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Server side - Installation creates security environment (logins) on MS SQL Server or MSDE, creates system database - DYNAMICS and then company databases. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, California, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Washington, Minnesota, Colorado, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www. Invoice form, Crystal Reports, pulling info from multiple databases, including Great Plains database, Great Plains forms modification with Modifier/VBA, Great Plains Dexterity forms and logic customization, integration with CRM, RMS and other business systems, web publishing from Great Plains tables, EDI with your suppliers, SQL Data Transformation packages Do I need consultant?  We strongly recommend you to use consultant in the following cases. System Setup - you should refer to GP documentation.

Modifier/VBA custom buttons on the existing screens -  alternative to Dexterity is you are comfortable with VBA and ADO. 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.

Continuum could deploy Great Plains Dynamics macros, recorded to switch companies. This will certainly allow you to switch companies, but this requires programming. Andrew is a Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. However there are Microsoft Great Plains maestros who could make magic things happen. This is probably true if you do not have IM expertise in your company.

Poor customization possibilities - I would say that Dexterity is now a good option here, because Project Accounting is itself Dexterity third party dictionary - Dexterity is good to customize core DYNAMICS. So, this is where all the efforts are applied. Microsoft Office is now the second priority. Poor integration with Microsoft Office tools - as of right now Microsoft is in process of moving all its ERP packages. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, California, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.

Tool->Resource Desciption->Tables, re-sort by Table Group technical name, then make test transactions in Great Plains (SOP module) and see where records go. This is how you design and test your queries. You usually need consultant help, however you could try to make maximum work done at home. So, these custom stored procedures are available on the market, but they are not packaged as eConnect and could be purchased on the individual agreement base with Microsoft Great Plains partner. Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http.

Period Consolidation, Year End Closing, Multicurrency revaluation - we recommend backup prior to these routines. 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. 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. You use segments to sort by Account, Unit, Location, etc. All multicurrency transactions from modules are posted to GL as multicurrency GL transactions.

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. Unfortunately business logic level may deploy third party vendors logic, and these flourishing ISV of late 1990th might be now out of business. Then, somebody should carefully analyze and design the upgrade path for both. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http.

If you remember successful mid-size application - Great Plains Dynamics, pioneered on Mac and Windows graphical platforms in the mid 1990th. Net, MS SQL Server, Active Directory, BizTalk (integration with Great Plains), C# and VB. Microsoft CRM is the only CRM option from Microsoft (in Navision you have Navision CRM module option - so this is an exception) and please, feel free to choose Microsoft CRM if you would like to try CRM from Microsoft. We would like to withhold our opinion here and just tell you Microsoft Business Solutions opinion from Moscow - in Russia Axapta is successful and has approximately the same number of installations as Navision. Axapta is probably MBS stake on large enterprises market to compete with PeopleSoft (now Oracle) and SAP.

We are talking about customization upgrade for Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise 5. However there are specifics, and Dexterity customization should be analyzed and tuned to work with MS SQL Server, if it was originally designed for btrieve/ctree. When Great Plains Software designed Dexterity as the replacement to its discontinued Great Plains Accounting - it proclaimed that Dexterity is DB independent - which is true to some extent. VBA/Modifier/Continuum - all these are good candidates for replacement by newer technologies, because these will not have their place in. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

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. It allows you to feed data into Great Plains and was primarily created for eCommerce developers. Plus you probably want to have several SQL stored procs. SQL queries - as a developer you have unlimited potential in using SQL queries, because the database in MS SQL Server. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

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. 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. Writing proper specification form the customization is probably 70% of the success. Each vertical market requires MBS partner to be experienced with business processes implementation via GP custom logic.

In the case of Great Plains or Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise - customer can do self-support. In this exact case you have to delete of rename BTR. OLD - this file controls posting process and will be recreated next time you post. Workstation Locks and crashes - btrieve origin of the system architecture uses brtieve files to store current processes status (batch posting, for example) in the file, controlled by posting workstation. In the case of the crash you often see the error message, like.

Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Software Dynamics / eEnterprise was introduced in 1993 as first Microsoft Windows and Macintosh based graphical accounting/ERP application for Mid-Size businesses. In Furniture outlet shift manager commission is based on her/his employees-salespersons performance. We saw very complex and proprietary formulas. If eConnect is too expensive - you could appeal to experienced developers, who has set of custom stored procedures to work with SOP10100, SOP10200 and IV00100 tables. Looking into the future you should expect increasing portion of you business to come from eCommerce ordering.

Great Plains Dexterity is proprietary programming language/environment, which was created in early 1990-th to provide platform / database / graphical interface independence for Mac and Windows based Great Plains Dynamics. SQL Stored procedures - performance improvement. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, New York, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Seattle and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www. If you have Microsoft Great Plains and support it for your company and have light or heavy Great Plains customization, written in Dexterity - you need to know your options in upgrading Great Plains or migrating it from ctree/Pervasive to MS SQL/MSDE.

Great Plains Dynamics was designed for US tax code with US Social security, later on it was adjusted to comply VAT (Value Added Tax) rules to promote it in UK and other countries. You can imagine all the issues, related to upgrades, data conversions, customizations, integrations. Somebody should stay behind and serve local clients. Don't worry, MBS does support it in Brazil via local partner. Brazil has its own rules and accounting application should pass certain government certifications in the country of this size Of course, midsize accounting application requires local support, when it has adapted local version.