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----------------------------------------------------------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
Plus, Dynamics GP is popular in Middle East with Arabiclanguage support, in India, South East Asia, where it is used in English aswell with local Add-ons to meet government reporting and taxing for thecountries in this region. If you are ITsupport engineer or DB Administrator in multinational corporation, whereDynamics GP Great Plains is deployed in the US headquarters, you need to knowyour options in implementing Dynamics GP for overseas subsidiaries this smallpublication is for you: 1. English interface with limited translation tothe local language. You should check outthe idea of keeping English interface for your accounting department overseas,with limited number of screens translated into the local language: SalesTransaction Entry, Inventory Item Maintenance, Purchase Receipt would be themost popular candidates for translation. Translation itself should be given to your Dynamics GP technologypartner or reseller your Dynamics GP VAR should be familiar with Dynamics GPDexterity and its customization power. All Dynamics GP interface phrases are Great Plains Dexterity stringresources 2. SQL Server Code page and Collation. By default, Dynamics GP will install newcompany database with the same code page and collation as your SQL Serveritself (defined in master database). InUSA, you are likely to install SQL Server with 1252 for non Unicode data. Please, open SQL Server Management Studio andenter sp_helpsort command. You will getin USA the following result: Latin1-General, case-insensitive,accent-sensitive, kanatype-insensitive, width-insensitive for Unicode Data, SQLServer Sort Order 52 on Code Page 1252 for non-Unicode Data. However, if you are installing your MicrosoftWindows 2003 or 2008 Server in non-English speaking country you will getdifferent result and your Dynamics GP Dynamics DB as well as companiesDatabases will take your local default code page and collation. Now, lets assume that you are in USA andtrying to open Dynamics GP company for your Lithuanian subsidiary, wherelanguage has letters S, C and others with accents. If you install Dynamics GP workstation onLithuanian Vista OS, Great Plains Dexterity interface will allow you to enterLithuanian characters in Dynamics GP edit fields, however if your company DBhas been installed on MS SQL Server for US, these accents will be wiped outwhen you will save the record in Dynamics GP. In order to preserve accents, you will need to install LithuanianDynamics GP company in Lithuanian language supporting code page andcollation. Please, feel free to seed inyour Dynamics GP company with international collation to your MS SQL Server2005 or 2000 in US Microsoft Dynamics GP should work fine 3. But, or However If you have Dynamics Database and SQL Server itself in Americancollation and international subsidiaries in their local respective collation,there are known issues about FRx. Youmight expect other ifs, but we suppose that international IT support is not apiece of cake, so you should decide on acceptable risks and trade offs 4. Dynamics GP localization. We often here the question could we justdeploy Dynamics GP Great Plains in such countries as Russia, Ukraine, Poland,Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan? The simple answer is Yes, you can do it. However you should understand therequirements of the localization. IfLanguage is not a problem and your GP users in Central Asia could simply entertransactions in English this is perfect scenario. However if in Kazakhstan you have specificgovernment and tax reporting then you are not compliant without developing andapplying special Dynamics GP add-on, where Kazakh legislation is handled 5. Dynamics GP support in Eastern Europe. Microsoft Business Solutions is in process tophase out Dynamics GP in favor of Axapta Dynamics AX and earlier trend NavisionDynamics NAV. You can get Dynamics GPGreat Plains support in Eastern Europe from Alba Spectrum, feel free to callour office in USA or Moscow
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