Sometimes we hear complains about this wonderful small and mid-size business Corporate ERP and MRP application.  Well, the software itself is probably perfect, but the reason might be inexperienced SB1 consultant or programmer.  In any case, we recommend you do not give up and seek for second opinion - SAP B1 is wide spread Small Business ERP and you should be able to locate experienced local SAP BO Partner just by entering key words in Google, MSN or Yahoo.  In fact, SAP Business One is currently enjoying small business Corporate ERP implementation parade in the USA, Canada, South, Central America and Caribbean.  Current version of SB1 is 8.8, just released in April of 2010.  This small publication is dedicated to the initial highlights of SAP B1 technology:

Microsoft Dynamics GP or former Great Plains has several methods in importing data.  In this small publication we would like to give you initial highlights and after getting this help you should be able to find additional info in GP user manuals, Customer Source Knowledge database or request it through your Dynamics GP Partner or reseller

Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerly also known as Great Plains Dynamics, eEnterprise, is flexible and powerful platform for eCommerce B2B and B2C Shopping Cart integration.  If you are ecommerce programmer, please read this introduction level publication on integrating ecommerce shopping cart into SOP Invoice or Sales Order in Dynamics GP.  Being bound by article genre rules, we will try to be reasonably laconic and balance technical (for developers and programming) and functional (for IT managers) information.  We will pay some attention to Microsoft Dexterity and its possible role in GP eCommerce integrations:

We assume that you already have established ecommerce web application on one of the popular platforms: ASP, ASPX, PHP/MySQL on Windows IIS or Linux.  We would like to come through technology level of ecommerce to Great Plains Dynamics GP integration programming.  This is very short excurse and if you plan for full-scale Dynamics GP integration project, you should do your further homework, take eConnect training, contract Dynamics GP Dexterity technology partner, deploy automatic solution for Great Plains Integration Manager module to name you few of the possible options:

Great Plains integrations, especially in Edi and ecommerce scenarios are very popular and in our opinion they are not overly too complex to design and implement.  If you are MS Visual Studio C#, VB .Net programmer with some SQL and XML skills, you should be able to program real time or batch mode integrations in eConnect SDK for Dynamics GP, and as such your integration could be called directly as part of your ecommerce web site instruments.  However if you do not carry programmer in your IT department, but have some SQL expertise, you do not even have to touch eConnect, as most of the job could be done in Great Plains Integration Manager directly, and you could schedule integration as macro, and the rest of work for EDI or ecommerce integration could be done in SQL Views.  Read this small publication as orientation session in GP IM:

Microsoft Dynamics GP consulting field nowadays typically requires high-end technology expertise and hands-on experience. If you are implementing Microsoft Great Plains in large or mid-size company, you expect your new ERP application to be seamlessly integrated into your existing IT infrastructure: Microsoft Windows domain, probably elements of such non-Microsoft systems as Linux Red Hut and PHP with MySQL (or another Linux brand), Oracle db integration, and things like these. Also take into consideration the needs to switch from unsuccessful implementations of concurring MRP products: Oracle EBusiness Suite, People Soft, PeachTree, Accpac, MAS 90 or 2000 – then the need of technical expertise in ERP data conversion will be even more valuable. We’ll try to keep reasonable balance in ERP consulting requirements expertise, reviewing it in this article

Microsoft Dynamics GP is reasonably open for various custom integrations and user interface extension projects through several programming and software development tools: Great Plains Dexterity, eConnect, Extender, Integration Manager with VBA scripting, Modifier with VBA, plus you can always do program ecommerce web extensions and integrations via SQL Stored Procedures or eConnect with generic C# or VB.Net web programming project.  This small publication is a review of these tools and options in the bullet style format:

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