| for consultant | | | | Europe Microsoft Great Plains is leaving its French, |
| As we are writing this article — a lot of new | | | | German, Spanish and Dutch positions (leaving current |
| ERP related information about Microsoft Business | | | | Microsoft Great Plains clients to switch to Navision or |
| Solutions products: Axapta (Microsoft Dynamics AX), | | | | Axapta). Microsoft Dynamics GP will stay in UK, |
| Navision (Microsoft Dynamics NAV), Microsoft | | | | Australia, New Zealand, LATAM: Mexico, Columbia, |
| Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Great Plains is published on | | | | Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, |
| the daily basis, especially with the advance of the | | | | Salvador, Panama, Caribbean |
| so-called Project Green. | | | | - Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Microsoft CRM 3.0 will |
| As we are writing this article — a lot of new | | | | become the CRM frontend for all the Microsoft |
| ERP related information about Microsoft Business | | | | Dynamics ERPs, including Great Plains, Axapta, |
| Solutions products: Axapta (Microsoft Dynamics AX), | | | | Navision, Solomon. The most interesting part is |
| Navision (Microsoft Dynamics NAV), Microsoft | | | | Microsoft CRM integration, when you can automatically |
| Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Great Plains is published on | | | | move Customers, Quotes, Orders from Microsoft |
| the daily basis, especially with the advance of the | | | | CRM to accounting back end — here you have |
| so-called Project Green. We would like to be a | | | | two options: use Microsoft Great Plains CRM |
| bit pessimistic and toss in new ideas about future | | | | integration (based on BizTalk for CRM 1.2 or eConnect |
| Microsoft MRP products development and marketing | | | | based integration for MS CRM 3.0 and GP 9.0) |
| positioning as we see the development on European | | | | - Oracle/Java/EJB/J2EE. Here we have to appeal to |
| (including UK, East Europe: Russia, Poland, Czech | | | | our third party programming expertise and knowledge |
| Republic, plus Southern Europe: Spain, Portugal, Italy, | | | | experience with Oracle Financials/Oracle E-Business |
| Greece), Latin American (including Brazil, where | | | | Suite/Oracle Applications development and |
| Microsoft is starting from scratch) and Asian ERP | | | | Programming |
| markets. | | | | - SAP MRPs. SAP is another traditional MRP market |
| - Microsoft Dynamics GP vs. Microsoft Dynamics AX. | | | | leader. For years ago SAP purchased Israel made |
| This is probably the question of future positioning of | | | | MRP software application, now known as SAP |
| these two ERPs. Axapta has modern design (the end | | | | Business One. SAP Business One is seamlessly |
| of 20th century), while Great Plains Software | | | | integrated with Microsoft Office (what is the next step |
| Dynamics was designed in the beginning of 1990th as | | | | from SAP R/3 mySAP project Mendocino with |
| Great Plains Dexterity application | | | | Microsoft for the next few years), plus SBO is |
| - Microsoft Dynamics GP USA MRP market. This | | | | integrated on the Sales and Purchasing transaction |
| seems to be the stronghold of Microsoft Great Plains. | | | | consolidation level wit mySAP/SAP/R3. In the case of |
| Microsoft Business Solutions makes its Microsoft | | | | SAP — you will need customization/integration |
| Dynamics GP 9.0 the first wave of its Project Green | | | | partner to help you with the above consolidation |
| with the switch from Microsoft Dexterity to .Net and | | | | - International aspects. Well — as you can |
| Visual Studio development: C# and VB, plus the | | | | conclude from this whitepaper and our past |
| increased role of eConnect (initially introduced for | | | | publications — Microsoft Great Plains / |
| eCommerce web XML developers, now the middle | | | | Dynamics GP is not supported for non English or |
| tier to resolve Great Plains Dexterity peculiarity with | | | | Spanish speaking countries. In the case of Brazil/Sao |
| generic .Net development) | | | | Paulo/Rio de Janeiro/Salvador — population |
| - Microsoft Dynamics GP European ERP Market. In | | | | speaks in Brazilian Portuguese. |