By: Linda Rosencrance
Avalara Partners with Retail Realm to Automate Sales Tax Management for Microsoft Dynamics AX Retail Customers
Avalara, Inc., a leading provider of tax compliance automation for businesses of all sizes, today announced a new partnership with Retail Realm, a multinational retail-centric software developer and distributor.
This partnership will enable customers of Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail to benefit from Avalara, whose solution automatically calculates sales tax in the real-time “magic moment” of ecommerce.
Avalara’s sales tax management offering will add a new component to RR mAX Essentials, an integrated solution that enhances and extends the out-of-the-box retail functionality of Dynamics AX. Additionally, customers can add Avalara’s tax return preparation, filing and remittance services.
Avalara will showcase its new solution in the Exhibit Hall at the annual ‘Retail Realm Partner & User Conference’ August 21 – August 23 at the Four Seasons hotel in Las Vegas.
Microsoft Invites Peppermint to Enterprise Cloud Alliance
Cloud solution provider Peppermint Technology has become a member of Microsoft’s Enterprise Cloud Alliance, bringing together enterprise and cloud solutions in strategic engagements with Microsoft.
Membership in the Alliance, which is by invitation, gives Peppermint, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, direct access to the Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise team. The alliance is part of Peppermint’s ongoing strategy to help its customers quickly respond to the constantly changing business needs in the legal market, according to company officials.
As part of the alliance, gives Peppermint early insight into Microsoft’s future plans and developments for its cloud and Microsoft Dynamics products, according to Peppermint CTO Mike Walker.
“We launched our second-generation Peppermint Cloud earlier this year. We’ve migrated 25 of our law firm customers, and are taking more live over the next few months,” Walker said in a statement. “We are investing further and enhancing our relationship with Microsoft, and participation in the Enterprise Cloud Alliance will help us ensure our customers get even more value from the Peppermint Cloud using Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft Azure.
Luxury Travel Retailer Selects Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail
Hitachi Solutions Philippines will implement Microsoft Dynamics AX to automate and streamline Duty Free Philippines Corp.’s business processes, and deliver greater efficiency and productivity.
Duty Free Philippines is the country’s top luxury travel retailer with a government mandate to operate a tax-free and duty-free merchandising system. With plans to maintain its strategic advantage in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving retail industry, Duty Free Philippines needed to implement a fully-integrated enterprise retail solution to maintain its edge and be on par with changing industry trends, according to company officials.
Dynamics AX will enable Duty Free Philippines to streamline, standardize and improve business processes across the organization, as well as provide an opportunity to facilitate a better change management process, officials said. By adopting global best practices and industry standards, Duty Free Philippines can expect to continue to improve business processes with a global, scalable ERP solution.
Everards Upgrades to Latest Version of Dynamics NAV
Everards, a Leicestershire, UK-based brewer and pub operator, is upgrading to the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV with the UK-based The NAV People, to enable future growth.
Dynamics NAV has reduced the number of manual tasks undertaken across the organization and automated the purchase order approvals process within the company’s property management department, according to officials of the companies.
Everards had been using Dynamics NAV since 2006 and wanted to add features to its existing platform and extend the capabilities of the application. The company upgraded to the nAblement Suite, a set of applications created by The NAV People and certified by Microsoft, which has provided Everards with a modern, robust, and flexible platform that can grow and change with the business, officials said.
“Everards are a prime example of a company benefitting from the modular approach of Dynamics NAV and building on it to meet their exact business requirements,” said Ian Humphries, managing & product director at The NAV People, in a statement. “The solution is extremely flexible providing assurance that it will be able to support the business well into the future.”
SK Global Software Now Available in Microsoft AppSource
Dynamics AX global banking and treasury solutions ISV, SK Global Software, has announced that its Treasury Automation Suite for Dynamics AX is available in Microsoft’s new AppSource, automating banking and treasury processes for Microsoft Dynamics AX customers.
The new Microsoft AppSource Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling software-as-a-service applications and datasets.
SK Global Software’s marketplace solution helps treasury and accounting departments with such things as bank communications in the areas of cash management, vendor and customer payments, FX settlements, risk management, according to company officials.
“We are extremely excited to be providing our full banking and treasury automation suite on Microsoft’s new cloud platform,” said Tim Kahne, SK Global Software CTO, in a statement. “Over the years our customers have enjoyed the benefits of greater efficiency and security and now it’s available to an even wider audience on this ubiquitous platform”