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Recently, I was excited to see the core of the SAP Business One Cloud Control Center (CCC) appear in the main architecture of SAP Business One 9.3.  As we kickoff our July focus topics of cloud and e-commerce, here are some lessons learned from my initial experience with Centralized Deployment in SAP Business One. 

Join ONE.Source and TrueCommerce for this Partner Showcase webcast for our July 2018 e-commerce curriculum. The live webcast will take place on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. ET. If you cannot attend the live session, the recording will be available on demand. 

For our July focus on Cloud, SAP's Michael Cardi will present on Thursday, July 19, 2018. This session will explore the options for deploying SAP Business One in the cloud, as well as what each of those options entail. 

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Join ONE.Source and Sana Commerce for this Partner Spotlight webcast for our July 2018 e-commerce curriculum. The live webcast will take place on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. ET. If you cannot attend the live session, the recording will be available on demand. Sponsored by Sana Commerce, this webcast is open to both ASUG Members and Non-Members.

As part of our July curriculum focuses of Cloud and E-Commerce with SAP Business One, we will host our monthly "Ask the Expert" webcast with Richard Duffy on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 (rescheduled from July 5). These interactive webcasts are designed to be open conversations with the live attendees, as well as answer questions that come up in our community forum.

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Accurately managing all the factors that impact a service-based business – budgets, purchasing, material costs, staff productivity and invoicing – can be time consuming. But it doesn’t have to be. In this Partner Showcase webcast, Eralis Software showcased how Eralis Job and SAP Business One work together to form a complete job management system. You gain the ability to monitor every aspect of every job, including detailed cost tracking, so you can quote and bill jobs more accurately. 

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For many businesses, one of the foremost reporting needs is to measure monthly sales throughout the year and compare those results to the previous year. This fundamental analysis of whether sales are trending up or down is often the starting point for discovering important insights that shape your path forward.  

For SAP Business One customers running on Microsoft SQL Server, the easiest way to begin this analysis is to extract the relevant data through a SQL query. From there, you can visualize and analyze the data using Microsoft Excel or..

Regardless of the industry that a business serves, at one point or another, it becomes necessary to act on strategic departmental or company-wide development goals. Being able to execute these plans efficiently requires active project management and a well-constructed roadmap for success. Understanding the five phases of project management, and how to leverage SAP Business One during each phase, can help deliver successful projects. 

ON June 21, SAP's Dan Love followed up on his April 2018 webcast  Insights from SAP: Project Accounting webcast with adeeper dive into the Project Management module in SAP Business One. This session covers the basics and also provides detailed demonstrations of both internal and external projects. 

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One feature previously missing from SAP Business One was the ability to create timesheets, and then to allocate employee time to projects. I am happy to report that this has been remedied in version 9.3 as part of the Project Management module. However, I present this news with a caveat you'll need to bear in mind as you consider leveraging this functionality.