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how do we customize Microsoft Small Business Manager - read this and you will have the clues on where to look further. Microsoft Great Plains itself has variety of customization and integration tools.

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Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. There is a good chance that you will have to develop custom web-interface to your Great Plains back end. 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. 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. 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.

Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. We believe in this - seeing signs of maturing ERP software industry. If you hire consultant to customize generic platform - you pay one time. The trends in the ERP/Accounting applications software industry ended up with required annual maintenance/enhancement program fee, which is usually close to 20% of the software list price.

You need to track what is the current length of the bolt/roll. This is realized via custom Dexterity table, having Item Number, Lot Number, Initial Length in Yards, Current Length in Yards. This means that you will have to assign the same or modified lot number to the cut-bed. If you are assembling/cutting something like billiard table beds - you would like them to be tracked to the original roll in the case of customer complaint. You resolve this on the level of your EDI - electronic document interchange.

Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK. Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support. Dexterity allows your customization work it Great Plains graphical environment and security realm. 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. Web applications - your can deploy eConnect to incorporate Great Plains objects into your web application - eConnect was initially designed for eCommerce developers.

Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. And barcode could help you in automatic picking ticket printing and allocation. If you sell on consignment - you may simply send trucks to your customers every day with recommended combination of items, based on historical data - day of the week, holidays, seasonal variations, etc. Plus - you may have associated and replacement items logic incorporated in this screen. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide 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.

Great Plains is integrated with MS CRM on the level of Sales Order Processing module (SOP. Currently, Microsoft Business Solutions has MS CRM integrated with Microsoft Great Plains. Contract, Case, Activity, workflow and assignments to service technicians, plus email to/from your customers should be captured in MS CRM. Usually each midsize business has unique procedures which should be mapped into their CRM and ERP. If you have something else, besides Microsoft CRM and Great Plains, then you might need the integration.

Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. MDB) and SQL custom stored procedures - if any. This might be paid assignment to estimate - and you will have the clear picture on what you have, and what you might need for the new version. Invoice, PO, or the like) plus if you have Integration Manager integrations (IM.

If you are considering Great Plains to be your ERP, we know successful implementations, customizations in the following industries. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Solomon, Navision, Axapta, Microsoft CRM require existing customer to be on active service contract. Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support. Good news - if you have Crystal Reports, working with Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise 6. If you need Great Plains Dexterity, Modifier/VBA, Continuum, eConnect.

Microsoft CRM schema sits in MS SQL server database, so if you deploy MS CRM SDK to modify/customize your CRM - both presentation clients will get the custom interface. If you use MS CRM Web or Outlook clients - these are just two types of presentation level clients. Microsoft Business Solutions CRM proved to be reliable solution in the whole spectrum of industries and market niches. However you can improve MS CRM Exchange connector to catch emails by addresser email or domain, also you can deploy Lotus Notes Domino as email server - check with Alba Spectrum Technologies. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

Usually you create your custom Sales Order Processing (SOP) invoice form from one of the GP workstations and then place your reports on the server. 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. DIC - this is critical to serve mid-size and large clients. Please, invest reasonable resources into GP basics, before you get in touch with nation-wide subcontractor. The best scenario is VPN with remote desktop access (Windows XP Pro or Windows 2000 Pro.

Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. Some customers mentioned the need in editing global customer data on the store level and the second interesting suggestion was immediate propagation across all the stores gift card balance - if customer walk in into several stores within the day - the chances are that balance is still not updated via Headquarters worksheets. Great Plains or RMS and then synchronize via stored procedures. Again you can base your items in either one of the systems. These campaigns are automated in RMS and Great Plains, however promotion scenarios might be not the same.

Now we are observing the second and I would dare to say successful phase of CRM systems implementation, which is probably final successful marriage in the long history of datawarehousing, document workflow, contact management systems. One of the competitive advantages of CRM is a workflow. If you have investment into other platform from CRM side - such as Lotus Domino/Notes - we offer you integration with Microsoft Great Plains. Microsoft Business Solutions has the whole spectrum of business applications, the good combination seems to be Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft CRM. Rafael software developer in Alba Spectrum Technologies (http.

Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. When Microsoft acquired Navision Software - it staked on Navision in continental Europe and all the emerging markets (Russia, East Europe, Brazil, China. The way you implement local language or Unicode characters support - you translate several screens for GP local users and extend Dexterity with Unicode enabling software utility. Great Plains had support to all the major languages in version 6. This feature is covered in Customer/Vendor Consolidation module.

This is very nice to have and the price would be lower, however you are in the business space and conceptions of Microsoft corporation, which really deserves you to consider either ERP or CRM solution to be trusted and handled into Microsoft guys. Microsoft Great Plains/Navision/Axapta/Solomon/Microsoft CRM/Small Business Financials ERP, based on MS SQL Server DB platform and all this nice suite is working under Microsoft Windows 2003 Server. Again in our opinion you'd rather pay for small or moderate customization to budget CRM solution to have work done. Good luck and you can always seek our help in customization, implementation, integration and support. Microsoft CRM would integrate with Oracle smoothly.

Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. Net programming it released such tools as eConnect. Right now (2004-2005) we are in the transformation phase when old tools, such as Dexterity are still playing important role, but if you are thinking about customization, you probably better consider SQL Server scripts/views/stored procs, if you have customization budget - make a research on eConnect. Try to make as much web publishing in Visual Studio. Great Plains Dexterity, VBA, ReportWriter, Continuum, Integration Manager.