Microsoft Dynamics GP: Large Scale Implementation – Alba Spectrum
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 - Microsoft Great
Plains: Large Scale Implementation
Microsoft Business
Solutions Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, Solomon and CRM are coming up to
satisfy ERP needs for large corporation, including multinationals. In this
article we will be describing Microsoft Great Plains as the MRP platform,
fitting to multiple industries and business niches: aerospace, defense, textile,
pharmaceutical, healthcare, constructions, mining, services, distributions &
logistics, wholesale & retail, public sector, chemicals, oil & gas, finance,
brokerage, etc. We’ll try to give you orientation and set realistic
expectations if you are CIO for large publicly traded company and looking for
reasonably budgeted solution.
- Technical versus
Functional implementation. The
trend of our new post-recession era is biased toward technical
implementation. If you look back to 1990th Clinton golden days –
when we would say huge number of CPA-oriented businesses were realizing and
implementing mid-size and large accounting applications. Today – accounting
department team is comfortable with generic ERP interface and needs minimal
training. Usually we train IT people and they in turn provide Great Plains
interface and reporting training to the end users, or end users attend
online training to get advanced skills in the application interface.
- Technical
Customization & Modification.
Well – if you remember old-good-days SAP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, Oracle ERP
systems implementation – you would agree that they required a lot of
programmers and developers participation. The same is applicable if you
look at Microsoft Great Plains – however we need to make some remarks,
related to our new time. First of all – Developers are mow concentrated in
the development centers, dispersed across the USA and especially
internationally in so-called offshore zones: India, Philippines, Brazil,
Russia, Ukraine. We are not talking about China here, because Great Plains
is not very popular over there. So, normal situation should be when your
have nation-wide consulting company here in the States with regional project
managers and Great Plains Dexterity, VBA/Modifier, Integration Manager,
eConnect, Crystal Reports, VB.Net and C#.Net developers in Sao Paulo, Moscow
or Manila.
- Remote Support.
Nowadays technology tries to move us toward the ideal world when you as
end-user in Denver could be supported by consultant or developer in Brazil
through web session, remote desktop connection, VPN, Skype, VOIP, or other
tool. The only requirement is fast internet connection from your and
technician side – which is catching up very quickly.
- Multinationals.
Multinational corporation has to deal with the following issues: taxes (VAT,
GST, Sales Taxes), customs fees, tax filing rules, local chart of accounts
regulations (France, Russia), localizations – ERP application should be
localized – all the screens should be in local language: Chinese, Spanish,
Portuguese, Russian, French, German, Polish. Microsoft Great Plains is
localized for South America, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Middles
East (Arabic language support), Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
Nigeria and central Africa
About Alba Spectrum
Technologies. Alba Spectrum
Technologies is joint venture of several IT and business consulting companies,
now operating as single business entity. We have local presence in the Houston,
Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver,
Phoenix, New Orleans, Minneapolis, San Francisco, LATAM & Brazil, Germany,
Russia, South East Asia and Oceania. We believe in 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 platform integration,
customization, heterogeneous report design, plus we provide ERP/CRM systems
comparison and reviews, not being committed to just on MRP platform. We also
stake on XML cross-platform data interchange to be advanced in the coming
decade.
Alba Spectrum
Technologies websites:
http://www.albaspectrum.com
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