Released on = April 11, 2006, 5:01 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 - Microsoft Great Plains: Large
Scale Implementation
Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, Solomon and CRM are
coming up to satisfy ERP needs for large corporation, including multinationals.

Press Release Body = Alba Spectrum Group, USA/Canada: 1-866-528-0577,
1-630-961-5918, Europe: +44 20 8123 2580, +45 36 96 55 20, Mexico: 52-55-535-04027,
Brazil: 55-11-3444-4949, help@albaspectrum.com skype: albaspectrum
Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 - Microsoft Great Plains: Large Scale Implementation
Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, Solomon and CRM are
coming up to satisfy ERP needs for large corporation, including multinationals. In
this article we will be describing Microsoft Great Plains as the MRP platform,
fitting to multiple industries and business niches: aerospace, defense, textile,
pharmaceutical, healthcare, constructions, mining, services, distributions &
logistics, wholesale & retail, public sector, chemicals, oil & gas, finance,
brokerage, etc. We'll try to give you orientation and set realistic expectations if
you are CIO for large publicly traded company and looking for reasonably budgeted
solution.
. Technical versus Functional implementation. The trend of our new post-recession
era is biased toward technical implementation. If you look back to 1990th Clinton
golden days - when we would say huge number of CPA-oriented businesses were
realizing and implementing mid-size and large accounting applications. Today -
accounting department team is comfortable with generic ERP interface and needs
minimal training. Usually we train IT people and they in turn provide Great Plains
interface and reporting training to the end users, or end users attend online
training to get advanced skills in the application interface.
. Technical Customization & Modification. Well - if you remember old-good-days SAP,
PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, Oracle ERP systems implementation - you would agree that they
required a lot of programmers and developers participation. The same is applicable
if you look at Microsoft Great Plains - however we need to make some remarks,
related to our new time. First of all - Developers are mow concentrated in the
development centers, dispersed across the USA and especially internationally in
so-called offshore zones: India, Philippines, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine. We are not
talking about China here, because Great Plains is not very popular over there. So,
normal situation should be when your have nation-wide consulting company here in the
States with regional project managers and Great Plains Dexterity, VBA/Modifier,
Integration Manager, eConnect, Crystal Reports, VB.Net and C#.Net developers in Sao
Paulo, Moscow or Manila.
. Remote Support. Nowadays technology tries to move us toward the ideal world when
you as end-user in Denver could be supported by consultant or developer in Brazil
through web session, remote desktop connection, VPN, Skype, VOIP, or other tool.
The only requirement is fast internet connection from your and technician side -
which is catching up very quickly.
. Multinationals. Multinational corporation has to deal with the following issues:
taxes (VAT, GST, Sales Taxes), customs fees, tax filing rules, local chart of
accounts regulations (France, Russia), localizations - ERP application should be
localized - all the screens should be in local language: Chinese, Spanish,
Portuguese, Russian, French, German, Polish. Microsoft Great Plains is localized
for South America, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Middles East (Arabic
language support), Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria and central Africa
About Alba Spectrum Technologies. Alba Spectrum Technologies is joint venture of
several IT and business consulting companies, now operating as single business
entity. We have local presence in the Houston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San
Diego, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, New Orleans, Minneapolis, San
Francisco, LATAM & Brazil, Germany, Russia, South East Asia and Oceania. We believe
in the coexistence of Java (J2EE, EJB, Linux, Unix), Oracle and Microsoft (.Net, C#,
VB) platforms and systems and specialize in several product lines and cross platform
integration, customization, heterogeneous report design, plus we provide ERP/CRM
systems comparison and reviews, not being committed to just on MRP platform. We also
stake on XML cross-platform data interchange to be advanced in the coming decade.

Alba Spectrum Technologies websites:
http://www.albaspectrum.com
http://www.greatplains.com.mx
http://www.enterlogix.com.br
http://www.ronix-systems.de


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Contact Details = Alba Spectrum Group, USA/Canada: 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918,
Europe: +44 20 8123 2580, +45 36 96 55 20, Mexico: 52-55-535-04027, Brazil:
55-11-3444-4949, help@albaspectrum.com skype: albaspectrum