Dynamics GP 2010 Technical Help and Consulting Computers Articles | April 4 Black Carlton Davis Jersey , 2011 When new Corporate ERP system is implemented and you are in production with transaction entering, processing payments and generating reports, there might be a good opportunity for outsourcing ongoing support.
There might be also the consideration, that you decided on your current consulting firm based on their capability to implement the software.? On the second phase you may have different criteria to the consultant ? here you are introducing some customizations, modified business logic, integration with legacy system Black M.J. Stewart Jersey , maybe complex reporting (Crystal, SSRS, Management Reporter or FRx).? For such projects you may need to look for different type of consulting organization, where its specialization is ongoing projects for GP, including Dexterity, eConnect Black Ronald Jones II Jersey , Extender, VBAModifier and Integration Management programming (maybe also consider new tools, such as Libraries for Visual Studio, Web Services).? In our opinion technology challenging customization projects should be given to the hands of the organization which is not necessary located in your business metro ? these people should prove their record in technology and industry expertise (if required they will travel to your office from another location in USA).? Let?s review some custom programming projects and technology consulting details:
1.?Settings versus ISV Add-ons and Custom Coding.? Standard business logic and its modification via settings (such us enabling Taxes in General Ledger, User Defined Fields, Scheduled Payments in AR and AP Black Vita Vea Jersey , Checklists, Workflow, Organization Structures, Business Alerts, Multidimensional Analysis, custom Smart List reports Black Lavonte David Jersey , etc.) should be considered first.? You probably already paid for all these features.? They are included in the standard set of metadata (where business logic is stored).? Plus, if you are sticking to the settings only ? future version upgrade should be simple (where custom programming requires code review and modification to make it compatible with new product release; if you are choosing ISV module ? you should check with them if they got version update procedure, that your registration key is available, meaning that you have to pay for their annual enhancement program?).? But, unfortunately settings do not do the job, if your business logic is too unique (and this is often what you have Black Gerald McCoy Jersey , as innovation companies require innovation to be automated in their Corporate ERP application as well)
2.?ISV Products.? We recommend you to take a look now if your logic could be implemented on one of the third party products or extensions for Great Plains.? There are numerous ISV (Independent Software Vendor) partners, who are specializing in Dexterity (and also new tools, such as eConnect) programming and packaging their products as satellites to extend and improve core business logic.? Just to give you several names: Alba Spectrum (Warehouse Management System, Barcoding, Integration with Microsoft RMS, GL Utilities Black Mike Evans Jersey , such as posting into historical years, extending eConnect with automatic batch posting via Posting Server and plus); WennSoft (Job Costing module); Compass (POS extension for SOP Transaction Entry form and module).? ISV modules should be analyzed from the standpoint of their maturity, reliability and cost.? For example, if one of the ISV partners declares that they just introduced EDI solution and they are inviting pilot implementation customers ? you might decide that you do not want to participate in beta testing and exposing your users to potential bugs (or if you are looking for bargain price ? you may decide to try this route).? Another example would be this ? let?s assume there is third party ISV, who has Process Manufacturing module for GP and this module list price is twenty thousand dollars.? If all you need from this module is altering weight in standard GP Bill Of Materials and your trusted technology firm give you the quote to program just this part of the business logic modification and the cost is two thousand dollars ? the decision might be made in favor of custom Dexterity development
3.?Custom Software Development.? If you already read the paragraphs above and you think that you are ready for custom programming project engagement, let?s continue with custom coding route.? Traditionally custom features were added as Microsoft Dexterity customizations (prior to the Great Plains Software acquisition by Microsoft the name of the tools was Great Plains Dexterity).? Dex allows you to alter existing Forms and Windows as well as to create new objects (tables Black Jameis Winston Jersey , fields, constraints, forms, window and scrolling windows, procedures, functions in Dexterity Sanscript programming language).? There are smaller firms and independent programmers who went through eConnect programming training in MS Visual Studio.? We respect these individuals Black John Lynch Jersey , but at the same time we believe that eConnect definitely opens the door to generic C# or VB.Net coder to be involved in GP developing project, Dexterity is still the tool where the majority of ISV and in-house programmed modules are created
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