Microsoft,Great,Plains,Dexteri computer Microsoft Great Plains: Dexterity vs. eConnect  FAQ
----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc
These tools should probably succeed Dexterity in the long run. From time to time we see complications on this way  for example on recent MBS worldwide conference  Dexterity Source code partner program, closed several years ago for new partner, was tentatively promised to be reopened. In this small article we would like to answer on the typical questions we are getting from IT strategists and lead developers.eConnect Overview. This SDK tool, which addresses existing and creates new Great Plains objects: Master Records (Customer, Vendor, Employee, Account, etc) and work documents: Sales Order, Invoice, Purchase Order, GL transaction to name a few. This is excellent tool and is very popular among web developers  it was originally created for eCommerce programmers who wanted to deploy Great Plains as back office/ERP/Accounting. eConnect Limitations. First of all  we saw numerous clients, who were disappointed in the fact that eConnect can not automate posting and SOP Orders transfer to Invoices. You should understand the rules of ERP system  first you create so-called work documents: quote, order, invoice and then you post it  documents should be approved for posting and this should be done through standard ERP fat client interface, not eConnect or other standard integration tools. Second important limitation  if you have dexterity customization  eConnect can not address custom logic  it works with standard Great Plains objects only. We understand that this is difficult to foresee when you ask questions to your Microsoft Business Solutions VAR, and also that each ERP has specifics you need to know: say Oracle Financials world has its own must-know bells-and whistles  when you work with specific large ERP  you should invest a lot of time in analysis and decision making. Dexterity Overview. Dexterity itself is a shell/IDE/programming language written in C back in earlier 1990th. You probably remember old-days-believe that C will secure database and graphical platform independence, plus it will direct you to the way of computer platform independence. But the matter of fact is  Great Plains Dexterity dictates the rules of customization  each GP custom-logic table must be created in Dexterity to be viewed via GP standard interface, Dexterity Limitations. Of course  Dexterity is kind of legacy IDE and it was created in the days when nobody could predict internet and thin clients future. So  you can not use Dexterity in your web application, you have to stick to stored procedures or eConnect. You can always appeal to our expertise. Give us a call: 1-630-961-5918, 1-866-528-0577, [email protected]
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