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Microsoft Great Plains eCommerce: overview for developer
By Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Business
Solutions Great Plains was designed back in the earlier 1990th as
first graphical ERP/accounting system for mid-size businesses. The architects
of Great Plains Dexterity - this is the internal mid-shell, all Great Plains was
written on, designed it to be easily transferable between graphical operating
systems (MAC, Windows, Solaris - potentially) and database platforms - initially
Great Plains was available on Ctree (both Mac and PC) and Btrieve, a bit later
high end version Dynamics C/S+ was available on Microsoft SQL Server 6.5. But
the idea was to catch or switch winning/losing database platform - nobody could
predict if MS SQL Server, Oracle or DB 2 become a dominant DB platform, like
Windows among OS. All these trade-ins for being potentially cross-platform
application make the life of nowadays eCommerce developer difficult.
eCommerce developers
were using Microsoft IIS and ASP-based Great Plains eCommerce around 4 years
ago. Today, with the move to .Net and ASPX platform, server based scripts are
replaced with .Net code behind approach and Great Plains
eCommerce should be rewritten.
Microsoft Great
Plains subdivision released SDK - eConnect which was targeted to eCommerce
developers to manipulate Great Plains objects, such as Customer, SOP Order,
Invoice, Quote, etc. What is a bit unpleasant - eConnect requires license key
and is quite expensive for small internet eCommerce sites.
Custom Stored
Procedures. Companies, like Alba Spectrum Technologies have implemented
multiple diversified eCommerce projects with Great Plains at the back end.
So, these custom stored procedures are available on the market, but they are
not packaged as eConnect and could be purchased on the individual agreement
base with Microsoft Great Plains partner.
Some Great Plains
tables structure logic is required. You usually need consultant help, however
you could try to make maximum work done at home. Tool->Resource Desciption->Tables,
re-sort by Table Group technical name, then make test transactions in Great
Plains (SOP module) and see where records go. This is how you design and test
your queries
Good luck with
implementation, customization and integration and if you have issues or concerns
- we are here to help! If you want us to do the job - give us a call
866-528-0577 or
630-961-5918!
help@albaspectrum.com About the Author 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
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