Released on: October 25, 2008, 3:56 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum LLC

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Great Plains Software Dynamics and eEnterprise were popular
in Europe, prior to Microsoft acquisition of Great Plains Software, and since then
Microsoft acquired also such ERP as Navision with strong European market presence.


Press Release Body: Great Plains Software Dynamics and eEnterprise were popular in
Europe, prior to Microsoft acquisition of Great Plains Software, and since then
Microsoft acquired also such ERP as Navision with strong European market presence.
In those days of Navision purchase, Microsoft Business Solutions made a decision to
market Navision, or current name Dynamics NAV in Europe and sort of deemphasize
Dynamics GP Great Plains. However Great Plains has pretty strong presence in Poland
and UK, and taking into consideration European businesses interconnection, we could
expect Polish or British companies would have a need to connect their Eastern
European branches to their Great Plains ERP and MRP databases and reporting tools,
such as FRx, Crystal Reports, SRS. This publication is written in the form of
technical highlights:

1. Eastern European Alphabets and SQL Server collation. Eastern European languages
adopted French and Spanish approaches in the beginning of 20th century in the sense
of extending Latin alphabet characters with accents. In Microsoft SQL Server you
can pick dictionary order with collation for the server as default, plus you can
supersede these settings on the new database level and even for the specific table.
In Eastern European alphabets, such as Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Polish, Czech,
Hungarian, etc - you will find so called accents, or tiny additions to the common
Latin characters, to help reader modify the pronounce of the letter. The problem
for British and Polish Great Plains installations is default Latin (UK) or Polish
collateral which makes impossible to save different accents in your SQL database

2. ASCII table and its second register. Microsoft Dynamics GP is originally and
currently written (meaning programmed) in Great Plains Dexterity, which in turn is
the shell, developed in C programming language. C is of course partially operating
system independent, however it is lagging behind the technology, especially when you
are talking about such nuances as SQL Server DB collaterals and ASCII table
international options. In order to force Dexterity application to properly work
with the second register of ASCII table, you should consider to deploy either native
Windows XP or better Vista, as Vista is available for large selection of the
countries in Europe

3. Great Plains and Unicode. Here Dexterity is less powerful and you have to deploy
characters entry interception utilities. In Europe, however, most if not all of the
languages have ASCII and non Unicode nature


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