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Current Technology Articles
 Great Plains VAR and Reseller: software licenses overview - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum | Saturday, July 12, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP is supported by Microsoft Business Solutions through partners or resellers channel and you should expect the changes in user licensing, purchasing options, software and implementation financing. At this time, Summer of 2008, on the mid-market ERP we see the tendency to price u... Great Plains Implementation Partner with Focus in Technology: Dexterity, eCommerce Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum | Friday, July 11, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP implementing often requires integrated approach, when you have your new accounting and MRP application to continue work with legacy parts of your IT infrastructure. Imagine the scenario, when you have say Lotus Notes Sales Order Processing custom database, where you are ha... SAP Business One: Innovation tendencies in ERP design - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, May 30, 2008 If you are in the process of new small business ERP selection, implementation: business processes mapping, customization requirements, add-ons evaluation, then you should definitely review SB1, as this system has astonishing flexibility, intuitive user interface and good openness for integration and... Microsoft Great Plains Implementation cost: approximate breakdown overview for Controller - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 New ERP and budgeting for it is normal process and from time to time you should undertake such adventures. Microsoft Dynamics GP MRP application is targeted to mid-size and in some cases small businesses. If you would like to compare competition, please call to Accpac, MAS 90 and SAP Business One... Great Plains Consultant Microsoft Dynamics GP - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 If you are looking for seasonal Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP software license purchase, installation, implementation, data conversion, current business processes mapping with potentially possible business logic modification, and even moderate or major customization, our consultants are happy t... Great Plains 10.0 Visual Studio Development notes - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918 If you are eCommerce programmer and plan to dive into Microsoft Great Plains e-commerce web design and software development world, we recommend you some initial topics to consider as preliminary... Great Plains Reports: design, tools, FAQ, where to start - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP reporting is essential part of GP implementation and post production ERP support. As for typical mid-size MRP application, you should expect multiple reporting tools, especially if you think about reports genre: financial reporting, business processes specific reports, etc. A... Great Plains 10.0 Technical Notes or under the hood - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Nowadays Microsoft Great Plains or any other ERP application should be rather considered as the platform for integration of your peripheral applications: CRM, eCommerce, Custom Sales Order Processing, EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) and others. Plus of-the-shelf available business logic often... Great Plains 10.0 Installation Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com http://www.clfsolutions.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918 Alba Spectrum Group helps US and Canada businesses in GP integration, customization, user training, data migration ... Great Plains Data Conversion and Migration - Alba Spectrum Technology | Andrew A Karasev | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577 It is normal to switch over from one MRP system to another. ERP as any other computer application has its life cycle. When you switch from legacy system to Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains - one of the firs... Great Plains Dexterity 10.0 customization and programming review Technology | Andrew A Karasev | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP version 10.0 is out there and a lot of existing GP customers are in the process of version upgrade. In the case when you have Microsoft Dexterity customization or modification, you should deploy professional Dexterity developer to help you with custom logic update... eCommerce Autoposting for Great Plains Microsoft Dynamics GP - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918 If you are integrating Microsoft Great Plains with you existing e-commerce front application, you are more likely deploying Microsoft Dynamics GP eConnect. This tool allows you to create or upd... Great Plains modifications - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Each ERP system should be considered as the platform, which could be tuned to fit your company business processes through custom programming, integration, reporting and existing logic modification. Microsoft Dynamics GP isn't exception and in this small article we would like to come through typical... Great Plains Implementation in Large Corporation - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Alba Spectrum Group: http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918 In addition to traditional ERP success factors, we would like to give you specific highlights, which should allow you to support technical side of Microsoft Great Plains, minimize system down ti... Autopost for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 eCommerce - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918 Microsoft Great Plains Alba Spectrum posting server, which is built upon Microsoft Dexterity source code and allows you to deploy GP Dexterity posting engine to post SOP, POP, RM, PM, GL and oth... Your Great Plains Consultant - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 When you are thinking about implementing, upgrading or in general supporting Microsoft Dynamics GP for your organization, you should know that these services are provided through Microsoft Business Solutions channel partners. MBS can provide generic technical support, however when you are thinking... Microsoft Great Plains Integration Manager 10.0 technical notes - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP version 10.0 advanced such new technologies as eConnect in and this seems to be general trend to walk away from proprietary tools, such as Microsoft Dexterity to Microsoft specific platforms, such as .Net, COM and MS SQL Server Stored Procedures, as you know eConnect core cont... Great Plains Implementation FAQ: Financial Setup, Conversion, User Training, custom logic - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Sunday, May 25, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP implementation process is similar to other mid-market accounting and MRP products: GP partner selection and sales cycle, business processes mapping, customization design if required, reports. Then you go to the actions: Microsoft Dynamics GP software licenses purchase, GP... Great Plains ERP custom programming and add-ons development - Alba Spectrum Technology | Andrew A Karasev | Friday, May 23, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP has variety of modification tools: Dexterity, eConnect, SDK for Visual Studio Developer, then SQL stored procedures should be considers as advanced scripting option. In this small article we would like to give you introduction level highlights, assuming that you are in the MRP... Great Plains Automatic Batch Posting overview - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Saturday, May 17, 2008 If you know Microsoft Dynamics GP architecture, Dexterity business logic, you probably realized that standard Great Plains Integration tools, such as Integration Manager, eConnect, which are typically deployed in eCommerce integration scenarios, allow you create only so-called work transactions: SOP... SAP Business One Logic and Implementation Approaches - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Thursday, May 01, 2008 SAP B1 functionality covers broad range of typical ERP topics: Financials, Banking or Bank Reconciliation, Sales and Purchases, Inventory, Bill of Materials and MRP (also referred as Production or Discrete Manufacturing), HR, Service (warranty contracts, also applicable to rental contracts), Sales O... SAP Business One Implementation - customer specific pricing Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Monday, April 28, 2008 SAP B1 ERP is targeted to small and mid-size businesses and the question about implementing new accounting application is this - which functionality is available in standard business logic, prior to considering adding third party modules or launching in-house customization. In this small article we... SAP Business One Implementation Highlights Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Thursday, April 17, 2008 SAP B1 is relatively new ERP and MRP on the US and international accounting application market for small and mid-size businesses. SBO can also serve to large corporation in spoke-and-hub environment where your branch deploys SB1 with upstream integration to mySAP/R3 or in non-SAP ERP. As you proba... SAP Business One Implementation with SDK programming and custom logic overview - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 As SB1 is becoming popular ERP and MRP platform for small and medium size businesses in USA, especially with expected release of SAP B1 version 2007, we expect more SAP Business One SDK customizations will be requested. We would like to make some comment on SB1 SDK modifications and their performan... Great Plains Integration with Aspect - Restaurant Management Example Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Monday, April 14, 2008 Many mid-size restaurants, networks and even franchises deploys Aspect to consolidate Sales, Purchasing, Item Ingredients (or in essence bills of materials). Aspect also allows you to consolidate transactions from various POS terminals. Aspect in turn could be integrated with back office accountin... Great Plains Small Business Financials Upgrade overview for Consultant - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum Group | Friday, April 11, 2008 This product in the past was introduced by Great Plains as Small Business Manager and currently it is part of Microsoft Dynamics family of ERP products. SBF is in essence scaled down version of Great Plains Dynamics with DYNAMICS.DIC - Dexterity written business logic dictionary. Current version i... Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains Posting Server - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum | Monday, April 07, 2008 Microsoft Great Plains Posting Server is Dexterity customization, allowing you automatically post work batches without GP operator. Especially popular among eConnect eCommerce developersPosting Server will require GP workstation with Posting Server to be running all the time, when you need autom... SAP Business One SDK Programming and Customizations - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum | Saturday, April 05, 2008 SAP B1 is modern small business and lower mid-market ERP and even MRP, as it has discrete manufacturing and material resource planning modules, as you can expect has neat and nice modern interface and technical exposure to programmers, especially C... SAP Business One Manufacturing Implementation highlights for executives Technology | Alba Spectrum | Friday, April 04, 2008 SAP B1 is coming, and we expect high volume of new licenses sales, installations, integrations, customizations and demand for SAP BO custom reporting, especially with the release of version 2007. We already tried to give you various modules demo and presentation in our previous publications, now is... SAP Business One Implementation for mid-size business: licensing, integration, customization - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum | Sunday, March 30, 2008 When you plan to implement SAP B1 for small business, in most of the cases out-of-the-box installation with initial balances entry and following user training will do the job of placing your ERP into production. When, however you are mid-size business, where number of users is twenty or more, you w... Microsoft CRM Implementation: contract management in service organization - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum | Sunday, March 30, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is powerful and at the same time very intuitive, plus it is web based, meaning that you can run nationwide company in MS CRM. Let's review the example on how to create, budget and log time against CRM contracts. All the functionality, we are describing here is available o... SAP Business One implementation in South Carolina - Alba Spectrum Technology | Alba Spectrum | Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Alba Spectrum Group is launching full scale SAP B1 operations in SC. At this time, March 2008 we have two local customers and we have extensive practice with traditional ERP, such as Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains, where our clientele is traditionally very strong. SAP Business One is our risin... SAP Business One remote support: version upgrade, adding new company, modules settings Technology | Alba Spectrum | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Modern VPN and web session technologies allow you to receive ERP remote support and by attending the same session as your supporting technician, you can communicate on what is the problem plus contribute to problem resolution scenario. In fact, it is even better to have somebody, who supports multi... Microsoft CRM 4.0 Generic Customization, Data Conversion, Integration overview Technology | Alba Spectrum | Monday, March 17, 2008 Microsoft CRM, also referred as Microsoft Dynamics CRM has for now pretty long career path since 1999. So far MS CRM proved to be excellent solution for companies with the offices located in various business metros and needing web based coordination. MS CRM is MS Internet Explorer application, whi... SAP Business One Demos Technology | Alba Spectrum | Monday, March 17, 2008 SAP B1 is becoming a rising star on small and mid-size business sector horizons, SAP itself plans to increase number of installations worldwide to 100 thousand to the year 2010, which translates to two digits number of percentage growth per year. Alba Spectrum SBO team is very optimistic about mark... SAP Business One Demos Technology | Alba Spectrum | Monday, March 17, 2008 SAP B1 is becoming a rising star on small and mid-size business sector horizons, SAP itself plans to increase number of installations worldwide to 100 thousand to the year 2010, which translates to two digits number of percentage growth per year. Alba Spectrum SBO team is very optimistic about mark... eCommerce and Shopping Carts for Great Plains: where to start your research Technology | Andrew Karasev | Thursday, March 06, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP for sure has multiple third party products and extensions, however in this article we would like for you to first come through Microsoft Business Solutions original products and modules. If one of native Microsoft s-commerce solutions fits you, then you should be more secured... eCommerce Shopping Cart Options for Great Plains Options overview Technology | Andrew Karasev | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP has very robust Sales order Processing module, which is typically the subject for e-commerce integrations, and in this small article we would like to review the possibilities. Microsoft Business Solutions promotes and primarily supports Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal Or... Great Plains Integration Manager version 10.0 overview Technology | Andrew Karasev | Monday, March 03, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 has higher reliance on such new Microsoft technologies, as SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS, Sharepoint with its famous workflow (competitor to traditional Lotus Notes workflow) and of course eConnect (this is rising star in GP software programming and e-commerce devel \... Great Plains Implementation for Large Corporation overview Technology | Andrew Karasev | Saturday, March 01, 2008 Microsoft Dynamics GP is definitely one of the winners and breaking through ERP packages. In this article we assume that you are not small or midsize business, where accounting options are well known and openly available. Here we are giving recommendations to large corporate businesses. First of... Submit your article or press release on Microsoft Dynamics products family Technology | Alba Spectrum | Thursday, February 28, 2008 Andrew Karasev on behalf of Alba Spectrum Group, one of the leading technology media portals and nationwide consulting and software development company invites Great Plains Dynamics gurus to share their implementation, case studies, data conversion, touch support cases, ERP bugs, known issues, upgra... Great Plains eEnterprise Upgrade FAQ Technology | Andrew Karasev | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 High end version of Great Plains Software Dynamics was known under the name of Great Plains eEnterprise. In turn eEnterprise is successor of Great Plains Dynamics C/S . eEnterprise licensing concept allowed you as eEnterprise customer to purchase such advanced modules as Manufacturing, Intercompan... Microsoft CRM 4.0 FAQ: new features Technology | Alba Spectrum | Monday, February 18, 2008 At this time, February 2008, MS CRM 4.0 is in process of new implementations and upgrades from previous MS CRM 3.0. We would like to describe new features1.Multi Tenancy - allows hosting partners to provide CRM to customers without the need for separate server hardware per customer. Also enter... Great Plains Dynamics on Ctree and Pervasive SQL Support review Technology | Andrew Karasev | Friday, February 15, 2008 Current version of Microsoft Dynamics GP, successor of Great Plains Software Dynamics and eEnterprise is 10.0. The latest version, supporting old DB platforms: Ctree and Btrieve was Great Plains Standard 7.5. Due to the fact that Microsoft Business Solutions deploys annual enhancement program requ... 5 Of the Best Remote Control Toys for Kids for Christmas Technology | hbhbhb | Friday, February 08, 2008 1. Bratz Tokyo A Go - Remote controlled Car 27MHz
This car is a wonderful little r/c from Bratz that is a huge hit with the girls. They love having their own remote controlled car to play with! You can use the remote to move the car forward and back and spin it around race with the other girls and... SAP Business One Customization Market - review Technology | Alba Spectrum | Thursday, February 07, 2008 SAP Business One has about 6 years of implementation history and very robust presence in the USA, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, plus it has strong positions internationally. Considering the fact of relatively young age - the design of the system, including object model enable advanced customizati\... Microsoft CRM as Time logs for Consulting Business: integration with Great Plains - Alba Spectrum Technology | Andrew Karasev | Tuesday, February 05, 2008 This article is targeted to programmers, we are providing C... Integration between Microsoft CRM and SAP Business One Technology | Douglas Oyama | Saturday, February 02, 2008 This document contains documentation on the integration: architecture, settings, troubleshooting and redeployment highlights1.MS CRM Resides on CRMSERVER2.SAP Business One can have multiple installations and companies - integration can switch companies and send timlog to the appropriate comp... How to backup and restore Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP Company into the test database Technology | Alba Spectrum | Saturday, February 02, 2008 First of all - you should be reasonably familiar with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise manager or Ms SQL Server 2005 Management Studio - if this is the case and you know what you are doing, let's go ahead: * GP Company DB Backup is relatively straight forward: Right click on database in SQL m... Microsoft Retail Management System and Crystal Reports Technology | Divine Rigor | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Microsoft Retail Management System (MS RMS), formerly known as QuickSell 2000, is an integrated retail management software designed to help small and medium-sized retailers to automate their business processes. It runs on personal computers and can be used by practically any type of a retail environ... Oracle Financials Implementation in Brazil - consultant review, plus competition Technology | Riccardo Lanzuolo | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Among the major international ERP brands, localized for Brazilian market we should mention SAP with its recently localized product: SAP Business One, Oracle: Oracle E-Business Suite/Oracle Financials/Oracle Applications, Microsoft Business Solutions Navision (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) and Axapta (Mic... Microsoft RMS Customization - PO Items Receiving in Great Plains Technology | Luis Leung | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Microsoft Retail Management (RMS) and Microsoft Great Plains are retail and accounting/ERP solutions coming from the same Microsoft subdivision - Microsoft Business Solutions. There is often common need to do integration between the two. Despite the fact that both systems come from the same softwa...
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