Released on: March 4, 2008, 5:49 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum Group

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Microsoft Dynamics GP has very robust Sales order Processing
module, which is typically the subject for e-commerce integrations, and in this
small article we would like to review the possibilities.

Press Release Body: Microsoft Dynamics GP has very robust Sales order Processing
module, which is typically the subject for e-commerce integrations, and in this
small article we would like to review the possibilities. Microsoft Business
Solutions promotes and primarily supports Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal
Order Management module, which has such nice features as active directory user login
and security, Sharepoint based shopping cart and others. Let's come down to details
and options:
1. Dynamics GP Business Portal 10.0. We recommend you to get demo on this product
or simply review it internally first, prior to looking to other solutions and third
party extensions. BP has such features as Microsoft Sharepoint shopping cart, GP
based catalogue, pricing based on GP Inventory Item price list and customer price
level. If you have walk in customers, you can create walk in customer account in
Great Plains and map all anonymous customers to it
2. BP flexibility. At this time, you can change such features as your company logo
and look and feel type of design features for BP, however you probably should not
try to customize existing BP business logic. In the past, if you used eOrder, even
there, in ASP application, you was discouraged to change ASP pages and rather stay
with standard logic, however we know multiple cases where customers simply altered
eOrder in Visual Interdev environment
3. Beyond Business Portal. If you feel that BP is too expensive or it doesn't do
the job as you need deep custom features, please consider to host your shopping card
with known vendors: eBay, Amazon, you name it! Then you deploy eConnect or GP
Integration Manager to integrate your Sales Invoices with GP. Known vendors
typically have pre setup applications, where you can choose the options, and
typically you have the same scenarios as with Business Portal - if they do not
provide something like customer specific price levels or customer specific items
catalogs, then you should look for your own application, built from scratch
4. Building it from scratch. Well, it may be not as bad as it sounds to you on the
first hearing. Shopping cart you can purchase on the market in the form of C# or
VB.Net module, then your web developers will integrate it into your ecommerce
website


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