The MRP planning in Globe is a powerful planning tool. You have almost limitless possibilities to show and analyze your planning but this flexibility can also add to its complexity. For different uses you need a different set of parameters and settings to show the MRP planning.

To help you in defining these settings you can use MRP templates. You can set up user based or company based templates to make sure you or someone else in the company uses exactly the right set of MRP parameters and settings for each specific process.

Watch this video how you can use MRP templates in your day to day planning!

Getting the right data from your system can be a challenge when just using standard reports. Every company and persons within that company have different needs for data analysis compared to other companies and persons. That’s why in globe there is a very usefull tool: the financial pivot analyis.

A financial pivot analysis is an interactive analysis summary, which enables you to visualize the actual financial information rapidly and effectively. You can present the data of your choice in the exact way you want, with several options for grouping and specifying the requested information. In addition to visualizing the data of a single administration, the function also allows you to compare financial details between different administrations. Based on these comparisons, you can generate an analysis report according to your preferences.

In this movie you will see how you can use this powerful tool.

We hope you enjoy this Globe tip.  Stay tuned because there are more in the works which will be available shortly.

In previous blogs we introduced series of new video’s: Exact Globe tips.

This product blog is not only for new developments, but also explaining existing functionality in order to make better use of our solutions. The quick Tip videos are aimed at existing Exact Globe users and each provide a quick tip which can help you to work more efficiently with the product.

Although there are many fields in Exact Globe, it’s always possible you are missing fields which would be useful for your situation. In Exact Globe you can define your own free fields according to your specific needs.
Also you can define what the values should be, for example date or text or a yes or no field.

In this movie  you will see how you can use the free fields in many different ways, to customize Exact Globe exactly  to meet your needs.

We hope you enjoy this Globe tip.  Stay tuned because there are more in the works which will be available shortly.

In a previous Blog  I introduced the first of a series of new video’s: Exact Globe tips. These quick demos are aimed at existing Exact users and each provide a quick tip which can help you to work more efficiently with the product.
We’re happy to announce that the second Globe Tip is now also ready on the topic of Customize Terms.

The menu paths and terms in Exact Globe are named in such a way to make them clear to the widest possible audience.
In this movie you’ll learn how you can customize terms and menu paths so they become more relevant to your specific situation or business.

We hope you enjoy this Globe tip.  Stay tuned because there are more in the works which will be available shortly.

There are many sources of information on how Exact Globe works: manuals, release notes, Frequently asked questions, fact sheets and so on. All this information is text based and very usefull if you want to get the details of certain functionalities. As of this year we also present information on high lights of new releases via video’s (see the product update news page) so users can get up to date with little effort: the information is brought to you. 

But now there is more:

You may remember the introduction of a series of Exact Synergy Enterprise Tips that were released last Spring.  These quick demos are aimed at existing Exact users and each provide a quick tip which can you work more efficiently with the product.

We’re happy to announce that the first Exact Globe Tip is ready:  the Role Bar.

In this quick demo, you’ll learn how to use the Exact Globe Role Bar to create a personalized map of the functionality important to you, which allows you to carry out your daily work more efficiently.

We hope you enjoy this Exact Globe tip. Stay tuned because there are more in the works which will be available shortly.

After a succesful controlled release period  Exact Globe product update 397  has been made general available on 30 April.  

Product update 397 is the second update in 2010 and we expect to deliver 2 more in this year, keeping up with the steady rhythm  of 4 updates a year that we have been delivering the last 2 years. With this release cycle we want to deliver to you continuous improvements during the year.

As of this product update all users of Exact Globe will be notified in Exact Globe of the availability of the new update and are directed to a product update news page. You can find all the highlights and other documentation of Exact Globe product update 397 from this page. We have seen that people are more satisfied when they use a newer product update. With this notification we want to bring the advantages of the new product update in a better way to the users so they are more inclined to use the new product update and in the end be more satisfied with Exact Globe.

So check out the highlights of the new product update, upgrade to 397 and become a more satisfied user!

As an Exact Globe Product Manager I am investigating the current user interface and want to share some of the current options and challenges.

 In Exact Globe you have several options to make your own process flows in the main menu. Using these options helps to focus on the things that are most important or frequently used and to have a visual insight into the process you are performing.  The visual process flow of individual orders is widely used, the process flow in the menu is used less. What is the cause of this and can we improve the user experience here?

Maybe the most well known process flow in Exact Globe is the sales order process flow for a single order: 

 It gives you relevant information of the flow of the sales order in an intuitive way. This flow is shown standard in several entry and overview applications.

Exact Globe also offers the possibility to organize your work on the main menu level into flows that are relevant for your daily work.  The most well known of these is the role bar and it is mostly used in combination with the panel menu.  It is situated to the left of the main panel menu: 

 You can define several process flows, in the example you have the logistic flow, finance and reports. The main part of the menu is still the function based menu with the functional tabs and access to all menu paths per function.

Another way of working is the explorer menu where you have your complete functional menu to the left and can create process flows in the central part of the menu:

 Experience tells us that the possibilities to show process flows in Exact Globe are not widely used. The following are 4 statements that may explain why and possible enhancements to the user interface. I am very interested to hear from you if they are correct:

1. What is often seen is that people use the default screens and settings. Could the user experience be improved when Exact offers standard role based or industry specific templates for these process flows?
2. Another reason can be the limited flexibility in creating the process flows:  At the moment you can only add menu paths from either top to bottom or left to right.  Could the user experience be improved by the ability to show multiple flows grouped in one overview?
3. An opportunity for process flows is the integration with Exact Synergy. When using Synergy and Exact Globe you often have processes that require both products. Wouldn’t it be great if you could see this flow from one screen?
4. The advantage of showing the menu in a process flow is that you have instant visual insight into the specific process flows that you as a user are responsible for. Could the usability be improved if you had a direct insight into the KPI’s of this flow in the same screen?

 Of course I am also very interested in your experience with the current user interface and possible enhancements you see!

As of product update 395 the reporting engine for Exact Globe will be Crystal reports XI. From the start of Exact Globe the reporting engine used was Crystal reports 8.5. With this upgrade we and all e-report users can make use of all the new features in Crystal reports XI like dynamic and cascading prompts, HTML preview, dynamic image location, editable RTF format and intelligent charting. This upgrade also ensures we are up to date with the new technology in Crystal reports and users  can be sure they are working on a version that is also supported by Crystal reports in the future.

The upgrade process to the new version is very simple for the standard reports in Exact Globe: just update the normal way and all standard reports are upgraded to the new report engine.

All users of e-report, the module that provides the abilty to create your own Crystal reports in Globe, will have their own customized reports. We have developed a simple tool to convert these reports to Crystal XI in one go, you just need to know in which folder you keep your own reports:

Crystal reports is one of the most used professional reporting tool.  So users without e-report in Exact Globe may still have Crystal reports provided to them via consultants, solution providers, custom solutions etcetera. When these reports make use of the report engine in Exact Globe these reports have to be converted also. Again the same tool can be used, without the need of installing a copy of Crystal reports.

Upgrading to new technology can be a challenge but with this upgrade we think we have made it as simple as possible!