Great Plains Installation: overview for IT professional

Microsoft Dynamics GP installing process is straight forward and simple if your company deploys versions 10.0 or 9.0.  If you are still on earlier version or on Pervasive SQL or Ctree: 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5 or 5.0 ? then installation requires either to be done by professional consultant or GP support person should be available on the phone during installation phase

Version 8.0 is also relatively simple, however we heard some complains on ODBC connection creation.  Let’s review installation phases:

1.       New Server Installation.  This is when you are coming through implementation process.  It is very unlikely that you do it in-house ? GP requires professional consultant for initial installation, data conversion and implementation

Great Plains Customization Overview or how to modify Dynamics GP

Microsoft Dynamics GP should be considered as ERP technical platform, which is open for software developers through such technologies as SQL Stored Procedures, Microsoft Dexterity, Extender, VBA scripting and Modifier, SRS, Crystal Reports, GP Integration Manager, MS Visual Studio SDK, eConnect, GP Report Writer to name the most popular

If you are programmer, who just got the project to alter or extend GP business logic, you need to review and compare modification instruments to select the best fit.  Let’s review popular customizations:

Great Plains Small Business Financials Upgrade overview for Consultant

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

It also has FRx reporting, version 6.7 is distributed with latest SBF.  As Small Business Financials is for small businesses, it is often common that they do not upgrade to the new version and even skip one or two versions.  In this small article we will consider upgrade scenario from version 6.0 to 9.0:

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