Released on: July 10, 2008, 2:52 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Former Great Plains Small Business Manager, recent version s
9.0, Small Business Financials is in essence GP Dexterity application with similar
code base as regular Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP, but with scaled down
functionality.

Press Release Body: Former Great Plains Small Business Manager, recent version s
9.0, Small Business Financials is in essence GP Dexterity application with similar
code base as regular Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP, but with scaled down
functionality. SBF is available exclusively on Microsoft SQL Server platform and
this fact opens great opportunities for SQL programmers and consultants to fix SBF
data and program integrations. In this small publication we would like to give your
reports design highlights

1. Report Writer Reporting. Small Business Financials allows you only to change the
position of the fields, if you need to really change report design - place new
fields, add calculated fields, then you need to do it in GP ReportWriter module, and
then transfer it back to SBF in the form of Export (or package). This is pretty
much a standard practice in supporting and upgrading Small Business Financial
customers - they need to be backed by Great Plains Dynamics GP customization partner

2. Advanced Financial Analysis reporting. Yes, SBF has AFA as default and preferred
reports for Balance Sheet, P&L, Cash Flow Statement. AFA is another Dex module
which builds its reports on GP account categories

3. Crystal Reports for SBF. Here you have the opportunity and the challenge as CR
is just a tool and it doesn't give your GP report wizard. We recommend you to
familiarize yourself, if you are software developer or programmer with SBF tables
structure, this is very similar to GP. If you have MSDN subscription, please
download Dynamics GP 9.0 demo CD and install it for testing with demo company

4. SRS or Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. Similar to Crystal Reports, SRS
should be based on SQL Stored Procedures, however it gives you more freedom in
deploying ecommerce or web interface for report users

5. eConnect. This SDK is not available in standard package for Small Business
Financials. You would need to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Ready to
deploy eConnect integration and reporting functionality


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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