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Customizing Microsoft Great Plains®
Copyright © 2005 Tenny Ing
Viccomp, Inc.
http://www.Viccompinc.com



Microsoft Great Plains is a very popular accounting software that
is so flexible to work for various types of businesses. The
reason is it has so many customization tools, like Dexterity,
eConnect, VBA, and Crystal Report. It comes with modules like
General Ledger, Sales Orders, Accounts Receivable, Accounts
Payable, Inventory, Project Accounting, Inventory, Manufacturing
and other modules, all of them allow customization to make it fit
your business.

Dexterity is a programming language that allows developers to
modify or add custom window forms and reports to Great Plains.
The results look just like Great Plains built-in forms and
reports. For example, you can have extra data fields like
multiple emails and website addresses on the Employee Maintenance
window and report. It also allows the developers to add
functionalities that are different from what Great Plains already
has, for example, you can automate posting of selected batches of
sales orders to invoices.

eConnect is another tool that you can obtain separately from
Microsoft Great Plains to automate the migration of external data
from and to Great Plains. The data will be converted into XML
file format before eConnect works with it. Typically, there will
be a Visual Basic program to specify where the data will come
from and go to Great Plains. It can also work with Business
Portal and the web, and there is an option to migrate data in the
background using the Windows Queuing services.

VBA stands for Visual Basic for Application allows developers to
modify window forms and reports for Great Plains. However, VBA
is a separate program engine and the developers need to test it
to make sure that VBA and Great Plains work well together. Like
Dexterity, the developers can use VBA to add functionalities to
Great Plains.

Crystal Report is a very popular reporting tool that the
developers can use to create custom reports for Great Plains.
Even though Great Plains has a Report Writer, but more complex
reports may need to be written in Crystal Report. Custom reports
like complex income statements, aging reports, gross margin
reports are just a few examples.

With the advance of the web access, remote customization has
become very practical and convenient. The developers usually
already have Great Plains tools and then create the custom
program or modification. The result can be installed and tested
remotely easily.



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Tenny Ing writes for Viccomp, Inc.

There are other useful tools like Continuum to synchronize
Great Plains and an external program written in Visual Basic
or Excel. You could visit http://www.Viccompinc.com and we
can provide you with more answers.


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