Released on: October 26, 2008, 1:34 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum LLC

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Microsoft Dynamics GP, or how it is and was known Great
Plains Dynamics is available for certain number of foreign countries, especially
where English language is in use: UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Oceania, South
East Asia, South Africa.

Press Release Body: Microsoft Dynamics GP, or how it is and was known Great Plains
Dynamics is available for certain number of foreign countries, especially where
English language is in use: UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Oceania, South East
Asia, South Africa. Also in Canada it is supported for Quebec in French and in
Central and South America plus Caribbean it is supported in Spanish. From time to
time we see the situation, when multinational corporation in USA, having GP as
corporate ERP and MRP is in need to deploy limited version of Great Plains for its
international subsidiaries. In this small publication we would like to give you
practical highlights:

1. ERP localization in foreign country dilemma. If your subsidiary of branch has
intensive operations, where such issues as paying Sales or VAT taxes, government
reporting filing, local audit is an issue, then you should be aware that GP, if it
is not localized for the country will not cover your needs. We found it practical
to recommend localized ERP for midsize business. For example, let's take Brazil,
where Great Plains is not localized and such Microsoft ERP packages as Navision and
Axapta might be too heavy for being implemented. We recommend SAP Business One
Brazilian implementation with integration to Great Plains in US headquarters. The
importance of localization seems to be higher for larger country, such as Brazil,
India to give you example, for smaller countries GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles) may take a rule over local peculiarities

2. Great Plains in the country where language is not based on Unicode. These
countries are Brazil, most of Europe, Africa where alphabets are generally based on
Latin. If this is your case Great Plains will do the job, if there is no concern
about paragraph above. However there are few technical challenges. First, your
local language might use collations (accents, or other Latin characters
modifications). You can't just add new company database for Lithuania for example
and assume that it will work. You need special tricks, usually attributed to the
fact that Great Plains Dexterity (or GP shell and customization engine) is written
in C programming language, where collation support was limited in the time of Dex
invention back to early 1990th.

3. If your language is based on Unicode. Then you have to deploy characters
translation utilities, available from Microsoft or few other software development
firms. Here we are talking about Chinese, Korean, Thai, Arabic and similar
alphabets.


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Contact Details: Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum LLC, help@albaspectrum.com,
http://www.albaspectrum.com, 1-866-528-0577 , Great Plains, VAR, Partner and
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Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, Houston. We also have Dexterity
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