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Author :: Andrew Karasev  |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains on Ctree or Pervasive SQL – What to Do – Tips for IT Manager |
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| As you probably know, when Microsoft purchased Great Plains Software – the whole strategy for Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise line was changed. Initial GPS strategy was to maintain DB platform independence – via it’s C-written engine Dexterity, based on the believe that C programming language is platform independent. So – Great Plains was running on MS SQL Server, Ctree (Faircom – if you remember 1995-96 Macintosh era), Pervasive SQL (Btrieve). Microsoft obviously had no plan to keep this multiplatform capability and Great Plains was optimized to MS SQL Server and with the introduction of MSDE – the need to keep entry level Dynamics on Ctree/Btrieve disappeared.Mi (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Great Plains Dexterity History and Programming Overview |
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| As of now - Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise is transformed/renamed into Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft Business Solutions is in process of merging all its accounting applications: Great Plains, Solomon, Navision and Axapta into somewhat granular: Microsoft Financials, Microsoft HR, Microsoft Distributions, Microsoft Project Accounting, etc. So the original design of Great Plains should be deemphasized. But even now - Great Plains is written on the programming language and technology, created in early 1990-th, named Great Plains Dexterity. And the graphical interface looks very user friendly and nice - these are all Dexterity forms and screens.The original architect of De (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft Great Plains Upgrade – Things to Consider and FAQ |
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| If you have Microsoft Great Plains 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.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 developers may change table structure, append additional fields to add new functionality, things like that. Upgrade copies the table with cha (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Reporting Tools for Microsoft Great Plains – Overview For Developers |
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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. There are several reporting tools available and you definitely need to know which one to use for different types of reports.If you are developer who is asked: how do we create report for Microsoft Great Plains – re (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew Karasev |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft CRM Modification – Overview for IT Specialist |
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| Microsoft CRM is now on the scene and it is increasing its market share, due to the Microsoft Business Solutions muscles and marketing strategy. It is tightly integrated with other Microsoft Business Solutions products such as Microsoft Great Plains, Solomon, Navision.If you are programmer or database administrator who is asked: how do we modify Microsoft CRM – read this article and you will have the clues for further research.1. Microsoft CRM SDK – this is software development kit with C# and partly VB.net code samples – it is supported by Microsoft Business Solutions technical support. It is based on web service calls, if you are C# .NET developer – you are excel (read full article) |
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Author :: Robert Dorrance |
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| Article Title :: Adware, What Is It? |
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| Adware is a type of Spyware program that displays some kind of banner advertising as you’re surfing the Internet. Most of the time, you will pick these programs up if you download other programs such as freeware, shareware, and file-sharing programs. Adware, once it is on your system, can also send back information collected about you without you knowing it and without your permission.If you’re getting an excessive amount of pop-ups, chances are great that you have some kind of Adware on your computer. Depending on the program, these pop ups can just come one right after another. It gets really annoying!It’s well advised that if you are going to download any kind o (read full article) |
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Author :: Boris Makushkin |
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| Article Title :: Microsoft CRM Integration & Customization: SharePoint Document Gateway |
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| MS CRM is very close to document workflow automation, including Microsoft Office documents: Words, Excel, etc. The document workflow was perfectly automated about 10 years ago in Lotus Notes Domino. In this small article we describe the solution based on MS CRM integration with MS SharePoint.Microsoft CRM is new player on CRM applications market and it is gaining its market share. Having different paradigm in its design (it stakes on Microsoft OS and technologies and completely disregards alternative platform, such as UNIX, Linux, Oracle, etc. based). Microsoft CRM market is very diversified: from small (5 users) to large (several hundred MS CRM User licenses) and it serves var (read full article) |
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Author :: Nowshade Kabir |
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| Article Title :: Beware of Spyware |
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| One day, you suddenly realize that your computer started to work
noticeably slower than it used to. You decide to run
de-fragmentation of your hard drive and add more virtual memory
to the system. No luck! May be, it’s probably some viruses, you
reckon turning on your virus scanning software. Even after
running the anti-virus program you notice that the problem won’t
resolve. Not understanding what’s happening frustrated you pick
up the phone. It’s time to call your tech-support. Sounds
familiar? You are not alone! Each day, thousands of users are
facing similar problems caused by malicious software called
Spyware. According to Dell technical support, nowadays 12
percent (read full article) |
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| Category :: Software Articles |
Author :: Alexandra Gamanenko |
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| Article Title :: Monitoring Software Can be Used for Spying as Well |
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| We all already got used to computer monitoring both at work and at home. We got used to advertising monitoring software products as tools for parental control and workplace surveillance.These programs are indeed helpful tools -- to a certain extent. Large and middle-sized companies use legitimate monitoring programs for workplace surveillance -- to ensure information security and local network accountability. At home more and more parents install such software as a "life jacket" for their web-surfing kids. You probably use such a program already, or going to.But are you aware that these so handy and absolutely legal monitoring programs installed on lots of PCs -- and perhaps (read full article) |
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Author :: Gary Gresham |
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| Article Title :: Best Spyware Removers |
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| Finding the best spyware removers to detect and remove spyware and adware from your computer is much easier if you consider a few things before you make your purchase. Here are a few things to keep in mind when looking for a spyware protection program.The best spyware removers should offer you complete protection against spyware, adware, keyloggers, Remote Access Trojans (RATs), and browser hijackers. These are the main spyware infections that expose your confidential information and diminish your PC's performance.An important consideration for any spyware protection program is automatic updates for your software. There are new spyware programs invented on a regular basis (read full article) |
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