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: .
MS Dynamics GP 10.0 Customization Tools Speculation Let’s briefly review what is new and what is traditional in customization instruments:Sharepoint in Workflow.? This seems to be cool opportunity.? We heard so many years about workflow in Great Plains, some developers tried to marry something like Lotus Notes with GP to produce workflow imitation via messaging and within Lotus and links to GP documents.? Now MS Sharepoint seems to do the jobWeb...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Download
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Reporting: Traditional And New Tools Good news for you should be the fact, that Microsoft Dexterity remains the base for Microsoft Dynamics GP architecture, as it was for earlier versions of Great Plains: 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, etc.? Microsoft also mentioned old and formerly traditional reporting tool – Crystal Reports as one of the reporting options for GP 10.0; if you remember the introduction of GP 9.0, when Microsoft recommended SQL...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Download
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Dexterity Customizations Review Let’s come through Great Plains Dexterity technology and upgrade process step by stepDexterity is C shell.? It was designed in earlier 1990th to provide DB and computer platform transferability for new ERP application – Great Plains Software Dynamics. ?Dexterity determines such attributes of GP as DYNAMICS.DIC, Dynamics.Set, Dex.ini, Dex.exe, Reports.dic, Dex_row_id. ?Dexterity supports its own DB...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
MS Dynamics GP 10.0 Great Plains: Renaissance Of GP Dexterity In this small article we would like to give you historical excurse and emphasize our opinion on Great Plains Dexterity renaissance, including GP dex source code programming, dex sanscript legacy customizations upgrade without the fearing of the future dex phasing out.? Of course we can not guarantee you the future, as we are not Microsoft corporation, however chances are high that Microsoft...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
Microsoft Dexterity 10.0: Notes On New Features Dynamics GP At this time Dexterity is the platform for Microsoft Dynamics GP version 10.0, released in Summer 2007.? General trend in Dexterity architecture is the move to Microsoft platforms: .Net, COM, Web Services, eConnect, Sharepoint, MS SQL Server.? Initially Dexterity was designed with the concepts of DB platform independence: Ctree, Pervasive SQL/Btrieve, MS SQL Server with possible switches to Oracle...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
Microsoft Dynamics GP Integration | MS CRM On EConnect So, if you plan “standard” integration, our suggestion is to deploy eConnect. ?If you use third party GP modules, such as Wennsoft, Mekorma and others, you will have to use SQL Stored Procedures to feed data into Great Plains. ?Let’s consider high-level technical scenarios:CRM->GP.? You have two scenarios here. ?The first scenario works if you are strong Visual Studio developer with C# skills,...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Opening The Door If you have older version of Dynamics GP – you should decide on upgrade strategy, for you upgrade will be two or even more steps, where first you should upgrade to 9.0 sp2. ?Let take a look at the featuresExplorer-like buttons: forward and backward. ?Besides the fact that GP starting with version 8.0 is moving toward MS applications user interface unification direction, now users should recognize...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
Traditional ERP & MS Dynamics GP 10.0 Implementation Let’s briefly review them one-by-one:Business Processes mapping.? First question is selection of the next ERP. ?If Microsoft Dynamics GP fits to your current business processes and has good room for future improvement either with GP standard set of modules or with GP third party extensions, or even custom programming, modification, integration and reporting. ?If these questions are answered to the...... Similar Editorial : by . | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
Ecommerce Solutions & Web Design For MS Dynamics GP 10.0 When we are talking about Microsoft Dynamics GP version 10.0, 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0 or 5.5 we mean such ecommerce integration technologies as eConnect (10, 9 and 7.5) and SQL stored procedures (for earlier Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise versions).? If you still deploy legacy Pervasive SQL 2000/Btrieve or Ctree/Faircom versions of GP, this is 7.5 and earlier – ecommerce can still be tailored...... Similar Editorial : by Max Glantzman. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
Custom Development For Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Great Plains Microsoft Great Plains version 10 is in fact successor of Great Plains Software Dynamics and eEnterprise (scaled up version of Dynamics, targeted to large corporate clients).? Dynamics GP 10 has Microsoft Dexterity architecture and Dex is one of the most powerful tools to customize and modify GP – it virtually has no limits in GP programming.? However Great Plains Dexterity is proprietary...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
ERP Trends On Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 In 2005 Microsoft Business Solutions was renamed into Microsoft Dynamics and its participating ERP/CRM were also renamed respectively into GP (Great Plains), SL (Solomon), NAV (Navision), AX (Axapta) and Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Microsoft CRM).? Since Microsoft Dynamics project was introduced we rather see the efforts to advance MS Dynamics products ERP and CRM on its native SDK: Dexterity, CSide,...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Visual Studio Development Notes Dexterity has special constrains on GP tables structure, it also restricts GP ReportWriter functionality, also if you had some exposure to customization tools, such as GP Modifier, you should suspect to see Dex scaled down engine behind Modifier or even Report Writer.? So, these are some cautions on being overly too optimistic as .Net programmer.? However, let’s now go and review development tools...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
Overwiew Of Reports For MS Dynamics GP 10.0 Report Writer can only deal with Dexterity tables from one GP module. ?Crystal Reports allows you to build any SQL query you need and join “cross-modules” tables, including custom tables and tables and data in heterogeneous databases environments: Oracle, DBII, Pervasive SQL, Ctree, MySQL, and other ODBC compliant platforms. ?Let’s review Crystal Reports design techniques:Designing Report vs....... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Nationwide Remote Support Overview If you are on non Microsoft SQL Server version, such as Pervasive SQL 2000/Btrieve or Ctree/Faircom – you need one additional step – Migration to Microsoft SQL Server GP version. ?Nationwide remote support is possible due to the availability of such technologies as web sessions (gotomeetings and others), VPN connections and Remote Desktop Connections. ?In this small article we would like to share...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains Licensing Overview In the case when you are current in Microsoft Business Solutions annual enhancement program, you automatically have reg key for all the recent versions. ?If you are not current in enhancement program, then in order to get new reg key, purchase additional GP modules or add user licenses, you need first to be reenrolled in GP annual enhancement program, typically it is just the matter of paying re...... Similar Editorial : by Andrew Karasev. | Source : Microsoft Excel Macro
