Released on: 7, May 2006
, Author: Alba Spectrum Group
, Audience: Computers related
Alba Spectrum Group, USA/Canada: 1-866-528-0577,1-630-961-5918 , Europe: +44 20 8123 2580, +45 36 96 55 20, Mexico: 52-55-535-04027,Brazil: 55-11-3444-4949, help@albaspectrum.com skype: albaspectrumIn this small article we would like to concentrate on legacy tools, especially onsuch issues as strategic Microsoft Dexterity customization, integration, reportsupgrade and switch to the current of future customizations technologies. As youknow Microsoft Great Plains or former Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise was renamedinto Microsoft Dynamics GP and current version Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 so-called fat client still uses Great Plains Software legacy programming language or shell  Microsoft or Great Plains Dexterity Legacy Features. Great Plains Dexterity was designed on several fundamental idea,popular in the beginning of 1990th  computer graphical platform and databaseplatform independence, and logically as you might remember the stake was on Cprogramming language, as the hybrid of assembler and at the same time more genericprogramming or high level language. Obviously if you decide to stake on one  youhave to sacrifice or disregard the other. In the case of Great Plains Dexterity wesee the following problems: lack of Unicode support (making it not a good choice forinternational expansion), DEX_ROW_ID  in SQL Server database  each dexterity tablemust have this field, used by Dexterity engine internally, inflexibility inReportWriter or Dex reports, where you have to use only key-based links. Plusgraphical interface is kind of outdated  again it is based on C transferablegraphics eConnect & web services. With the progress of Project Green or now MicrosoftDynamics project, there is the potential need to resolve multiple database kernelsfor several Microsoft ERP: Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, Solomon with unifiedinterface, utilizing .Net or its successor. eConnect allows developer to manipulateMicrosoft Dynamics GP objects through programmable .Net interfaces. If you willdeploy web service envelopes then you potentially can be independent fromprogramming language and computer technologies, and so manipulate Microsoft GreatPlains business logic from your front end application of choice, includingeCommerce, EDI, J2EE, Oracle, Business Intelligence (BI), etc. Dexterity Customization Upgrade. It is probably not reasonable to spend largebudget to switching to new technologies in one step, however you should considerstep-by-step switch. We recommend you to deploy eConnect and web service interfacesas much as you can, plus try to switch reporting from Dexterity to SQL ServerReporting Services Crystal Reports. As you can conclude  Microsoft will be recommending SRS versusCrystal Reports, and you probably remember, that Crystal was the reporting tool ofchoice for older Microsoft Great Plains versions: 5.5, 6.0, 7.0 and 7.5 New Tools. Extender, Excel, Explorer and other  end-user-friendly tools. Inthis article we definitely recommend you to do your intuitive discovery, but weconcentrate on programmer approach and instruments.
Please do not hesitate to call or email us: USA/Canada: 1-866-528-0577,1-630-961-5918 , Europe: +44 20 8123 2580, +45 36 96 55 20, Mexico: 52-55-535-04027help@albaspect rum.com
About Alba Spectrum Technologies. Alba Spectrum Technologies is joint venture ofseveral IT and business consulting companies, now operating as single businessentity. We have local presence in the Houston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, SanDiego, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, New Orleans, Minneapolis, SanFrancisco, LATAM & Brazil, Germany, Russia, South East Asia and Oceania. We believein the coexistence of Java (J2EE, EJB, Linux, Unix), Oracle and Microsoft (.Net, C#,VB) platforms and systems and specialize in several product lines and cross platformintegration, customization, heterogeneous report design, plus we provide ERP/CRMsystems comparison and reviews, not being committed to just on MRP platform. We alsostake on XML cross-platform data interchange to be advanced in the coming decade.
Alba Spectrum Technologies websites: http://www.albaspectrum.com http://www.greatplains.com.mx http://www.enterlogix.com.br http://www.ronix-systems.de
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