What's the point really of Office Account Integration?

[Daniel Billingsley]

I've installed Office Accounting Professional 2008 and BCM 2007, and I've run
the configuration wizard in OA to link them to the same database.

It's all working fine, for what it does, but it seems to be terribly
limited. I can enter invoices, payments etc. in accounting and have all that
show up in BCM. Everything seems good in the world.

But when I start really manipulating my accounts, it all breaks down. The
big problem seems to be that, although they are allegedly now sharing the
same database, most of the fields are completely isolated. The user-defined
fields created in accounting are not available in BCM, and vice versa. The
Payment Status field is very prominent in BCM, but nowhere to be seen in
accounting.

This severely limits the ability of the two programs to be used in
conjuction with each other for anything but the most superficial ways.

Am I missing something?

 

[Luther]

I've installed Office Accounting Professional 2008 and BCM 2007, and I've run
the configuration wizard in OA to link them to the same database.

It's all working fine, for what it does, but it seems to be terribly
limited.  I can enter invoices, payments etc. in accounting and have allthat
show up in BCM.  Everything seems good in the world.

But when I start really manipulating my accounts, it all breaks down.  The
big problem seems to be that, although they are allegedly now sharing the
same database, most of the fields are completely isolated.  The user-defined
fields created in accounting are not available in BCM, and vice versa.  The
Payment Status field is very prominent in BCM, but nowhere to be seen in
accounting.

This severely limits the ability of the two programs to be used in
conjuction with each other for anything but the most superficial ways.

Am I missing something?

--

Director of Software Development
LandArc
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln

You should tell MOA that inproved integration with BCM is important to
you.

 

[mrtimpeterson via OfficeKB.com]

Daniel,

I agree with Luther's suggestion to tell MOA that improved integration with
BCM is important to YOU. The big question always seems to remain: "Is this
important to THEM?"

When it comes to BCM for 5 years now, "Limitation" has been the name of the
game. Someone at MS might get a clue eventually before this decade is out!

-THP

I've installed Office Accounting Professional 2008 and BCM 2007, and I've run
the configuration wizard in OA to link them to the same database.

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LandArc
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln

You should tell MOA that inproved integration with BCM is important to
you.