Saturday 27 August 2011

Microsoft Great Plains: Houston ERP market notes

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In this small article we would like to share our experience, Houston Business u-Bahn ERP/MRP/CRM market, in our case is the Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft CRM and Microsoft Navision Microsoft Axapta implementation, customization, integration and reporting. Let us introduce the products.
Microsoft business solutions renamed its ERP products: Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft CRM in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Navision in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Axapta in Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Solomon in Microsoft Dynamics SL. Project Green should merge product interfaces and cross integrate seamlessly anywhere century modules in the second decade of the XXI.
The peculiarities of the Houston market and customers:
o oil & gas: cold-pressed oil companies and oil refineries are relatively large, and it is a new opportunity for Microsoft Great Plains. We believe when Microsoft SQL Server became a competitor to Oracle, DBI and other end DB platforms, large company has a very good chance to reduce ERP application implementation & licensing costs and by rich editions: JDEdwards to the standard functionality of ERPs, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle Financials/E-Business Suite / applications: Great Plains eEnterprise/Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, etc.. You can set the Great Plains on the specific business logic than Microsoft Dexterity customizations too high a price to pay for feature-rich modules
o defense and air- and space. These companies are distributed across Texas: San Antonio, Dallas, Austin. These companies, established and have traditional cross application integration challenge. In some cases due to the size of these companies Microsoft Dynamics GP, serves as ERP for branch or subdivision and for the consolidation in corporate ERP. Microsoft CRM and Great Plains integration with Lotus Notes Domino should be especially considered.
o venture capital & startups. Especially in the Dallas area. Our experience to deal with such implementations indicates that business processes are so unique, that custom pieces must almost always are. The business type is typically new services and service advantage suite is aligned generally with Microsoft Great Plains modifier/VBA and Microsoft DEXTERITY. Because you should expect more project green progress.EConnect NET page customizations: XML Web services, etc.. When we venture capital - speak we micro cap ventures.
o chemicals. Across the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans - we have experience, implementation, customization and upgrade from Microsoft Dynamics GP for chemical tank cleaning company.