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Direct SQL touch - in #4 above I described you the scenario with MS Exchange handlers - this would be ideal world if MS CRM SDK does the job. Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2000, SQL Server, Crystal Reports Enterprise, Biztalk server, Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Great Plains as backend, etc. MS CRM Customization tool -  this is rather end-user tool and we don't describe it here - read the manual. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Great Plains customization company, based in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

Daffodil DB is a J2EE-certified, SQL-99 and JDBC standards compliant Java RDBMS. PHP scripts are embedded within web pages along with HTML, similar to other web scripting languages such as Microsoft's ASP or Sun Microsystems's JSP. With the help of Daffodil DB, developers can build applications for any platform and these can be compiled and delivered on all other major platforms. PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source server-side scripting language that is particularly suited for web development and can be used to generate dynamic web content. Like ASP and JSP, PHP runs on the web server when a page is requested via HTTP, rather than on the Web browser or other client.

PL/SQL stored procedures development and testing, plus integration with major database platforms - Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server etc. Cross-platform (works under main Unix/Linux platforms and in Microsoft Windows environment) friendly development environment with high level of integration and third party plug-ins switching on. Deployment capability for all major application servers - Oracle Application Server, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, JBoss. Team Development feature with interoperability with major VCS systems - CVS, Rational ClearCase, Oracle SCM. You can get production and developer preview for Oracle JDeveloper 10G here http.

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. Database platform independence - initially Great Plains used Ctree (available for both PC and Mac) and Btrieve, later on with Microsoft SQL Server 6. On the other hand - nobody could look at the future far enough to be sure that other competitors from both Hardware and Operating Systems sides not going to take over. If you need cross dictionaries customization - consider using SQL Stored Procs for crossing dictionary borders and pulling data/making changes in the other dictionary. And the graphical interface looks very user friendly and nice - these are all Dexterity forms and screens.

EXE) and Great Plains Standard on MSDE  or MS SQL Server. SQL Linked Servers - you can do direct SQL queries to other ODBC compliant platform via SQL Linked Server (including Microsoft Access) - you may need to familiarize yourself with OPENROWSET command in Transact SQL. Data Transformation Services (DTS) - Good tool for importing your third party data into staging tables in GP - then you can pull them in using either stored procs of Integration Manager. Warning - do not place existing GP tables into Replication! - you will have upgrade issues. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

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. Net, Active Directories, MS Exchange, Full-Text Search, Crystal Reports Enterprise. Microsoft CRM has web and MS Outlook clients and so by its nature it is web application. This will allow you to get the best expertise with moderate price.

So many times we were spinning our wheels in trying to test new custom business logic, when, say Windows or MS SQL Server security was restricting us to do the actions we needed. Well, complication of computer networking and its security, plus the fact that SQL is now standard for the database platform (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, etc. Great Plains, MS CRM, Navision - we would like to give you our opinion on what should you consider to do to secure implementation success. When you decide on somebody to implement the system, you need from this moment on to trust him and let him have high security access to the ERP hosting server. We saw numerous examples, when client purchases Microsoft CRM licenses from nation-wide distributor, and then is trying to find somebody to implement the system.

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. C/ODBC - Using the ODBC driver, the entire Microsoft office suite and programs such as Crystal Reports can access the database. C/SIDE (Client/Server Integrated Development Environment) - The core of Navision is the C/SIDE. XBRL - Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) for Navision enables simple and dependable distribution of all a company's financial information and ensures smooth and accurate data transfer. 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.

The purpose of one of our projects was MS Exchange handler for processing incoming email. The basic source of knowledge was this article Developing Managed Event Sinks/Hooks for Exchange Server Store using C# by Logu Krishnan, published to the address http. ProcessMessage(pEventInfo, bstrURLItem, IFlags). The handler creates activity record in Microsoft CRM and then removes the message in the Exchange database before the commitment. We utilized Synchronous Events and created the handler, which fires on OnSyncSave event.

Lotus is extremely flexible and you can program your own CRM or purchase CRM for Lotus, however Microsoft CRM has Microsoft SQL Server database and very simple Sales automation module. It has advanced functionality, versus standard MS CRM Exchange connector. There is no need to program this custom piece, just use MS CRM - Lotus Domino connector, supported by Alba Spectrum Technologies. This should allow users work on the same project sharing Lotus and MS CRM data space. Well, even if the combination might look very unusual, we see the coexistence of these two systems, especially in large corporations, non-profit organizations.

Consider Windows 2003 Terminal server licenses. The other way is to have server in Mexico and have relatively inexpensive Microsoft Great Plains data be consolidated with Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft based system in the USA. Some functionality could be realized through Microsoft Business Portal - which is web-based application. You can host your Great Plains installation in the US and have Mexican users connected over the remote desktop connection. Is supported and you can have both English version in the US and Spanish version in Mexico working of the same Great Plains environment.

If you are MCSE+I - CRM will recruit all your MS Exchange, Active Directory, MS SQL Server, Windows domain security, Windows 2003 Server, Web publishing and HTML knowledge and experience. MS CRM is kind of intuitive for end user, but not for its administrator. Let us give you our vision, based on our three years of MS CRM implementation practice in USA and internationally. This is completely opposite to earlier Apple Computer believe - that computer systems should be easy in service and completely intuitive. Microsoft doesn't even have to care about other platforms, such as Linux/Unix or Apple.

DECS technology allows direct connection with DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase sources, and external sources by ODBC and OLE technologies. This mechanism allows to process automatic data exchange between fields of Lotus Domino forms and information stated on OLE-server. This method is available only for simple Lotus Domino databases, as them are not relation databases and SQL is not good to work with (problems with multiple fields values and different fields set in documents). DO), which support connection process, running of SQL-request and provide operations with received result table. JDBC technology also using in some integration mechanisms, but JDBC itself is hidden from the programmer(as example, using build in JSP Custom Tag Libraries).

When Lotus Domino server receives email - Java Agent side of the connector triggers checking with MS CRM if addressor email matches with any Contact, Lead or Account email. Lotus could work in multiple hardware & OS platforms, such as Windows Server, AS/400, etc. It has Java Agent at the Lotus side and MS CRM SDK custom piece at the MS CRM side. When Microsoft CRM send email from Account, Contact, Lead - connector takes control over and sends email through Lotus Domino server. If you compare outgoing messaging with standard MS CRM Exchange connector, then mechanism is slightly different.

Net, MS SQL Server, Active Directory, BizTalk (integration with Great Plains), C# and VB. Ctree and Pervasive SQL were abandoned, the last version, supporting these platforms was 7. In all the other cases - you should try Microsoft RMS. If you remember successful mid-size application - Great Plains Dynamics, pioneered on Mac and Windows graphical platforms in the mid 1990th. Axapta is probably MBS stake on large enterprises market to compete with PeopleSoft (now Oracle) and SAP.