Released on: February 26, 2008, 3:39 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum Group

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: If you are consulting Great Plains Dynamics customers, you
probably remember old good days when eCommerce solution could be built on eOrder
module platform. eOrder was written in Interdev as ASP application, and as such
could be modified deirectly in its ASP pages.

Press Release Body: If you are consulting Great Plains Dynamics customers, you
probably remember old good days when eCommerce solution could be built on eOrder
module platform. eOrder was written in Interdev as ASP application, and as such
could be modified deirectly in its ASP pages. This customization did the job until
new version upgrade, when as part of the upgrade you had to reapply your custom
changes to eOrder Asp pages as new version update simply was wiping out old version
eOrder pages and placing new version pages on the top. Order Management module is
in essence successor of eOrder, however it is now hosted in MS Sharepoint and it is
part of Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal modules family. Let's quickly review
what it means to you if you were supporting and implementing old eOrder and now you
will have to move your customer to GP Business Portal platform:
1. Business Portal Setup. This is definitely an overhead, as you will have to read
BP administrator guide to setup your existing GP users as well as thin Business
Portal users (who do not have to be Great Plains users, which potentially saves you
software licensing money). When that work is behind you and you are now expert in
setting up Business Portal - then you are pretty much at the point of settings for
Order Management, which as similar to old eOrder settings
2. Order Management setup. Here cental part is Catalogue manegment, which has
separate program needed to be installed separate from Business Portal. If you
remember eOrder catalog management should be reasonably intuitive for you to set it
up
3. eConnect stack. Business Portal and Order Management deploy eConnect in the back
side. eConnect is the set of SQL stored procedures, allowing you to create various
Great Plains master records and transactions. This excurse may seem not really
informative, but you may expect eConnect and so, Business portal installation
problems, if you do not have the idea about eConnect architecture
4. Legacy e-commerce phasing out step by step. If your website is written in legacy
ASP pages, you should not switch to new e-commerce over night. Instead you should
consider scenario when you register your business portal Url with your domain
registrar, keeping the main web site at the same old ip address


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