Former Great Plains Software Dynamics and eEnterprise, after being acquired by Microsoft, received new name Microsoft Dynamics GP. Great Plains is very solid ERP and MRP platform for traditional functional implementation, as well as to be integrated into corporate IT infrastructure, where you may already have such pieces as CRM, Sales Order Processing, ecommerce, EDI, Warehouse Management with Barcode, Contract Management, Groupware for example
In this small publication we would like to review the specifics of our company as Great Plains Certified Partner and Reseller:
1. Orientation in Technology. If you are reading these lines, likely the case is your partial disappointing in local Great Plains VAR project implementing case. Traditional local GP partner, especially small and mid-size, has to make their profit on new Great Plains software license sale, followed by traditional implementation and user training. Of course there are multiple exceptions, however it is not necessary the case that local GP VAR carries robust department of Great Plains Programmers and Technical consultants. There is probably not enough local business for local Dynamics GP reseller to support its own Software Development Factory. Great Plains advanced technical expertise could be found in nationwide Dynamics GP technology partners
2. Dynamics GP technology highlights. Talking about Great Plains customization and programming – you should review such tools as Dynamics GP Dexterity, eConnect, SQL stored procedures. In GP integrating arena – GP Integration Manager, where you need strong SQL views and select statement programming with grouping and aggregation, plus IM itself may need VBA scripting and such technologies as name translation. In the case of e-commerce, your tool of choice is eConnect and for Automatic batch posting in Great Plains from eCommerce application you need Alba Spectrum Posting Server
3. Great Plains Software Development Factory and key success factors to work with it. SDF is centralized place with large number of GP Dexterity, eConnect, C# and VB.Net developers and SQL coders and programmers. You are probably OK with the idea to pay for Great Plains project manager to travel to your location, however it is impractical to invite GP programmers onsite. As key success factor in our practice we see the option to setup test server for your modification, reporting and custom integration project
4. International Environment Support. As you may know Great Plains is available in English speaking countries: USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Philippines, Oceania, South East Asia, Middle East. Plus it is available in Spanish for Central, South America and Caribbean region. We also recognize Chinese and Brazilian businesses in US, where they implement GP for US operations. GP support in Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese is recommended in International business
Dexterity Customization for Dynamics GP Evaluation Level Paper
When you are developer it is always a good idea to read technical manuals. But if you was just assigned to the IT team to decide if Dexterity is the right tool to customize your ERP application then first you need something which is in style of ‘easy reading papers’ or FAQ
Planning Dynamics GP Customization in Large Corporation
If you are reading this page then chances are high that you were not able to find ISV add-on and need customization project. Let’s talk about planning, quality assurance and future event such as version updates.
Dynamics GP Invoice Logo Attributed to Specific Company or Crossing the Borders of Three SOP Forms
Initial Great Plains Dynamics architecture had three SOP Invoice forms: Long, Short and Blank. Modern GP is popular in scenarios where you have more than three companies under one business entity umbrella
