Microsoft Navision and Crystal Reports - An Overview by Divine Rigor
Microsoft Business Solutions – Navision is an integrated solution for small and midsize companies looking to expand their business operations without much interruption to its existing processes. Microsoft Navision enables businesses to alter as much or as little of its existing system, integrate... You may want to redo the database mapping of that report or use a Crystal Report query. ... Inside Crystal Reports, use C/ODBC to create a connection to the database needed for report generation. ... Reports on Heterogeneous Database If Microsoft Navision sits in an SQL Server, you have the...

Crystal Reports for Microsoft Great Plains by Divine Rigor
Microsoft Business Solutions – Great Plains is designed to meet and extend the needs of small and mid-size organizations for its business success. Its comprehensive accounting and business management applications also provide businesses with capabilities to customize various modules of the Great... Calling Crystal Reports via VBA/Modifier It is possible to call the Crystal Reports engine from one Great Plains application to do a process with the use of Modifier and VBA. ... So, how do we use Crystal Reports to extend Great Plains Report Writer?

Microsoft Navision Customization and Reporting – Tips For Programmer/IT Specialist by Robert Horowitz
C/SIDE (Client/Server Integrated Development Environment) - The core of Navision is the C/SIDE. C/SIDE is the foundation for all the business management functionality of Navision. It is made up of five building blocks, called object types, which are used to create the application. ... Business Analytics (SQL Server Required) - Using Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) from Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000, Business Analytics organizes all of your business data into information units called cubes. ... Using a familiar Microsoft Outlook ® - style interface, Business Analytics presents this...

Microsoft Dynamics GP Customization - Dexterity vs. Extender, Plus eConnect by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains is currently under substantial technology redesign. To remind you the history – Great Plains Dexterity was architectured in earlier 1990th as IDE and shell, written in C programming language to become in turn development tool and scripting – Sanscript language. ... Here we see three tools: MS SQL Server Reporting Services, GP Report Writer (legacy dex tool) and Crystal Reports. ... Plus eConnect has object oriented approach, which means that it is much easier to program it being “modern programmer” – it eliminates the necessity to do a lot of following QA testing,...

Microsoft Dynamics GP – New Customization, Development, Integration, & Reporting Opportunities by Andrew Karasev
Recent marketing decision of Microsoft to rename its products: Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, CRM and Solomon into Microsoft Dynamics GP, NAV, AX, CRM, SL for Project Green Wave 1, intending to merge them into just Microsoft Dynamics in Wave 2. ... These services more likely will be a replacement to Great Plains ReportWriter and Crystal Reports, especially when we are talking about Business Portal. ... Business Portal is .Net application. ... Business Portal will have its own and hopefully open for MSDN subscribers SDK with C#, and probably VB.Net examples.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Customization, Reporting Integration Highlights by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Business Solutions CRM has now new name, Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Microsoft Dynamics product series also include Microsoft GP (Great Plains), Microsoft NAV (Navision), Microsoft AX (Axapta), Microsoft SL (Solomon). However version number was not changed, Microsoft just mentioned that... If you do not have report you need in SRS reports set (and you do not want to create new report in Visual Studio.Net), you can export one of CRM views to MS Excel Pivoting Table and use it as report generator and data analysis tool.

Navision Customization: C/SIDE, C/ODBC, C/FRONT, XBRL – Development Options by Robert Horowitz
Microsoft bought Navision, Denmark based software development company, along with Great Plains Software. Now Microsoft Business Solutions offers following ERP applications: Navision (former Navision Attain), Microsoft Great Plains (former Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise), Solomon, Axapta. ... If you need to pull data out of the Navision database on a regular basis one of the other options is a better choice • Business Analytics (SQL Server Required) - Using Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) from Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000, Business Analytics organizes all of your business data into...

Microsoft Dynamics GP Upgrade FAQ by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains, Great Plains Software eEnterprise and Dynamics needs to know the key questions for Microsoft Dynamics GP version upgrade. Especially, when Great Plains is heavily customized and integrated with other parts of ERP/MRP/CRM and legacy systems. ... If you invested in Crystal Reports – you might consider switch to MS SQL Server reporting services, but Crystal will still be OK • Legacy Databases. ... Microsoft Business Solutions suggests version upgrade passes, this is important to know when you are on old version, such as 6.0, 5.0 or earlier • Annual Enhancement Program.

Tools for Customizing Great Plains by Divine Rigor
Microsoft Business Solutions – Great Plains has captured the US market with its integrated business applications for small and mid-size organizations. Its comprehensive accounting and business management capabilities provide businesses with tools to customize various modules of the Great Plains... eConnect can filter data or add script to the business object according to the specified diagram. ... Crystal Reports Great Plains comes with its own Report Writer. ... With the use of the Crystal Report Designer Interface, you can easily create complex reports with formatting and grouping just...

Microsoft Dynamics GP & CRM in Transportation & Logistics by Andrew Karasev
Serving Microsoft Business Solutions clients, formerly Great Plains Software Dynamics, eEnterprise, Dynamics C/S+, Siebel Great Plains Front Office, we found that Transportation & Logistics is the industry where Great Plains & CRM tandem is the most popular. ... You should create heterogeneous SQL view and base you Crystal Report on this view. ... Each logistics business has unique business processes and this is why we see software developers in staff plus strong IT department. ... Crystal Reports is the tool of choice.