implemented Payroll and T@A system for many years for very large regional organisations. Now that the Ax HR offering is compelling and available in the core AOS server license we have applied that experience to localise the HR module.
We include many extra fields, extra validations, workflows and reports to streamline HR operations. Our configurable, Ax Payroll module caters for all GCC countries. Of course there is also integration with EP Self Service, and detailed financial accruals, and WPS file generation. The icing on the top includes Power BI analysis.
Microsoft Middle East and Africa Partner Council meeting at Redmond.
Brief summary: The future is all about the Cloud, and Mobility, and Predictive Analytics, and cross platform applications, 24 x 7.
Spot our Executive Director, Jennifer Vaz representing – (hint: she is tall enough to stand at the back).
And here’s a closer look…
A rose alongside the two thorns: Tamer Elhamy, Regional Channel Sales Manager, Microsoft Gulf, and Abdul Salam Knio , Managing Partner, Information & Com Technology (ICT), Qatar.
Over 57 million people worldwide choose Wix to create stunning web sites.
1. Choose a website template
2. Customize it the way you want
3. Publish online instantly
Wix.com offers a comprehensive web creation solution, including hundreds of designer-made templates, an intuitive drag-and-drop website editor, the ability to integrate business management applications through the Wix App Market, mobile and e-commerce capabilities, and much more.
Microsoft and Wix have partnered to bring simple website development to Office 365.
Customers will be able to select Wix as a web-hosting provider – or just use Wix to build a website to be hosted with Microsoft.
Wix fills a web development void that was created when Microsoft shut down the Public Website feature of SharePoint in December 2014. Microsoft didn’t feel the service got enough use to warrant continued investment and support. It seems there is enough demand, that Microsoft then felt it necessary to partner with a third-party to provide that service for Office 365 customers.
The Wix App Market contains a diverse array of elements to add to your website. There are apps for comments, events calendar, testimonials, social networks, live chat, maps, and more. You can however build a website for free,. Much of what Wix has to offer is ‘freemium’ – most of the tools in the Wix App Market offer both a free and a premium version. You can use the tool for free. Accessing the full power and features of the tool to make a website a business rather than just a slick looking page on the web will likely cost a few dollars and probably still require some outside help or self tuition to get these configured and functioning properly. Things like: setting up SSL encryption or building a functioning shopping cart generally take more than just a drag-and-drop.
Subscribers still using Microsoft to host a domain will be able to connect the domain to a new site built on Wix.
Why not? It now comes as part of your Ax server license – and as well as all the features in the HR module you also get:
– record all dependents and their document details for PRO related activities – avoid fines
– Case management e.g. for injury, incidents, new starters etc.
– Document attachment- passport scans, application letters, expense receipts etc.
– Ax workflow engine, approvals, for promotions, pay rise, overtime, department transfers etc.
– Alerts – expiring documents, overdue appraisals, etc.
– Questionnaire module: -appraisals, employee feedback, panel interviews etc.
– Travel and Expense Portal pre and post approval- against your defined policies
– Employee Portal self service
– HR role based Portals
– Power BI analysis of HR data
– Manpower Budgeting
– Graphical organisation charts
– CRM to record meetings, notes etc. with e.g. government agencies, H@S inspectors, or potential vendors of HR services e.g. recruitment, training.
– Projects module e.g. for a change management project, or for HR activities to support a takeover, or for a new factory – includes collaboration portal for working across departments and companies and external parties
– Deep integration with MS office – e.g. for mail merge letters to all employees, or to create contract direct from Ax HR
– Employee skills and calendars in HR module are used by Ax to schedule appropriately qualified, available resources to projects across companies.
Synergy Software Systems also offers a comprehensive GCC Payroll module, with additional localisation enhancements for the AX HR module. Complete with WPS file output, multiple financial accruals, EP integration to process leave and absence and employee requests e.g. for bank letters, or for self service access to own payslips.
Watch this video to see how Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft’s most powerful enterprise resource planning solution, clearly displays position information in easy-to-understand graphical hierarchies. See how AX employee records hold detailed information relevant to individuals; including employee loaned items from fixed assets, skills and competencies relevant to an organisation and position assignment details in either a summary view or a more detailed historical video of information.
This recent advice form the British Embassy but many of the points are good advice for all.
British Embassy Abu Dhabi Tel: 02 610 1100: Dubai Tel: 04 309 4444consular.uae@fco.gov.uk
Your passport is an important document. Look after it!
Some tips from us to you:
1. Check the validity – you need at least 6 months to travel to some countries (see travel advice).
2. Carry a photo copy when you travel and keep a copy at home
3. Take a picture of your passport on your phone
4. Don’t book any holidays or travel before checking your passports validity
5. Keep your passport safe at all times
6. Carry alternative identification when you’re not travelling
7. Check you have enough spare pages for stamps and visas to travel
With the holiday season approaching, the British Embassies in Abu Dhabi and Dubai are urging British nationals resident in the UAE to keep their passports safe and check their validity before organising travel.
Apply for your replacement passport in good time. It will take at least six weeks from the time the passport office receives your documents to it being delivered back to you. Remember to check children’s passports too as they are only issued for five years.
If you are expecting a new baby make sure you leave plenty of time to apply for a passport. It takes at least 8 weeks to obtain the First Time Applicant (FTA) full validity passport. Make sure you have all the correct documents to submit well in advance.
Applying for a new passport is simple: apply, pay and track the application’s progress online. Supporting documentation will still need to be sent to the passport office in Liverpool for applications from the UAE. To apply online go to https://www.gov.uk/overseas-passports. For further enquiries contact Passport Advice Line on +44 300 222 0000 or email: overseasNewportCCC@hmpo.gsi.gov.uk.
If you are renewing your passport whilst in the UK you will need to book an appointment at the UK Passport office and obtain the form from your local post office.
Emergency Travel Document
You can apply for an emergency travel document (ETD) at the British Embassies if you’re a British national outside the UK and your passport has been lost, stolen, damaged or has expired.
You should first try to renew or replace your passport if it has expired or is damaged.
Only apply for an ETD if you need to travel before you can get a replacement.
An ETD allows you to travel to your destination via a maximum of 5 countries.
It doesn’t guarantee entry to every country and you may also need a visa (see travel advice).
If your passport has been lost or stolen and you need an ETD it may take several days to obtain the necessary documentation (e.g. a police report). You should note:
It costs £95.
It will ONLY allow you to travel out of the UAE. You CANNOT return to the UAE on an ETD.
The ETD will only be valid for the journey that you specified when you applied and for a specific period of time. This will be shown on the document.
Your existing British passport and your UAE residency visa will be cancelled in most cases.
To obtain an ETD, you need to make an appointment at one of the Embassies, and bring with you:
a completed emergency travel document application form
a recent photograph of yourself
proof of your travel plans – e.g. booking confirmations (or detailed written travel plans if you can’t book ahead)
a police report if your passport has been stolen
Money: you can pay £95 by credit card or the equivalent fee in UAE Dirhams,
Gov.uk Website
The UK’s worldwide pages and consular information can be found on Gov.uk Click Here for more useful information about the UAE.
