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Nowadays, however - and this is a good thing - 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. 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. Great Plains has its own ReportWriter, but its functionality is limited - you can't do cross modules reports (you can't link Sales and Purchasing tables in one report, for example. You can install Dexterity from Great Plains 7. Microsoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions accounting package for the US market.

ReportWriter will allow you also do new reports - simple option if you want to export all the records from one Great Plains table - use it. You should use this tool if you would like to modify existing Great Plains reports, such as Blank Invoice Form - here you can place your company logo, change the positioning, fonts, colors, etc. All the original report in Great Plains are written in ReportWriter. Smart List - Export to Excel - this is nice feature in Great Plains - you could create a list with simple criteria and then export it to Excel. Obviously flexibility requires you to know Great Plains table structure.

Developer should know Microsoft Great Plains tables structure. Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Solomon, Axapta the natural CRM choice would be Microsoft CRM. In Great Plains you could realize either Great Plains Dexterity triggers or MS SQL database trigger on certain events (Purchase Order creation, Payroll Transaction, GL transaction. To be honest and do not set unrealistic expectations - this Workflow implementation is pretty serious project and we do not recommend if for small non-profit organization - it is rather for large and mid-size-to-large structure. Great Plains Dexterity trigger should be done in Dexterity IDE - this language requires expertise and it is difficult to code without experience, Microsoft Exchange event sink should be programmed in Visual Studio as COM+ application, then you need to register COM+ application through Control Panel->System->Component Services.

Let's review Microsoft Great Plains option. Microsoft Great Plains stays in the low end of the pricing pyramid and so, instead of long implementation cycle you should expect light or mid-level customization to meet your unique business processes requirements. You need localized version and in the case of Great Plains it is available. In this case you need Great Plains Dexterity, Modifier/VBA/Continuum developers, who are working on the Brazilian market. Alba Spectrum Technologies owns Great Plains Brazilian version through our office in Sao Paulo - Enterlogix.

When a business entity is processed, the information is written onto the Great Plains database tables. To create an ODBC connection to a Great Plains company database, one common way is with the use of the Data Source dialog box. So, how do we use Crystal Reports to extend Great Plains Report Writer. This can be found by launching Great Plains, then. Great Plains uses the ODBC drivers installed by Microsoft SQL Server.

This tool should be considered as the way to move your very unique custom sales logic into Microsoft Great Plains - if you decide to stick to outside customization (like eCommerce for example. Dexterity is programming language of Great Plains. Andrew is a Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains might be considered as ERP platform, ready for customization and integration. Highlights for Great Plains implementation.

In the case of Great Plains you should be aware that typical Microsoft Business Solution partner/VAR serves local market and mid-size clients. Plus it might not have dedicated Great Plains developers - consultants may not segregate functional and technical consulting duties. When Microsoft SQL Server took its place as relatively reliable and stable database platform, Great Plains gained scalability. You need to find people who could do the job and you need to find them via independent objective research. 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.

In Great Plains you should use customer/vendor consolidation, available for Great Plains Professional version. This makes eConnect (Microsoft Great Plains SDK) very popular among logistics companies. In the case when you ship to limited number of large customers - you are focusing on the profitability of the shipments and looking at Great Plains as the core system. Plus you will need Great Plains Dexterity or. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains and MS CRM (client relation management system) are very popular in various industries and market niches.

When Great Plains C/S+ was introduced on MS SQL Server 6. When Great Plains Software introduced the first graphical accounting application for Mac and Windows in the beginning of 1990th it had Great Plains Dexterity customization tool, IDE and programming language. This was new feature of Microsoft Great Plains Dexterity version 7. This tool was initially designed for eCommerce developer, who deploys Microsoft Great Plains as the back end/ERP. We'll wait the next version - but even now it is very promising and it doesn't require you to be programmer to customize Great Plains.

Great Plains Manufacturing has complete set of discrete manufacturing modules. Great Plains Manufacturing is targeted to discrete manufacturing clientele, which is opposite to process manufacturing - food processing, mining, including precious metals/gold/platina, oil and gas / chemicals / agriculture. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has full-featured manufacturing set of modules. In this small article we would like to give you highlights on what kinds of light customization you could deploy, before jumping into Microsoft Great Plains Manufacturing realm. Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support.

Smart List - Export to Excel - this is nice feature in Great Plains - you could create a list with simple criteria and then export it to Excel. Looks like Microsoft Great Plains becomes more and more popular, partly because of Microsoft muscles behind it. Direct Web Publishing off Great Plains databases - yes - it is easy now with Visual Studio. Great Plains Report Writer (ReportWriter) - this is built-in reporting tool. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

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. General tip - Great Plains recommends to logoff and then login back with the same user id. You have a lot or ReportWriter Modified Great Plains Reports. In the case when your Great Plains ctree/Pervasive has third parties - you need to check if the vendor has migration tool - otherwise you have to do manual move, use SQL Linked server to your legacy data. Now we would like to stress you the need to move away from Pervasive SQL 2000/Ctree platforms - you are in trouble - Microsoft Business Solutions cuts technical support for Microsoft Great Plains 7.

In the case when you use Microsoft RMS Store Operations and Headquarters - you should consider seamless integration of your daily transactions into Microsoft Great Plains Sales Order Processing (SOP) or Receivables Management (RM) modules. This text file should be forwarded to your supplier and in Great Plains POP you set flags for POs being sent to your vendor. If you have only one Great Plains Company - you can deploy RMS->GP integration utility, coming to you with RMS purchase and support CDs. In both cases - Great Plains and RMS compliance reporting should be realized in Crystal Reports and the best way and design style is creating SQL views and stored procedures and basing report on these views and procs. In Great Plains you should be able to order your inventory via Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) mechanism.

Great Plains Dexterity, Modifier with VBA, Transact SQL scripting to name the most popular. As mentioned above - this should be preferably done by Great Plains user with approval logic. In the case of integrated web application with Great Plains, we would expect heterogeneous sql queries and reporting, based on these queries and stored procedures. This transaction should be translated into Great Plains as Sales Order in Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Purchase Order in Purchase Order Processing (POP. Net programmers, you can deploy eConnect Distribution - this is Software Development Kit with sample codes, you can create or modify Great Plains objects, such as Sales Order, Customer record, Purchase Order, Vendor record.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is very good fit for mid-size company and probably good budget solutions for large corporation. If you are administrator of Great Plains - you should be familiar with check licks - it checks consistency of the tables and if any orphan or missing info is there. Here you associate Great Plains user with collector role. This is not possible in Great Plains Accounts Payable module and this is where Collection Management module comes to the scenes. Being matured product - Great Plains provides such horizontal solutions as Collection department automation.