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 Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains Reseller Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Monday, June 30, 2008 We serve Great Plains prospects and customers USA and Canada nationwide with regional offices in Chicago, Houston, San Diego, New England. Plus we are serving you via remote support and web sessions. Let's quickly review GP ERP fits1.Tools. In this small article we would like to give you hig... Great Plains VAR, consulting and development partner - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, June 29, 2008 If you are in process of identifying requirements for the next generation ERP, MRP or accounting system and you are thinking to check out and get presentation in Microsoft Dynamics GP, then you should select local, regional or nationwide GP reseller. GP software licenses are sold through VAR channe... Great Plains Reseller in Chicago - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Saturday, June 28, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP successfully serves mid-size and large companies as their accounting and for smaller organizations MBS offers Microsoft Small Business Financials. Microsoft Dynamics GP, which is current name of former Great Plains Dynamics is sold and implemented through Value Added Resel... Great Plains Reseller and Integrator - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, June 27, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP software licenses sale, implementation with business processes mapping and customization specs, reports design, initial and on-going data conversion and migration, integration with legacy systems, including EDI, precise user training and following ERP day-to-day support, also i... Great Plains Conversion: how to migrate legacy data to Dynamics GP - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Thursday, June 26, 2008 If you are implementing Microsoft Dynamics GP in your organization and you would like to do some data conversion from your old accounting or ERP application, then you should consider several levels of data migration and their feasibility. As we come through numerous data massage and migration cases... Great Plains Customization and Software Programming Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP, current version is 10.0 has a list of pretty robust modification and development tools, including Microsoft Dexterity, eConnect, SDK for Visual Studio Programmer, SQL stored procedures and views, VBA with Modifier. Plus you can deploy integration tools, such as GP Integra... Great Plains Custom Development: Dexterity, eConnect, SQL, VBA and Modifier - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP programming and software development is typical as GP ERP system itself is for wide variety of businesses: manufacturing, shipping ... Great Plains Reports Design: Crystal, SRS, MS Access, Excel, ReportWriter, Dexterity, FRx - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, June 22, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP is successor of former Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise, current GP version is 10.0. Since the time when GP became exclusively available on MS SQL Server DB platform only (since version 8.0), reporting tools for Great Plains gained new one: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting... GP Customization: popular add-ons and Dex modification scenarios - Alba Spectrum Computers | Alba Spectrum Group | Thursday, June 19, 2008 Microsoft Great Plains or current name of this mid-market ERP is Dynamics GP has various development and programming options: Dexterity, eConnect, VBA/Modifier, SQL stored procedures openness, SDK for Microsoft Visual Studio developer to name few popular. The topic is very popular as more GP MRP an... Great Plains Customization: how to Integrate Legacy Application with Dynamics GP Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Microsoft Great Plains or current ERP name is Dynamics GP has various modification tools and SDKs. Your diligence duty is to review them on the top level to understand which tool will do the best job in the specific case. Let's begin reviewing tools in brief one by one, being sort of a bit technic... Great Plains Customizations: Dynamics GP add-ons Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Monday, June 16, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP has various customization options and tools, which should fit to your specific modification need. However as typical mid-market ERP it requires tools research prior to performing custom programming. Let's quickly review the tools:1.eConnect. This is the most modern and... Great Plains Setup: Installation, Data Conversion, User Training - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, June 15, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP system is targeted to mid-size businesses, and Small Business Financials is for smaller companies. It is common norm on the MRP market, when mid-size accounting software requires professional installing, support, data migration and reports design. Microsoft Business Solut... Great Plains Programming Tools: Dex, eConnect, SQL, .Net - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Saturday, June 14, 2008 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... Great Plains Installation: overview for IT professional Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, June 13, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP installing process is straight forward and simple if your company deploys versions 10.0 or 9.0. If you are still on earlier version or on Pervasive SQL or Ctree: 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5 or 5.0 - then installation requires either to be done by professional consultant or GP support p... Great Plains Customization Technologies: highlights for software developer Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Thursday, June 12, 2008 When Microsoft acquired Great Plains Software and then integrated Great Plains into so-called Microsoft Dynamics ERP products family as Dynamics GP, modification tools became more Microsoft and .Net oriented, as you could expect. However in the initial design in earlier 1990th Great Plains Dynamics... Great Plains Implementation: Project Accounting Module highlights Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP has established set of modules to fit to the majority of business types in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Spanish speaking South America. In this small article we would like to give you features and examples of implementing Project Accounting module:... Dexterity Customization: Support, Upgrade, Recovery, Great Plains Programming - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Microsoft Dexterity or former name is Great Plains Dexterity is Integrated Development Environment and programming language (Sanscript). Current version of Microsoft Dynamics GP is 10.0 and software programmers have broader number of customization tools: eConnect, SQL scripting, Visual Studio SDK,... Great Plains Development: Dexterity, VBA, eConnect, SQL - highlights Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Monday, June 09, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP, current version 10.0 as of June 2008 is pretty flexible platform if you are looking for modifications, custom modules programming, add-ons and extensions. As many mid-size ERP GP has multiple customizing tools and you have to get some excurse into each one of them to select t... SAP Business One Pilot 1 professional user implementation: license sale and installation: Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, June 08, 2008 So far we saw multiple requests from small ERP customers would are comfortable with such technologies as Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 server, MS SQL Server 2005 and their IT people, consultants or contractors are reasonably good in understanding accounting, ERP and MRP processes. At this time, July... SAP Business One: implementing the future - version 2007A Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, June 08, 2008 SAP B1 is really innovative ERP, dedicated to small business with great ambitions: MRP, discrete manufacturing or production, CRM, advanced warehouse management and inventory (pack and ship), service contracts (including functionality for creative warranty contracts and even rentals), HR with its ab... Great Plains Autopost: Programmable Batch Posting in Ecommerce Integration - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Saturday, May 24, 2008 If you are eConnect developer, who is curious about Sales Order Processing batch posting options, this article should give you highlights. eConnect as SDK at the end of the way calls encrypted stored procedures, which allow you create, modify, delete so-called master records: customer, vendor, empl... Great Plains ERP custom programming and add-ons development - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, May 23, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP has variety of modification tools: Dexterity, eConnect, SDK for Visual Studio Developer, then SQL stored procedures should be considers as advanced scripting option. In this small article we would like to give you introduction level highlights, assuming that you are in the MRP... Microsoft Dynamics GP Autoposting Server Overview Alba Spectrum Computers | Alba Spectrum Group | Thursday, May 22, 2008 If you are integrating ecommerce web application with Microsoft Great Plains and deploy such integrating SDK as eConnect, then you should know the option to automatically post batches in GP as they are imported from your e-commerce front end. In GP, as you should know the background technology is G... eConnect Posting Extension: Alba Spectrum Autoposting Server Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 If you are ecommerce developer, who are programming in C... Great Plains Installation and Customization on Vista workstation - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP workstation is compatible with Vista, including Vista 64 bit. However if you try to install it on Vista as it is, you will be getting error message:... Great Plains Customization Tools: Dexterity, Modifier, eConnect, Auto Posting Server - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Monday, May 19, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP, or former Great Plains Software eEnterprise, Dynamics has proprietary EDI: Microsoft Dexterity. This tools really requires skilled programmer to do the job, and we do not recommend you to do dex modification on your own or try to come through Great Plains Dexterity programmin... SAP Business One ERP deployment USA nationwide - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 18, 2008 SAP B1 version 2007 is now released and ready for implementation and upgrade from earlier versions, such as 2005A. In this small publication we would like to give you some ideas on the implementation phases and what supposed to happen on each phase. Our local offices are in Chicago, Atlanta and Sa... Great Plains Automatic Batch Posting overview - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Saturday, May 17, 2008 If you know Microsoft Dynamics GP architecture, Dexterity business logic, you probably realized that standard Great Plains Integration tools, such as Integration Manager, eConnect, which are typically deployed in eCommerce integration scenarios, allow you create only so-called work transactions: SOP... Great Plains Customization Overview or how to modify Dynamics GP - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, May 16, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP should be considered as ERP technical platform, which is open for software developers through such technologies as SQL Stored Procedures, Microsoft Dexterity, Extender, VBA scripting and Modifier, SRS, Crystal Reports, GP Integration Manager, MS Visual Studio SDK, eConnect, GP... SAP B1 Business One Implementation, Software Licenses Sale USA Nationwide - Alba Spectrum Computers | Alba Spectrum Group | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 This small and mid-size business ERP deserves serious consideration as competitor to Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP and Small Business Financials, plus MAS 90 and Accpac from up-down and QuickBooks as if it is outgrown. Let us describe for you several nice features of SAP BO:1.Intuitive inte... SAP Business One Implementation: Reporting highlights - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Monday, May 12, 2008 SAP B1 version 2007A is now released as of May 2008, we expect number of new installation to grow substantially in the year of 2008 as this ERP makes its substantial progress on the small and mid-size ERP market. In this small article we would like to introduce you to now integrated with version 20... Great Plains Installation and Implementation overview Computers | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, May 09, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP, or also commonly known as Great Plains is Microsoft SQL Server database application and at the same time it has its own IDE and programming language, known as Great Plains Dexterity. Dexterity in turn is written on C as a shell. Recent versions, such as 10.0, 9.0 are tightly... SAP Business One Implementation: simplicity, flexibility - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Monday, May 05, 2008 SB1 ERP was originally designed in Israel and later on purchased by SAP as solution for small businesses. It was successfully localized for major countries around the globe and current version 2007 is available in USA since the end of April 2008. SAP BO covers broad functionality, but rather with... SAP Business One Logic and Implementation Approaches - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Thursday, May 01, 2008 SAP B1 functionality covers broad range of typical ERP topics: Financials, Banking or Bank Reconciliation, Sales and Purchases, Inventory, Bill of Materials and MRP (also referred as Production or Discrete Manufacturing), HR, Service (warranty contracts, also applicable to rental contracts), Sales O... SAP Business One Implementation Flexibility - Rentals Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 SAP B1 implementing process is really enjoyable time of business logic mapping and in some meaning possible business logic discovery. We saw custom logic programming and deployment, and then later on SB1 users discover the way of doing required logic in standard SAP BO interface and virtually aband... SAP Business One Implementation - customer specific pricing Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Monday, April 28, 2008 SAP B1 ERP is targeted to small and mid-size businesses and the question about implementing new accounting application is this - which functionality is available in standard business logic, prior to considering adding third party modules or launching in-house customization. In this small article we... SAP Business One: extending it with SDK overview for consultant Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Thursday, April 24, 2008 It is always a good advise to adopt procedures and functionality available in out-of-the-box version of any ERP application, including SB1, however it is common, when standard logic doesn't allow to automate unique business processes, in this case you have to program modified logic in Software Devel... Great Plains Upgrade technical overview, version 10.0 Computers | Alba Spectrum Group | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP or former Great Plains Software Dynamics/eEnterprise was designed as Great Plains Dexterity application back in earlier 1990th and currently it has version 10.0, which still has Microsoft Dexterity background. If you are preparing to update GP version to 10.0, please be aware... SAP Business One ISV partner selection Computers | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, April 18, 2008 When you need add-ons or unique custom programming in SB1 SDK to accommodate standard SAP BO processes and logic to your specific requirements, you should do your homework in selecting SDK modification and software development partner. It is also recommended that you involve ISV consultants into SB... SAP Business One Custom Development or SDK Programming - highlights for consultant Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, April 18, 2008 SAP B1 is becoming popular ERP and MRP in US small and midsize business accounting application software market. SAP BO software licenses cost per named full or various types of CRM users is relatively low, comparing to competitors, such as Great Plains, Accpac, MAS 90, so you should expect some ERP... SAP Business One Implementation in Chicagoland: Downers Grove, Warrenville, Lisle, Elgin Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, April 18, 2008 SAP B1 is very perspective, especially for light manufacturing, assembly and warranty contract sales, which is common for the businesses, located in DuPage, Cook counties of Illinois, or West Chicagoland. Our company specializes in SBO full cycle implementing: Sales Engineering, Software Licenses S... SAP Business One Implementation in Chicago West Suburbs: Naperville, Aurora, Plainfield Press Release | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, April 18, 2008 SAP B1 is very perspective, especially for light manufacturing, assembly and warranty contract sales, which is common for the businesses, located in Will and Kane counties of Illinois, or Southwest Chicagoland. Our company specializes in SBO full cycle implementing: Sales Engineering, Software Lice... SAP Business One B1 Discovery - implementation, executive demo, presentations, custom deployment Computers | Alba Spectrum Group | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 SAP Business One is in our opinion ERP rising star here in USA. We implement MRP, accounting, CRM applications since 1994 and we are really impressed with SB1 licenses sale, installations, business processes fitting, especially in such areas as barcoding, discrete manufacturing, warranty and rental... SAP Business One Implementation with SDK programming and custom logic overview - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 As SB1 is becoming popular ERP and MRP platform for small and medium size businesses in USA, especially with expected release of SAP B1 version 2007, we expect more SAP Business One SDK customizations will be requested. We would like to make some comment on SB1 SDK modifications and their performan... SAP Business One Case Studies and Implementation Scenarios - Alba Spectrum Computers | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, April 13, 2008 SAP B1 fits to majority of small and medium size businesses. We often see customer requirements to develop user interface custom features via SBO SDK or Software Development Kit, and later on, instead of using customization, users find the way of entering their sophisticated transactions in SB1 dir... Great Plains Small Business Financials Upgrade overview for Consultant - Alba Spectrum Recent News | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, April 11, 2008 This product in the past was introduced by Great Plains as Small Business Manager and currently it is part of Microsoft Dynamics family of ERP products. SBF is in essence scaled down version of Great Plains Dynamics with DYNAMICS.DIC - Dexterity written business logic dictionary. Current version i...
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