Released on: September 22, 2008, 2:59 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum LLC

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: For mid-market ERP and MRP application, such as Microsoft
Dynamics GP there is relatively strong, but maybe a bit narrow customizations and
modifications market, where projects are spread across the USA, Canada, Australia,
UK, Mexico and Central America.

Press Release Body: For mid-market ERP and MRP application, such as Microsoft
Dynamics GP there is relatively strong, but maybe a bit narrow customizations and
modifications market, where projects are spread across the USA, Canada, Australia,
UK, Mexico and Central America. This means that having GP Dexterity developers in
consulting staff is probably impractical, as it is not always possible to provide
full workload and if programmed is used only on the case by case basis, then her or
his software development experience maybe weaker than for the programmer working in
centralized Great Plains Dexterity Software development factory. We would like to
review Dexterity development projects and specialization in this small publication:

1. GP Dexterity overview. This software development environment was specially
created for Great Plains Software Dynamics ERP project in earlier 1990th as the
shell written in C programming language. Dex has its own scripting language
Sanscript which is somewhat proprietary. When Microsoft purchased Great Plains
Software, Dexterity was enriched by such instruments as COM object call procedures,
direct SQL stored procedures calls, etc.

2. Dexterity customization examples. The simplest Dex customization is Dex trigger,
where if something happens with one of the fields on the form, or in the scrolling
window, Dex trigger automatically updates mirroring record in the custom Dex table.
More sophisticated customizations create Dex custom window, which could be called
from GP workstation interface and work with existing and newly created custom GP
tables. Also Dex can modify existing GP windows. One of the most popular GP
windows in Sales Transaction Entry screen. One of the most popular GP tables,
involved in customizations are: SOP10100 – Sales Document header, SOP10200 – Sales
Document Line, IN00101 – inventory item master

3. Dexterity versus eConnect. eConnect is open to Microsoft Visual Studio C#, VB
developers, who are familiar with MS SQL Server stored procedures and SQL Server in
general. eConnect, in essence imitates Great Plains Dexterity logic in its
encrypted SQL stored procedures to do similar job as Dex, and initially it was
dedicated to ecommerce web developers to integrate eCommerce web sites with GP SOP
and Inventory modules. eConnect is very popular tool, it lacks sutomatic batch
posting logic, where you need to deploy Alba Spectrum Posting Server

4. Great Plains Software Development Factory. This centralized facility is
dedicated to GP Dex, eConnect and generic Great Plains Integration projects. This
facility also includes Great Plains Remote Support call center


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Contact Details: Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum, LLC, http://www.albaspectum.com,
help@albaspectrum.com, 1-866-528-0577, serving Great Plains Dynamics GP community
since 1994. Please visit our information portal Pegas Planet:
http://www.pegasplanet.com. GP, SAP B1 local service in Chicago, Naperville, San
Diego, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas. We specialize in ERP remote support and we cover
the whole territory or the USA, Canada, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, Pacific,
UK, Australia, New Zealand. US States covered: IL, CA, FL, WA, DC, NY, MI, PA, AZ,
TX, LA, GA, HA, IN, WI, AL, KA, IO, NV, NM, CO, SC, NC, DE, MA.