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Considering the fact that majority of Great Plains users have rather accounting background - to spec out customization or integration - project manager should have combination of functional/application and technical consulting experience. This means that project manager should be US-based consultant. Great Plains Dexterity allows you to create either custom forms or place modifications to the existing forms (SOP Entry, for example. Placing code to the existing forms requires customization upgrade experience - these forms should be re-customized when you do upgrade to the newer GP version - currently version 8. In the case when you plan to have project managers offshore - they should be in the close time zone (Sao Paulo, Brazil - is good candidate for the place, considering large pool of educated programmers on the market.

Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Microsoft RMS, Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, serving clients in Chicago, California, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Arizona, Minnesota, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally ( http. It is not a secret that when VAR hears the name of your fortune 500 corporation - it deploys it's sales heavy artillery. You need to find people who could do the job and you need to find them via independent objective research. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. For large publicly traded enterprise ERM application needs to be tailored to serve unique business processes.

There is a good chance that you will have to develop custom web-interface to your Great Plains back end. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, serving clients in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and having locations in multiple states and internationally ( http. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. Inventory control has addition in the form of Bill of Materials module (we see the whole spectrum of downsizing manufacturing companies, who are switching from full-featured manufacturing to Great Plains Inventory control with Bill of Materials. Great Plains Inventory control is pretty robust and here we would like to give you highlights on standard functionality as well as what could be added to its standard features.

You need to track what is the current length of the bolt/roll. This is realized via custom Dexterity table, having Item Number, Lot Number, Initial Length in Yards, Current Length in Yards. This means that you will have to assign the same or modified lot number to the cut-bed. If you are assembling/cutting something like billiard table beds - you would like them to be tracked to the original roll in the case of customer complaint. You resolve this on the level of your EDI - electronic document interchange.

This might be paid assignment to estimate - and you will have the clear picture on what you have, and what you might need for the new version. MDB) and SQL custom stored procedures - if any. Other custom pieces you might have could be. Invoice, PO, or the like) plus if you have Integration Manager integrations (IM. If you have customizations, then your new partner should explore your Great Plains Workstation.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, former Great Plains Software Dynamics/eEnterprise was originally written in IDE and programming language - Great Plains Dexterity. Of course - Dexterity is kind of legacy IDE and it was created in the days when nobody could predict internet and thin clients future. But the matter of fact is - Great Plains Dexterity dictates the rules of customization - each GP custom-logic table must be created in Dexterity to be viewed via GP standard interface. So - you can not use Dexterity in your web application, you have to stick to stored procedures or eConnect. You probably remember old-days-believe that C will secure database and graphical platform independence, plus it will direct you to the way of computer platform independence.

Traditionally Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise had eOrder - this is ASP pages based ordering application, enabling you to place or retrieve your Sales Order Processing (SOP) Sales Orders over the web. In your case - you need the whole set of stored procedures to enable eCommerce. This is probably the best advise we could give you - just create orders, or invoices, leave them to the Great Plains user to approve and post. However in some cases it is absolutely critical and required. You are not the first and not the last one to face this dilemma - somebody already has it implemented (SOP10200, SOP10100, SOP30200, SOP30300 tables.

Great Plains Dexterity - this is proprietary programming language and technology, designed back to earlier 1990th with the goal to build platform independent graphical accounting package - Great Plains Dynamics. Integration Manager - it is end-user tool for importing to GP, however if end-user meets some challenges in the integration - you as a developer can help with VBA scripts. IM validates 100% of business logic and uses hidden GP forms - so it maybe slow for big on-going integrations, when you have thousands records per day - in this case you rescue to eConnect or directly to SQL store procedures. It allows you to feed data into Great Plains and was primarily created for eCommerce developers. Plus you probably want to have several SQL stored procs.

Navision (former Navision Attain), Microsoft Great Plains (former Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise), Solomon, Axapta. Using a familiar Microsoft Outlook®-style interface, Business Analytics presents this information to your desk top where easy to use analytical tools allow you to carry out targeted analysis that is tailored by you, for you. XBRL is an XML-based specification that uses accepted financial reporting standards and practices to export financial reports across all software and technologies, including the Internet. I would recommend using this tool for occasional reporting requests only. If you need to pull data out of the Navision database on a regular basis one of the other options is a better choice.

Imagine - Internet Orders you transfer to internet invoices, government quotes you either void or transfer to government orders, etc. Do I need consultant? It is probably good idea to have consultant to do the upgrade. We strongly recommend you to use consultant in the following cases. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, serving clients in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Miami, Denver, UK, Australia, Russia, Europe and having locations in multiple states and internationally (http.

Web Seminars are normal these days and you should be OK with the idea of remote web training. This will allow you to get the best expertise with moderate price. We are confident in Microsoft CRM ability to automate Aerospace & Defense, Pharmaceutical, Supply Chain Management, Medical & Hospitals, Distribution & Logistics, Oil & Gas, Wholesale & Retail, Education, Non-for-profit. Microsoft CRM has standard integration tool with Microsoft Great Plains, Navision and Axapta integrations are on the way. However you can integrate Microsoft CRM with heterogeneous databases, such as Oracle, DB2, Lotus Notes Domino, Sybase, Pervasive SQL or Ctree/Faircomm.

If we look back to the history of Microsoft Great Plains - Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise - it had native programming language / IDE Great Plains Dexterity. Microsoft CRM - this is the temptation and we do recommend it - it could be integrated with Java applications. Freight Forwarding database, Lease tracking, Consignment, etc. If you plan to deploy them from Windows side. Great Plains (USA, Canada, Latin America, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, UK), Navision (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, Russia and the rest of continental Europe), Axapta - if you need rich ERP functionality - then your business specific application.

Your Great Plains has more than 20 users and you have to have upgrade done over the weekend - if it fails - you have business problems. You don't have support - in this case you have to select your Microsoft Business Solutions Partner and pay for the annual support/enhancement plan - you will get new registration key and will be ready for the upgrade. You have a lot or ReportWriter Modified Great Plains Reports. You are doing migration from Pervasive/Ctree to Microsoft SQL Server/MSDE, especially when you have third-parties without migration tools. Do I need consultant? It is probably good idea to have consultant to do the upgrade.

Feel free to use popular tools, such as Crystal Reports - you usually base your Crystal Report on SQL view or stored procedure (the second one allows you to use parameters and build temp tables in the body of your stored procs. If you are building web-application you can incorporate Crystal Report in it or deploy html publishing directly with your result set. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, serving clients in Chicago, California, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Arizona, Minnesota, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally ( http. Reporting could be based on both sources - Microsoft Great Plains customer records and loan tracking database, even if the last one sits in different platform, such as Microsoft Access.

This was natural way of downsizing the functionality of Great Plains Dynamics/Microsoft Great Plains to gain small business market. And it create accounting application, allowing you to do 50% of work from Microsoft Outlook directly. As you know that there are several thousand small retail businesses in the USA, using just one cash register and these folks have to use a lot of small Retail Management applications, which are competing on this market for a long time. Microsoft is right - majority of Windows users spend their computer time in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Excel. And it is a good momentum to take over this unreliable and turbulent market offering cheap and solid rock solution, working with POS devises.