Recovering Microsoft Great Plains Customization tips for IT Director
By Andrew Karasev
Alba Spectrum Technologies
1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918
help@albaspectrum.com
Remember nice and
prosperous Clinton era? When you implemented innovative those old days
accounting application Great Plains Dynamics. And did a lot of customizations
to fit your business requirements precisely. You still remember the names of
consultants and programmers who did the job and probably the name of the company
Great Plains reseller in your business metro. This company more likely
doesnt exist in the same form either closed the doors or merged and
transformed to something else. When you tried to contact former programmers
they more likely nicely let you know that they do not do this any more they
got completely different job and profession. Great Plains Software was acquired
by Microsoft and not part of Microsoft Business Solutions. In old good days
Great Plains Software was taking care of popularizing its customization and
growing Great Plains Dexterity programming expertise. Nowadays Microsoft
Business Solutions has more concerns on merging all its ERP applications: Great
Plains, Solomon, Navision, Axapta and making them run together as a set of
modules (project Green).
- Dex Programmers
Pool. Well, you may say anyway
lets place ad and look at five Dex programmers to choose from and make an
upgrade to our really advanced customization for Great Plains Dynamics on
Pervasive SQL. Well move it to Microsoft Great Plains on MS SQL Server
2005. In about month you may realize that nobody actually replied to your ad
and you got only couple of Indian offshore development companies general
offers to contract them software development you might need. Where are all
the local Dex programmers. The answer is they more likely do not exist
anymore
- Great Plains
Customization Partners.
Programmers were laid off and transformed their career to something else.
Dexterity programmers still exist but they had to move and get a job with
nation-wide Microsoft Great Plains Customization Partner. The same should be
said about Great Plains Modifier/VBA, Continuum for VB and Delphi,
ReportWriter and Great Plains Integration Manager VBA programmers. These
technologies, especially Dexterity source code programming and require
substantial dedication. In some cases these people become project managers
and lead offshore development force
- Offshore Developers.
Even in the time of legendary Great Plains Software a lot of third party
modules were programmed and designed in
Philippines if you
remember Match Data Project Accounting this company was purchased by Great
Plains Software (interesting enough that the rival was Intellisol
International Australian based company, later on moved to Fargo in hope of
the luck). Then Great Plains subdivision was transformed into Microsoft
Business Solutions Philippines and then closed around 2002. Nowadays the best
Dexterity source code programming pool is concentrated there and in
Australia. You may ask how about tradition offshore places, such as India
yes you can find a lot of MBS development companies in
India, but in the case
of Great Plains they might be short of Dex source code programming expertise.
- How do I recover my
Dex custom piece? You should in
our opinion look for inexpensive nation-wide Great Plains customization
partner, who has Dex project managers and offshore developers.
You can always appeal to
our help with your customization upgrade or modification, we use regional
project manager and developers in Philippines and Brazil! If you want us to do
the job - give us a call
866-528-0577 or
630-961-5918!
help@albaspectrum.com
Andrew is Great Plains
specialist in
Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ) Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Microsoft
CRM Partner, serving clients in
California, Minnesota,
Illinois, Washington, Florida, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia,
Louisiana, Texas, Canada, UK, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Russia