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Microsoft Dynamics GP or former Great Plains has large selection of development
and programming tools. As technical consultant you should decide on the
customization scope, life time expectancy, future customization migration to
Project Green/Microsoft Dynamics (without GP AX NAV SL), etc.
Microsoft Business Solutions or current name is Microsoft Dynamics subdivision
of Microsoft is on the way of very rapid and substantial changes. In earlier XXI
century Microsoft purchased Great Plains Software (Great Plains and Solomon),
then a bit later Navision Software (Navision & Axapta). Then it produced very
nice idea on standardizing the ERP modules: Financials, Manufacturing, Supply
Chain/Distribution, Human Resources with the following seamless blocks
interaction and integration. Imagine you have Financials module from, say
Great Plains, then you integrate it with Supply Chain modules suite from Axapta.
Plus users (and consultants) will be prepared to future Dynamics through
unification of interfaces. This seems very logical and nice for consultant,
however if you develop customizations you may raise a lot of questions. Lets
look at the reasonable questions and possible answers:
Native Programming Languages: Microsoft Dexterity in the case of Dynamics GP
or MorphX/X++ in the case of Axapta or C/SIDE in the case of Navision. If in
your customization you would like to have full spectrum of Microsoft Dynamics GP
objects and tools, you have to use something very close to Microsoft Dynamics GP
original source code. Microsoft reopened Microsoft Great Plains source code
program for MBS partners. Source code program allows you to see dexterity
scnscript code and so deploy it in your customization via analysis and
imitation. However the fate of native languages is not very clear. As you may
say Microsoft will have to move all the code to .Net (or its successor),
something like C# or VB.Net coding
eConnect and XML Web Services. As more and more objects are exposed through
eConnect and XML Webservices (abstraction of eConnect classes and methods)
these seems to be natural tools. However we would be very conservative in the
sense of Microsoft Dynamics module future. Imagine you are deploying custom
logic and in a few years Microsoft Dynamics replaces your database structure or
the whole module, just leaving the interface similar. You customization might be
coming deeper than interface level. Then what would be the implication to recode
or upgrade it? Obviously if you program on the SQL level then database
restructuring by MBS itself will make your customization non-functional, but
even if you work on XML web service level it is not quite 100% guaranteed that
XML Web service interface will not change or if the set of XML web services will
be replaced with new set
Dexterity it will probably be in place till 2011 or something about 5 years.
And all these years we, as software developers will have to keep our eye on the
Microsoft plans. .Net tools are subject to .Net evolution and its pace. SQL
scripting will probably be always good if you are lucky that MS doesnt change
database structure in the scope of your custom logic
About Alba Spectrum Technologies. Alba Spectrum Technologies is joint venture of
several IT and business consulting companies, now operating as single business
entity. We have local presence in the Houston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles,
San Diego, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, New Orleans, Minneapolis,
San Francisco, LATAM & Brazil, Germany, Russia, South East Asia and Oceania. We
believe in the coexistence of Java (J2EE, EJB, Linux, Unix), Oracle and
Microsoft (.Net, C#, VB) platforms and systems and specialize in several product
lines and cross platform integration, customization, heterogeneous report
design, plus we provide ERP/CRM systems comparison and reviews, not being
committed to just on MRP platform. We also stake on XML cross-platform data
interchange to be advanced in the coming decade.
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Alba Spectrum Group, USA/Canada: 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, Europe: +44 20
8123 2580, +45 36 96 55 20, Mexico: 52-55-535-04027, Brazil: 55-11-3444-4949,
help@albaspectrum.com skype: albaspectrum
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