When you are acquiring this small business Corporate ERP application, your perspective implementation partner might be very knowledgeable in delivering presentation, being reasonably good in sales cycle and implementation. Initial data conversion via Workbench was also successful via Excel template filling up. You feel happy marriage with this service provider and suggest them to go and implement phase two - SDK programming project, Crystal Reports, DI Server or something of that level of complexity. And suddenly you see that job is not done, budget is eaten up and your modification project is now in limbo. There is no need to blame somebody in such a situation. Your SB1 implementation consulting firm is specializing in software sales and basic implementation, custom programming is not their primary specialization. They might try to subcontract SAP BO SDK programming to known software development factory in India, Brazil, Russia or they might try to find independent B1 SDK coder in the USA or internationally. As you may guess such practice might be risky and you do not have to be exposed to thirds party subcontract in delivering business critical custom features. Let's think together about custom coding project recovery:

1. Sap B1 SDK programming requires dedication. This is key message and the partner who is not certified in SDK programming should be ruled out. You should know that SDK programming certification is not required for the partner who is interested to sell and implement SB1. The majority of local resellers, especially in rural areas or country side USA or Canada have to deal with generic implementation and they cannot afford SDK programmers in staff due to the specific of their business model (generic SB1 implementation and data conversion)

2. Crystal Report best practices. This tool is recommended for Managerial reporting (not financial reports, such as BS, P&L, Cash Flow). We were observing numerous failures, where SB1 partner was assigning CR developer in learning curve and this person was trying to deploy CR Wizard to build report. Wizard is great to learn something new. But in reporting it is generally good idea to build report base directly in SQL View or Stored Procedure

3. Performance limbo. Custom programming in Sap BO SDK could be inefficient. And this is not due to the tool weakness, rather this fact should be attributed to the lack of experience of the programmer. We should also mention that SDK was improving its performance benchmarks with release progress from 2005A/B to 2008 A/B and finally (as we are writing these lines in May 2011) with 8.8(1). We are consulting Corporate ERP applications since earlier 1990th on such platforms as Great Plains Accounting, Great Plains Dynamics, Peach Tree, MYOB, Scala. The author was Great Plains Dexterity Programmer and he knows that performance bottlenecks are attributed to inefficient coding

4. Upgrading projects. Normally they are not that challenging and rather smooth. SAP publishes upgrade path where you have to be on the required patch.

5. Multinational Corporation. This is where we see the value of SB1. It could export its GL Trial Balance to Excel and this Excel Worksheet could be integrated in FRx or Microsoft Management Reporter to consolidate your international facility to your Corporate ERP financial statement

6. International alternative to Sap Business One. Well, in Brazil you may consider Microsiga. In Russian Federation the leader might be 1C Bukhgalteria. Please, note that Dynamics GP is not available in both countries and SB1 is officially localized

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