Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies � USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, California, Arizona, Minnesota, Texas, Florida, New York, Washington, Georgia, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (), he is CMA, Great Plains Certified Master, Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. You can contact Andrew: .
Microsoft Dynamics: GP, AX, NAV, SL, CRM – Merge Or Coexistence? Obviously it is non-official opinion and we are just trying to guess on the future direction of Microsoft Dynamics or former Microsoft Project Green. These lines are written in June of 2006, based on the analysis of Microsoft Business Solutions policy and real actions in the USA, Europe, Latin America and Brazil. Let’s begin.Software Initial Development vs. Purchasing and Branding....... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Dynamics AX Axapta Brazil Implementation It is localized to support Brazilian taxation, federal & state reporting and translated to Portuguese. In this small publication we would like to focus on Axapta strong points and how they should fit to Brazilian business requirementsSupply Chain Management. Axapta supports intra-company orders to fulfill external customer sales order, which allows you to design and implement flexible...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains Outsourcing Notes At this point of time, Axapta is targeting larger clients in general, where GP with its broad legacy customer base in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Middle East, South Africa and Latin America is usually associated with mid-market or smaller corporate clients (however there are multiple cases where large accounts implemented GP successfully Worldwide, integrating it with local ERPs in the...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Dexterity Source Code Programming Since its introduction as C-Shell computer platform (MAC & Windows) and DB independent programming language and development environment, Great Plains Dexterity covered very long and probably bumpy way together with the whole ERP and IT industry. When C programming language was a believed panacea to provide application cross-platform expansion, nobody could envision such future toys as...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP Upgrade Checkpoints Versions 7.0, 7.5, 8.0 on MS SQL Server 2000 or 7.0. If we are talking about Microsoft SQL Server, then these versions upgrade is very smooth, without known major issues, when you had to do data repair on SQL scripting levelVersion 7.0 and 7.5 on Pervasive SQL 2000 or Ctree Plus / Faircom. Former name of this package was Great Plains Select, later on it was introduced as Microsoft...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains Implementation Implementation Schemas. If you are end customer, you probably have concern over the ERP implementation budget. In this case, surfing over the internet you would like to find real company, not pure offshore operations, who could help you implement Dynamics GP in your Houston surrounding county. You are in the right page nowConsulting Mechanisms. We suggest you to combine two...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Dynamics GP: New Customization Options eConnect. This tool and connector allows you to manipulate: create, modify, delete and change GP objects, such as Customer, SOP Invoice, Purchase Order, Employee, etc.Extender. This tool allows you to create new GP screens and tables and associate them with GP native screens, such as Customer maintenanceMicrosoft Visual Studio. When you deploy eConnect and custom tables, created...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Great Plains Implementation Checklist We will review generic ERP application implementation checklist first and then we will go down to specifics:Data conversion and massage. Light approach, when you enter initial balances or more advanced way, when you pursue historical data conversion – these are typical scenarios in ERP upgrade, and you will see these decision making requirements implementing all ERP systemsModules selection....... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
ERP Implementation Trends: Microsoft Dynamics GP In our opinion these two points of views are becoming obsolete and new criteria are coming to the scenes:Number of Worldwide ERP installations. When we are talking about Microsoft Products, good example is Microsoft Office. Everyone can insert installation CD and install it intuitively. But, again intuition made possible due to hundred millions of installations “cleaned up” the...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP Consulting In Houston Metro eConnect. Opposing Dexterity, eConnect manipulates GP objects (while Dex doesn’t do this, and rather goes to procedural level). We recommend eConnect for all the types of ongoing automatic integrations from eCommerce web site, for instance, to GP. eConnect is friendly to MS Visual Studio.Net C# or VB.Net developer. Plus you can design scenarios, when Dexterity integration...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Dynamics GP Customization At about this time we see two emerging products: eXtender, written by Australian company eOne and eConnect – instrument, initially designed for web eCommerce developers. The question of choosing the appropriate tool for your specific GP software development typically requires additional research, so in this small article we will try to orient you, assuming that you are programmer and...... Similar Editorial : by Luis Leung. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Dynamics GP: Popular Scripts And Fixes Delete activity where userid=’john’ – this simple script should be executed against DYNAMICS database in SQL Query analyzer to unlock the user. If you are not comfortable, ask all the users log off Great Plains and run this script without conditions: delete activity. If you are on legacy Pervasive SQL or Ctree/Faircom platforms, ask all user log off and delete ACTIVITY.* file(s), which...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Great Plains Dexterity Customizations – Overview Microsoft Dexterity. It is also often associated with so-called Dynamics GP source code programming. MBS VAR, who has access to source code (DYNAMICS.DIC dictionary with dex sanscript scripts present). Dexterity has no limits in accessing and modifying GP resources, such as tables, forms, reports, scrolling windows, data types, etc. Obviously, when you get such a powerful...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Dexterity Customization Dexterity architecture was transferred to MS Visual C++ somewhere around 1999 with some additional bug fixing work, however pretty flawless. When Microsoft purchased Great Plains Software on the edge of XXI Century, the basis of Dexterity lost its actuality – in fact Microsoft Business Solutions actively moved toward phasing out all the other platforms, but MS SQL Server by introducing MSDE...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
Microsoft Dynamics GP Customization Outsourcing Major customization tools are: Microsoft Dexterity, eConnect, Extender, Integration Manager, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, Crystal Reports, VBA/Modifier, GP ReportWriter. Certain custom logic could be created in MS Visual Studio.Net C# or VB logic, typically with ADO.Net, accessing GP SQL company database. Outsourcing options:US Based firm with developers offshore. This is...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Buy Microsoft Access
