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This article presents an index of collaboration software technologies to assist businesses in finding collaboration software that works for them. There are two types of collaboration software.

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Crystal Reports is reporting maestro if we are talking about Microsoft SQL Server based System. Consider eOrder - this is sale on account over the internet - however it is ASP application, not ASPX or. For custom machinery assembly it will come in the next decade (we are not talking here about GM or Chrysler. Microsoft Great Plains SOP module tables, however allow you to develop ecommerce ordering via eConnect or custom stored procedures. Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http.

Microsoft Great Plains, designed back in 1990th as database transferable and graphical platform independent ERP application - Great Plains Dynamics/Dynamics C/S+/eEnterprise. If you are trying to relay on eConnect exclusively and not researching Great Plains Architecture - you will need additions to eConnect from third party vendor, such as Alba Spectrum Technologies, which has the whole set of SOP populating stored procedures. Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. For eCommerce developer the most important is to understand Great Plains tables structure and business processes in Sales Order Processing, Accounts Receivables, Inventory Control (inventory items allocation, backordering, etc), posting to Bank Reconciliation and General Ledger. And this is where Great Plains structure seems to be not transparent.

Brazilian market has long story of local mid-size accounting/ERP systems - Microsiga is one of the major - it was developed in Brazil for Brazilian market. Great Plains Software marketing campaign was getting very strong resistance from local market commitment to Microsiga and other local ERP application. Somebody should stay behind and serve local clients. Don't worry, MBS does support it in Brazil via local partner. You can imagine all the issues, related to upgrades, data conversions, customizations, integrations.

ERP Administrator doesn't have to be IT guru - she/he needs to be trained on how to administer the program and how to deal with technical support. The same should be said about ERP system. 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. Nowadays ERP system requires minor or major customization, integration and reporting and all these steps in turn require patient coding and testing in the test environment or on the sample dataset/database. Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Healthcare, Distribution & Logistics, Wholesale & Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Placement & Recruiting, Advertising & Publishing, Textile, Pharmaceutical, Non-Profit, Beverages, Conglomerates, Apparels, Durables, Manufacturing and having locations in multiple states and internationally.

Now Microsoft Business Solutions offers following ERP applications. Navision (former Navision Attain), Microsoft Great Plains (former Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise), Solomon, Axapta. 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. 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. If you need to pull data out of the Navision database on a regular basis one of the other options is a better choice.

The top five ERP vendors, SAP, Oracle Corporation, Peoplesoft, Inc. With ERP software, companies can standardize business processes and more easily enact best practices. By becoming the integrated information solution across the entire organization, ERP systems allow companies to better understand their business. Hence, the term ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) was coined. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Overview covers What is ERP, Brief history of ERP, Why is it necessary, Market Leaders and the future of ERP.

Each Industry and market niche has business specific and unique requirements to ERP/Accounting System. 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. In both cases - Great Plains and RMS compliance reporting should be realized in Crystal Reports and the best way and design style is creating SQL views and stored procedures and basing report on these views and procs. If you have only one Great Plains Company - you can deploy RMS->GP integration utility, coming to you with RMS purchase and support CDs. The integration is realized as a set of MS SQL Server stored procedures.

When Great Plains Software was designing and developing Great Plains Dynamics/Dynamics CS+/eEnterprise - it placed several fundamental principles into the system. 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. Net programming it released such tools as eConnect. Great Plains Dexterity, VBA, ReportWriter, Continuum, Integration Manager.

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.

At the same time the importance of application consultant CPA was in the decrease, one of the explanations could be - universities picked up in educating future controllers in basic CPA, standard ERP and financial reporting. In the case when you represent mid-size or mid-size-to-large business, it is not a surprise that you have to do ERP selection and switch to new technologies, doing your own research. We encourage you to analyze your alternatives. You are probably lucky if you got nation-wide customization partner directly, because you can save 30% in local implementation and customization rates, due to the fact that nation-wide partner doesn't participate in the bidding, but rather is subcontracted by the winner of the bidding battle. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http.

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains might be considered as ERP platform, ready for customization. However if you need the extension to standard ERP/Accounting application - you may be looking at the option to customize the system. Great Plains Software has Great Plains Dynamics/Dynamics C/S+/eEnterprise and currently Microsoft Great Plains lines of products developed in Great Plains Dexterity. VBA/Modifier will allow you to modify Great Plains forms and attach VBA scripts to buttons. Crystal Reports - with Crystal Reports Designer you could produce the report of maximal complexity, including the report pulling info from heterogeneous databases (as if portion of your Bill of Lading info resides in Oracle, DB2 custom database.

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. 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. 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.

We'd say you should be looking for ERP which sits in the standard database. But, as we believe - and this is our private opinion - Navision acquisition allowed Microsoft to gain substantial portion of the European ERP market. Navision had long presence in the USA, especially in the manufacturing ERP market. Let us give you our estimates and the parameters to check on the pool of the possible ERPs/MRPs. Few years before acquisition by Microsoft GPS bought Solomon Software, its old and major competitor.

Poor integration with Microsoft Office tools - as of right now Microsoft is in process of moving all its ERP packages. So, this is where all the efforts are applied. Microsoft Office is now the second priority. VBA/Modifier are available but we would not recommend them, because they are now legacy technologies. 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.