Great Plains Implementation cost - approximate breakdown overview for Controller - Alba Spectrum

ERP and budgeting for it is normal process and from time totime you should undertake such adventures. Microsoft Dynamics GP MRP application istargeted to mid-size and in some cases small businesses. If you would like tocompare competition, please call to Accpac, MAS 90 and SAP Business One VARs. Ifyou are on Microsoft platform internally in your organization, you may also considerothers Microsoft Dynamics products: Navision and Axapta. If you selected GP as yourfuture ERP, then you need to budget or at least get the idea on the implementationcost. Let s try to review this topic in this small publication:1. GP software license cost. Here you have two options: Business Ready (or analogueto all-in-one user license) and Professional (where you select modules this istypically for high-end customers or large companies). Business Ready cost range isfrom 10 to 20 thousand dollars, and Professional is typically higher. If you are onGreat Plains Dynamics GP standard, then this licensing line is no longer availablefor new customers2. Annual Enhancement program cost. ERP software vendors nowadays typically chargecustomers every year and the name of this program in the case of Microsoft DynamicsGP is annual enhancement or its various blends. The difference in price isattributed to the number of included support cases per year, plus assignment ofpersonal technician for your organization. The cheapest option doesn t haveincluded support cases, and it only includes access to GP technical knowledgedatabase3. Software Implementation Consulting cost. This is very flexible in approximationas it depends on MBS implementation partners availability and competition in yourarea. Plus, it is up to your ability to select the best partner to doimplementation job. Implementation typically includes customization, integrationand reporting fragments. In our opinion, ERP implementation cost is similar orhigher than software licenses. Here we would like to separate GP implementing costfrom such an expense subject as GP data conversion4. Data migration and massage for GP. Initial data conversion might be simpleenough and limited to GL initial balances entry. More advanced data conversionscenario is importing customers and vendors records import. Again, the more heavydata conversion is in your plans, the more we would like to discourage you fromdoing so. There are numerous records in our experience, where data conversion costexceeds users training, software installation and even software licenses cost5. GP reporting. You can not typically go live without making GP report your oldtraditional way as you had it from your legacy ERP. GP reporting is separate topic,however top level of reporting review suggests you to select reporting tools: GPReportWriter, FRx, Crystal Reports, MS SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS6. GP Customization Cost. If you need to modify or in other words to involve GPprogramming scenarios, then there should be budgeted cost

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