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If you launch Great Plains workstation and follow this way. You need to know the anatomy of Great Plains tables structure. Great Plains SOP module is working in concert with Inventory control, making allocation of inventoried items in IV. The first question is - are we allowed to create stored proc in Great Plains DYNAMICS and companies databases. Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies (http.

Former Great Plains Software, who created Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise/Dynamics C/S+ back in 1990th had serious international expansion plans and realized the majority of them. Currently you can purchase Spanish, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese and other local versions of Great Plains. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains fits to majority of horizontal niches and clientele in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, U. Real Estate, Law Firm, Placement Agency with permanent clients, Construction or Freight Forwarding company - you probably use or plan to deploy Project management or Project accounting extension for Microsoft Great Plains. You can have users working with the same company in Great Plains - some of them will use English and others Spanish version.

Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Software Dynamics, eEnterprise has very long, about 12 years customization & integration history. In earlier 1990th - the customization tool was mostly Great Plains Dexterity, later on when Great Plains was successfully moved to MS SQL Server 6. If your Great Plains is integrated with Unix, Oracle, DB 2, Lotus Domino, Siebel or other third party application - you need to consider synchronous upgrade for integrated applications to avoid retuning integration piece twice. Then, somebody should carefully analyze and design the upgrade path for both. Unfortunately business logic level may deploy third party vendors logic, and these flourishing ISV of late 1990th might be now out of business.

Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft Navision, Solomon, Axapta with integration to Microsoft CRM, you should know the history of Great Plains Software and Navision partners over the last 10 years. These employees were engaged into data conversion, data repair, Great Plains Dexterity interfaces, VBA, ReportWriter, Crystal Reports customizations and web development. We encourage you to analyze your alternatives. You are probably lucky if you got nation-wide customization partner directly, because you can save 30% in local implementation and customization rates, due to the fact that nation-wide partner doesn't participate in the bidding, but rather is subcontracted by the winner of the bidding battle. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is marketed for mid-size companies as well as Navision (which has very good positions in Europe and emerging markets where it can be easily localized. 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. Period Consolidation, Year End Closing, Multicurrency revaluation - we recommend backup prior to these routines. 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. You use segments to sort by Account, Unit, Location, etc.

Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Software Dynamics / eEnterprise was introduced in 1993 as first Microsoft Windows and Macintosh based graphical accounting/ERP application for Mid-Size businesses. Great Plains would be reasonably priced payroll solution if you process payroll inhouse. If you have less then 500 employees - then Great Plains Standard douse excellent job and software price would be around k$10. If you cross over 500 employees line - Great Plains software price will be around k$30 and you could find cheaper solutions with unlimited number of employees - look at Accpac. Use Great Plains Integration Manager or heterogeneous SQL queries.

Great Plains Dexterity is programming language and IDE and the complexity of the upgrade may vary, depending on the quality of customization design and coding and the level of integration with the main application (usually DYNAMICS. Microsoft Great Plains requires professional support and Microsoft Business Solutions serves its clients through MBS partner network. If you have strong IT group in-house - have them login to MBS customer source and get hardware and OS requirement for Great Plains version you plan on upgrade to. This piece is probably the one for outside Great Plains Dexterity consultant or programmer. If you are on Pervasive SQL 2000 or Ctree Great Plains Dynamics or Great Plains Accounting 9.

Great Plains Standard is available on MSDE (MS SQL 2005 Express) or MS SQL Server. If you need Service Advantage Suite, Customer/Vendor Consolidation, Lockbox Processing and other modules, targeted for midsize and corporate clientele - you should purchase Great Plains Professional. Current Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has more that 10 years of history. Then, migration tool is $2k and your MBS VAR can migrate you to Great Plains Professional or Great Plains Standard. We strongly recommend you to migrate to Great Plains Standard.

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. There is a good chance that you will have to develop custom web-interface to your Great Plains back end. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is marketed for mid-size companies as well as Navision (which has very good positions in Europe and emerging markets where it can be easily localized. 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. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

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. Plus eConnect allows you to create and update customer record in Great Plains - this is however relatively simple to imitate in the stored procedure. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has several options to enable web ordering. It would take you a lot of time (if you are new to Great Plains tables structure and never coded in Great Plains Dexterity. You should be the customer in Great Plains company database to be able placing the orders.

Since then Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise integration techniques use Microsoft technologies. Great Plains uses similar logic when you post the batch and see the status in Process Monitor window. Great Plains Dexterity integration with Great Plains process server. In this short FAQ style article we would like to introduce you - software developer, programmer, database administrator into Microsoft Great Plains Integration tools and options. It was initially created for eCommerce application integration to Great Plains.

As of now - Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise is transformed/renamed into Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft Business Solutions is in process of merging all its accounting applications. Great Plains is actually integration of multiple dictionaries. You can install Dexterity from Great Plains 7. Obviously it requires a lot of learning / training, but it allows your custom piece be seamlessly integrated with Great Plains interface. Great Plains Dexterity with SQL Stored Procs Nowadays, most of Great Plains installations are moved to SQL Server - so you can use Dexterity for custom forms drawing only and make the buttons run SQL stored procedures.

But these legacy Great Plains Dexterity names do not help eCommerce developer - only probably as the reference on which table works with specific screen. So as you see - logic is present and structured, but it is not friendly to the developer, who never seen and worked with Great Plains Dynamics. Great plains was designed to first serve mid-size businesses and then with the availability of third party modules - the intention was to compete on corporate ERP market with Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and others big players. This tool covers a lot of Great Plains objects creation and retrieving functionality, however it does have restrictions, because it was not intended as replacement to Great Plains Dexterity shell. Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http.

Net ASPX web programming with Microsoft Great Plains at the back end. To certain level you could use legacy technologies, such as Great Plains Modifier with Continuum for VB, VBA scripting, etc. Usually you write Visual Basic application or routine to work with the scanner and then communicate with Microsoft Great Plains SQL database - more precisely - with Sales Order and Inventory tables. If you have Microsoft Great Plains implemented or under the implementation should have your options in making in-house or outsourced customizations to fit your vertical industry needs. You can use such tools as eConnect to work with Great Plains object creation and retrieving or go ahead with direct SQL Stored Procedure.

When Great Plains Software was designing and developing Great Plains Dynamics/Dynamics CS+/eEnterprise - it placed several fundamental principles into the system. If you need seamless integration with Great Plains Dynamics, working in the realm of Dynamics security and database independent data access/modification - you do it in Great Plains Dexterity. In order to realize these two principles Great Plains Software created its own development environment and programming language - Great Plains Dexterity (DYNAMICS. Great Plains Dexterity, VBA, ReportWriter, Continuum, Integration Manager. When Microsoft SQL Server won the database market - Great Plains Software began migration campaign from Ctree/Faircom, Btrieve/Pervasive SQL to MS SQL Server 7.