Released on = July 9, 2007, 3:50 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Microsoft Great Plains or recent name Dynamics GP has newly
redesigned on Microsoft.Net & Sharepoint platform web interface - Microsoft Dynamics
GP Business Portal. At this time BP host such web modules as Requisition Management
(former eRequisition), Order Management (former eOrder), HR and Employee Self
Service, Electronic Document Delivery (distributing SOP invoices to your customers)
and others. We were watching closely earlier versions of Business Portal, in our
opinion, version 2.5 was the one to consider conservative implementation, version
3.0 comes together with GP 9.0, now with GP 10.0 Microsoft delivers BP 10.0. in our
opinion, which is non-official, former ASP eXXX products, such as eOrder and
eRequisition were very solid and reliable and we saw large number of successful
implementations

Press Release Body = Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918

Microsoft Great Plains or recent name Dynamics GP has newly redesigned on
Microsoft.Net & Sharepoint platform web interface - Microsoft Dynamics GP Business
Portal. At this time BP host such web modules as Requisition Management (former
eRequisition), Order Management (former eOrder), HR and Employee Self Service,
Electronic Document Delivery (distributing SOP invoices to your customers) and
others. We were watching closely earlier versions of Business Portal, in our
opinion, version 2.5 was the one to consider conservative implementation, version
3.0 comes together with GP 9.0, now with GP 10.0 Microsoft delivers BP 10.0. in our
opinion, which is non-official, former ASP eXXX products, such as eOrder and
eRequisition were very solid and reliable and we saw large number of successful
implementations. Now it is the time to move to Microsoft Dynamics GP Business
Portal platform
. Licensing. At this time BP user license is cheaper than GP user license - it is
about $50 per user for small number of users, we think BP is for mid-size and large
businesses, however if you are small business and have strong IT team, you can go
ahead as well
. .Net platform. This bullet is for clarification - Microsoft Dynamics project
comes together with .Net progress. In some cases Microsoft puts technologies into
the intra company competition: Microsoft Dexterity vs. C#, former project Green ERP
modules unification (on the base of purchased Great Plains, Solomon, Navision,
Axapta - later on this trend was kind of deemphasized). Business Portal is based on
.Net platform, and as you may be aware, dot net is ASPX, versus former Microsoft ASP
concept - this is why eXXX product line had to be rewritten
. From Microsoft Dexterity to BP. In our opinion, Business Portal enables the move
from former Great Plains Dexterity programming to Microsoft Visual Studio C#
programming, where developer will have complete control over GP objects and business
processes workflow. Sometimes we hear counter opinions - something like the
following: it is too difficult to detach GP from its Dexterity architecture - so the
future might reveal complete GP redesign (where the name might be also dropped to
stress generic Microsoft Dynamics ERP). Having said this, we believe that Business
Portal trend is for the future and to proof its endurance

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com
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