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90 Minds Consulting Group Announces Inaugural Meeting Of The Minds Conference
The 90 Minds Consulting Group announces their inaugural “Meeting of The Minds” conference to be held February 10-11, 2012 in San Diego. This two day conference will feature business planning as well as hands-on classroom training.
Product training will include sessions on:
Scripting for Sage 100 ERP (Formerly Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200)
Sage MAS Intelligence
BizNet Software
Altec doc-link™ integrated document management system
DSD Business Systems Extended Solutions
Sage CRM
Value Pricing and ROWE (Results Only Work Environment)
The 90 Minds Consulting Group was formed in December 2005 as an independent avenue for consulting firms to share technical resources, product support and serve as a sounding board for sales issues.
The group collaborates online by using the popular Socialcast secure microblogging platform to connect members from across the country and easily share knowledge in a real-time 24 x 7 environment.
Among the membership are multiple award winning partners including those honored by Sage for customer service, spirit and sales achievements.
90 Minds members provide coverage to virtually the entire United States and collectively employ well in excess of 415 consultants.
Group members provide support and consulting services for the following products:
Sage 100 ERP (Formerly Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200)
Sage CRM
Sage 300 ERP (Formerly Sage ERP Accpac)
Sage HRMS and Sage HRMS Payroll (Formerly Sage Abra HRMS)
Epicor
SAP Business One
Microsoft Dynamics and Navision SAP
Open Systems
Traverse
Advanced Crystal Report Writing
Custom programming and scripting
Advanced Access database solutions
Resource sharing for technical and consulting support projects
The steering committee for the first annual Meeting Of The Minds includes:
Aries Technology Group
Azamba Consulting Group
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Clients First Business Solutions
Schulz Consulting
DSD Business Systems – San Diego
DDF Consulting
For additional information contact:
Wayne Schulz
wayne@90minds.com
860-516-8990
The 90 Minds Consulting Group is a private collaboration of approximately 100 Sage Software Business Partners who share knowledge around product technical information as well as business best practices. A list of founding members can be found at: http://www.90minds.com/find-a-member/by-state/.
The 90 Minds Consulting Group is not affiliated with or endorsed by any software publisher. Product names, logos, brands, and other trademarks featured or referred to are the property of their respective trademark holders. These trademark holders are not affiliated with 90 Minds Consulting group, our conference, or our website. They do not sponsor or endorse 90 Minds Consulting Group or the Meeting of the Minds Conference.
How To Speed Up MAS 90 or MAS200?
The question of how can Sage 100 ERP (Formerly Sage ERP MAS 90 or 200) be sped up when a user is migrating from version 3.71 to 4.4 (or higher) has just arisen in our private collaboration area.
We thought it might be helpful to provide some real time feedback from members of the 90 Minds group on how they’ve solved this issue for their customers.
Blank Window Appears When Authorizing Credit Card In Sage 100 ERP and Sage Payments [Solved]
A discussion just occurred in our provide consultant to consultant collaboration area regarding an issue where a customer attempted to process a credit card in Sage 100 ERP (Formerly Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200) and was presented with nothing except a blank screen.
No error or other helpful information.
After some detective work consultant Therese Logeais of Technology Integrators found that the solution was:
The address lines cannot have a % symbol in them (as in c/o).
Removing the symbol(s) corrected the situation and the credit card could then process normally.
Subject: Annual Agreement Update – Sage Payments (Bogus)
If you receive an email with the information:
Dear Sage Payments customer, you need to renew your annual agreement
with Sage. Failure to do so will result with your account status set to
-INACTIVE-, only test transactions will be possible. Download your
personal login page from this email and continue.
Sage VT Team 2012.
Please disregard and do NOT follow any links or download any software.
If you followed any of the links or supplied any password or account information please change your Virtual Terminal password immediately and contact Sage Payments for further advice.
As 90 Minds Consulting Group member Mark Kotyla of Giving Tree Consulting in West Hartford CT smartly points out:
The best approach to these e-mails is to use common sense. While it’s nice to be notified by vendors that such threats exist, the notification is almost always too late. Variations of these scams occur daily, so NEVER take action based upon instructions from e-mail, especially when asked to log in and verify information. No legitimate business will cancel or deactivate a financial account based solely upon e-mail notification. Moreover, customers should never be asked to "download" anything in order to complete a request… that’s a dead giveaway. If in doubt, access your account directly through your browser, using the URL originally provided by the vendor (never through an e-mail link). Relevant notices are usually displayed once you access your account.
Update 1-21-2012: Sage Payments website contains an update about this situation. It appears there were at least two phishing attempts – occurring on 1/12/2012 and 1/20/12.
Sage Indicates Fix For Sage 100 ERP v4.50 (Formerly MAS 90 and 200) Sales Order Double Posting is Imminent
The members of 90 Minds have been tracking a Sage 100 ERP (Formerly MAS90 and MAS200) 4.50 bug since early December 2011 which in certain unexplained situations was silently doubling the Daily Transaction Register (DTR) when postings were made from Sales Oder processing in the most current version of Sage 100 ERP.
The 90 Minds Consulting Group first were notified by one of their members of this issue on December 16, 2011 when Alan Niergarth posted the following in our private forum:
MAS90 4.5.1 duplicate posting in DTR from Sales order invoices. Sage has discovered a bug in the update process that results in duplicate postings in the DTR. The DTR is in balance so it can go unnoticed. Also, it is random so hard to spot. Workaround is to preview the Sales journal, say NO to update and then print the Sales Journal. They are working on a hot fix. My customer found it when the AR TB did not match the GL AR balance. Sage says a couple of other customers have reported it.
This early warning caused many members of the group to halt their upgrade efforts for customers who were using Sales Order processing and Inventory until a fix was made available from Sage. Several customers who had already upgraded experienced this particular bug on v4.50 which required several hours of analysis by our consultant members to find and correct.
It looks as if the waiting may be over. Sage Design Analyst Diane Coffman just indicated today , January 21, 2011, on the LinkedIN MAS 90 and MAS 200 group that :
We have traced the issue down to file pointers, which is beyond what I communicated earlier. Our initial changes have produced favorable results. We are closely reviewing the code to see if any other scenarios could be affected and should be able to provide you with a target correction timeline next week.
Hat tip to 90 Minds member Alan Niergarth of Socius who first spotted this bug. Honorable mention to Sage 100 ERP power consultant Beth Bowers for confirming and following up with Sage.
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