Alba Spectrum is announcing its plans to begin demo Business Portal 10.0 to ourexisting and potential customers in August September 2007. It was not a bigsecret, that former versions of Business Portal for Great Plains, such as 3.0 and2.5 had limitations in allowing you, software developer to modify existing businessportal applications, such as HR & Employee Self Service, Order Management,Requisition Management. With version 10.0 BP enables you to use Web Services forMicrosoft Dynamics GP backoffice integration. In the past, not sure if somebodyused this techniques you could create ASPX .Net application in Visual Studio 2005(C# OR vb.NET), where you interact with GP database and object via eConnect and thenintegrate this .Net application into MS Dynamics GP Business Portal. This approachwould have certain known restrictions, however to some extent it should beconsidered as doing its job.Business Portal highlights. For those, who are new to BP implementation: Requisition Management. This module is successor of former eRequisition. Requisition Management is now BP module and you have to purchase Business Portaluser licenses to get sufficient number of RM users (about $40 per user) HR & Employee self service. If you have concerns of cost of mailing payrollchecks direct deposit info to your employees BP does the job by secured web lookupvia Employee Self Service module Notifications. Email notifications were lagging competition in BP 3.0, we need tofurther research 10.0. Competitors, Ariett for instance were offering notificationin HTML format with hyperlink to the Requisition Approval (in the case of ReqNetmodule) for decision maker, allowing her/him to bypass the necessity to login intoReqNet through Active Directory security realm
Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.comhe lp@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving GP customers in Texasand Illinois: Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Naperville, Aurora, Warrenville, Darien,Lisle, Joliet, Romeoville, Plainfield, Hinsdale, Morris, Ottawa, Sugar Land,Richmond, Rosenberg, Katy. USA/Canada remote support is limited only by your websession access restrictions: Arizona, California, Florida, New York, Michigan,Indiana, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico, Ontario, Quebec, BritishColumbia, Vermont, Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado.

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