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Integrating Microsoft Great Plains Accounting/ERP: RMS, CRM, eCommerce, Lotus Domino overview

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains has substantial market share among horizontal and vertical clientele in the USA, Canada (including French version for Quebec/Montreal), UK, Australia, New Zealand, Spanish speaking Latin and Central America, South Africa and Middle East.  Nowadays ERP can not stay as it is off-the-shelf product it requires integration with Legacy or newly implemented systems, such as CRM, Retail Management applications, custom in-house made business systems (transportation/cargo tracking, etc). 

The tendency is that if company uses Microsoft-driven computer park (Windows domain, SQL Servers, MS Exchange) the rest of the ERP/CRM applications are Windows-oriented.  However you can have successful bridge between non-Microsoft ERP and Great Plains: Oracle, IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, DB2 or others), usually it involves Java/CORBA/EJB/JSP type of expertise.

  • Microsoft RMS-Great Plains integration.  There are few options first one is to use standard integration, coming with MS RMS.  It has Dexterity interface in Great Plains, does integration to single company at the time.  Doesnt integration on SOP/AR level, however.  Second option is to use integration, maintained by Alba Spectrum Technologies it integrates unlimited number of stores, SOP/AR/POP, posts through Bank Reconciliation module and so allows to track Check Books/Credit Card balances.  This integration also has Dexterity interface for Stores-GP Companies mapping and could work as nightly or real time SQL Server routine
  • Microsoft CRM-Great Plains integration.  This integration is maintained by Microsoft Business Solutions and allows you to synchronize SOP and Customers in Great Plains with Microsoft CRM Quotes and Orders.  Microsoft CRM has open Microsoft CRM SDK and so you can customize and integrate Microsoft CRM at will, having C# or VB.Net in-house expertise.  The above mentioned integration could be altered and tuned by programming MS BizTalk server (it can use either BizTalk runtime or regular license)
  • Microsoft Great Plains as Back office for eCommerce web-site.  Here we need to mention interesting thing,  The product, created and dedicated to eCommerce developers Great Plains eConnect is often considered as a bit expensive and licensing-restricting solution.  If your company is ISV and implements eCommerce product, integrating to Great Plains you would rather prefer set of open and simple stored procedures, moving data to and retrieving from Microsoft Great Plains Sales Order Processing (SOP) module
  • Microsoft Great Plains integration with Oracle.  Well you can do it either from Oracle or from MS SQL Server side in both cases you have linking tools and heterogeneous queries mechanisms
  • Microsoft Great Plains integration with Lotus Notes/Domino. If you want Great Plains documents lookup from Lotus you typically use ODBC connection to MS SQL Server.  You need to know Great Plains tables structure (Tools->Resource Description->Tables in Great Plains)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, serving clients  in Chicago, California, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Arizona, Minnesota, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally ( http://www.albaspectrum.com ), he is CMA, Great Plains Certified Master, Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. You can contact Andrew: andrewk@albaspectrum.com