Lawrence Lessig: Corrupt Congress a Farm League for K Street Lobbyists

makes a sweeping indictment of the relationship between special interest groups, their lobbyists, and Capitol Hill politicians. "Members, staffers and bureaucrats increasingly have a common business model in their head as they serve in Washington," says Lessig. "The business model is focused on their life after government - life as lobbyists." ----- Larry Lessig introduces the Safra lecture series with a discussion on institutional corruption. He explores the prevalence of this form ...



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SAP Business One vs. Microsoft Dynamics GP - highlights for consultant

In this small article we will not do side-by-side technical specs comparison. We would rather you want opinions from both sides - Microsoft and SAP. Both products are aimed at small businesses in the U.S., Europe (however Microsoft Great Plains - Dynamics GP will be leaving the continent consists of version 10.0 - somewhere in 2008, on the Microsoft Business Solutions will probably stake on Microsoft Dynamics NAV - This contingentProgress in Project Green or now Microsoft Dynamics project). Let us also:

• Microsoft Dynamics GP strengths. Microsoft, being the market leader in operating systems, Office products, but also with such platforms as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server - can now also on ERP technology infrastructure, ERP Integration: SQL heterogeneous queries, Sharepoint Workflows, Web portals. At the same time, long presence in the market for suchProducts such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft makes it possible to include Outlook user experience - Microsoft Dynamics products require no training for users (of the interface has intuitiveness standpoint) - Microsoft Dynamics CRM through Outlook client, Microsoft Dynamics GP is a closer integration with Outlook in version 9.0 have. Some brief comments about other Microsoft product - Microsoft Small Business Accounting - it is integrated with MS Outlook, where you can createBills and to promote the Outlook contacts to your MS SBA customers.

• SAP Business One. This product was acquired by SAP software development company from Israel four years ago. The reason was probably driven the need to proceed to the mid-size and small clientele, plus SAP needed such a product easily adaptable to Multilanguage and complex international taxation rules. SAP Business One has CRM, ERP / Production modules and technically can serve as ERP / MRP / CRMManufacturing or service subsidiaries of large companies. SAP Business One has modern architecture and design, and that is what could choose a strong point in decision-making ERP platform. SAP Business One has integration with Microsoft Office - it could e-mail messaging through MS Outlook client / SMTP and the integration with MS Office on the level of COM objects

• Microsoft Dynamics arguments. At the time of Microsoft Dynamics / Project Green workallow, Microsoft ERP products work with Microsoft Office technologies SAP several years behind in that direction. SAP is currently contracting Microsoft to enable SAP mySAP integration with Microsoft Office. Microsoft has a strong argument against SAP Business One - SAP experts, the industry relies heavily are carried out in the general ERP / MRP plus probably Business and Industry Vertical Consulting to ERP from medium-sized businesses, where technology consultingand know-how in the first place. The result is longer implementation cycle plus complexity with SAP Business One Integration with innovative technology and legacy products

• SAP Business One Arguments. Microsoft tries to catch you, its technical solutions and proprietary technologies. It is enough if we have gives you excellent ERP platform, the good integration tools for Microsoft Office, and some integration with Windows platform itself - you can use VB.Net orC #. Net (our commentary - you can have your SAP Business One with the outside world with these non-Microsoft platforms such as IBM Lotus Notes and Domino using Lotus Notes as Document workflow communications)

• More of Microsoft's arguments. There is analysis out there on the ERP market, the strategic research support from Microsoft in the opinion that SAP Business One will need technology advances (such as developing its own Office platform, or close collaboration with MicrosoftOffice products to stay) with the ERP market in 2010, current ...

• Other considerations. Of course SAP has additional bells and whistles, such as changing the language - you can choose from German, French or Brazilian Portuguese transition to U.S. English, by Cnrtl shortcut. Microsoft Dexterity was in earlier 1990th designed and not so nice functionality and Unicode support - frequently asked question by the prospect of China, India and ArabicWorld.

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Microsoft Great Plains. Axapta, SAP Business One, Oracle E-Business Suite SQL databases / companies

Corporate ERP customers sometimes come to the question that can not be answered by a particular ERP reseller. Very good example is the question: Our company has about 100 legal entities such as subsidiaries in Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Russia, as well as legal persons, we have in the U.S. of products and services. We currently have Microsoft Dynamics GP - Great Plains architecture requires to be any legal person, Great Plains companies and have separate Microsoft SQLServer database. It is simply not possible to walk 100 SQL databases for ERP / Accounting System. As this developed in other MRP: Oracle Financials, Microsoft Dynamics AX, SAP Business One? In this small article we will try to orient you, an IT specialist.

Microsoft Dynamics GP / Great Plains. The architecture of Great Plains will require separate SQL Server database for the company / legal person. You can intercompanies transactions, but you should in this caseintercompanies records in GL by hand or have Intercompanies Transactions module (or advanced intercompanies module from third party)

Oracle Financials/Applications/E-Business Suite. Regarding Oracle Applications, it has an organization model that you can define organizations and the relationship among them. Using this model, you are able to define different structures to customize Oracle Applications according to your business need. The basics business needs are:

• Use (a single installation of Oracle Applications product any number of companies only a sample database support)

• Support any number of legal entities in a single installation of Oracle Applications.

• Secure access to data so that users can access only the information that is relevant to them;

• Sales of products from a legal entity that uses a set of books and deliver them from another legal person with a different set ofBooks.

• Purchase products through one legal entity and receive them in another legal person.
The list above shows the basic advantages of using multi-org Oracle applications.

Microsoft Dynamics AX / Axapta Navision.

• Axapta provides space for several companies within a database. This provides integrated reporting, transactions, consolidation and seamless user operation within several corporate environment.

• Data sharing. Axapta alsoEngineers with master data sharing for multiple companies, such as GL account, customers, suppliers.

SAP Business One. SAP Business One, as she sits in Microsoft SQL Server - requires separate database for each company / legal person

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