Midsize Business ERP – Great Plains Standard vs. Professional : by More by Andrew Karasev
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Midsize Business ERP – Great Plains Standard vs. Professional
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Author: Andrew Karasev
Date Added: Friday Aug 26th, 2005
Category: Product Service Review If you are in the
growing mode and reach the point when you need to move away from old accounting
application and incorporate something, which could be considered as industry
standard ERP, you should know general direction and where to look for additional
information. Microsoft Business Solutions gives you several ERP packages to
choose from: Microsoft Great Plains Standard/Professional/Small Business
Financials, Microsoft Navision, Microsoft Axapta, Microsoft CRM. In this small
article we will concentrate on Microsoft Great Plains selection options.
Pricing.
Microsoft Great Plains Professional price is about two times higher than
Microsoft Great Plains Standard. You should probably know the history.
Current Great Plains Standard was formerly available on Pervasive SQL and
ctree and the product line name was Great Plains Dynamics. This product was
targeted to midsize and small businesses (with growing potential, for tiny
business you should consider MYOB, Peachtree, Quickbooks, etc.)
Database.
Currently both products (since version 7.5) are available on MS SQL Server.
Standard is also available on MSDE and MS SQL Select 2005. Here we are
talking about midsize business and MS SQL Server 2000/2005
Additional Modules.
Obviously both products have standard set of modules: General Ledger, Accounts
Payable, Accounts Receivable, SOP, POP, Inventory Control, Payroll, HR – Human
Resources. However if you are large/midsize business you may need additional
modules: Customer/Vendor Consolidation, Intercompany Transactions,
Manufacturing, Service Suite and others.
GP Standard
Limitations. Number of GPS
users has cap 10 users. Also in Payroll/HR you are limited to 500 employees
eConnect.
Large corporation usually has inhouse web and software developers. In this
case you can consider creating web interface for multiple users (and doing so
avoid numerous and expensive GP users licenses). eConnect is available for
both GPP and GPS. In our opinion, however – this is temporary gap – when
Microsoft Business Solutions will decide that eConnect should be user-licensed
this might be stopped. eConnect is currently not available for Small Business
Financials.
New Version.
MBS Great Plains Standard and Professional version 9.0 is scheduled to be
released in September 2005
Industries.
Great Plains Professional should be considered as ERP platform in the
following industries: Aerospace & Defense, Beverages, Apparels, Conglomerates,
Textile, Services, Non-for-profit, Transportation &Logistics, Warehouse
management/Shipping & Receiving, Distribution, Wholesale & Retail, Government,
Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Placement & Recruiting, Healthcare & Hospitals.
Cross-Platform
integrations. Combining Microsoft
Business Solutions Great Plains ERP with non-Microsoft Business System or CRM:
Lotus Notes Domino, Oracle, DB2
Good luck and you can always seek our
help in customization, implementation, integration and support. Call us:
1-866-528-0577 or 1-630-961-5918,
help@albaspectrum.com
Andrew Karasev is Chief
Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies – USA nationwide Great Plains,
Microsoft CRM customization company, serving Chicago, California, Arizona,
Texas, Florida, Georgia, New York, Australia, UK, Canada, Germany, Continental Europe,
Russia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ), he is Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports
and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.
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