| Great Plains Software Dynamics, eEnterprise (in | | | | Receipts, Inventory Transfers and Adjustments, etc. |
| essence the same Great Plains Dexterity dictionary | | | | 2. Old Great Plains Professional and eEnterprise name |
| with more business logic available in its time for larger | | | | brands. America is great in doing rebranding job, |
| corporate customers). Of course both GPS and | | | | including estimation of required old brand, such as |
| Microsoft (Business Solutions) were betting on the | | | | eEnterprise and Great Plains Dynamics phasing out |
| edge of XX and XXI centuries, where ERP, MRP, | | | | time lags. If you are H1-B work permit and business |
| Accounting Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, | | | | holder, and your concentration is Great Plains |
| Point of Sale, Inventory Management and Barcoding | | | | Dynamics on Pervasive SQL, Ctree, or earlier versions |
| market will go. In the same year Microsoft acquired | | | | of Microsoft SQL Server: 6.5, 7.0 or 2000 – please |
| also European ERP Navision and Axapta, as well as | | | | consider taking retraining courses, classes or |
| Solomon, which was at this time in the possession of | | | | certifications exams. Great Plains Accounting for DOS |
| Great Plains Software. In 2004, 2005 Microsoft | | | | and Windows: 9.5, 9.2, 9.1 or earlier versions for Mac |
| Business Solutions introduced so-called Project Green, | | | | should be considered as walking on red territory |
| where all its ERP applications: Great Plains, Axapta, | | | | 3. Great Plains Dynamics name brand transition to |
| Navision, Solomon, CRM were supposed to merge in | | | | Microsoft Dynamics GP trend. As we see it from |
| the future in the form of competitively winning ERP | | | | 2006 and 2007 – this is not a revolution, and rather |
| blocks: Manufacturing, General Ledger, Logistics, | | | | the evolution, requiring up to five or even seven years |
| Human Resources, Inventory management. On this | | | | to be phased out |
| small paragraph let us finish this historical corporate | | | | 4. As being part of Microsoft Dynamics family, |
| ERP excurse and let’s concentrate on Great Plains | | | | Dynamics GP came through international market |
| Dynamics | | | | presence transformation, especially in Europe: German, |
| 1. Dynamics GP. This corporate and Small Business | | | | France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, |
| ERP application is code in Great Plains Dexterity and it | | | | Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, Spain, where Navision |
| is really hard to port it to Microsoft .Net. However GP | | | | was traditionally strong. In these countries Dynamics |
| eConnect SDK project achieved really great goals in | | | | GP was slowly phased out in favor of first Navision |
| moving such modules as Dynamics GP Integration | | | | and later on Axapta. General observation about |
| Manager out of Dexterity mainstream. Microsoft | | | | Dynamics GP as international ERP – it is strong in |
| Dexterity customization pool is steal very large in its | | | | English speaking countries: USA, Canada (including |
| size and eConnect has to replicate at this time Dex | | | | French Canadian version), UK, Australia, New Zealand, |
| business logic in encrypted SQL stored procedures to | | | | South East Asia, plus it is available in Latina America: |
| open Dynamics GP objects, such as customer, vendor, | | | | Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Salvador, Honduras, Costa |
| GL account, SOP Invoice (very valuable in | | | | Rica, Panama, etc. |
| eCommerce integrations), Purchase Order Processing | | | | 5. |