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Few years after Great Plains acquisition, Microsoft Business Solutions purchased Denmark based Navision Software. Microsoft Great Plains uses MS SQL Sever. Great Plains Software Dynamics, which is prototype of our days Microsoft Great Plains was released in 1994-95 as the first Graphical Accounting/MRP application, working on the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. In this small article we will concentrate on Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Software Dynamics/eEnterprise/Great Plains Accounting. First jewel, that was bought by Microsoft was Great Plains Software, in fact Doug Burgum, GPS leader was old friend of Bill Gates.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is very popular ERP platform in the USA, Canada (including French speaking Quebec/Montreal), U. Microsoft Great Plains is Great Plains Software Dexterity written application. In Russia we saw dramatic situation, when multiple Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise resellers went out of business. Former versions - Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise was also popular in Europe. Microsoft did it for Microsoft Navision and Axapta (for corporate market.

This tool was initially designed for eCommerce developer, who deploys Microsoft Great Plains as the back end/ERP. This was new feature of Microsoft Great Plains Dexterity version 7. 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. 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.

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. 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. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK.

Looks like Microsoft Great Plains becomes more and more popular, partly because of Microsoft muscles behind it. 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. 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.

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. General tip - Great Plains recommends to logoff and then login back with the same user id. Then Great Plains will prompt the user to recover posting batch. You have a lot or ReportWriter Modified Great Plains Reports. 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.

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. In order to realize these two principles Great Plains Software created its own development environment and programming language - Great Plains Dexterity (DYNAMICS. 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. Great Plains Dexterity, VBA, ReportWriter, Continuum, Integration Manager. When Great Plains Software was designing and developing Great Plains Dynamics/Dynamics CS+/eEnterprise - it placed several fundamental principles into the system.

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. In this small article we'll give you Microsoft Great Plains implementation and setup highlights, typical for Jewelry retail network. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is ERP platform, ready for third party modules additions and customizations, plus being SQL Server-based system it opens you wide spectrum of integration options and tools. 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.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains could play the role of the backend. 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. This transaction should be translated into Great Plains as Sales Order in Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Purchase Order in Purchase Order Processing (POP. 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.

Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Software Dynamics, eEnterprise has very long, about 12 years customization & integration history. 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. In earlier 1990th - the customization tool was mostly Great Plains Dexterity, later on when Great Plains was successfully moved to MS SQL Server 6. This was probably wise and natural choice in that time (around 1997-2001), but if you consider Microsoft move to. Unfortunately business logic level may deploy third party vendors logic, and these flourishing ISV of late 1990th might be now out of business.

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.

Also you can use database side MS Transact SQL scripting to alter Great Plains logic. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. 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. Imagine - Internet Orders you transfer to internet invoices, government quotes you either void or transfer to government orders, etc.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains serves multiple industries in the US, plus it has strong presence in Latin America, U. With the switch to Microsoft Great Plains you need to decide on data migration and conversion. What you do is - enter beginning balances in Great Plains General Ledger (GL) and begin using your new system. We do not recommend using SQL scripts for bringing open data into Great Plains - you will have posting issues, related to incorrect distributions. We recommend you to use integration manager to bring customer and vendor invoices and payments and post them in Great Plains.

Latest version of Microsoft Great Plains is available for MS SQL Sevrer/MSDE only and you should consider combination of Dexterity and Stored procs. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is Dexterity-written application and currently we see increased interest for Great Plains customers to do in-house Dexterity development and customization. In our days Microsoft Great Plains is available for Windows and MS SQL Server only (since version 8. If you have Microsoft Great Plains Standard or Professional license, you Great Plains CD #2 has Dexterity installation files. The most challenging portion of upgrade is Alternate Great Plains forms.

Microsoft Great Plains itself in our case should be considered as a platform for light customization and modification. In this small article we will show you the possible way of deploying Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains for the market niche of large, mid-size and small reselling and distribution business in carpeting and floor covering, textile & fabric. This is Great Plains Dexterity customization, which provides parallel unit of measure, associated with the lot number. We'll describe industry requirements and the way them to be implemented in Great Plains. This is realized via custom Dexterity table, having Item Number, Lot Number, Initial Length in Yards, Current Length in Yards.