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Posted on December 11, 2008 by Andrew Karasev | Posted under Software
Dynamics GP Customization: Great Plains Software Development overview for IT
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1. Great Plains Dexterity. Most of the add-ons for GP (supported by GP ISV VARs) are programmed in Great Plains Dexterity or new name is Microsoft Dexterity. Dex allows you to intervene into Great 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 you can do in the sense of Dynamics GP modification, including new product creation. However Dexterity is not really simple and requires professional Dexterity programmers to do the coding. In Dexterity customization project, especially when you are altering GP logic substantially, please be ready to expect the budget, comparable to initial Great Plains software purchase 2. eConnect. This Software Development Kit opens GP for integrations with your peripheral 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 Visual Studio programmers with some excurse to SQL stored procedures and architecture to be able to begin eConnect programming turn around in a week or so 3. SQL Stored Procedures as integration option. If you are on older version of Great Plains Dynamics: 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, or even earlier, or if your integration needs are very modest - you have SQL Stored procedures and scripting as integrating option. If you are on Great Plains Dynamics GP version 9.0 or 10.0, we would like you first to review eConnect - as likely it will do most of the integration job for you in its encrypted SQL stored procedures 4. Integration Manager, VBA with Modifier. There are additional options, especially when you have VBA programmer in staff. In this case you can alter GP Integration Manager logic with VBA scripts. VBA and Modifier is build upon OLE Server technology and might be considered as a bit obsolete technology, but it still does the job About The Author: Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum - we are the leaders in Great Plains customizations USA and Canada nationwide with local service in Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta. 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com, http://www.albaspectrum.com. Please visit our information portal Pegas Planet: http://www.pegasplanet.com. We have customers in the following states and territories: Quebec, California, New York, Virginia, Illinois, Texas, Florida, Colorado, Utah, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Louisiana, Arizona, Ontario, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Philippines, Montana, Iowa, Oceania, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America, Poland, Russia, Lithuania |
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