This Blog is Created

Hello Everyone.

My name is John Wheeler, I live in a funny little town by the name of Tacoma, Washington. I'm the Controller at Alpha Development Corporation. I've been a Controller and Consultant for the past decade and a half, and in that time I've run numerous accounting systems.


Synergy Business Solutions

We recently purchased Microsoft Dynamics SL and Spitfire Project Management from Synergy Business Solutions. Synergy http://www.synergybusiness.com/ is a "Winner of the Microsoft Dynamics SL Global Excellence Award for 2005," with offices in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.

I chose to use Synergy as my reseller because I have worked with the people from their company on a previous Solomon implementation. I was happy with them during that rollout and Synergy has performed great on my current rollout.

For sales inquiries you can call Jered Cady, President at 206.505.7919 and tell him John Wheeler sent you. It won't get you a discount, but it will help me know who's reading this blog.


Microsoft Dynamics SL

In my opinion, Microsoft Dynamics is the best mid-market accounting system on the market. It is backed by all the brains and talent of Microsoft. Dynamics is highly configurable and runs on a SQL Server Database. Dynamics includes Crystal Reports, FRx, and a Visual Basic Programming Language. Frankly I can't believe that anybody would use anything other than Dynamics.


Spitfire Project Management

The day I walked into Alpha Development over 2 years ago, I wanted to change from the DOS created accounting system they were running to Solomon (now known as Dynamics SL). Unfortunately, changing accounting systems is a huge project and costs a lot of money, so everytime I talked about the change, I was told, "no." And then voila, there was Spitfire.

The company owner is an Engineer, and when he saw Spitfire, he was sold. Spitfire is that rare piece of software that does everything you'd like a program to do. If you've been around computers as long as I have (since the Apple Lisa days), you can remember when you'd say, "Gosh, I wish this program would do this." Well, with Spitfire, it does everything you could ask from a Project Management piece of Software.

Spitfire is absolutely the best of the Project Management Systems out there (and I've used a few). Spitfire is Browser Based Software and it runs in conjuction with Microsoft Dynamics.

For us, Spitfire takes project management information and shares it with stakeholders.


Why this Blog???

Frankly, this blog is to support the accounting community with my advice, anecdotes, and expertise on Microsoft Dynamics SL, Spitfire Project Management System, SQL Server, and Crystal Reports.

I'd love to become a Microsoft MVP. Do you hear that Microsoft??? Besides that, I'd just like to have a place to share my opinions and tips with the world.

So welcome to my little space on the web.

John Wheeler