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This integration is maintained by Microsoft Business Solutions and allows you to synchronize SOP and Customers in Great Plains with Microsoft CRM Quotes and Orders. If your company is ISV and implements eCommerce product, integrating to Great Plains - you would rather prefer set of open and simple stored procedures, moving data to and retrieving from Microsoft Great Plains Sales Order Processing (SOP) module. However you can have successful bridge between non-Microsoft ERP and Great Plains. It has Dexterity interface in Great Plains, does integration to single company at the time. Here we need to mention interesting thing, The product, created and dedicated to eCommerce developers - Great Plains eConnect is often considered as a bit expensive and licensing-restricting solution.

Currently MBS officially promotes Navision on the Brazilian market, however localized version of Microsoft Great Plains is available as well. Great Plains Software marketing campaign was getting very strong resistance from local market commitment to Microsiga and other local ERP application. Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. 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. Don't worry, MBS does support it in Brazil via local partner.

However you should probably first understand the architecture of Microsoft Great Plains. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has several options to enable web ordering. Plus eConnect allows you to create and update customer record in Great Plains - this is however relatively simple to imitate in the stored procedure. It would take you a lot of time (if you are new to Great Plains tables structure and never coded in Great Plains Dexterity. Traditionally Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise had eOrder - this is ASP pages based ordering application, enabling you to place or retrieve your Sales Order Processing (SOP) Sales Orders over the web.

Real Estate, Law Firm, Placement Agency with permanent clients, Construction or Freight Forwarding company - you probably use or plan to deploy Project management or Project accounting extension for Microsoft Great Plains. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains fits to majority of horizontal niches and clientele in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, U. Chances are that it isn't and in this case you should consider using standard version of Microsoft Great Plains Project Accounting. Currently you can purchase Spanish, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese and other local versions of Great Plains. You can have users working with the same company in Great Plains - some of them will use English and others Spanish version.

Microsoft Retail Management (RMS) and Microsoft Great Plains are retail and accounting/ERP solutions coming from the same Microsoft subdivision - Microsoft Business Solutions. Microsoft Great Plains is written in Great Plains Dexterity - proprietary programming language and development environment, which has strong ties with SQL stored procedures and queries. Plus we can push serial number info from Great Plains to Store Operations (there is no way to store serial number in Headquarters. When Items are transferred in Great Plains via the Item Transfer Entry window, the interface must recognize this transaction. In each case you have to use set of new Microsoft technologies.

You should consider Microsoft Great Plains if you are in. This is now Microsoft Great Plains, Great Plains Standard and Microsoft Small Business Manager (scaled down Great Plains version, using he same technology - Great Plains Dexterity. Net, MS SQL Server, Active Directory, BizTalk (integration with Great Plains), C# and VB. USA, Canada, Latin America, UK, South Africa, Australia - these are markets, where former Great Plains Software had successful penetration. If you remember successful mid-size application - Great Plains Dynamics, pioneered on Mac and Windows graphical platforms in the mid 1990th.

Microsoft Great Plains sits on MS SQL Server platform and typical technologies are. This system is primary source of information about the shipment, then all the collections and fees and associated customer and vendor invoices are moved to Accounting Application, such as Microsoft Great Plains. Stored Procedures and also Great Plains Dexterity for Screens and Reports - this is Great Plains Software (currently Microsoft Business Solutions) proprietary software development language and IDE. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains version 8. This should be realized as Great Plains Dexterity custom window, with two scrolling windows on it, where you should list SOP Invoices and POP Shipments with Invoices.

Microsoft Great Plains fits to majority of horizontals and retail business is good fit as well. We'll consider the system, consisting from Microsoft Great Plains as Accounting, Inventory Pricing and Microsoft Retail Management System (RMS) Headquarters and Store Operations Manager. This integration could work as nightly SQL routine and bring all the daily sales transactions from RMS stores or Headquarters to mapped Great Plains companies. This might be done as SQL routine or Great Plains Dexterity customization. It should work with Great Plains Inventory catalogue.

All of us know that Microsoft bought former Great Plains Software and formed Microsoft (Great Plains) Business Solutions in the earlier 21st century. Pervasive SQL 2000 and Ctree (we are not talking here about Great Plains Accounting - this ERP was phased out in 2001. Andrew is a Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http. But it is seen now - not in 1990th These two above principles resulted in creation of Great Plains Software development environment and language - Great Plains Dexterity. First of all - Great Plains Software, as being independent corporation in 1990th had to stake on certain future predictions.

Great Plains, Solomon, Navision and Axapta to web-based Microsoft Business Portal. 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 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. 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.

Microsoft Great Plains is one of the most popular ERP in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, Latin America, UK and South Africa. In our small article we'll consider Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains Sales Order Processing module as eCommerce backend. The second principle - Great Plains would never allow you to post the batch of transactions behind the scene - only via the user interface - checked and approved by the user. This means that no more eOrders - you just need the connector which will allow you to address Great Plains objects from your eCommerce application. Later on eConnect was extended on the majority of Great Plains modules, including distributions.

As of now - Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise is transformed/renamed into Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft Business Solutions is in process of merging all its accounting applications. Database platform independence - initially Great Plains used Ctree (available for both PC and Mac) and Btrieve, later on with Microsoft SQL Server 6. Great Plains is actually integration of multiple dictionaries. You can install Dexterity from Great Plains 7. Obviously it requires a lot of learning / training, but it allows your custom piece be seamlessly integrated with Great Plains interface.

Microsoft Great Plains may be recommended for international freight forwarding / transportation company. Let's consider industry specifics and the way to implement them in Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains. This is Great Plains Software and currently Microsoft Great Plains programming language and IDE. Plus - if you consider Great Plains as a platform for custom tailoring and developing - you can have reasonably priced solution for horizontal business, such as freight forwarding, cargo delivery, consignment, transportation. It will allow you seamless integration with Great Plains user interface.

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. 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.

Sales Order Processing stand alone Great Plains Dexterity application, which works with Microsoft Great Plains SQL databases to feed in orders. Net ASPX web programming with Microsoft Great Plains at the back end. Considering Microsoft Great Plains - majority of the logic above is implemented and could be implemented in Great Plains Dexterity. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has substantial market share and strong support by Microsoft on the US market. To certain level you could use legacy technologies, such as Great Plains Modifier with Continuum for VB, VBA scripting, etc.