Microsoft Moves to Small Business Accounting/Retail Market - Stakes and Thoughts
This was natural way of downsizing the functionality of Great Plains Dynamics/Microsoft Great Plains to gain small business market. Microsoft is right - majority of Windows users spend their computer time in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Excel.

How To Avoid Getting Hooked By Pfishing
To avoid being hooked by Pfishing, type in the URL to the department store by yourself. Forward copies of any Pfishing email to the actual company or bank that is being imitated by the scammers.

Passwords Used In Microsoft Word Documents
The first versions of Microsoft Word had rather weak security; it took a bit more time to crack it compared to the other types used in Microsoft Word. These are the main features provided by Microsoft Word 2003.

Crystal Reports for Microsoft Great Plains - Overview for Developer
  Launch Great Plains and go to Tools->Resource Description->Tables. Microsoft Great Plains is main accounting / ERP application from Microsoft Business Solutions, targeted to the US market.

Microsoft CRM for Large Corporation - Security
When corporation is looking into CRM application to choose from - one of the fist questions is security. Microsoft CRM uses Active Directory users and its security is built upon Windows domain security.

Microsoft Great Plains: Customization Upgrade & Recovery - Visual Studio VB 6.0
0 and 2000 - we see more historical custom projects done in SQL stored procedures and front ends coded in VB in Visual Studio 6. Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Software Dynamics, eEnterprise has very long, about 12 years customization & integration history.

IT Strategy for Large Corporation: ERP/MRP/CRM, Unix/Linux/Windows, Microsoft/Java
Lotus Notes Domino, Oracle, DB2There are multiple opinions on building your established large business IT system. In our opinion large company should try balance its ERP in several layers.

How a Bug Challenges to a Software Professional
The bug tracking system software should have the facility to perform a keyword search on "crash and file. The report which is about software problem is called software problem report (SPR), which is the same as a bug report.

Best Practices In Choosing Network Monitoring Software
We decided to develop a set of best practices to ensure that new investments in system and network monitoring would be successful. We evaluated more than 15 vendors against these best practices and found that CITTIO's WatchTower monitoring platform was the closest fit.

Understanding Document Management
In other words, it is a catchall phrase for the entire document management process. The term "document management" and "paperless office" is the subject of countless articles and books.

Microsoft CRM has standard integration tool with Microsoft Great Plains, Navision and Axapta integrations are on the way. He is Microsoft Great Plains certified master, Great Plains Dexterity, Microsoft CRM SDK C. It sits in Microsoft SQL Server and uses all the spectrum of Microsoft technologies. However you can integrate Microsoft CRM with heterogeneous databases, such as Oracle, DB2, Lotus Notes Domino, Sybase, Pervasive SQL or Ctree/Faircomm. Microsoft CRM proved its market strength and ability to automate large publicly traded corporation.

Navision (former Navision Attain), Microsoft Great Plains (former Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise), Solomon, Axapta. Microsoft bought Navision, Denmark based software development company, along with Great Plains Software. 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. Andrew is CTO in Microsoft Business Solutions Partner Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. Now Microsoft Business Solutions offers the following ERP applications.

Navision (former Navision Attain), Microsoft Great Plains (former Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise), Solomon, Axapta. Microsoft bought Navision, Denmark based software development company, along with Great Plains Software. C/ODBC and C/FRONT - Both C/ODBC and C/FRONT enable you to easily use information from Navision in familiar programs such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. Navision Developer's Toolkit - The Navision Developer's Toolkit enables your Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner to upgrade your Navision solution to the latest version. C/ODBC - Using the ODBC driver, the entire Microsoft office suite and programs such as Crystal Reports can access the database.

Navision (former Navision Attain), Microsoft Great Plains (former Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise), Solomon, Axapta. Microsoft bought Navision, Denmark based software development company, along with Great Plains Software. 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. Navision Developer's Toolkit - The Navision Developer's Toolkit enables your Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner to upgrade your Navision solution to the latest version. Now Microsoft Business Solutions offers following ERP applications.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is marketed for mid-size companies in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, as well as in Middle East. Traditional companies and some government agencies prefer to use their local language for business transactions, which makes it impossible for them to use international applications like Great Plains before. Vincent is a Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies (http. There are 2 ways to approach the implementation of Great Plains using the Arabic language. Before, countries with different character sets like Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic are forced to use English in their Great Plains installation.

This means that in the case of data repair, upgrade, testing, - it is relatively easy to backup DYNAMICS and companies databases, install them on MBS partner server, do the job and then restore the results in the client's production environment. VPN, Citrix, Remote Desktop connection, Microsoft Terminal Services, Web Sessions, PCAnywhere (however the last one should be avoided if possible. Microsoft Business Solutions recommends Crystal Reports as reporting tool of choice. This is also important for both - client and GP partner. Usually remote support partner has US based lead developers and project manager and uses excellent programmer in such countries as Philippines and Brazil where developers have excellent Dexterity source code programming experience.

We would like to make brief review of customization options for such products as Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft CRM and Microsoft RMS. Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft CRM and Microsoft RMS have similar database platform - Microsoft SQL Server. Several years ago Microsoft purchased Great Plains Software, then Navision (Denmark based software development company. At this time Great Plains Software already was active ERP applications consolidation player - it already acquired Solomon Software couple of years prior. Great Plains Dexterity - please install Dexterity from CD #2 and take a look at its manuals - this is again legacy and proprietary Great Plains technology.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is very popular ERP/MRP applications in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, South Africa, Latin America. However since Microsoft bought Great Plains Software and formed Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions, later renamed into Microsoft Business Solutions - Dexterity became the candidate to be replaced by C# or VB. The plans are the plans, but the realities of Microsoft Great Plains customization signals that Dexterity will stay another 5-7 years as IDE. If you use IT subcontractors - these folks should be trained on installing new Great Plains workstations (or you should insist on working via terminal server/Citrix. The dilemma for the programmer is - should I know all the details of Great Plains table structure model and document workflow - or probably purchase the set of SQL stored procs to help me.

Microsoft Great Plains has Project Accounting module with budgeting, expenses, inventory, labor. Microsoft Great Plains is build with Great Plains Dexterity - this is former Great Plains Software programming language and IDE, it was designed in the earlier 1990th. Microsoft Great Plains could be tuned and setup to fit most of horizontal markets. Microsoft Great Plains has Field Service Suite of modules with repair automation logic/functionality. VBA/Modifier - it is for light customization of existing Great Plains screens - you can place your custom button through Modifier and then attach VBA script to this button - feel free to use ADO to connect to the database.

Microsoft Great Plains ReportWriter supports Barcode fonts and you can print out barcodes off the inventory control items list. Let's consider industry requirements and their implementation in Microsoft Great Plains. Net web publishing - Microsoft Great Plains data sits on Microsoft SQL Server. If automated shipment is the most business processes critical requirement - you can implement Supply Chain solution, integrated with Microsoft Great Plains. In Great Plains you deploy sites and when you need to quarantine your Inventory - you move it into quarantine site.

This integration is maintained by Microsoft Business Solutions and allows you to synchronize SOP and Customers in Great Plains with Microsoft CRM Quotes and Orders. If your company is ISV and implements eCommerce product, integrating to Great Plains - you would rather prefer set of open and simple stored procedures, moving data to and retrieving from Microsoft Great Plains Sales Order Processing (SOP) module. However you can have successful bridge between non-Microsoft ERP and Great Plains. It has Dexterity interface in Great Plains, does integration to single company at the time. Here we need to mention interesting thing, The product, created and dedicated to eCommerce developers - Great Plains eConnect is often considered as a bit expensive and licensing-restricting solution.

Microsoft Retail Management (RMS) and Microsoft Great Plains are retail and accounting/ERP solutions coming from the same Microsoft subdivision - Microsoft Business Solutions. Microsoft Great Plains is written in Great Plains Dexterity - proprietary programming language and development environment, which has strong ties with SQL stored procedures and queries. Plus we can push serial number info from Great Plains to Store Operations (there is no way to store serial number in Headquarters. When Items are transferred in Great Plains via the Item Transfer Entry window, the interface must recognize this transaction. In each case you have to use set of new Microsoft technologies.

Microsoft Great Plains fits to majority of horizontals and retail business is good fit as well. We'll consider the system, consisting from Microsoft Great Plains as Accounting, Inventory Pricing and Microsoft Retail Management System (RMS) Headquarters and Store Operations Manager. This integration could work as nightly SQL routine and bring all the daily sales transactions from RMS stores or Headquarters to mapped Great Plains companies. This might be done as SQL routine or Great Plains Dexterity customization. It should work with Great Plains Inventory catalogue.

Microsoft Great Plains may be recommended for international freight forwarding / transportation company. Let's consider industry specifics and the way to implement them in Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains. This is Great Plains Software and currently Microsoft Great Plains programming language and IDE. Plus - if you consider Great Plains as a platform for custom tailoring and developing - you can have reasonably priced solution for horizontal business, such as freight forwarding, cargo delivery, consignment, transportation. It will allow you seamless integration with Great Plains user interface.

Sales Order Processing stand alone Great Plains Dexterity application, which works with Microsoft Great Plains SQL databases to feed in orders. Net ASPX web programming with Microsoft Great Plains at the back end. Considering Microsoft Great Plains - majority of the logic above is implemented and could be implemented in Great Plains Dexterity. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has substantial market share and strong support by Microsoft on the US market. To certain level you could use legacy technologies, such as Great Plains Modifier with Continuum for VB, VBA scripting, etc.