subject: Dynamics Gp Integration With Legacy Systems: Oracle, Lotus, Odbc, Excel, Ms Access [print this page] Well, if you are deploying Great Plains Dynamics for mid-market organization as your new Corporate ERP, we recommend you to think about other parts of your IT infrastructure. This infrastructure might have such legacy applications as MySQL/PHP Linux hosted website, Oracle custom application, Lotus Notes Domino, Unix user interface, or you name it. Nowadays Corporate ERP market is very tough and competition is driving the price of the user licenses down. Great Plains is not an exception. Our recommendation is to keep your current infrastructure and apply phases or better to say evolutionary approach. Dynamics GP has its mid-market rich ERP business logic, this logic requires professional consultant touch. We recommend you to retrain from the steps, where you feel that you are introducing something revolutionary. Lets review the paragraphs:
1.Trying to keep the conservative approach. Microsoft Dynamics GP (former Great Plains Dynamics and Enterprise) is open with its integrating tools, we have to mention here Integration Manager, eConnect, Dexterity. Microsoft Visual Studio Tools (VST)
2.Lotus Notes, here we have to mention the fact that Lotus database, even being loosely structured could be exposed to external ODBC connection. If your re new to the IT department, please, be reassured that the message in this paragraph is very important. Lotus database could be programmed with Lotus Script, Great Plains Could be modified in GP Dexterity, but the message above is important
3.eCommerce Integrations, Here we have to admit that the majority (at least in our consulting practice) of Great Plains eCommerce B2B and B2C shopping cart integrations is done in Integration Manager, providing quasi real time integration. IM with version 10.0 ad 2010 is capable to deploy eConnect connectors and the technology in general
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