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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
We would like you to concentrate on your Business Processesautomation requirements in trying to understand which small business accountingpackage will fit the best for your enterprise 1. Database Platform. There are several reliable and relativelyinexpensive SQL oriented DB platforms on the ERP market: MySQL (good option ifyou are making custom programming in PHP platform), Microsoft SQL Server 2005Select (also consider Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for Small Business Server 2008) also you can get scaled down version from Oracle, which is outside of thescope for this paper. SQL compliance isin our opinion critical, and it is not recommended to choose proprietary DB, typicallycoming together with such accounting applications as MYOB, Peach Tree, QuickBooks 2. Words of respect to Linux and other freeOperating Systems. We recommend you toreview such Linux platforms as Suse, for example, where you can get softwarefree of charge, and where you pay per customer support case only as yougo. We would like to keep reservationsat this time to recommend ERP selection on Linux, however we encourage you tomake your own ERP market discovery 3. SAP Business One. This ERP and MRP application for SmallBusiness comes from SAP and we trust this ERP brand. SB1 is available on Microsoft SQL Server 2005and with version SAP Business One 2007A it is now pretty reliable and localizedfor United States: 1099, Sales Tax, Barcode, Warehouse management, Credit CardsProcessing, eCommerce module, CRM. SAPBusiness One SDK allows you to customize user interface as well as Databasetransactions: EDI, Integrations with legacy systems: Microsoft CRM, Lotus NotesDomino, Oracle 4. Great Plains Dynamics GP. This solution is coming directly fromMicrosoft Dynamics subdivision. If youare one-person-operations, we would like you to review Microsoft Small BusinessAccounting both SAP BO and Dynamics GP would be probably too expensive foryou. Current Dynamics GP, belonging andsupported by Microsoft Business Solutions had long small business accountingtrace: Great Plains Accounting for DOS: 9.2 and 9.5 were the most popularversions, Great Plains Small Business Financials 7.5, 8.0 and 9.0 werededicated to small business scaled down versions of Microsoft GreatPlains. Current trend in SBF is upgradeand migration to Dynamics GP Business Ready 5. MRP. BothSAP Business One and Great Plains Dynamics GP offer discrete Manufacturing andMRP modules. SAP Business One is closerto small business in our opinion, where you can do intuitive Production Moduleself discovery. Great Plains, howeverhas Bill of Materials module, which could cover small business manufacturing andassembly 6. Great Plains eConnect versus SAP Business OneSDK programming. Both SDK packages are targetedto custom ecommerce applications and software developers. We would like to treat them with the samerespect and recommend for deployment 7. Corporate ERP reporting. In both cases we recommend you to considerCrystal Reports. In the case when youare tight with the budget, try to consider Microsoft SQL Server ReportingServices or SSRS, as this extension is coming free with Microsoft SQL Server2005 or 2000 Standard or Enterprise 8. Legacy accounting data conversion and migration. If you company deployed such proprietaryaccounting packages as PeachTree, MYOB, QuickBooks, we recommend you toconsider printing modules reports and saving them in Text tab or commadelimited files, Excel also is good option 9. ERP for International Business. Even Small Business could be involved ininternational operations, such as purchasing your merchandise from China,India, Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, Russia. If this is your scenario, please try to make the research of MicrosoftBusiness Solutions ERP products support internationally. At this time Dynamics GP is supported inEnglish Speaking countries, and SAP Business One is localized for majornations: Latin America, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Brazil, Israel toname a few
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