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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains - Payroll & HR Inexpensive Solution? Not Any More |
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| Microsoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions accounting package for the US market. You should probably expect some issues when you have software development company to be bought by big player - in this case Great Plains Software was bought by Microsoft (Bill Gates was a friend to Doug Burgum - owner and leader of Great Plains Software - Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise). We certainly have some influence level in Microsoft Business Solutions, but what happened is out of our decision level and this is really sad story.OK. Let's go to the story itself. Imagine - you are small company who serves to your clients as payroll/Humane Resources outsourcer. Old-days Great Plai (read full article) |
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Author :: Rosie Wang |
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| Article Title :: Chinese Input - Step by Step Instruction on How to Input Chinese Characters in English Windows XP |
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| Enabling Chinese input is quick and easy, there are only a few steps you need go through to install the Chinese Language support and input method before you can type Chinese in your word processor or other program.We have broken the steps to 3 different sections for your easier to read and follow. The steps are written based on Windows XP, and the configuration is similar with other version of Microsoft Operating systems.Step I - Install East Asian LanguagesDepending on the selections you choose when installing Windows XP, you may or may not have East Asian Languages installed. Follow these steps to check whether or not your computer supports East Asian languages. (read full article) |
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Author :: Perry Norgarb |
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| Article Title :: How To Create A Data Capture Procedure Checklist For Your Small Business CRM Software |
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| Fortunately one of the most common reasons cited for the high
failure rate of CRM systems - poor data quality - is also one of
the easiest to avoid. Your CRM software is only as good as the
information it contains. As the old programmers motto goes
‘garbage in, garbage out’.So how can you avoid incomplete, incorrect, irrelevant or
out-of-date and generally unfit-for-use data from permeating your
CRM software?You need to gather your key CRM users together and thrash out a
DATA CAPTURE PROCEDURE document, defining the rules of use.Spell out:• Who has what rights to the system; who can Create, Insert,
Modify or Delete records, assuming your software (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Great Plains Custom Development: Dexterity, VBA, SQL, Crystal, eConnect – Overview For Programmer |
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| Microsoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions accounting package for the US market. It has multiple customization/modification/reporting tools. Currently there is upgrade campaign to version 8.0 and due to the discontinuation of the technical support for Microsoft Great Plains Standard on Ctree and Pervasive SQL - we see substantial increase in migration needs: migration from ctree/Pervasive to MSDE/MS SQL Server. This in turn increases interest to customization and customization upgrade.If you are developer who is asked: how do we customize Great Plains – read this and you will have the clues on where to look further.1. Great Plains Dexterity – this is (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Great Plains Dexterity Programming – Overview For Developer |
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| Looks like Microsoft Great Plains becomes more and more popular, partly because of Microsoft muscles behind it. Now it is targeted to the whole spectrum of horizontal and vertical market clientele. Small companies use Small Business Manager (which is based on the same technology – Great Plains Dexterity dictionary and runtime), Great Plains Standard on MSDE is for small to midsize clients, and then Great Plains serves the rest of the market up to big corporations.If you are developer who is asked: how do we customize Great Plains with its native programming language – Great Plains Dexterity – read this and you will have the clues on where to look further.The history (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Crystal Reports - Geterogeneus databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Unidata, Btrieve – Tips For Develope |
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| Crystal Reports is the most flexible tool on the market and it has market recognition. Multiple software vendors offer Crystal Reports as the main reporting tool: Microsoft, Best Software, Oracle to name a few.Sometimes developers try to use Crystal directly to pull data from multiple database platforms - we understand the need to give you additional tips to increase Crystal report flexibility. Also common case when Crystal report should pull data from multiple database platforms. Assuming that you are creating Crystal Reports on Windows platform - we recommend you to use Microsoft SQL Server as a database access tool.1. Use Crystal when you have your query tuned – rega (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise Upgrade – Things to Consider and FAQ |
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| If you have Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise (version 6.0 or earlier) and support it for your company then you need to know some technical details about Great Plains version upgrade and what is going on behind the scenes, which options do you have in case of Dexterity, VBA, SQL customization, additional complexity comes with migration from ctree/Pervasive to MS SQL/MSDE. Currently you are probably thinking to upgrade to Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 or 7.5.What is upgrade in the language of technology? Upgrade has server and client sides.Server side - upgrade converts tables from old format to the new one. In general words - Microsoft Business Solutions devel (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Data Conversion – Overview For Developer |
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| Looks like Microsoft Great Plains becomes more and more popular, partly because of Microsoft muscles behind it. Now it is targeted to the whole spectrum of horizontal and vertical market clientele. Small companies use Small Business Manager (which is based on the same technology – Great Plains Dexterity dictionary and runtime), Great Plains Standard on MSDE is for small to midsize clients, and then Great Plains serves the rest of the market up to big corporations.If you are developer who is asked: how do we convert our old system data for initial Great Plains setup – read this and you will have the clues on where to look further.Great Plains Integration Manager - this is (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Great Plains Accounting Migration to Microsoft Great Plains - Overview for IT Specialist |
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| This is a short article, written in question/answer/FAQ style to give IT Specialist/developer/programmer balanced top level information on Great Plains Accounting migration to Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains. If you have Great Plains Accounting as main accounting and ERP system you need to know some technical details on the migration to Great Plains and what is going on behind the scenes. As of right now it is reasonable to upgrade to Microsoft Great Plains 8.0Is migration required? Not actually, but you have to consider these factorsGreat Plains Accounting is in phasing out -Great Plains Software began this process back in 1995, when it did intro (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Business Solutions VAR/Partner Selection – Overview for IT Director/Manager/Controller |
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| Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft CRM become more and more popular, partly because of Microsoft muscles behind them. Now Great Plains is targeted to the whole spectrum of horizontal and vertical market clientele. Small companies use Small Business Manager (which is based on the same technology – Great Plains Dexterity dictionary and runtime), Great Plains Standard on MSDE is for small to midsize clients, and then Great Plains serves the rest of the market up to big corporations. Microsoft CRM is extremely scalable and fits to all the market niches.It is always good idea to install everything on your own - however Great Plains requires combination of computer networking, some p (read full article) |
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