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Author :: Andrew Karasev  |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Installation – Overview for IT Director/Controller |
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| Microsoft Great Plains is main mid-market application from Microsoft Business Solutions. This is short article, written in question/answer/FAQ style to give IT Director/Controller balanced top level information on Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains implementation. If you have decided on Microsoft Great Plains as main accounting and ERP system you need to know some technical details on Great Plains installation and implementation and what is going on behind the scenes. As of right now the current version is Microsoft Great Plains 8.0What is installation in the language of technology? Installation has server and client sides.Server side - Installation (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev  |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Integration Manager – Advanced Techniques |
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| Great Plains Integration Manager scripting and translation - overview for programmer, software developer, database administrator, IT specialistMicrosoft Business Solutions main middle market ERP application - Microsoft Great Plains has multiple integration options: MS SQL Scripting (stored procedures and views), ADO.Net programming, Microsoft SQL Server DTS packages. You certainly can deploy such SDK tools as eConnect. However here we would like to show you how to program the simplest user friendly tool: Microsoft Great Plains Integration Manager.We assume that you are familiar with Microsoft scripting technologies: Visual Basic for Application (VBA). You should be aware, (read full article) |
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Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Stephen Bucaro  |
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| Article Title :: Hubris - Definition: Microsoft's Passport |
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| Before September of 1995, Microsoft ignored the Internet because their 16-bit Windows 3.1 operating system couldn't handle the 32-bit Internet world. With the introduction of Windows 95, Microsoft decided they owned the Internet.Instead of having separate accounts at dozens of websites, Microsoft decided that you will have one master account that you will use to log in everywhere. That account will contain your credit card number, bank account numbers, all your personal information and financial records, and Microsoft will own that account.Well, Microsoft IS the United State's government condoned monopoly, so 200 million Internet users, and 100 major web companies dutifully (read full article) |
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Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev  |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains - Microsoft RMS Integration – overview |
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| Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft Retail Management System (Microsoft RMS) are originally developed by different software vendors, who had no idea that in the remote future (now) these two applications will be owned by Microsoft and will need to be tightly integrated. Current integration between the two is not an easy thing. At this time MBS has RMS integration on the General Ledger and Purchase Order level into Great Plains out of the box. This integration has some advancements in comparison to old product: QuickSell, but it is still GL and PO only. We do understand the need for midsize and large retail companies, structured as clubs and selling on account to their members to ha (read full article) |
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Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev  |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Integrations - Tips for Developer |
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| In this short FAQ style article we would like to introduce you - software developer, programmer, database administrator into Microsoft Great Plains Integration tools and optionsMicrosoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions product for US mid-market. Historically Great Plains Software designed Great Plains Dynamics and Dynamics C/S+ as multiplatform application and the integration was possible via Great Plains Dexterity or Dexterity-based end user tools, such as Import Utility and later on via Integration Manager. When Microsoft Windows platform won the OS market (the last battle was in 1997 with PowerMac) Great Plains recommended OLE Server approach: Continuum for (read full article) |
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Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev  |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Customization and Development – Overview for Programmer |
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| When Great Plains Software was designing and developing Great Plains Dynamics/Dynamics CS+/eEnterprise - it placed several fundamental principles into the system1. Computer platform independence. If you consider the situation in the computer software industry those days (earlier 1990-th) - nobody knew which office computer platform will be the winner: IBM PC clones with Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh with Mac OS or something like Sun SPARC. This is why graphical multiplatform idea was popular among software developers. Also there was a myth about C/C++ languages, working similar on all computers.2. Database platform independence - there was the need for future surviv (read full article) |
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Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev  |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft CRM Customization - Processing In/Out-Going Email Messages |
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| We would like to give you several situations, when you may need custom development and programming to improve Microsoft CRM functionality. This overview is for programmer, software developer, IT specialist, database administrator.Microsoft CRM, the CRM application from Microsoft Business Solutions utilizes almost all the recent Microsoft technologies: .Net (it is actually written in C#.Net with HTML and Javascript at the web client side plus has Microsoft CRM SDK with C# and partially VB.Net samples), Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2000 and others. Now to give you brief review from the workflow and messages - you can send email directly from Account, Contact or Lea (read full article) |
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Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Toby J. Rhodes  |
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| Article Title :: Introducing GRML |
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| Creating a new markup language.Introduction.General Reuse Markup Langauge, or GRML, is a markup language for web browsers. It has the data definition features of character-delimited files and XML, with the hyperlinking and form support of HTML.The purpose of this article is to show why GRML exists and how it complements HTML, XML, RSS, and character-delimited formats.Background.GRML is not the result of a specific plan. It was developed as a solution to another problem, namely reusing data from a web service. It began with the development of a web front-end to request content from a few web services. A data format was needed to handle responses. Having d (read full article) |
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Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Stephen Bucaro  |
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| Article Title :: Device Driver Basics |
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| Most people understand that the "hardware" part of their computer is the real physical parts, like the keyboard, mouse, modem, hard drive and so on. They understand that the "software" is computer bits stored on the hard drive, CD-ROM, or other storage media. But most people are a little hazy about exactly what a "driver" is.In this article, I'm going to reveal in plain English what a driver is, why we need drivers, and exactly where the drivers are hiding. To give you a basic understanding, I'm going to go back, way back, to the early days of computers.The Early DaysThe year is 1981 and the world is in the midst of a severe resession. IBM's main frame business has sl (read full article) |
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Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Dean Phillips  |
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| Article Title :: Spyware: What It Is and How to Combat It |
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| Spyware is software or hardware installed on a computer without the user's knowledge which gathers information about that user for later retrieval by whomever controls the spyware.Spyware can be broken down into two different categories, surveillance spyware and advertising spyware.Surveillance software includes key loggers, screen capture devices, and trojans. These would be used by corporations, private detectives, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, suspicious spouses, etc.Advertising spyware is software that is installed alongside other software or via activex controls on the internet, often without the user's knowledge, or without full disclosure that it will (read full article) |
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