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Corporate Accounting System: Microsoft Great Plains - overview
By Andrew Karasev
Corporate ERP/MRP
selection might be tough one, especially considering very turbulent ERP world
and fierce competition between Microsoft Business Solutions (Great Plains,
Navision, Axapta, MS CRM), Oracle (Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards),
IBM (including Lotus Domino), SAP, Microsiga (Brazil, Portugal). We recommend
you, IT director of large corporation, make your home work and decide on
Microsoft or Java/EJB/J2EE platform (however you should consider vendor
dependence minimization, and stake on both with XML streams integration between
the two). In this small article we will concentrate on Microsoft Great Plains,
former Great Plains Software Dynamics/eEnterprise/Great Plains Accounting
Database Platform.
Current trends in the IT applied science are biased toward reliable and
standard database platform. If you look at such product as SAP (Abap) or
Navision (C/Side native database). This is probably reflection of the future
multiple OS harmony: Linux, Windows, Unix systems will coexist communicating
via XML (pure text) inbound and outbound streams. We'd say you should be
looking for ERP which sits in the standard database: Microsoft SQL Server,
Oracle, IBM DB2, Ingress, Sybase, Unidata. SQL is the survivor and it will
stay for a very long time. It should be possible to query your data via SQL
queries – this will make your life easier when you face integration,
customization and reporting needs. Microsoft Great Plains uses MS SQL Sever.
ERP Maturity.
Each application has its lifecycle: from inception and initial fighting for
the "place under the sun", to maturing and then slowly or rapidly declining.
Great Plains Software Dynamics, which is prototype of our days Microsoft Great
Plains was released in 1994-95 as the first Graphical Accounting/MRP
application, working on the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Plus
Great Plains
Dexterity – Dynamics platform was designed as both computer graphical platform
as well as database platform independent (to some extent of course, especially
when we talk about tuning it to the database platform for performance
reason). So, technically Microsoft Great Plains has 10 years of history and
is currently in the maturity phase.
International
Aspects. If you are in the USA
– you should know these facts about Microsoft Business Solutions. First
jewel, that was bought by Microsoft was Great Plains Software, in fact Doug
Burgum, GPS leader was old friend of Bill Gates. Few years before acquisition
by Microsoft GPS bought Solomon Software, its old and major competitor.
Currently Microsoft Solomon is targeted to Project Oriented Business –
Construction, Consulting, etc. Few years after Great Plains acquisition,
Microsoft Business Solutions purchased
Denmark
based Navision Software. Navision had long presence in the USA, especially in
the manufacturing ERP market. But, as we believe – and this is our private
opinion – Navision acquisition allowed Microsoft to gain substantial portion
of the European ERP market. We think that if you are in the USA, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, Middle East,
Latin America and your are not a construction company – then Great Plains is
good choice for you.
Industries.
Microsoft Great Plains should be considered as ERP platform ready for tuning
to your business needs and so, you should make your decision if you would
prefer customization or purchasing so-called rich-functionality ERP.
Great Plains
is the platform for the customization. It fits to all the spectrum of
industries: apparel, medical, pharmaceutical, distribution, logistics,
aerospace, defense, wholesale, metals, chemicals, retail to name a few.
Good luck with
selection, 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, Czech
Republic, Poland.
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