Great Plains Software had its DOS Accounting and in essence ERP and even MRP application – Great Plains Accounting in late 1980th. When Microsoft Windows OS system graphical platform was introduced in around 1995-96 as reliable computer graphics, comparing to traditional text only DOS and Unix, there was obvious direction among computer and ERP systems programmers – to move from text application to Windows (or Macintosh) graphical versions
Nowadays trend might seem as very small question, however in time it was a revolutionary idea and it required a lot of effort, and it was engaged in numerous ERP, and computer hardware vendors competition: SUN, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, plus DB platforms (some of them trying to stake on UNIX and some of them were bought by Microsoft to be transitioned to Windows). To be open to you, our readers, likely software programmers, IT specialists, Vice Presidents in IT, Controllers, we are not professional computer industry historians, so our articles are not retrospections, they are rather associations, and our goal is to give you feedback and additional details on ERP and MRP software market in USA and Internationally and how Dynamics GP Great Plains fits there
1. Great Plains Dexterity and C programming language. As you may remember, C and C++ (object oriented obsession in earlier 1990th) was considered as panacea to help computer programs, including corporate ERP applications to abstract themselves from those days turbulent computer hardware and operating systems market. Today you may make an observation that this is now ancient history and nobody compete now on that ground
2. Innovation ERP in Windows and MAC OS. In our opinion, Great Plains Software Dynamics took its US and international accounting and ERP market share due to its innovation on IBM PC and Mac graphical platforms. As you may remember, initial DB platforms were Btrieve and Ctree, these two are hardly to be considered as competitors to such UNIX based SQL compliant DBs as Oracle, Sybase, Ingress. GPS caught its star time and introduced Great Plains Dynamics in the right moment to make it a champion through 1990th Clinton era
3. Great Plains Dexterity mission. Back in 1990h and late 1980th there was a popular believe and even IT concept , based on C and C++ programming language abstract just one level above assembler – that C will be able to resolve your dependence on computer hardware, OS and open your ERP the door to the future, where C and C++ were believed to be further flourishing. In fact, C programming language was a real revolution, however it is rather not realistic to predict the future, as rules of the time games are changing. Those good days back in earlier 1990th nobody would predict that Internet will be the driver for the industry. Internet in its turn introduced HTML, ecommerce concept, differentiation between fat and thin client – all these and additional technology puzzles made Great Plains Dexterity sort of obviously obsolete, but it did retain ins Great Plains modification and add-on development market
4. Nowadays cool Dynamics GP tools and features. Since Dynamics GP 9.0 version we are hearing from Microsoft Business Solutions practitioners, fields consultants and programmers that eConnect is the opening door to the future of Dynamics GP Great Plains customization, ISV, unique reporting, EDI software developing market is now the way to undertaken Great Plains ecommerce integration programming
5. Great Plains Dexterity customization excurse, this technology was very popular in late 1990th, when Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise were sort on short of ISV customization partners and Dex customizations were made on Great Plains Partner level, certified in Great Plains Dexterity: Great Plains Consultants and Programmers
6. Article format and orientation. Alba Spectrum is hoping that this small publication will help you with your Dynamics GP Great Plains, eEnterprise, GP eCommerce, GP Barcode project
7. Where to look for additional info. Within Microsoft Dynamics website at Microsoft. Please feel free to call our 866 number directly below, or simply email us, visit our website, request executive Dynamics GP Great Plains presentation
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
