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Great Plains Partner Newsflash: Payroll Timesheets and New Employees integration

Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP has US and Canadian Payroll modules, and this accounting application is often used by Payroll outsourcing companies to serve their customers as well as by large corporation to accrue and pay payroll checks, Social Security, Medicare, Federal and State Income taxes, plus W-2 printing and mailing to employees

In order to save on Dynamics GP user licenses, it is common
to see simple or complex timecard custom made application on the front, often
web based, where employees are logging their time on the daily base after each
shift and then this timesheet logging application should be automatically or
manually integrated with Great Plains Dynamics GP.  In this publication we will review various
options to do the job:

Dynamics GP FRx Reporting Overview For Consultant

Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP, also known as Great Plains is very popular accounting application and platform for mid-size businesses. 

It serves large number of industries: wholesale and retail, shipping and logistics, healthcare, light manufacturing and assembly (especially discrete production), multinational companies, services, project organization, trading.  In this small publication we would like to give you some highlight on Great Plains Reporting tool ? FRx financial reporting.  There are multiple reporting tools for GP: Crystal Reports, Report Writer, SRS, Microsoft Excel, MS Access, however FRx is the tool of choice, when you need to build Financial Reports: Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statement, Statement of Cash Flow

Great Plains Reseller Chicago, San Diego News: verticals

Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP in its core set of modules is ready for implementing in industries as ERP and MRP platform, however every business is unique with its business processes and workflows

If you are on the edge of your industry, chances are high that existing GP add-ons do not exist or do not do the job for your company.  In this case Dynamics GP implementation requires customization, and new unique add-on development specially for your company.  These add-ons are often referred as vertical ERP solutions or verticals.  In the case of Microsoft Great Plains we would like to give you GP add-ons programming highlights:

Great Plains Partner and Reseller News: Dynamics GP support in Chicago

Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains MRP and ERP application is very popular in Chicagoland and in this small publication we would like to give you GP implementation, customization, reporting, data conversion and migration, version upgrade, data integration case studies and highlights

We will base our paragraphs on real customer stories here in Illinois

Great Plains Customization ? Sales Document Delivery by SQL mail

Microsoft Dynamics GP or former Great Plains eEnterprise and Dynamics have multiple options for modification, integration, programming and reporting. 

In this small publication we would like to show you alternative way of delivering PDF printed Sales Documents to your customers via email.  You should also be aware that in GP Business Portal you can achieve the same goal by first of all implementing Great Plains Business Portal and its Electronic Document Delivery module.  In some cases you probably want to keep low profile and not to take BP implementation route.

Great Plains Consultant: Remote Version Upgrade Notes

If you have outdated version of Great Plains Dynamics, eEnterprise: 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 4.0, Great Plains on Pervasive SQL or Ctree/Faircom, or even Great Plains Accounting for DOS and Windows: 9.5, 9.2 or earlier versions, there is the way to update to current Microsoft Dynamics GP version 10.0 (or what is current on the moment, when you are reading these lines). 

Plus, the good news is ? if you are in USA, Canada countryside, where local onsite service is limited ? modern remote support technologies: VPN, remote desktop connections and web sessions can help you and will allow you to reduce Dynamics GP version update cost

Great Plains Consultant News: upgrade to version 10.0 issues

Microsoft Dynamics GP version 10.0 is current at this time, August 2008. 

If you are planning to upgrade from earlier version, you should read the upgrade recommendations on your GP customer or partner source.  In some cases you may get original news and work around from consultants in the field, who are doing upgrade on the daily base.  We would like to give you the most popular upgrade highlights:

Great Plains Dynamics GP consulting partner in San Diego, California

Microsoft Dynamics GP support to mid-size businesses in Southern California from the office in San Diego: Dexterity, eConnect, SQL scripting and stored procedures, GP Integration Manager, Crystal Reports, GP Report Writer, SRS, GP licenses sale, installation, implementation, initial data conversion, user training

Great Plains functional and technical consulting requires years of practice and experience, plus the consultants should preferably have industry expertise.  We invite you to give us a call, request business processes mapping and executive presentation.  Some GP highlights:

Great Plains Reports Design: Crystal, SRS, MS Access, Excel, ReportWriter, Dexterity, FRx

Microsoft Dynamics GP is successor of former Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise, current GP version is 10.0.  Since the time when GP became exclusively available on MS SQL Server DB platform only (since version 8.0), reporting tools for Great Plains gained new one: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS

This tool, essentially coming often free with the purchase of MS SQL Server license turned to become very efficient competitor to such traditional generic reports design tool as Crystal Reports.  Let’s review reporting tools in brief, following the rules of small article genre: