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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc
First recommendation to you is to look for existing GreatPlains add-ons, available from Great Plains ISV partners and resellers. But, likely that you have this step alreadybehind you and now you are thinking about undertaking your own GP add-onsdeveloping. Let us give your GPcustomizing orientation session: 1. Great Plains Dexterity. Most of the add-ons for GP (supported by GPISV VARs) are programmed in Great Plains Dexterity or new name is MicrosoftDexterity. Dex allows you to intervene intoGreat Plains standard business logic, add additional screens, reports, tables,triggers, procedures and functions, as well as strings, fields, constants. There are no limits in Dexterity on what youcan do in the sense of Dynamics GP modification, including new productcreation. However Dexterity is notreally simple and requires professional Dexterity programmers to do thecoding. In Dexterity customizationproject, especially when you are altering GP logic substantially, please beready to expect the budget, comparable to initial Great Plains software purchase 2. eConnect. This Software Development Kit opens GP for integrations with yourperipheral applications: ecommerce, legacy databases, EDI compliant systems.eConnect is definitely easier in comparison to Microsoft Dexterity to program and being optimistic, you should expect regular C#, VB.Net Microsoft VisualStudio programmers with some excurse to SQL stored procedures and architectureto be able to begin eConnect programming turn around in a week or so 3. SQL Stored Procedures as integrationoption. If you are on older version ofGreat Plains Dynamics: 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, or even earlier, or if yourintegration needs are very modest you have SQL Stored procedures andscripting as integrating option. If youare on Great Plains Dynamics GP version 9.0 or 10.0, we would like you first toreview eConnect as likely it will do most of the integration job for you inits encrypted SQL stored procedures 4. Integration Manager, VBA with Modifier. There are additional options, especially whenyou have VBA programmer in staff. Inthis case you can alter GP Integration Manager logic with VBA scripts. VBA and Modifier is build upon OLE Server technologyand might be considered as a bit obsolete technology, but it still does the job
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