Released on: March 1, 2008, 3:51 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum Group

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Microsoft Dynamics GP is definitely one of the winners and
breaking through ERP packages. In this article we assume that you are not small or
midsize business, where accounting options are well known and openly available.
Here we are giving recommendations to large corporate businesses.

Press Release Body: Microsoft Dynamics GP is definitely one of the winners and
breaking through ERP packages. In this article we assume that you are not small or
midsize business, where accounting options are well known and openly available.
Here we are giving recommendations to large corporate businesses. First of all you
should be already over your former homework on Oracle EBusiness Suite, JDEdwards and
Microsoft Axapta. Comparing to mentioned above GP is very good competitor, coming
from the budget-oriented approaches. Budgeted doesn't mean that you are not willing
to pay, it rather means that you do not have to pay for rich ERP functionality,
which you do not have plans to use in the foreseeable future. Let's take a look at
GP strong points and potential weaknesses:
1. Microsoft SQL Server DB platform. Here you have scalability, which fits to
variety of businesses, starting from one-person operations to large corporation.
SQL Server 2005 and 2000 are very robust competitors to such established DB
platforms as Oracle, Ingress, MySQL. The nicety about modern SQL platforms is the
fact, that they are unlimited (by HD space addressing limitation, your Server RAM
and things like these)
2. Upscale GP modules. Former name of the Great Plains Dynamics suite for corporate
businesses was eEnterprise and later on Great Plains Professional. Here we would
like to briefly review such modules as Manufacturing, Collection Management, Service
Management Suite or Field Service, Microsoft CRM
3. Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal. This is new platform, which coexists in
the same information schema and is stored in GP traditional company database. BP is
Sharepoint web based application, which allows you to automate such functions as
eCommerce (BP Order Management), Purchasing (Purchasing management), HR (Employee
Self Service), Electronic Document Delivery. BP will more likely be the Microsoft
Dynamics e-commerce platform, as well as it will be substantially extending
traditional Great Plains user licensing model, where thin users (your company
employees, purchasers, extranet customers) will be incorporated
4. Various routines. Such important compliance routines as 1099 printing, W2 in
payroll, accurate State Tax calculations, based on verified delivery address are
available in GP with standard or third party logic
5. Employee Self Service. This is part of Great Plains Business Portal, module
allowing you to avoid mailing cost to paper mail your payroll direct deposit stubs
to your employees and W-2 contractors. If you implement GP Business Portal with
Employee Self Service, your insiders could simply print out their stubs from BP web
pages
6. Version Upgrades. Modern Software and MRP vendors try to keep you on the short
notice in compliance to their new version updates as well as on their annual
software enhancement programs. This is your internal decision - if you do care
about modern technologies compliance, you should decide on where to upgrade and how
many version updates to skip. We recommend you to skip one version, in the scenario
when GP has version 8.0 out and you upgrade to this version, the version 9.0 you
skip and wait until 10.0 is released and you upgrade from 8.0 to 10.0


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