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Crystal Reports – Heterogeneous databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Unidata, Btrieve, Ctree – tips for developer by: Andrew Karasev There are different categories of reporting tools. If you look at the financial reporting – you see such nice instruments as FRx or internal report writer of the financial application (ReportWriter in the case of Microsoft Great [...]
Microsoft CRM Integration with Lotus Notes Domino: messaging connector – future directions by: Andrew Karasev IBM Lotus Notes Domino and Microsoft CRM (Client Relation Management) from now on can work in tandem. Microsoft CRM Lotus Notes Domino connector from Alba Spectrum Technologies provides seamless messaging in MS CRM through Domino. Our customers suggest future direction [...]
Microsoft Great Plains Customization Tools – overview by: Andrew Karasev Former Great Plains Software Dynamics/eEnterprise, and currently Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains was initially designed in the earlier 1990th as the extendable and modular application with its proprietary tool: Great Plains Dexterity, written in C programming language as a shell. This was popular tendency those [...]
Midsize Business ERP – Great Plains Standard vs. Professional by: Andrew Karasev If you are in the growing mode and reach the point when you need to move away from old accounting application and incorporate something, which could be considered as industry standard ERP, you should know general direction and where to look for additional [...]
Microsoft Great Plains Payroll module customization scenarios by: Andrew Karasev It is now common thing when large corporation selects mid-market ERP or so-called standard functionality MRP solution as its corporate accounting system. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is very good candidate. As all MBS ERPs it has MS SQL Server 2000/2005 database platform and allows [...]
ERP System of the future: Database, Business Logic and Interface by: Andrew Karasev We will base our prognosis on our Microsoft Business Solutions ERP consulting practice: Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, MS CRM. Also we’ve analyzed Oracle products: Oracle Financials, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and IBM Lotus Notes Domino. The trends could be seen in both: [...]
Microsoft CRM Lotus Notes Domino Connector FAQ by: Andrew Karasev Microsoft Business Solutions CRM and IBM Lotus Notes Domino, being two groupware products from competing software development leaders, however could coexist within one organization computer network and even work together in collaboration. There maybe multiple reason why corporation would use both products: licensing, commitment to [...]
Microsoft CRM Integration with IBM Lotus Notes Domino – machinery dealership example by: Andrew Karasev IBM Lotus Notes with Domino email server is traditional document workflow management solution for large corporate business, where you need audit trail on approval cycle and decision making. Microsoft Business Solutions CRM is very cost efficient solution to automate sales [...]
Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Axapta – selection considerations by: Andrew Karasev During the years of our consulting practice, which comes back to East Europe in mid 1990th and then continues in the USA, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Oceania, Germany, Canada – we would like to orient you – business owner, IT director or software programmer. [...]
Microsoft CRM Data Import FAQ by: Andrew Karasev Microsoft CRM has built-in conversion tool, however you should probably first try third party conversion tool, such as Scribe. It is relatively expensive and has bunch of importing capabilities, that you might never use and need. Scribe allows you to map objects in source and target, when [...]