Released on: March 6, 2008, 3:27 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum Group

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Microsoft Dynamics GP for sure has multiple third party
products and extensions, however in this article we would like for you to first come
through Microsoft Business Solutions original products and modules. If one of
native Microsoft s-commerce solutions fits you, then you should be more secured in
down the road software version upgrades, migrations, etc

Press Release Body: Microsoft Dynamics GP for sure has multiple third party products
and extensions, however in this article we would like for you to first come through
Microsoft Business Solutions original products and modules. If one of native
Microsoft s-commerce solutions fits you, then you should be more secured in down the
road software version upgrades, migrations, etc. Microsoft Great Plains is in the
transition to become partially (or maybe even fully in the future) web application,
and current name of the platform is Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal
1. BP & eCommerce. If you were on the market of Great Plains Dynamics consulting &
implementation for a while, you probably remember old good ecommerce application
eOrder for Great Plains Dynamics. Last version of eOrder was available for Great
Plains 7.5. Beginning with version 8.0, Great Plains introduced Business Portal and
Order Management module, which is in essence successor of eOrder. However you
should understand the difference in technology - OM is Sharepoint based .Net ASPX
application, while eOrder was legacy IIS ASP application
2. Order Management features. In general they are pretty close to what old eOrder
was offering: catalogue with departments and items groups, Pricelists and customer
price level pricing schemas, please review these features in GP Inventory Control
and Receivable Management modules plus in Sales Order Processing. Only one items
catalogue could be active in current time, however you can have unlimited number of
"seasonable" catalogs
3. Credit Card Payments. As Order Management just sends Orders or Invoices to GP
SOP, it doesn't process or validates credit card numbers in real time. You do it
behind the scenes in GP through CC processing extensions. Please, let's allow here
some speculations - Business Portal is mostly for Business to Business sales, not
for walk in customers at this time. Business to Business we assume that in most
cases you sell on account
4. Order Management Shopping Cart. It is reasonably intuitive. If your customers
used to place orders and track order statuses in eOrder, they should recognize new
interface and turn around to use OM without any extra help
5. If Order Management doesn't fit you. Then you should consider existing shopping
carts available on the market, plus hosting options, if you don't host internally.
If you sell to general auditorium and most of your customers are walk in public,
plus if you have very custom e-commerce logic with user logins, custom catalogs,
complicated discounting, promotions and pricing schemas, chances are high that your
case requires custom shopping cart programming, especially in connecting to your
back office ERP - Great Plains. Please check with use first.


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