Customization Tools Sap Business One And Dynamics Gp Introduction Level Compariso

These two Small to Midmarket ERP systems are often considered as competitors to each

other and when prospective customers are coming through sales cycle they often see executive and technical presentations to make a decision between the two. Modern ERP and MRP systems are expected to be integrated within your IT infrastructure and here you have to estimate the flexibility and customizability. Lets take a look at B1 and GP from the perspective of simplicity or maybe complexity to be modified. Lets begin with Business One:

1.SAP B1 Software Development Kit. In essence it just contains code samples and documentation as recommended programming environment is Microsoft Visual Studio and such languages as C# and VB.Net where you can find code snippets. As you may judge this architecture is pretty open to generic Visual Studio software developers. Of course professional certification is recommended and working knowledge of ERP and Accounting systems architecture, business processes and tables structure. SAP BO is not locked on MS Windows platform as SDK project could be presented in the form of web service which could be called from Linux/PHP/MySQL or Oracle applications. It is very important to own source code as each version update requires SDK custom module to be recompiled

2.Dynamics GP Dexterity, VBA with Modifier, eConnect and Visual Studio Tools. Former Great Plains Dynamics and now member of Microsoft Dynamics family of ERP products has traditional and new tools. Its architecture is based on GP Dexterity which has Integrated Development Environment and semi-proprietary coding language Sanscript. Traditionally add-ons were packaged and distributed in the form of so-called chunk which is being copied into the Dynamics GP directory integrates itself and registers in Dynamics.set file. Simple modifications could be done in Modifier module with VBA event driven scripts. In earlier XXI Century Great Plains was exposed initially to ecommerce programmers via new integration tool eConnect. You can include eConnect libraries into MS Visual Studio integration project and perform coding in C++, C# or VB where code samples are in your disposition. Visual Studio Tools is another tool which allows you to add new or modify interface without appealing to Dexterity however the nature of the architecture suggests you new tables creation in Dexterity

3.Database Platform. In both applications it is Microsoft SQL Server however in GP you can program integrations directly in SQL Stored Procedures and they are actually the foundation of eConnect while in BO it is not recommended as this application has three tiers architecture and direct SQL data feeding or update violate Application Server role. SQL Server is open to such popular reporting tools as Crystal Reports and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services often abbreviated as SSRS. Dynamics GP is leaning toward SSRS while SAP B1 is favoring Crystal Reports especially considering the fact that SAP acquired CR vendor Business Objects

4.Other Considerations in ERP selection. Popular trend is Cloud nowadays where Microsoft Dynamics is pretty advanced. We are favoring Cloud computing in general however you should understand some possible questions. The first one is license ownership. Corporate ERP software market is based on initial purchase and annual membership fee concepts where annual contact is valued on software pricelist and normally exceeds fifteen percent. Annual contract gives you access to knowledge base and new version license key. When your business is enjoying economy prosperity it might be not a problem to pay several grand every year to software publishing company. However when time is tough you may decide to cut such expense be sure that in this case you still have access to your data on the outdated version

5.Excurse to current and historical versions. We are writing these lines in November of 2011 and SAP Business One current version is 8.81 and for Microsoft Dynamics GP it is version 2010 also referred as 11.0. SAP B1 historical versions are 2007A/B and 2005A/B where A flavor was for USA, Europe, Canada and Russia while B was for China, Japan and Brazil. With release of the version 8.8 both A and B flavors were merged meaning that you can deploy 8.8X for all the international branches on the same MS SQL Server. Now about historical versions of Dynamics GP or former Great Plains. They were 10.0, 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5 and more earlier. If you are existing Great Plains customer we would like to mention Great Plains Accounting DOS versions 9.5 and 9.2 as still in production

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