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However, and this might be why you are reading this smallpublication, your ecommerce web application is working and you have to programintegration connectors to Dynamics GP Sales Order Processing, Inventory Controland Receivable Management modules. Let'scome through the options: 1. eConnectprogramming. GP is hosted in MicrosoftWindows Server 2003, 2008 or earlier, so you can always program eConnect via MSVisual Studio. GP eConnect is SoftwareDevelopment Kit with libraries, that you can deploy in your integration C#, VBprogramming project. It has samplecodes, so that should be all you need. Some familiarity with XML and Dynamics GP objects could be recommended:SOP Invoice, Customer, Inventory Item, etc. 2. DynamicsGP Integration Manager. For GP version10.0 we see a lot of integration bases are now rewritten in eConnect as generalobservation, however IM is end user friendly (to some extent of this term ofcourse) tool. If you are OK withintegration, initiated by IM user or with scheduled integration (via WindowsMacro utilities from small software development vendors, etc.), then you maydecide to implement Integration Manager solution and close the question 3. OrderConnector. This product allows you todeploy ecommerce integration in the case, when you do not want to come througheConnect programming learning curve, or you are on older GP version: 8.0, 7.5,7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, or you believe that eConnect performance is not too coolfor real time integrations. This productis set of SQL Stored Procedures with simple set of parameters to make your liveas SQL programmer easier 4. PostingServer or Autopost. If you haverequirements to post SOP Documents all the way through General Ledger, youprobably already realized that both eConnect and Integration Manager do notallow you to Post, they do not have the functionality and methods to post. And this is natural restriction of originalGreat Plains Dynamics architecture, where transaction and batch approval andposting are coupled together and left in the hands of GP user. Posting Server deploys one user license andis add-on to existing Dynamics GP workstation. It checks GP server if new batches are approved for being posted everyfew seconds and initiates Great Plains Batch Posting process if new batch isready for processing 5. DynamicsGP Business Portal. Here you can deployecommerce in B2B scenarios. OrderManagement module in BP is natural base for such a project. Current version of Business Portal is 10.0 (lookslike MBS synched it with Dynamics GP versioning) Please, note that older Great Plainsecommerce extensions, such as eOrder (ASP platform)are no longer available andyou will have to migrate such solutions to Dynamics GP Business Portal, whichis now Microsoft Sharepoint application. In Dynamics GP Order Management module you can deploy Items Catalogueand Price List, reflecting original Dynamics GP Inventory Price Lists 6. DynamicsGP Dexterity ecommerce programming. Dexterity is former Great Plains Dynamics architecture and it is stillone of the fundamental stones in Dynamics GP platform. In Dex you have unlimited power over DynamicsGP objects, including posted transactions, in fact Autopost is Dexterity customapplication, which is programmed with Great Plains Dexterity Source Code access. You should consider Dexterity customizationroute if your ecommerce integration requirements are really challenging and youneed access to the objects, coded in Dexterity add-ons (Dynamics GP ISV or yourformer in-house Dexterity customizations) 7. Sorryfor being laconic, but it is the restriction of the article genre. How to get additional info and help? Please, feel free to call us: 1-866-528-0577,[email protected]
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