| Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP or formerly known as | | | | programmers to begin coding in Dexterity overnight or |
| Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise accounting, | | | | even over couple of months. Dexterity also is |
| logistics, manufacturing, sales order processing, | | | | dependent on Great Plains tables and screens |
| purchasing, MRP, warehouse management application | | | | structure, so our opinion is simple – subcontract |
| fits to the majority of companies in USA, Canada, | | | | Dexterity customization project to your Great Plains |
| Mexico, Central and South America. In this small | | | | Technology Partner |
| publication we would like to give you sort of Dynamics | | | | |
| GP modification orientation session, assuming that you | | | | 2. Dynamics GP eConnect. Initial remark |
| are technology oriented IT specialist, who is supporting | | | | on eConnect – prior to thinking on eConnect |
| Great Plains internally. Before we jump into GP | | | | programming, consider upgrading Great Plains |
| programming world, please note that Great Plains | | | | Dynamics GP to version 10.0 or at least 9.0 – |
| doesn’t support Unicode characters: Chinese, | | | | eConnect was introduced for Dynamics GP 7.5, |
| Korean, Japanese. Plus, it depends on SQL Server | | | | however you should allow some time for GP |
| collaterals and accents, so in order to translate Great | | | | customization tools to mature. eConnect is C#, |
| Plains screens to such languages as Lithuanian, | | | | VB.Net and SQL programmer friendly, you have to be |
| Russian, Latvian – you will need to install SQL | | | | familiar with Great Plains objects: Customer, Vendor, |
| Server with appropriate collation. Now to the topic: | | | | GL account, SOP Invoice, POP Purchase Order, |
| | | | | Payroll Employee, Customer Address, etc. eConnect |
| 1. Microsoft Dexterity, formerly known as | | | | to some extent replicates Great Plains Dexterity |
| Great Plains Dexterity, it is the shell, written in C | | | | business logic, however it does it in more Object |
| Programming language, which in turn has its own | | | | Oriented Programming manner |
| Sanscript scripting language and Software | | | | |
| Development Environment. Dex allows you to | | | | 3. SQL Scripting for Dynamics GP Great |
| integrate your add-on into Dynamics GP security realm | | | | Plains. It is certainly a temptation for SQL coder to |
| as well as User graphical interface. Dynamics GP | | | | begin GP integration project in direct SQL insertion |
| Dexterity is not open source programming language, | | | | statements. We respect this and admire your brave |
| so you should not expect to turn your own in-house | | | | aspiration. |