Released on: June 26, 2008, 4:30 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: If you are implementing Microsoft Dynamics GP in your
organization and you would like to do some data conversion from your old accounting
or ERP application, then you should consider several levels of data migration and
their feasibility.

Press Release Body: If you are implementing Microsoft Dynamics GP in your
organization and you would like to do some data conversion from your old accounting
or ERP application, then you should consider several levels of data migration and
their feasibility. As we come through numerous data massage and migration cases, we
would like to share our experience to help you with your homework:

1. This method is the simplest one and you should probably consider it first. If
you had Quickbooks, Peachtree, MYOB or similar small business accounting package,
simply print you balance, P&L and in GP enter similar accounts for Assets,
Liability, Equity, Revenue, Cost of Goods and Expenses and then enter in GP
beginning balances opening transaction as GL transaction and you are up and running
GP in production. If you need to see more in Great Plains prior to do your daily
ERP routines, then keep reading

2. Master Records import. Customers, Vendors, GL accounts, Employees are classified
as master records in GP. There are several methods of entering them there. First
one is manual key in - it works if you have limited number of master records - say
several hundred, if this is the case, then you can be done entering them in eight
hours or so and by completing this routine you will be self trained in GP records
entering. If you have thousands of customers, then consider Integration Manager.
In the case of IM you prepare your customers as text file, massage data to fit
specific data format requirements and then tune IM integration, test it and do final
import. In some cases you would like to do advanced import, where you tweak your
migrated records in GP via SQL update or insert statements

3. Open transactions import. It is natural, when you expect to continue such
business processes as AR collection, AP aging in the new MRP or GP. In this case
you import open RM and PM batches to keep collecting and aging them in Great Plains
Dynamics. Typically you import transactions via IM and then post just imported
batches in GP

4. Historical Data conversion. We would like to try to discourage you from this
step, as it will cost you a lot of consulting hours to feed data to historical Great
Plains Dynamics tables. The alternative to historical data migration is keeping
your legacy accounting for data lookup or inquiry only during transition period



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