Microsoft Dynamics Nav
| Client | Project |
| mothers2mothers (m2m) | Send it South is assisting mothers2mothers (m2m) - an NGO dedicated to educating and supporting pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV/AIDS in Africa - with documenting and streamlining their business processes. This involves supporting Serenic Navigator, the world’s leading financial management solution for NFPs/NGOs. We are facilitating the setup and creation of board and funder reports, as well as bedding down the procurement to payment process. Our next step is to set up and support additional countries (Zambia, Malawi and Uganda). We also make use of Serenic’s replication tool enabling information gathered in decentralised or remote locations to be reported on at Head Office. The multi-currency module works really well for the various locations and currencies m2m needs to accommodate. m2m initiated the partnership between Send it South and Serenic Corporation. Their experience of our competencies and professionalism prompted them to recommend Send it South as the ideal partner for Serenic in South Africa. |
| South African Fruit Terminals | The SAFT Group is a well-established player in cold storage solutions for fruit and other perishables. It boasts several facilities throughout the Western Cape and Kwazulu-Natal. We currently assist SAFT with Microsoft Dynamics NAV support and development functions. All of this work is done remotely using VPN technology. Platform: Microsoft Dynamics NAV; Version: 3.6; Technologies:Microsoft SQL Server 2000 |
| Control Instruments Automotive | In 2008, Gabriel SA Pty (Ltd) was bought by the Control Instruments Group to form a new entity called Control Instruments (CI) Automotive. CI Automotive manufacture and distribute top quality automotive components to OEMs and the automotive aftermarket in southern Africa. Send it South assisted with the creation and setup of this new trading company. The project included the export of master data from the old Navision company into a new company from the General Ledger, Sales and Receivables, Purchase and Payables, Inventory and Manufacturing modules. Other project deliverables included the posting and importing of all Debtors' balances and open transactions, as well as the sale and purchase of Inventory (raw material and manufactured goods). Platform: Microsoft Dynamics NAV; Version: 3.7B; Technologies:Microsoft SQL Server 2000 |
| Control Instruments Automotive | We currently assist Control Instruments Automotive with remote development arising from support issues related to the Dynamics NAV application. |
| Telos Partners | Telos Partners works with ambitious individuals to deliver sustainable transformations in performance at both an organisational and at a personal level. Send it South assisted Telos Partners in facilitating business process redesign workshops for the Marketing Department of a major South African retailer. |
| Probitas ES - Topps | Send it South assisted UK Microsoft Partner, Probitas Enterprise Solutions, with Support issues relating to the Microsoft implementation of Dynamics NAV. At Topps - an international stationery retailer - support issues were largely related to modifications required to the Purchase and Payables module of Dynamics NAV. Platform: Microsoft Dynamics NAV; Version: 4 SP 3; Technologies:Microsoft SQL Server 2005 |
| Probitas ES - Wastepack | Send it South supported UK Microsoft Partner, Probitas Enterprise Solutions, with a custom developed module for its customer, Wastepack. The Wastepack Group supplies recycling services to around 1,000 businesses, ensuring compliance with their statutory obligations. The company also offers a range of environmental advisory services to meet additional customer needs. Send it South developed an interface between the compliance system (Electrolink) and Dynamics NAV. It included functionality to import, validate and process data that could then be used to generate sales invoices to the Wastepack customers and Purchase invoices to suppliers performing recycling services. Specific attention was paid to the need for the client to view the true cost of the event performed. Platform: Microsoft Dynamics NAV; Version: 5.0; Technologies:Microsoft SQL Server 2000 |
| Probitas ES - Solutions Group | Send it South assisted UK Microsoft Partner, Probitas Enterprise Solutions, with support issues relating to the Microsoft implementation of Dynamics NAV at Solutions Group. They design and provide equipment for digital communal TV systems for hotels, apartment buildings, hospitals and multi-dwelling units. Send it South assisted with the data archiving and development of reports, amongst other Support issues. Platform: Microsoft Dynamics NAV; Version: 3.6; Technologies:Microsoft SQL Server 2000 |
Software Development
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| Yell.com |
Yell.com required a Mobile Order Capture System to enable its 1500-strong sales force to produce orders in front of clients with no network available. Send it South’s Simon Noon and his team developed a system to download extracted SAP data into an MS access database. This was then manipulated using a VB6 application, before being uploaded directly to SAP using SAP Remote Function Calls. There is also a series of SQL Server databases (one database for each of the SAP systems - e.g. Development, Test, Live) used to configure the systems (e.g. holds field mappings, release version information). While the technologies used were basic by today’s standards, the project presented its own challenges. For example, close coordination with the SAP designers and developers and a good understanding of how Sap works was required to ensure the application acted like a mobile version of SAP. Platform: Windows XP; Technologies: VB 6.0, MS Access, MS SQL Server, SAP, Crystal Reports, Janus GridEx |
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Yell.com |
Yell.com required a Service Monitor to monitor a schedule application, and to automatically restart it if the process was terminated by anything other than the user. The solution consisted of Windows service, two applications (.exe), a class library (.dll) and an installer. The class library was to hold code and instructions common to both the service and the applications. One application was for configuring the service (settings were held in an XML file) and the other for displaying a popup form to show information about unconfigured services. The installer was to install the application as a whole and register the service. Instead of running under the “local System” account (required for a service to interact with the desktop) this service needed to appear as if running as the logged on user. So the service needed to “impersonate” the current user before browsing folders and creating processes. As version 1.1 of the .NET framework does not support the passing of the user credentials to the process class, Windows APIs were used. Platform: Windows Server 2003 .NET Framework Version: 1.1 Technologies: VB.NET (2003) |
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Send it South |
Send it South developed a Project Management Intranet Site to simultaneously meet in-house requirements and test the capabilities of LINQ to SQL. The site, which is meeting requirements, defines customers, projects (and associated tasks) and users, allowing for the logging of hours against specified project tasks. The next phase involves enabling reporting to produce customer invoices, user logs and project reports. Platform: Windows XP .NET Framework Version: 3.5 Technologies: VB .NET 9.0, LINQ to SQL, SQL Server 2005 |
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BMW |
Simon joined a team of programmers within the Management Information Systems department of BMW GB Ltd. to develop a Dealer Management System (DMS). Covering most aspects of dealership business, this was written as a three-tier system using VB6, with Microsoft Transaction Server for the business objects, and Oracle 8 as the database. Key areas of development:
Platform: Windows NT/Windows Server 2000 |
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