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ERP and MRP systems support requires local office representation plus centralized brain in the form of Software Development Factory and technical support call center.  If your Great Plains implementation includes complex technical additions, such as customization, integration, data conversion, reports design, software developing and programming, then you should expect your Great Plains consultant and project manager to be locally available for visits onsite

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Sap B1 ERP is on the rise in gaining its ERP and MRP for small and mid-size businesses market share.  This publication should help you in your next accounting software selection, as well as in deciding on who will be your SB1 VAR or Reseller and Implementation Partner. 

When you are in software selection phase you should see SAP Business One presentation and in this demo you should identify which functionality fits your business processes and where you might need modifications.  We will give you highlights on SAP B1 software development and programming, plus integrations

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We welcome all new prospect, considering Microsoft Dynamics GP implementation, software licenses purchase, as well as existing Great Plains customers, who are looking for second opinion, especially, facing technologically challenging GP modification project

Dexterity customization, Crystal Reporting, EDI integrations, on-going data migration as well as initial historical data massage and conversion, ecommerce batches autoposting and generic shopping cart integration to GP Sales Order Processing module.  We would like to share with you the specifics of the season of 2008:

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Microsoft Dynamics GP Integration Manager is often perceived as end user integrating tool only, however if you research and try out Advanced ODBC integration, which is capable to cross DB platforms and work with heterogeneous SQL query to bring data into Dynamics GP Great Plains, then new horizons should open up for you, Great Plains Programmer and Add-On software developer

Please note, that GP IM for GP version 10.0 and newer is built and will be built upon eConnect platform, meaning breaking through Integration Manager performance issues and enabling large scale integrations with GP in real time.  Let’s try to organize this small publication in FAQ manner with bullets:

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Microsoft Dynamics GP is very popular ERP platform, which opens for you its object via such programming and software development tools as eConnect, Microsoft Dexterity, VBA and Modifier, ReportWriter, Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. 

In order to modify or customize Dynamics GP, you need to be familiar with Great Plains modules setup and business processes workflow.  In this small publication we would like to go under the hood in GP Sales Order Processing module.  Please, before continuing note, that SOP module is not the same and has in essence to relation with GP Invoicing module.  Invoicing module allows you to create only invoices and it is not supported in eConnect.  SOP allows you to create Quote, Sales Order, Back Order, Fulfillment Order, Invoice, Return with complex approval cycles, based on document types and process holds

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Microsoft Dynamics GP add-ons are often written in Great Plains Dexterity ? with new and sometimes alternative GP forms and windows where the buttons, have scripts and forms themselves have procedures and functions. 

These programming parts are written in Dex Sanscript programming language.  Sanscript is sort of proprietary scripting language, typically you can get Dex programmer from GP ISV and customization partners, you should check with your Great Plains VAR for details.  When newer Dynamics GP version is released, if you plan to update to it, you have to take into consideration Dex modification upgrade requirement.  In this small publication w would like to orient you what you could expect from technical side:

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Microsoft Dynamics GP add-ons are often written in Great Plains Dexterity ? with new and sometimes alternative GP forms and windows where the buttons, have scripts and forms themselves have procedures and functions. 

These programming parts are written in Dex Sanscript programming language.  Sanscript is sort of proprietary scripting language, typically you can get Dex programmer from GP ISV and customization partners, you should check with your Great Plains VAR for details.  When newer Dynamics GP version is released, if you plan to update to it, you have to take into consideration Dex modification upgrade requirement.  In this small publication w would like to orient you what you could expect from technical side:

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Microsoft Dynamics GP, or also commonly known as Great Plains is Microsoft SQL Server database application and at the same time it has its own IDE and programming language, known as Great Plains Dexterity. 

Dexterity in turn is written on C as a shell.  Recent versions, such as 10.0, 9.0 are tightly integrated with Microsoft Outlook, plus version 10.0 has integration with Sharepoint and SQL Server Reporting Services (or SRS).  Having said that, however we would like to inform you that installation itself is streamlined and not overly difficult.  Let’s review:

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