| If you are in the phase of new Corporate ERP | | | | sort of luxury add-ons (as you would like o be |
| selection, business processes mapping and if your | | | | conservative in purchasing licenses for something that |
| company is in the mid-market by its size, we | | | | you may use very rarely or maybe never) |
| recommend you to review Microsoft Dynamics GP ( | | | | 3. Dynamics GP 10.0 evaluation installation known |
| formerly this Accounting, MRP and ERP application | | | | issues. As OEM Dynamics GP CD was issued in the |
| was known as Great Plains Dynamics, eEnteprise and | | | | time of Windows XP Service Pack 2, if you are on |
| it had some common features with its earlier DOS, | | | | Service Pack 3, or if you deployed Microsoft Office |
| Windows and Mac application Great Plains | | | | 2007, you may need to review work around on how |
| Accounting). Microsoft Dynamics GP is part of | | | | to install Dynamics GP 10.0 Workstation, please, review |
| Microsoft Dynamics family together with AX (former | | | | this articles: and call us for downloading |
| Axapta), NAV (former Navision), SL (Solomon), RMS | | | | DexSkipDotNetCheck.mst and skipdotnetcheck.ms |
| (Microsoft Retail Management System), CRM. | | | | 4. Dynamics GP Presentation. If you need Executive |
| Dynamics GP has pretty robust Distribution and | | | | demo or technology related presentation, we are more |
| Logistics set of modules: Inventory Control, Sales | | | | than happy to provide it to you, assuming that you are |
| Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing, and | | | | representing company management team or IT |
| others. It also is good fit for mid-size nonprofit | | | | decision making group. If you are university or college |
| organization with Grant Management Module (based | | | | student, we recommend you to work with your college |
| on Analytical Accounting) and other modules. Project | | | | IT group first to get access to MSDN and download |
| Accounting module covers Project organization needs | | | | and install Dynamics GP evaluation - this should be |
| with sophisticated budgeting and detailed profit and | | | | good help for ERP, MRP, EDI, Accounting Application |
| loss tracking by project slices. For those of you, who | | | | study course. If you are student , please note that at |
| is involved in light or heavy production, GP has | | | | this time, 2009 and 2010 we are not offering internships |
| Manufacturing Suite with good fit for Discrete | | | | and summer projects, we apologize for inconvenience, |
| Manufacturing (if you are in large food and meat | | | | we recommend you to call to Dynamics GP Partners |
| processing or another Discrete manufacturing business, | | | | who are publicly owned |
| please consider Dynamics AX Axapta first, as | | | | 5. Situations where we do not recommend Dynamics |
| Microsoft Business Solutions positions AX for process | | | | GP as Corporate ERP. If you are looking for ERP |
| manufacturing). If you in scheduling engineers or | | | | solution for your overseas international subsidiary, |
| technicians service oriented business - consider GP | | | | please be aware that GP is localized in English |
| Field Service Suite, also referred as Service | | | | speaking countries: USA, Canada (including French |
| Management Suite. OK, let's now move to probably | | | | Canadian version for Quebec), Australia, New Zealand, |
| the question why you are reading this article: | | | | UK, South Africa, Pacific, South East Asia (where |
| 1. Where to download Great Plains Dynamics GP | | | | English is official language of business), and Spanish |
| evaluation version? In mid-size and large | | | | speaking Latina America: Mexico, Central America, |
| organizations, where you are Microsoft oriented | | | | Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Colombia, |
| (versus Java, Oracle, Linux, Unix oriented), you typically | | | | Venezuela, plus English and Spanish speaking |
| have MSDN subscription go to Subscriber Downloads | | | | Caribbean: Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Cayman |
| and Product Keys, then Microsoft Dynamics and | | | | Islands, etc. If you are looking for ERP for such |
| download current Dynamics GP version 10.0 (as we | | | | regions as Brazil, China, Continental Europe, Russia, |
| are writing these lines in September 2009). These | | | | Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Republic of Georgia, |
| CDs are the same as the ones used in production | | | | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Baltic States, Japan, Korea - |
| installations, however in production installation you have | | | | Dynamics GP is not localized and in case of UNICODE |
| Dynamics GP registration key, which is valid for your | | | | language (hieroglyphs) - you cannot even translate GP |
| Company name, and usually you have to be on | | | | screens to local language due to Dynamics GP |
| service pack or patch level. If you do not have | | | | Dexterity restrictions. If GP is not localized for |
| MSDN subscription, please email us or give us a call, if | | | | targeted country, we recommend you first to consider |
| you are organization - we will give you access to | | | | SAP Business One (also referred as SB1) or |
| download Dynamics GP CDs from our ftp site | | | | Dynamics AX, then you should consider other options |
| 2. Evaluation Period. As you install GP from CDs | | | | (such as popular locally coded and supported |
| downloaded in #1 - you will not have Great Plains | | | | Accounting packages, in Brazil it is something like |
| Registration Key, however you will have evaluation | | | | Microsiga, in Russia 1C Accounting) |
| period, normally 60 days (depends on version and | | | | 6. How to get help? Please, feel free to call us: |
| current Microsoft Business Solutions policies). We | | | | 1-866-528-0577, outside of USA: 1-630-961-5918 or |
| recommend you to work with Lesson Company - | | | | email us We are very technical and real Dynamics |
| Fabrikam (database TWO). If you have Microsoft | | | | GP Dexterity, SAP Business One SDK programming |
| SQL Server 2005 or 2000 Standard or Enterprise | | | | gurus. We have Great Plains Software Development |
| license, great! If you don't - you can deploy GP | | | | Factory and could support unlimited Dynamics GP |
| evaluation version on MS SQL Server Developer | | | | Customization and Programming needs. Plus we |
| Edition. In Fabrikam you will have access to virtually | | | | speak English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, |
| all GP modules and sample data, at this phase we | | | | and not only as native speaking sales folks, but as real |
| recommend you to identify the functionality which is | | | | technical consultants. |
| absolutely required, plus possibly needed and what is | | | | |