Released on = August 23, 2007, 2:43 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = In around 2003 Microsoft stated about Project Green that it
will be merging several Microsoft just acquired ERPs, such as Great Plains, Solomon,
Navision, Axapta into future so-called Project Green, where the best features of
Great Plains (more likely financials and Payroll), Navision (Manufacturing), Solomon
(Project Organization or project Accounting)

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

In around 2003 Microsoft stated about Project Green that it will be merging several
Microsoft just acquired ERPs, such as Great Plains, Solomon, Navision, Axapta into
future so-called Project Green, where the best features of Great Plains (more likely
financials and Payroll), Navision (Manufacturing), Solomon (Project Organization or
project Accounting) . In 2005 Microsoft Business Solutions was renamed into
Microsoft Dynamics and its participating ERP/CRM were also renamed respectively into
GP (Great Plains), SL (Solomon), NAV (Navision), AX (Axapta) and Microsoft Dynamics
CRM (Microsoft CRM). Since Microsoft Dynamics project was introduced we rather see
the efforts to advance MS Dynamics products ERP and CRM on its native SDK:
Dexterity, CSide, MorphX, MS CRM SDK, and some attempts to bring these products to
.Net and especially Microsoft Office and Vista interface compliance. Where
Microsoft Dynamics is heading? This is difficult question and we are not Microsoft,
but rather independent journalists, so we will be giving your our opinion
. Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP way. Great Plains Dexterity is still the core
of GP design, plus it stays for GP third party modules - a lot of customers USA
nationwide and internationally, especially in UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa,
New Zealand, South and Central America, including Mexico. Our opinion is the
following - Microsoft has to revive GP Dexterity in order to advance GP. Dex has
now support for Web Services, plus it has window to .Net to use native .Net
constructions
. GP Reporting. SRS are coming as the replacement to Crystal Reports, however CR
are still strong. In the case of both CR and SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS,
you should think about reports business logic, which is more likely out of the real
CR or SRS and should stay in SQL Server - Stored Procedures or SQL Views
. GP Vista Features. This seems to be out of synch with initial Project Green
plans, however considering huge time period, since project Green was deemphasized,
such vista features as GP IE similarity looks really good and appropriate
. Great Plains Dexterity Customization upgrade. As PG is still in transition, old
good-days Dex is a good option
. VBA Modifier. This is COM legacy tool, and if you think about .Net this is not
the one who is .Net compliant, however COM technology is still a player in Vista, so
you should be OK to deploy VBA with GP Modifier. Good news that Microsoft published
the manual on VBA scripting for GP 10.0

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