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We assume that you are in Southern California: LA and SanDiego metros, Northern Illinois: Chicago metro or even USA, Canada nationwideand internationally (when you need custom programming in GP Dexterity, or needSAP Business One integration to US based Dynamics GP system).  Please, also note that if you have oldversion of Great Plains, you should know your database platform: GP 7.5, 7.0,6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0 and earlier were available on MS SQL Server, Pervasive SQL2000/Btrieve and Ctree.  Also, olderproduct Great Plains Accounting 9.5, 9.2, 9.1 and earlier versions for DOS,Windows and Mac is also supportable with some limitations, as we in turn cannotget any help directly from Microsoft Business Solutions on GPA and cannot sellnew user licenses, only support what you already got historically 1.       LocalGP support in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego. Available from our locations in Chicago downtown, Naperville (Chicagosuburbs), San Marcos (San Diego suburbs). Local support option is recommended when you need new Dynamics GP systemimplementation, plus if you have complex local integration needs: Barcoding,Integration with you Point Of Sale equipment, etc.  If you have customization coding and supportissues, or need one of our products, we prefer to support you directly from ournationwide Dynamics GP technical support center and Great Plains DexteritySoftware Development Factory 2.       NationwideDynamics GP remote support.  This optionis in fact beneficial to the customer, as you do not have to pay for our local traveland do not have to wait consultant to make her or his schedule and.  Technical support is theoretically availableimmediately via Web Session and Phone Conference.  If you are located Internationally, you canuse such technologies as Skype for free VOIP phone conferences 3.       GreatPlains Customizations support.  We haveDexterity Software Development Factory with technicians trained in Dex and someof them came through Microsoft Business Solutions work experience.  Dexterity is one of the most popular GPmodification and programming tools. However, this is not the only tool we deploy for our customers.  We also program in eConnect (tool of choicefor ecommerce integration), .Net, VBA and Modifier, SQL Scripting and advancedDynamics GP Integration Manager integrations 4.       DynamicsGP Integration with Microsoft RMS.  Wehave proven codes, as integration is very specific to your settings in RMS andhow you want to map it to Dynamics GP objects. Integration works either on Dynamics GP SOP or Receivable Managementmodule, plus it includes POP Purchase Receipts integration and Barcode labelsprinting from Great Plains directly - we found that reasonable number of  MS RMS customers prefer to control theseprocesses in their ERP, in our case Dynamics GP5.       eCommerceextensions, and Automatic Batch Posting from your MS Visual Studio ecommerce,EDI, etc. projects.  Great Plains batchposting directly from your eConnect web application is not available, you willneed to turn your attention to the complexity of Posting process and its logicin GP Dexterity.  Our Autopost or PostingServer prepares the batches and initiates Dex source code batch posting process 6.       GreatPlains version upgrade.  Here you need tobe active in Microsoft Business Solutions GP annual support program, if notcall us for the options to be reenrolled. Then you have access to new version reg key.   Dynamics GP version update should beplanned, it should be done by Dynamics GP Reseller and its certified GP consultants,as there is upgrade patch and it is Service Pack and Patches specific.  If you are on the version 7.5 on PervasiveSQL/Ctree or earlier, you should come through migration to GP on Microsoft SQLServer process.  Upgrade should alsoinclude Dynamics GP ISV custom add-ons, GP ReportWriter modified reports, VBAModifier, Integration Manager, FRx financial reports upgrade 7.       DynamicsGP support internationally.  Typically itincludes cases where you have GP Corporate ERP in USA, Canada, UK, Australia, NewZealand, South Africa, Mexico or Spanish Speaking Latin America and want toimplement GP for your foreign subsidiary or integrate non GP ERP with yourCorporate ERP.  In the case when youforeign subsidiary is located in Brazil, Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan,Central Asia, we recommend you to consider SAP Business One as local branch ERPand it should be pretty simple exercise to consolidate SB1 on General ledgertransactions level to Dynamics GP via Integration Manager.  FRx could also be tuned to consolidatedBalance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statement with GP Companies GL and even foreignsubsidiary Excel export sheet.  Plus,consider the fact that Dynamics GP doesn't support Unicode characters in itscore functionality and architecture, so the plans to adopt GP for China, Japan,Korea and other hieroglyph alphabet countries might be too challenging.  Some support is available for Arabiclanguage, call Microsoft in Saudi Arabia 8.       GreatPlains on Pervasive SQL or Ctree support. If you have reasons to stay with these no longer supported by MBSdirectly DB platforms, we are happy to help you with day-to-day support issues,such as unlocking the batch posting failure, general data repair, usertraining, FRx reports design and modification, SOP Invoice form modification inReport Writer.  Plus if you decide in thefuture to get up to date, we are ready to help you with upgrade all the waythrough to whatever it will be the current version in the future 9.       GreatPains Accounting Support.  If you are onreally archaic Windows or Mac version, local visit might be recommended.  GPA could be also transferred from Windows NT4.0 Server to something more modern, like Windows 2003 Server, in this case youwould need to deploy Pervasive SQL 2000 SP3 or similar DB version.  Custom Pervasive SQL 2000 settings arerequired, you should call us for details and help.  GPA migration to Dynamics GP 10.0 ispossible, you will get discount for currently owned GPA modules in gettingownership of Dynamics GP, terms may change by Microsoft Business Solutionswithout notice, we are writing these lines in August 2009 10.   DynamicsGP EDI or Electronic Document Interchange integrations.  We offer these scripts in MS SQL Server Viewsand Stored procedures, that should allow you to avoid high cost for EDI Add-Ons 11.   Howto get help?  Please call us 1-866-528-0577,[email protected].  Our consultantsare fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian.  We are experts in Dynamics GP implementationin international environment, its data conversions, customizations, CrystalReports for GP, FRx, SSRS, Dexterity. Plus we have unique expertise in Dynamics GP consolidations with EastEuropean, Russian accounting systems.  Wecould help you with Microsoft CRM implementation and integration with DynamicsGP and SAP Business One, plus Lotus Notes integration with MS CRM and DynamicsGP, Oracle custom DB and Oracle eBusiness Suite integration with Microsoft SQLServer based systems