Microsoft Dynamics GP: Auto Dealership Implementation by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Dynamics GP, or Microsoft Great Plains is very popular mid-market generic ERP. It can be used as ERP platform for multiple vertical markets. In this small article we’ll describe typical auto dealership network automation. Worldwide automaker has dealers across the USA and Canada and in... Great Plains Dynamics 6.0 had legacy VBA/Modifier integration, using ADO to connect to dealership proprietary database and integrate with it. ... Customer info, associated with the car and VIN, work done for the car, parts, associated with the specific model, works pricelist and technician...

Case Study: Successful Implementation of CRM by Casey Gollan
Recently, a company spent $25 million in CRM system's execution. The company has been one of the leading forest-products companies in the world but for the past several years , office products - pens, computers, desks etc., have comprised the largest segment of its annual sales. ... Consequently, the company bought individual software applications (instead of a complete end-to-end CRM system) for customer interaction and operation management and integrated them with the existing order-processing technologies.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 Customizations & Development: the Most Popular Tables in Your SQL Scripts by Andrew Karasev
The table design/architecture of Microsoft Dynamics GP, as we write the current version is Microsoft Great Plains 9.0, was done back in 1990th by Great Plains Software and what we are discussing here is applicable to the majority of Great Plains Dynamics / eEnterprise versions for MS SQL Server:... From this module you just need customer record: RM00101 – Customer master and RM00102 – Customer Address Master • Payable Management. ... Usually you have to deal with these two tables only, however in complex cases you can go deeper – our recommendation to purchase eConnect licenses if your...

The Hidden Power of Online Manual by Dennis Crane
Writing software manuals is boring, isn’t it? We often think: “My software is easy to use. The user interface is intuitive. Why should I waste so much time for writing the document which nobody reads anyway?” Sometimes it’s true – I’ve never read the WinZip or Internet Explorer manuals –... For instance, if you develop a database management system, its user guide will certainly contain such words as “database”, “query”, “transaction”, “table”, “record”, and etc. ... On the other hand, people use these words in their queries when they are looking for a database management solution on the...

Microsoft Great Plains Chemicals & Paint Industry Implementation & Customization Notes by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains fits to majority of industries, in the case of Chemicals & Paint you should consider implementation with balanced approach of utilizing existing Great Plains standard module and light customization and reporting with Great Plains Dexterity, MS SQL Server stored procedures,... • Logistics & Warehouse Management. ... You should modify existing report or create new report – in the case of new report – you should train GP users to change report restriction to print labels for your raw materials batches • Quality Check & Bin Locations.

Microsoft Great Plains in Construction & Building – Implementation & Customization Highlights by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains could be tuned and setup to fit most of horizontal markets. You can deploy third party modules or build your own custom logic in Great Plains Dexterity. Today we’ll look at the options to automate building & construction business. ... If you are established business with decades of history – you might still be using such legacy (and very efficient in Phasing functionality) Project module as Intellisol Project Accounting – in this case you are looking to convert it to either Great Plains Project Accounting or other current third party module.

Budgeting Software For Small Business by Alexander Gordon
Budgeting software for small businesses is one of those several changes that the advent of computers has brought in for us. Gone are the days when people had to make the accounts on the papers. No matter you are working in large or small business institute, if you are good at computers and have... However, multidimensional technology today outdated them and there is no such limitation as was the case with spreadsheets. ... Budgeting software is a combination of multidimensional analysis, real time alerting, management of the business and web-based collaboration at one place.

Why Oracle RAC by Valerian Cardoza
Pre-RAC Let’s face it, today’s IT environments are in constant flux. Acquisitions, mergers, global economies, and the general unrest in the marketplace continually put stress on IT infrastructures. It has become increasingly difficult for IT organizations to predict, plan, and deploy proper... From management setting the budget constraints, through database, system, and network administrators that configure these systems, and down to developers, testers, and users that must test, validate, and use the system.

Three Times You Need to Consider "LAMP"--and the One Time That Nothing Else Will Do! by Mark Schumann
The combination of the Linux kernel, Apache web server, MySQL database engine, and a scripting language such as Perl, Python, or PHP--commonly known as LAMP--has well-known advantages over commercial software in terms of cost and flexibility. I give examples of projects for which LAMP is... management at a prominent retail chain wanted to keep their legacy POS software but needed better networking and runtime support than the DOS-based platform provided. ... The Third Time: When it’s not worth paying for Your database services may run best on an optimized server platform, but those cost...

Understanding Software Engineering by Cinoy Ravindran
It is a systematization of the process of software development to ensure the best solution most economically. Its goal is to produce high quality software at low rate. Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation and... Software Project Management (SPM), Software Quality Assurance (SQA) and the use of Computer aided Software Engineering (CASE) would run parallel with the other phases and finally comes the maintenance phase.