Released on = April 25, 2006, 3:03 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Corporate Accounting: Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 future
horizons - notes for consultant

Press Release Body = Corporate Accounting: Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 future horizons
- notes for consultant
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As we are writing this article - a lot of new ERP related information about
Microsoft Business Solutions products: Axapta (Microsoft Dynamics AX), Navision
(Microsoft Dynamics NAV), Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Great Plains is
published on the daily basis, especially with the advance of the so-called "Project
Green". We would like to be a bit pessimistic and toss in new ideas about future
Microsoft MRP products development and marketing positioning as we see the
development on European (including UK, East Europe: Russia, Poland, Czech Republic,
plus Southern Europe: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece), Latin American (including
Brazil, where Microsoft is starting from scratch) and Asian ERP markets.
. Microsoft Dynamics GP vs. Microsoft Dynamics AX. This is probably the question of
future positioning of these two ERPs. Axapta has modern design (the end of 20th
century), while Great Plains Software Dynamics was designed in the beginning of
1990th as Great Plains Dexterity application
. Microsoft Dynamics GP USA MRP market. This seems to be the stronghold of Microsoft
Great Plains. Microsoft Business Solutions makes its Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 the
first wave of its Project Green with the switch from Microsoft Dexterity to .Net and
Visual Studio development: C# and VB, plus the increased role of eConnect (initially
introduced for eCommerce web XML developers, now the middle tier to resolve Great
Plains Dexterity peculiarity with generic .Net development)
. Microsoft Dynamics GP European ERP Market. In Europe Microsoft Great Plains is
leaving its French, German, Spanish and Dutch positions (leaving current Microsoft
Great Plains clients to switch to Navision or Axapta). Microsoft Dynamics GP will
stay in UK, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM: Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador,
Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Salvador, Panama, Caribbean
. Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Microsoft CRM 3.0 will become the CRM frontend for all the
Microsoft Dynamics ERPs, including Great Plains, Axapta, Navision, Solomon. The most
interesting part is Microsoft CRM integration, when you can automatically move
Customers, Quotes, Orders from Microsoft CRM to accounting back end - here you have
two options: use Microsoft Great Plains CRM integration (based on BizTalk for CRM
1.2 or eConnect based integration for MS CRM 3.0 and GP 9.0)
. Oracle/Java/EJB/J2EE. Here we have to appeal to our third party programming
expertise and knowledge/experience with Oracle Financials/Oracle E-Business
Suite/Oracle Applications development and Programming
. SAP MRPs. SAP is another traditional MRP market leader. For years ago SAP
purchased Israel made MRP software application, now known as SAP Business One. SAP
Business One is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Office (what is the next step
from SAP R/3 mySAP project Mendocino with Microsoft for the next few years), plus
SBO is integrated on the Sales and Purchasing transaction consolidation level wit
mySAP/SAP/R3. In the case of SAP - you will need customization/integration partner
to help you with the above consolidation
. International aspects. Well - as you can conclude from this whitepaper and our
past publications - Microsoft Great Plains / Dynamics GP is not supported for non
English or Spanish speaking countries. In the case of Brazil/Sao Paulo/Rio de
Janeiro/Salvador - population speaks in Brazilian Portuguese. SAP Business One could
be a good spoke/hub ERP application to be consolidated to Microsoft Dynamics GP/NAV
or AX in the USA/UK/France (including Canada/Montreal/Quebec)/Germany/Europe
We are serving USA Nationwide: CA, IL, NY, FL, AZ, CO, TX, WI, WA, MI, MA, MO, LA,
NM, MN, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle,
Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Dallas, San Diego, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver,
Minneapolis, Washington, Baltimore, New Orleans, Austin, Kansas City.
About Alba Spectrum Group. 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 USA, LATAM & Brazil, Germany, 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.

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http://www.ronix-systems.de
http://www.greatplains.com.mx
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