Released on: October 11, 2007, 3:52 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum Group

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: The successor of eEnterprise is Great Plains Dynamics GP
Professional, current version is 10.0 as of November 2007. If you are using
eEnterprise, you need to consider update from your version, more likely 6.0 to GP
10.0

Press Release Body: Alba Spectrum Group: http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918

The successor of eEnterprise is Great Plains Dynamics GP Professional, current
version is 10.0 as of November 2007. If you are using eEnterprise, you need to
consider update from your version, more likely 6.0 to GP 10.0. In this small
article we would like to give you technical highlight on version upgrade process and
decision making. Great Plains Software eEnterprise in its turn is successor of
Dynamics C/S+, versions 3.2, 4.0, 5.0, 5.5
1. eEnterprise brief review. GPS made eEnterprise, which was high-end GP Dynamics
version, available on MS SQL Server DB platform only, targeting eEnterprise to
mid-size and large companies. Later on Microsoft capped user count in Great Plains
standard to 10, meaning that if you need more - you have to switch to GP
Professional, plus GP Standard has 500 active employees limit in Payroll and HR
modules across all the companies in GP installation. Also for eEnterprise as well
as for GP Pro you can have the option to add advanced modules, which are not
available for former Dynamics or current GP Standard or Business Ready
2. eEnterprise upgrade path. You should respect ERP development company to provide
upgrade path from 2 or 3 years old versions to the current one. In the case of
eEnterprise, version 6.0 belongs to 20th Century. This is why upgrade path has
several steps: eEnterprise 6.0 to Great Plains Professional 7.5, then to Dynamics GP
Pro 9.0, then you apply 9.0 Service Pack 2 and then go to version 10.0
3. New version licenses. Microsoft Business Solutions requires GP customers to be
current in annual enhancement program, which is typically from 16 to 25% of the
software list price. If you are not in this program, you should expect
re-enrollment fee, please contact your GP VAR or our office
4. eEnterprise customizations upgrade. eEnterprise has the same platform as
Dynamics - Great Plains Dexterity. In order to upgrade and review GP Dex
customization, you should have Dex source code: Dynamics.Dic or Extract.dic with
Dexterity sanscript codes in it. Recent trend in GP modification technology is
switching to SQL stored procedures and by doing so, optimizing customization
performance - this is why we recommend to revise custom code with new version
upgrade. Other popular trend is switching portions of Dexterity customizations to
eConnect, which is faster than Dex and allows you to control custom logic via
Microsoft Visual Studio (C# or VB ADO.Net programming)
5. Dexterity excurse. Great Plains Software Dexterity was designed as the shell,
written in C programming language to provide computer OS (MS Windows or Mac) and
computer graphical platform independence to new GPS Graphical MRP application -
Great Plains Dynamics. Dexterity was developed in the time when the battle between
Software tycoon, such as Microsoft, Sun, Apple, Oracle, Sybase, Ingress, IBM was on
the way. As Software developer of programmer you can find Dex traces in DEX_ROW_ID,
Dex.Ini, Dynamics.Exe files architecture
6. eConnect excurse. eConnect was specially designed for Great Plains eCommerce
developers to enable e-commerce web application integration to GP backoffice ERP.
If you are Visual Studio programmer, you should begin investing your time in GP
development from eConnect side. eConnect replicates Dex logic in SQL Stored
Procedures

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group: http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving Microsoft Dynamics GP
Great Plains customers in USA/Canada nationwide. Local service is available in
Houston, TX: Richmond, Sugar Land, Katy, Rosenberg, Missouri City, Pearland,
Friendswood, Meadows, Mission Bend, Jersey Village; Chicago, IL: Naperville, Aurora,
Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Joliet, Wheaton, Lisle, Downers Grove, Schaumburg, Elk
Grove, Lombard, Woodridge, Darien, Westmont, Batavia, St. Charles, Elgin, Crystal
Lake. Service is also available in Houston and Dallas metros, plus internationally
in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Oceania and UK



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Contact Details: Alba Spectrum Group: http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving Microsoft Dynamics GP
Great Plains customers in USA/Canada nationwide