Microsoft Dynamics GP eConnect: Automatic Posting –Alba Spectrum
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With this small
technical article we continue our Microsoft Business Solutions products
customization rubric. To introduce the actualization of the topic, we need to
mention, that the developer tool of choice for Microsoft Great Plains eCommerce,
legacy ongoing integration (Oracle, DB2, Btrieve/Pervasive, Ctree, mySQL, MS
Access, Unidata, IBM Lotus Notes Domino, SAP R/3 or mySAP), EDI is eConnect.
With MS Dynamics GP 9.0 and newer versions eConnect is and will be more exposed
to MS Visual Studio C# and VB developer through XML web services, but up to now
(2006) – eConnect is compliant to Great Plains Dexterity processes workflow,
when transaction has three stages of its life: work, open (when you post it) and
historical (until you purge it). eConnect can create work transactions as the
rule. You can purchase multiple extensions to eConnect, allowing you to post
transactions, created with eConnect through stored procedures. Our approach is
different and in our opinion is more elegant – we use Microsoft Dexterity engine
to post transactions.
- Posting
Technology. It is very
similar to native Dexterity posting process. When batch is market for
posting (in all Great Plains modules: SOP, POP, AR, AP, Inventory, Payroll,
GL and others) - Dexterity engine checks its status (to be good to go and be
posted) and uses DYNAMICS.DIC business rules to post the batch.
- ‘Bug-Free’
Customization. If you are
customer or MBS VAR, who had to subcontract Dexterity or SQL developers to
customize Dynamics, eEnterprise, Microsoft Great Plains and now Microsoft
Dynamics GP – you probably know that bugs are kind of inevitable and very
annoying. The nicety of our approach based on the fact, that we do not
program posting itself – we deploy posting engine of Great Plains Dexterity
DYNAMICS.DIC – we just ‘submit’ the set of transactions or the batch (in the
language of GP) for posting.
- Any problem?
Well – you should understand that if we deploy Dexterity to do the job – you
should have Microsoft Great Plains workstation with our custom ad-on to be
running and ‘posting’ on behalf of your eConnect customization. If you do
not see the problem here – we’ll give you a hint – you should have one (or
multiple, if you are large corporation) additional GP user license – to
support 24x7 running GP workstation
- User Licenses.
As we mentioned above – you
need at least one additional license (however you can deploy scenarios, when
you post your eConnect originated transactions tonight, when nobody uses the
system). Great Plains has so-called concurrent users licensing base.
- Technological
Highlights. Microsoft
Dynamics GP has several options for the end users to work with the system.
The most common one is so-called ‘fat client’ (Microsoft Dexterity), plus
you can use Microsoft Business Portal or custom web interface to enable data
entry and query. Microsoft Dexterity, also referred as Great Plains
Dexterity is programming language and development environment,
architectured in 1990th to be graphical platform and database
‘independent’: the drawbacks are – it doesn’t support Unicode (Chinese,
Vietnamese, Japanese, etc)
- Microsoft
Dynamics GP Worldwide.
Microsoft Great Plains is commonly supported in English speaking countries
(USA, UK, India, Philippines, Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Australia,
New Zealand, Oceania) plus Latin America (Mexico, Venezuela, Columbia,
Argentina, Chili, Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador) and Quebec.
Great Plains is also available in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany,
Poland, however the last version for these countries will be version 9.0.
For all the other countries you should be looking for Microsoft
Navision/Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Axapta/Microsoft Dynamics AX.
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
http://www.greatplains.com.mx
http://www.enterlogix.com.br
http://www.ronix-systems.de
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,
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