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However, and this is what we assume in this smallpublication, a lot of ecommerce businesses have their websites and theintegration should be on the level of custom connectors: pushing new customers,new catalogs, new orders and probably payments to Great Plains. Please, consider these tools and solutions: 1. eConnect. It is set of stored procedures withinterfaces for Microsoft Visual Studio ecommerce developer. If you have programmers in staff, you shouldreview eConnect with them and decide on the integration specifications. One thing often comes to the question eConnect doesnt have functionality to post Great Plains batches, in order topost Dynamics GP batches directly from ecommerce portal, you should considerdeployment of Alba Spectrum Posting Server 2. OrderConnector. This product is supported byAlba Spectrum. It allows you to deploysimple ecommerce integration logic to Great Plains Sales Order Processingmodule. If this is your case, OrderConnector allows you to call its stored procedures directly, which might givecertain performance gain over eConnect and you do not have to learn eConnect. For small Great Plains Dynamics customers, whoare on older GP versions: 8.0, 7.5 you could also use Order Connector, andeConnect for those versions was in introduction phase 3. IntegrationManager. IM allows you to setupintegration on the GP user level with some custom tweaks: VBA scripts. It should solve your ecommerce integrationneeds, if real time integration is not required you can either have GP userto call integration on demand or schedule IM via Windows macro routines (out ofscope for this article) 4. DirectSQL Custom Stored Procedures. Thisapproach may look natural for SQL programmer, however in this scenario you willneed to replicate GP business logic in your scripts. Just consider the fact, that eConnect alreadydid exactly this it replicated Great Plains Dexterity code in encrypted SQLStored Procedures, so maybe you should consider more efficient programming timespending simply by deploying eConnect instead. However, this is possible approach and theoretically you can replicatedata feeding to Dynamics GP tables as if it is done via user interface 5. Ifyou have further questions or concerns, please feel free to call us:1-866-528-0577, [email protected]
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