Released on: December 28, 2007, 4:44 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum Group

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: If you have just implemented Microsoft Great Plains 10.0, you
probably got it as something coming naturally with the ERP product. For users, who
are familiar and using Great Plains since earlier versions, such as 6.0, 7.0, 7.5,
8.0 and even 9.0 - change in user interface is visible and probably significant.


Press Release Body: If you have just implemented Microsoft Great Plains 10.0, you
probably got it as something coming naturally with the ERP product. For users, who
are familiar and using Great Plains since earlier versions, such as 6.0, 7.0, 7.5,
8.0 and even 9.0 - change in user interface is visible and probably significant. If
you are using newest version of Microsoft Office 2007 or Vista OS - then you can
recognize GP interface similarities, when for old version user learning curve is
expected. Let's take a look at some examples:
1. Forward & Backward buttons. Look at Home, Financial, Purchasing, Sales series on
the left side of the navigation pane - if you click on one of those then Backward
button will become available to go back. These are Vista and MS Office 2007
features and looks like Microsoft is deploying similar design in Microsoft Dynamics
family of MRP products
2. No Toolbar, only drop down menus. Old good days Great Plains had concept of
Toolbar, which was just below menu line. Versions 10,0 and 9.0 do not have it
anymore and you will use drop down menu instead
3. Challenge for GP Dexterity programmer. If you are Microsoft Dexterity
programmer, this might mean nightmare for you to imitate GP 10.0 graphical
interface, however you always have the alternative to appeal to old GP interface
without modern graphic to give your GP users workable custom logic. You should also
imagine how much work was done by Microsoft Business Solutions Dexterity Development
and GP new version creation team to make these changes happen
4. Microsoft Outlook plug-in. It might be something raising questions - why do we
need Outlook to be incorporated in GP interface directly as we could have it with
our Workstations? Seriously, we expect real work around to be considered when you
deploy Citrix server or servers farm, where MS Office plug-in is probably not overly
desirable
5. GP Reporting. If you are using old-good-days SOP blank invoice form to print our
your sales invoices, you can relax and feel comfortable as RerpotWriter Dex reports
are still and so far and maybe longer there and available. Besides Report Writer,
you should get the trend that custom reports might be created in Microsoft SQL
Server Reporting Services or SRS module
6. Upgrading to GP 10.0 or currently latest version as of January 2008. If you are
on GP 8.0 or 9.0, you should apply GP 10.0 Service Pack 1, released in mid-November
2007, prior to launching Great Plains Utilities to do upgrade work
7. GP 10.0 new security model. Security was redesigned from scratch in 10.0 and it
is not compatible with earlier versions, including 9.0. If you plan to upgrade GP
from earlier versions you should consider security rights reimplementation, and as
temporary solution you could rely on security migration procedure. Known issue here
- you should eliminate spaces from the location of GP 10.0 workstation directory

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918. Serving GP customers in
Illinois, Texas, California, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, Michigan and USA and
Canada nation wide via remote support. Our service is popular in USA country side,
where you do not expect local consultants to be available and we cover the whole
country with travel onside with initial user training - then we typically save your
budget by convenient remote support, as we already are familiar with your key IT and
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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 GP customers in
Illinois, Texas, California, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, Michigan and USA and
Canada nation wide via remote support