Microsoft Great Plains - Customization & Integration Series With Microsoft Business Solutions, you not only have complete customization and integration control, you also have access to a suite of powerful industry-standard tools and technologies that millions of developers are already familiar with. Built on the latest Microsoft technology, Microsoft Business Solutions delivers the Modifier with VBA for customizations. For simple to complex integrations, Microsoft Business Solutions provides Integration Manager, Integration Assistant for Excel, and the Continuum products to connect all parts of your business together. eConnect is a set of technologies that enable high-volume, high-speed programmatic integration between your Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains back office solution and external applications. eConnect’s application programming interface (API) allows you to create real time, transactional connections within your business, or with outside organizations. eConnect features the latest industry standard technologies including Visual Basic objects, stored procedures, BizTalk AIC adapters, COM integration, MSMQ utilization, and XML documents exchange. By using eConnect and your own development tools you can seamlessly integrate your applications, including web services into the Microsoft Business Solutions back office suite. Integration Manager provides you with the safest and easiest way to import business data into Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains. You’ll find value in using Integration Manager for safely converting data into a new Great Plains installation, or as an ongoing way to integrate data from your external business databases, e-commerce solutions and desktop applications with Great Plains. Integration Manager’s intuitive user interface, combined with a tight integration to the Great Plains architecture, allows you to deliver integrations to all of your organization’s business applications in hours instead of days or months. Modifier with Visual Basic for Applications The Modifier with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is the primary tool used to customize the Great Plains system to fit your organization’s needs. The rich VBA development environment is built into Great Plains, allowing you to customize, extend and integrate the Great Plains business management system using the most widely used development and customization environment in the software industry. You’ll find the Modifier with VBA invaluable for customizing data entry windows to match how your users work, applying custom business rules and workflow, or extending Great Plains using commercially available ActiveX controls. Dexterity is a client/server application development tool with the proven power to deliver scalable business solutions across multiple platforms and databases. Dexterity has the power to add significant functionality to Great Plains, adding individual functions where needed or creating entirely new applications that seamlessly integrate with the Great Plains modules. Integration Assistant for Excel The Integration Assistant for Excel provides a new level of integration between Great Plains and Microsoft Excel. Using comprehensive, intuitive tools that are designed to be used by non-technical staff, your organization can easily integrate existing or new Excel business applications with Great Plains. The Integration Assistant for Excel is the easiest way to integrate Microsoft Excel business applications and reporting tools into your business management system. Non-technical users will find it easy to use the Integration Assistant for Excel. No knowledge of ODBC or the Great Plains system tables is required. Using Continuum, you can integrate new or existing business applications written in Visual Basic or Delphi into the Great Plains interface, providing users with a built-in integrated solution that is custom fit to the business needs. Continuum represents a series of add-in components for the Visual Basic and Delphi environments that build the code necessary to integrate applications written in these tools with Great Plains.
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