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We heard complains about this tight integration. Microsoft CRM integrates with GP customers, SOP Orders & Invoices. 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. 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 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. Combining Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains ERP with non-Microsoft Business System or CRM. Microsoft CRM would integrate with Oracle smoothly. Microsoft CRM or SalesLogix would do the job. Again in our opinion you'd rather pay for small or moderate customization to budget CRM solution to have work done.

He is Microsoft Great Plains certified master, Great Plains Dexterity, Microsoft CRM SDK C. If you have Microsoft Great Plains - you can use MBS CRM-GP integration tool, based on BizTalk. Then, when coding is done and implemented - you may switch to your internal developers to support custom pieces. Microsoft CRM is very innovative from the support side. It means that Microsoft CRM partners tend to go to the nation-wide and international market to sell, implement and support the application.

It is tightly integrated with other Microsoft Business Solutions products such as Microsoft Great Plains, Solomon, Navision. This is not supported by MBS technical support - but you can rescue to this technique if you have to get job done. We've described above the options to use when this tool doesn't do the job. MS CRM Customization tool - this is rather end-user tool and we don't describe it here - read the manual. 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.

You have legacy ASP application, where you capture orders from your customers and you want these orders be transferred to the CRM as activity. If you want to capture these emails - you have to do it in Microsoft Exchange event sink. Then this email will not follow into MS CRM (because it doesn't have GUID in the header and so is ignored by CRM Exchange connector. There maybe scenario when you want to capture and analyze in the sink all the outgoing emails - this is even more complex - y. Never create your custom SQL objects (like stored procedure, SQL view, table) in MS CRM database.

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, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. Net, Web Service, Transact SQL scripting and stored procedures, deploy such SQL Server tools as Linked Server to all ODBC/OLEDB compliant database, including ORACLE, Sybase, Ingress, DB2, Unidata, Pervasive SQL, Ctree and even Lotus Notes/Domino. In this small article we would like to give you the clue on programming the integration with SQL third party Database. Net and one of its programming languages - C.

Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2000, SQL Server, Crystal Reports Enterprise, Biztalk server, Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Great Plains as backend, etc. 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. But - in real world this is not always true - you have to do direct flags correction in CRM database (like making Activity closed, moving email attachments/octet streams, etc. This is not supported by MBS technical support - but you can rescue to this technique if you have to get job done. Then simply apply some MS CRM SDK programming - you need some COM+ objects creation and VB programming experience.

If you have less then 500 employees - then Great Plains Standard douse excellent job and software price would be around k$10. Great Plains would be reasonably priced payroll solution if you process payroll inhouse. If you cross over 500 employees line - Great Plains software price will be around k$30 and you could find cheaper solutions with unlimited number of employees - look at Accpac. 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. If you are replacing your legacy system, then you could build eCommerce upon Microsoft Great Plains Inventory Control (IV) and Sales Order Processing modules.

Microsoft Great Plains is one of three Microsoft Business Solutions mid-market ERP products. GLPOSTDT = convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 101). DATE1 = convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 101). Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, New York, Madrid, Brazil, Moscow ( http. DATE1 = convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 101).

Advanced Techniques - in MS SQL Enterprise Manager you can create Linked Server to all ODBC/OLEDB compliant databases. Ctree, PervasiveSQL/Btrieve, MS Access, ORACLE, DB2, Unidata, Navision (C/ODBC) and using OPENROWSET construction you can create geterogeneus view and stored proc - then you can have the data from multiple systems in your Crystal Report. SQL Views and Stored Procedures - yes - feel free to create them directly in RMS Headquarters database and deploy in your Crystal Report. Headquarters database doesn't create its own transactions - so be careful and do not try this type of data integration. Hints on dataflow/synchronization - Microsoft RMS uses worksheets technology and all the data goes from stores to headquarters database through worksheets.

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. 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. 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. In Great Plains you should be able to order your inventory via Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) mechanism.

Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2000, SQL Server, Crystal Reports Enterprise, Biztalk server, Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Great Plains as backend, etc. 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. MS CRM Customization tool -  this is rather end-user tool and we don't describe it here - read the manual. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. 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.

Integration with other MBS products - currently it has integration interface with Microsoft Great Plains. Then simply apply some MS CRM SDK programming - you need some COM+ objects creation and VB programming experience. 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. Refer to MS Exchange SDK onsyncsave event handling. But - in real world this is not always true - you have to do direct flags correction in CRM database (like making Activity closed, moving email attachments/octet streams, etc.

He is Microsoft Great Plains certified master, Great Plains Dexterity, Microsoft CRM SDK C. Software Development Kit allows you to integrate your custom SQL, DB2, Oracle or other ODBC and OLEDB complaint application. Currently we are confident in MS CRM ability to automate the following industries. Aerospace & Defense, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Advertising & Publishing, Distribution & Logistics, Beverages, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Pharmaceutical, Nonprofit, Healthcare/Hospitals, Wholesale/Retail, Manufacturing/Assembling, International Business/Multinational Corporation, Government. Using MS CRM SDK you can integrate CRM with your third party financial applications, such as Navision, Axapta, Solomon, Oracle Financials, SAP, PeopleSoft.

This technique is COM+ applications, registered as Microsoft Exchange sinks or handlers. Microsoft Exchange allows you to alter it's logic in the events, exposed for custom handling. Net, but you will not have debugging available, because these applications will work as event handlers. If you are programmer or software developer - you can actually program these advancements and we'll give you the direction. To decrease the possibility that users will use outlook to send new messages and answer the messages from there - you would probably like the idea to delete them from MS Exchange database when they are transferred to the CRM.