Dynamics GP as the Successor of Microsoft Small Business FinancialsSmall Business Manager Computers Articles | October 22 Cheap Solomon Thomas Jersey , 2010 If you are on Microsoft Small Business Financials 9.0, 8.0, 7.5 or 7.0, then you have to face the decision on where to move in the short or midterm future
Small Business Financials is no longer supporter and the last version is SBF 9.0, from where you are recommended to move to Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Essentials Business Ready licensing structure.? Migration module is available, however you would need to purchase discounted Dynamics GP Business Ready software licenses (where the number of user should match)?
1.?Migration path and experience.? Historically Microsoft Business Solutions offered you the paths to migrate from Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows and Mac 9.5 Cheap Fred Warner Jersey , 9.2, and earlier versions.? Now it is a turn for Great Small Business Manager or Microsoft Small Business Financials to leave the scenes and be converted to Dynamics GP Business Ready license model.? If you are still in production with Microsoft Small Business Financials 8.0 or 9.0, we would like to share with you upgrade experience, and how bumpy it was, Well, you should expect something like 30+ hours consulting hours budget, but other than that Cheap Dante Pettis Jersey , upgrade was successful? (we had to do additional setup in Dynamics GP SOP module, plus we had to train old Small Business Financials user to enter new Dynamics GP Item with assignment to the default warehouse and pricing schema)
2.?Why MBS is abandoning Microsoft Small Business Financials?? Well, in our opinion this question is rather open ended.? Microsoft introduced such small business accounting product as Microsoft Small Business Accounting in somewhere around 2006.? Small Business Financials is scaled down version of mid-market Corporate ERP application ? Dynamics GP, where Dexterity functions were disabled
3.?What is Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Ready?? It really fits to mid-market ERP customers.? However if you just walked away from such legacy applications as Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows, or Macintosh, QuickBooks Cheap Mike McGlinchey Jersey , Peach Tree, MYOB, Accpac, Microsoft Dynamics GP might be a bit overpriced for your small business.? On the other hand, if your business was experiencing steady growth, Microsoft Dynamics GP could be considered as the way out of small business accounting restrictions
4.?FRx future.? This is another walk away and when to do so the question.? With the introduction of the Microsoft Dynamics GP 201011.0 version, FRx Financial Reporting is recommended to be replaced (with migration pack) to Microsoft Management Reporting.? Our feedback from field Dynamics GP and FRx consultants is very positive and they report that FRx migration is very smooth and intuitive.? Typical issues with FRx from Small Business Financials as Sysdata directory related Cheap Richard Sherman Jersey , such as GL indexes rebuilding limbo, Specification Set export and recovery, default font selection, trying to automate FRx reporting by accessing Microsoft Access FRx database and manipulating its records directly in MS Access (by breaking through FRx MS Access Password, we described the technology in several ar4ticles, but at this point it became too widespread and at the same time dangerous, we would rather recommend you to stick to FRx report design guidelines and be on rather conservative side)
5.?Report Writer report design for Small Business Financials. By whatever reason Great Plains Software (and Microsoft? Business Solutions left this plan as it was)
6.?Old Great Plains Dynamics on Pervasive SQL Server or Ctree.? If you are small business or lower mid-size one and you are deploying Great Plains since earlier 1990th Cheap Jimmy Garoppolo Jersey , you might still be on Great Plains Dynamics version 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0 on Pervasive SQL 2000Btrieve or Ctree Db platform.? Alba Spectrum supports all the versions of Great Plains, ever released Cheap Matt Breida Jersey , including Great Plains Dynamics on Pervasive SQLCtree, or Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows (in fact this mid-market Corporate ERP application was available on Btrieve platform back in 1990th, and you can redeploy it on Pervasive SQL 2000 on such popular modern Windows OS as Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 and earlier, the only restriction is 32 bit version)
7.?What to do if you feel that Dynamics GP is too expensive option for your small business?? Well, we are happy to help you with data export from Small Business Financials to something like Microsoft Access or Excel or even text files (coma or tab delimited)
8.?Dexterity customizations for Small Business Financials.? They are convertible to Dynamics GP, as the Dynamics.Dic dictionary is pretty much similar and if you decide to migrate from small business financials to Microsoft Dynamics GP Dexterity customization should be counted as transferrable (some minor code review might be recommended to be outsourced to Great Plains Dexterity programmers)
9.?Dynamics GP XML exposure.? Great Plains eConnect SDK (not available for Small Business Financials Cheap George Kittle Jersey , as you move to Dynamics GP, you can begin using eConnect) is supporting XML parameters call to its encrypted SQL stored procedures.? In our opinion eConnect came to its maturity with Dynamics GP version 10.0.? Plus take into consideration that eConnect was restricted to runtime for Small Business Financials (earlier versions, to the recent versions econnect was made not available) s Chinese, Japanese, Korean Cheap Mitch Wishnowsky Jersey , German, Italian, Arabic, Persian.? The interface translation is not really the end of the story.? There is such a concept as Corp