Released on: June 14, 2008, 5:25 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: New name for Great Plains is Microsoft Dynamics GP, current
version 10.0 as of summer 2008.

Press Release Body: New name for Great Plains is Microsoft Dynamics GP, current
version 10.0 as of summer 2008. In order to be prepared to customize Dynamics GP
you should familiarize yourself as software programmer with development tools and
their features. In this small article we would like to give you highlights on
Dexterity, eConnect, SQL stored procedures and .Net programming

1. Great Plains Dexterity, now it is referred as Microsoft Dexterity. This tool is
in essence the foundation of Great Plains as GP Dynamics was initially designed as
computer and database platform independent ERP application. In Dex you have to take
a course in Sanscript programming as well as get reasonable experience customizing
in Dexterity so-called alternate GP forms and windows. Common scenario in Dex when
you take clean Dynamics.dic file and add scripts, forms, windows, procedures,
triggers and other resources there. Please review such files as Dex.ini,
Dynamics.set

2. eConnect. If you are integrating eCommerce website or planning to enhance GP via
Microsoft Visual Studio programming, then you should invest your time in eConnect
research. This tool has set of encrypted SQL stored procedures at the end of the
way, which imitate GP Dexterity logic and allow you to create, modify or delete GP
master records, such as customer, vendor, employee, GL account, contract, project,
plus so-called work transactions: SOP invoice, POP purchase order, GL transaction,
inventory transfer or adjustment to give you several examples

3. SQL scripting. If you are considering yourself as SQL guru or very experienced
DBA, then you can experiment with SQL views (which do not do any harm as they only
select records) and stored procedures. We would like to discourage you from
overestimating such an option. Please, know that eConnect in fact already has most
of the procedures you would probably plan to reprogram; and second - eConnect was
created by Microsoft Business Solutions programmers team, where they incurred
multiple thousands of development hours.

4. GP Reports. Sometimes reporting is also classified as programming and
modification. Please review the following tools: Great Plains Report Writer,
Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS. MS Excel and MS
Access. If you need custom reports to be called from GP security realm, then you
might need to try Dexterity custom reports


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Contact Details: Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving Great Plains USA and
Canada nationwide. Local service in Chicago, Houston, Dallas, San Diego. Please
visit our information portal Pegas Planet: http://www.pegasplanet.com . If you need
custom programming for GP, we are happy to help you with Dexterity, eConnect,
VBA/Modifier, SQL Stored Procedures, Crystal Reports. We also provide instant
support to new and existing clients via web sessions