Released on = October 18, 2006, 3:42 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = eCommerce highlights for Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP
eConnect with XML Web Services, Automatic posting, cross platform integrations with
Oracle, IBM Lotus Notes Domino

Press Release Body = 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, help@albaspectrum.com or skype:
albaspectrum

eCommerce highlights for Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP eConnect with XML Web
Services, Automatic posting, cross platform integrations with Oracle, IBM Lotus
Notes Domino

Microsoft Great Plains should be considered as open platform for eCommerce web
development, especially since such development tools as eConnect were introduced for
.Net C# and VB web developers. However there are certain limitations in utilizing
these new tools, especially when business processes requires full automation,
including autoposting and automatic sales orders execution. In this small article
lets take a look at the technology highlights and work around:
. eConnect. If you think that eConnect is panacea - this is true with some
limitations. You should understand that eConnect automates only subset of Microsoft
Dynamics GP modules: SOP, POP, AR, AP, but at the same time other modules are
outside of eConnect scope - good example Invoicing module. Besides standard GP
modules you as developer should be aware about third-party modules, such as Mekorma,
Avalara, DynamicsZip, Horizon Manufacturing, etc. These modules are typically
created with Microsoft Great Plains Dexterity and are also outside of the eConnect
scope
. Posting Issue. eCommerce often requires automatic invoice posting, especially
when customer pays online via credit card. eConnect allows you to create order or
invoice and receive deposit against this order, but it doesn't allow you to post the
order - this is reasonable restriction, because you as developer should create
business logic for invoice posting and deploy Microsoft Great Plains posting logic,
which might be very sensitive to your specific GP settings
. Cross-Platform. You have two options: resolve cross-platform data streams with
XML inbound and outbound streams. In this case eConnect XML web services interface
is the way to go, plus you should supplement eConnect with your own XML web services
(having SQL heterogeneous stored procs behind) and the second way is deploying
either linked server from MS SQL Server side and stored procedures or similar tools
from Oracle to create ODBC JDBC connection

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Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group ( http://www.albaspectrum.com
http://www.enterlogix.com.br ), serving MS Dynamics GP, SAP Business One, Oracle
EBusiness Suite to clients in USA nationwide: Chicago, Houston, New York, Boston,
San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami,
Orlando, Tampa, Minneapolis, Denver, Washington, Seattle, in Canada: Toronto,
Montreal, and internationally: Australia, New Zealand, UK, Spain, Mexico, Brazil,
Asia


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