How many of you talk about ‘hoying’ a ball or even taking a ‘crib’ when you have a cup of tea? And get frustrated when you can’t find ‘nowt’ in the dictionary?

An answer is nigh! Microsoft has just launched a project to find quirky words from dialects across the UK to help make the 2007 Microsoft Office system more relevant to the unique regional voices of Britain. Once these dictionaries are up and running, writers will be able to type in their own dialects without seeing red lines appear under the words their computer doesn’t recognise. 

Why not contribute to the new regional dictionaries? All you need to do is simply state where you live and email your favourite regional dialect words, from ‘barnet’ to ‘barmy’, to dialect@microsoft.com. The words entered will then be judged by expert linguists to create multiple downloadable dialect dictionaries. Find out more about the Regional Dialect Programme.   

With little IT manpower and no time to spare, the Canadian distributor of Castrol products builds a whole new sales and distribution system from the ground up based on Microsoft Dynamics AX  - full story on itbusiness.ca

Manufacturing software should streamline processes, leading to less manual effort, and an agile enterprise.

That particular realisation prompted a Burr Ridge, Ill.-based manufacturer of parts and components for industrial refrigeration systems—to evaluate its options and implement a new ERP system with Tectura - read this article on Manufacturing Business Technology

Keystone Strategy have just conducted a field study, working under the direction of Dr. Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, to measure how end users of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications describe the impact of Microsoft and SAP applications on their business productivity.

This research found that Microsoft Dynamics end users on average rated their experience with Microsoft applications more favorably than SAP users rated their experience with SAP. View this report in full.

Apex Computers are proving that you can see a return on your investment with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, in no time at all. And totally improve the efficiency of your business ready to drive your profitability.

Apex Computers are now enjoying a 1% reduction in the cost of sales transactions and savings equivalent to one full-time head because they don’t have to re-key in data. 

Following a management buyout in July 2005 the strategy set by the new board of directors required that the many different aging business systems and nine different  databases were replaced with one system and one database that would provide all the functionality needed by the business.

“The actual implementation was very smooth, Tectura were very thorough at gathering our requirements and also advising us on how to get the best out of Microsoft Dynamics NAV”  Duncan Bulley - Managing Director of Apex. Read this success story