Released on = October 6, 2006, 4:34 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Microsoft Dynamics GP advanced Integration Manager
techniques: VBA scripting, advanced ODBC queries, translation

Press Release Body = Alba Spectrum Group: 1-866-528-0577, or email:
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Microsoft Dynamics GP advanced Integration Manager techniques: VBA scripting,
advanced ODBC queries, translation

Integration Manager itself is often considered as end-user tool. However it is also
powerful in custom integration, and here we would like to give you some directions
and highlights. Before coming to technologies, we should tell you that integration
manager integration validates GP business logic and so is the most reliable and
probably in many cases preferable way. In some cases, IM performance might not be
sufficient (when you move to GP thousands of transactions every hour, for example),
however as IM will be rewritten in eConnect - its performance should suffuse such
challenging data feedings as well
. Text documents. When you need to import report-like text file, containing for
instance AP invoices with line items, here you need to design advanced ODBC queries.
One query will be providing Invoice header, the second one will be giving Invoice
lines or items. ODBC has some restrictions, it is not full-featured SQL
environment, however it supports select with such clauses as where, group, etc.
. VBA scripting. Yes, it is still valid for version 9.0 of Dynamics GP. VBA
scripting allows you to do such advanced things as make ODBC connection to
cross-platform: Oracle DB, IBM DBII, Pervasive SQL, Ctree/Faircomm, Progress, etc,
get info from there and apply business logic to incoming data, based on the
cross-platform SQL query
. Translation. When you accept source field as incoming data, you may decide to
translate incoming value to what it has to be in GP. Look translation feature for
the field. Translation values could be even copied from Excel table
. Before Document Script. This scrip will allow you to reject text lines, that are
line feed, carriage return, etc. It is helpful when you are importing data from
text reports, produced by one of your legacy systems
. Spoke and Hub ERP model. You may have situation, when your headquarters uses GP
and subsidiaries non-Microsoft MRP platforms, such as Oracle Financials/eBusiness
Suite/Applications, SAP Business One, Microsiga, Peachtree, MYOB, SAGE, MAS 2000,
etc. In this case IM may help you with data consolidation. Typically you need GL
level consolidation. IM can process IDE type of file or even structured report
(with VBA scripting and advanced ODBC queries)
. Beyond Integration Manager. If you are comfortable with .Net, C#, VB, XML Web
Services you can program advanced integration with eConnect - feel free to use
Microsoft Visual Studio.Net

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