Released on: September 25, 2007, 3:58 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum Group

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Great Plains ERP system is very
attractive as back office accounting application, plus you have rich functionality
of ERP/MRP business logic: Sales Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing,
Discrete Manufacturing, Payroll, General Ledger, Inventory Control. If you are
eCommerce developer, who builds your web site with MS Visual Studio.Net editions and
C#, VB and SQL scripting, you should know your options to post GP batches,
especially in SOP module directly from your e-commerce application. In this small
article we would like to address this issue in the form of FAQ dialogue

Press Release Body: Alba Spectrum Group: http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918

Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Great Plains ERP system is very attractive as back office
accounting application, plus you have rich functionality of ERP/MRP business logic:
Sales Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing, Discrete Manufacturing, Payroll,
General Ledger, Inventory Control. If you are eCommerce developer, who builds your
web site with MS Visual Studio.Net editions and C#, VB and SQL scripting, you should
know your options to post GP batches, especially in SOP module directly from your
e-commerce application. In this small article we would like to address this issue
in the form of FAQ dialogue:
1. Microsoft Dexterity Posting Architecture. Sales Order Processing module is
tightly integrated with Inventory control and it assumes that you first create
so-called work document: invoice, quotation, sales order or back order. Then you
have two options - you can post this invoice (or transfer sales order to invoice or
back order) or place it in the batch for future posting. In both scenarios posting
is something that should be done by GP operator and it is not open for automations.
This is why eConnect doesn't allow you to post GP transactions or batches
2. eConnect architecture. eConnect was specially designed for eCommerce programmer
and developers. The core of eConnect is the set of encrypted SQL stored procedures,
allowing you to create and change GP master objects: employees, customers, vendors,
GL accounts, and transactions: SOP Invoices to give you example. However eConnect
doesn't cross the border of Great Plains Dexterity limitations, including posting
the documents
3. Integration Manager options. Great Plains IM can feed documents to GP from your
legacy applications, it can also help you with EDI (Electronic Documents
Interchange). However IM is restricted to Dex architecture, the same situation as
eConnect,. Plus you should be aware that IM is currently on the way to be rewritten
in eConnect for boosting IM performance as SQL stored procedures (eConnect base) are
faster than Dexterity cursors
4. Posting Server as Extension to eConnect. Albaspectrum Posting server deploys
Dexterity native posting logic, it calls Dex posting procedures from Dex custom
module. All you as SQL or C# programmer need to do is deploy ADO.NET and place
ecommerce batches, ready for posting in custom approved batches table. From this
point custom Dex logic will do posting job

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group: http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving Microsoft Dynamics GP
Great Plains customers in USA/Canada nationwide. Local service is available in
Houston, TX: Richmond, Sugar Land, Katy, Rosenberg, Missouri City, Pearland,
Friendswood, Meadows, Mission Bend, Jersey Village; Chicago, IL: Naperville, Aurora,
Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Joliet, Wheaton, Lisle, Downers Grove, Schaumburg, Elk
Grove, Lombard, Woodridge, Darien, Westmont, Batavia, St. Charles, Elgin, Crystal
Lake. Service is also available in Houston and Dallas metros, plus internationally
in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Oceania and UK.



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Contact Details: Alba Spectrum Group: http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving Microsoft Dynamics GP
Great Plains customers in USA/Canada nationwide