Released on: March 3, 2008, 3:36 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum Group

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 has higher reliance on such new
Microsoft technologies, as SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS, Sharepoint with its
famous workflow (competitor to traditional Lotus Notes workflow) and of course
eConnect

Press Release Body: Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 has higher reliance on such new
Microsoft technologies, as SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS, Sharepoint with its
famous workflow (competitor to traditional Lotus Notes workflow) and of course
eConnect (this is rising star in GP software programming and e-commerce
development). If you was GP IM user or developer for earlier versions, you probably
remember that IM required GP user workstation to be up and running (and so taking
extra precious user license in system manager), plus all the forms got to be closed
in IM GP instance, and this is understandable as Integration Manager deployed OLE
server technologies (GP workstation was serving as OLE application server). And
additional complication was related to the fact that you had to login to the
specific company to do integration, IM could not switch companies automatically.
All these restrictions were gone with the appearance of eConnect connector for
Integration Manager 9.0 and 10.0
1. eConnect technology stack. There is no magic behind the scenes about eConnect -
you can read nice pile of whitepapers and technical documents about eConnect
technology, but in the beginning of the chain you see traditional and old known SQL
encrypted stored procedures. These stored procedures replicate and probably improve
GP traditional Great Plains Dexterity business logic. In some cases they are Dex
following and do it in SQL cursors, in other cases they use SQL aggregated logic,
such as Select, Insert into and similar constructions. If you look at Dexterity
performance restrictions (Dex is C programming language written shell and so it in
turn is two layers architecture and it is by its nature a bit slow). And consider
these facts about Dexterity, you could trust us, that eConnect does job a way faster
than Dexterity based old Integration Manager connectors
2. IM and eConnect. Microsoft Dynamics GP IM introduced new connectors, now you can
deploy original eConnect connectors and get performance boost. If you are IM
manager consultant, who used to consult for older versions: 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.5,
please remember this important change - eConnect IM integration integrates to
dedicated GP company and so database
3. VBA scripting. Even if you are using eConnect connectors for Integration
Manager, you still can deploy traditional VBA scripting techniques to manipulate
integration: Before Integration, Before Document, etc.
4. Traditional IM connectors. At this time Microsoft Business Solutions keeps
traditional OLE integration connectors in and, considering this nice fact, you can
still seamlessly upgrade IM from earlier versions (however we discovered the fact,
that if you are on version 7.5, you can't just follow upgrade wizard, you have to
upgrade in two steps with intermediate version upgrade


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