In short: Standard nonprofit financial reports show totals — by department, by program, by month — which is exactly the level of aggregation that hides what’s actually happening on the…

In short: Nonprofit finance leaders often can’t tell whether real-time financial visibility matters when funding is already locked into multi-year government agreements. It does — because the pressure isn’t the…

In short: Nonprofits leaving Dynamics GP (mainstream support ends December 2029) or outgrowing QuickBooks face the same underlying choice, whether they realize it or not: build custom software, buy a…

In short: Disability care organizations usually blame turnover on wages and unpredictable shifts. Underneath that is a systems problem: when self-service portals require frontline workers to log into multiple disconnected…

Canadian nonprofits take accountability seriously. That’s not a generalization — it’s just the reality of operating with government funding, grant reporting requirements, and boards that want answers. People in these organizations know where their…

Imagine pouring weeks of effort into a grant proposal, only to have it disappear into a silent void. Or, from the foundation’s perspective, picture sifting through hundreds of applications that…

What Embedded Reporting Reveals About Life After Great Plains 

When Microsoft announced the end-of-life timeline for Dynamics Great Plains, most organizations focused on the final date. December 31, 2029 became the point of reference. That’s when support ends. That’s when action becomes unavoidable. 

This article was inspired by our recent webinar, Great Plains Migration Roadmap for Nonprofits, where we discussed the growing security and compliance risks of staying on end-of-life ERP systems.