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Microsoft Dynamics GP sometimes is also referred by its historical name Great Plains Dynamics or eEnterprise. Modern Dynamics GP, having strong DB platform behind it Microsoft SQL Server (with possible clustering options) is often found as Corporate ERP application in mid-size publicly traded corporations as well as non-for-profit organizations. We would like to mention that software licenses for GP are probably lower in cost, comparing to upper mid-market MRP, ERP, HR and Accounting systems, such as Oracle eBusiness Suite or even Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly known and sometimes still referred as Axapta). This makes Great Plains very attractive from the implementation and support budget side, especially when you see the majority of the required ERP functionality covered in native Dynamics GP modules, then good portion of missing functionality is covered in GP ISV add-ons, and finally small or moderate missing logic could be reasonably cost efficiently done via custom programming in Great Plains Dexterity, eConnect, MS Visual Studio SDK for GP, Crystal Report (or SSRS, if you prefer) and possibly directly in SQL stored procedures. Based on our experience we would like to share good practice examples, when implementing, customizing and supporting Dynamics GP:

1.When Implementation is done and you are now in production cycle with GP. Here you typically want to do phase two adding various integrations between your legacy applications (might be EDI, eCommerce, simple in-house programmed manufacturing, consolidated reporting for all the branches and subsidiaries), or decide to launch customization programming project. These scenarios are pretty common. Our recommendation is the following when you have to unfreeze your Corporate ERP system and come through the chain of modifications, consider upgrading your annual Dynamics GP maintenance contract with Microsoft Business Solutions, purchase the plan where you have unlimited number of technical support cases per year, and even consider a bit more expensive plan, where MBS assigns you leading technical consultant, who will know your project and key people and will coordinate Dynamics GP technical support

2.Customization Project planning. We strongly recommend review the idea of the paragraph above, as for large organization the cost of purchasing unlimited tech support plan might be insignificant, or tolerable. Now, you have to pick the right Dynamics GP Technology Partner for the customization implementation. The people, who implemented your Dynamics GP originally might be CPA or Software Sales oriented and not really interested in technology consulting (again, we already mentioned the tools: Dexterity, eConnect, Extender, Modifier with VBA, Report Writer, direct SQL scripting). It is generally not a good idea to change horses, when you are crossing the ford, but down the road it might be a good decision to make. Dynamics GP custom programming typically requires Dexterity, where the majority of Dynamics GP ISV products are programmed. Try to find your next Dynamics GP consulting firm, where they are enrolled in so-called Dynamics GP Source Code Program. Only the firms with large number of Dexterity software developer in staff could allow this program, and if they have it likely you are dealing with the company, which carries Dynamics GP Software Development Factory

3.Customization Project Anatomy. When you are launching custom development project for Dynamics GP (or another Corporate ERP platform), there are success and failure factors to consider. First of all consider establishing test environment, where you current Great Plains company database is loaded into the test company for programming purposes and quality assurance. Dynamics GP has also learning company TWO, where there is some sample master records and transactions, and Dexterity developer could test its code against TWO, but we believe that test environment with the copy of your production company is a way more efficient and will save you a lot of consulting hours. Secondly, unique customization doesnt have the luxury of technical issues knowledge base, meaning that you have to establish good relations with your Dynamics GP Dexterity programming team

4.Consolidated Reporting and its design. This project might be too challenging for your internal IT department, as reports design requires either FRx or Microsoft Management Reporting (introduced for Dynamics GP 2010 as an alternative to FRx Financial Reporting) skills. It is perfect situation, when all your subsidiaries are implemented in Dynamics GP, but it is not always and even typically the case, especially when your corporation has presence in such regions as China, Brazil, Russia, East Europe, where recent versions of Great Plains Dynamics are not localized. First option to consider in our opinion is to integrate all your foreign subsidiary GL transactions into the matching company database on your Dynamics GP SQL Server in the Headquarters (Integration Manager is probably the tool of choice). Via Integration Manager GL transaction integration you can move foreign subsidiary daily, weekly or monthly activities from such internationally localized mid or small market ERP systems, as SAP Business One, Navision, Axapta. Then the next step is on the FRx consultant list of to-dos. Second option would be FRx Tree, where you are consolidating Dynamics GP GL from your companies, where Great Plains is implemented as Accounting and with GL trial balance export to Excel from non GP compliant subsidiaries and branches

5.For additional information, please feel free to call us 1-866-304-3265 or 1-269-605-4904 (this number works for international customers) or email us help@alba866.com We serve you USA/Canada nationwide via remote support (web sessions and phone/Skype conferences). Local service is available in Western Michigan, Chicagoland, Southern California (LA, Orange County, San Diego), Houston area of the state of Texas

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If you plan to travel the world or participate in a geocaching adventure, carrying a complete file of digital country maps for your GPS receiver is extremely important. And while cities and states continue to develop and build more streets, highways and shorter routes to go from city to city or state to state, you need to periodically update your existing maps to keep track of changes on the routes and traffic system of the places you travel.When you perform a Google search for “free GPS map”, you will be able to find a lot of places online that let you download a free-of-cost GPS map. Actually, not just one you can download a lot of GPS maps. You will be able to choose and pick out which maps you would like to download and then all you have got to do is upload them from your computer to your GPS receiver.

Coming to the point of the GPS system being a driver?s buddy, it actually is so, because it is packed with verified information and pre-loaded with GPS maps that work much like mother-in-laws (or, say, the regular back-seat driver) – albeit, with less sarcasm than this lot! On a more serious note, while the pre-loaded maps are helpful for many different locations, they may not always carry the updated information on the particular spot you intend to journey to or have inadequate information beyond a certain region.There are many times when you travel to unknown places and destinations.

Without the right map you are bound to get lost and lose track of the place to where he is heading. The device that is required for the traveler is a handheld G.P.S device. The main benefit of owning a G.A.R.M.I.N handheld device is to access G.A.R.M.I.N G.P.S maps that have the most up-to-date features beneficial to travelers.

Your portable GPS unit may be pre-loaded with GPS maps, but very often you will find that the details you desire will be lacking in them. Your portable GPS unit could well prove to be a life saver in case you lose your way during your expedition. So acquiring detailed and accurate GPS maps for the portable unit is of prime importance.GPS maps for portable GPS devices are available at many repositories. You first stop should be the Internet where you can download a lot of free GPS maps ready to be installed in your handheld GPS device. Just looking at search engines like Google will return a lot of maps ready to be downloaded for free with a variety of destinations.Many GPS devices are used as travelling guides for a trip. Therefore GPS devices have superseded our old map artifacts. You may be wondering how useful a GPS device is. It is obvious that having detailed information about your trip in advanced will only make it more enjoyable, faster, safer and reduce any risks during your trip.

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Auto mobile industry has been developed so far and it has created immense knowledge over large scale. Do you exactly know about all the features of auto mobile? World is so fast today. People do not have the time to do all their works at proper timings. People met with different kinds of accidents in their daily life. With your single fault the result
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As you might know with Microsoft Dynamics GP version 2010 there is alternative to FRx Microsoft Management Reporter. However there is not such a big news to mention that most of the Controllers and Accountants are reasonably conservative and at this time, September 2010 FRx is dominant in such reporting area as Financial Reports: Balance Sheet, P&L, Statement of Cash Flow. Some facts about FRx it was available over fifteen years for Great Plains Software Dynamics, later on (since the time when Microsoft acquired GPS in the time of Century change) for Microsoft Great Plains and now for Dynamics GP. FRx is also available for other Microsoft Dynamics products, such as AX-Axapta, SL-Solomon and even for non-Microsoft Corporate ERP system (out of scope in this paper)

1.Installation. For recent few versions of Dynamics GP, including 2010/11.0, 10.0, 9.0 and even 8.0 you can install FRx 6.7 from the CD and then apply required service pack (download from Partner Source or Customer Source web portal on the Microsoft website). In order to deploy FRx in multi-user Great Plains environment you need to know some basics about FRx architecture. First of all FRx Financial Reporter has so-called metabase, stored in Sysdata folder, which should be placed on the Server. In Sysdata you normally create your reports in default specification set, or in more advanced and flexible scenarios, you may create several specification sets on several servers (files with .FRL extensions in fact these are password protected Microsoft Access databases, if you have normal curiosity of the IT professional). Default FRx installation creates Sysdata directory in Program Files FRx folder, when you are done with first machine, you should move it to the server and then change path to it in FRx interface: Admin->Organization->Sysdata. When you install second machine, you do all defaults and do not change Sysdata folder, until required Service pack is applied, otherwise you may force FRx to think that it is not on the current version and exit with error (in some cases we saw even FRx metadata corruption, caused by trying to connect from older version of FRx workstation)

2.Implementation. What to do if may Balance Sheet doesnt balance? Well, we recommend you to take some FRx training, where you will be walked through such procedures as Row Format, Column Layout, Reporting Tree, Account Set and final Catalog (it is report in FRx terminology) creation and troubleshooting. If Balance Sheet doesnt balance, you print with missing accounts report and go from there. You are not the first and you are not the last one, but to our observation, FRx is very simply and intuitive to most of Controllers and Financial Accountants and they are comfortable to build reporting blocks on their own after reasonable introduction to FRx by Great Plains Consultant

3.Support. We would classify FRx support calls to two categories. First is Sysdata catalogs corruption (one of the most frequent is GL indexes rebuilt failure, where this process goes into limbo phase – the cure is to log off FRx and delete files with .G32 extension in the Sysdata, however this procedure is kind of surgery and we recommend it to be trusted to Dynamics GP consultant hands). If Catalog is corrupt (various error messages, we recommend you to search your specific case in Customer Source knowledge base), first step to try is to File->Compact FRx Database, and that one doesnt help you go for more radical measure Company->Specification Set->Export, then you select all the objects there (Catalogs, Row, Columns, Trees). When export is done, try to import it back to the same specification set or to the new one. And the second category of FRx support cases is associated with IT infrastructure changes, such as moving all Dynamics GP and FRx users to Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Server, moving Great Plains to new hardware (especially when you are sticking to older versions of Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise and FRx). We will split these issues into several paragraphs below

4.FRx support issues on Citrix. One of them is very annoying for accountants FRx Drill Down viewer may not recognize your default printer. This could be replicated in the following scenario. In your FRx catalogue select Output to FRx Drill Down Viewer (enhanced XML, or older one for Win 2000/98), generate report (this process will open Drill Down Viewer) and try to print. You may get the dialog, suggesting select printer, where you see the printer suggested first to not your Citrix set default network printer. This is known issue with FRx, even if you have Great Plains working correct and printing to the Citrix user assigned printer. Sometimes the issue is further complicated, where Drill Down Viewer doesnt keep FRx catalog specified Landscape paper orientation (especially for P&L 12 months type of reports). The fix is fairly simple in FRx catalog in Output Options change (destination) from Drill Down Viewer to Printer (and also change Detail Level DDL settings to Financial Report this should save you a lot of paper, otherwise if you keep it as Financial & Transaction each detail level case as you might go there via FRx Drill Down Viewer would be printed on the separate paper page)

5.Supporting old FRx versions. Here you may have issues with installing FRx for new users, where you are not familiar with such concept as switching Sysdata from default to the one on the network, see paragraph one. Second popular issue is ODBC connection to Pervasive SQL 2000 (or even older version Btrieve) databases. You might be facing that kind of issues if you are on Great Plains Dynamics version 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0 or earlier with FRx 6.5 or even earlier. Problem is complicated by the fact that Microsoft Business Solutions doesnt support these GP and FRx versions directly and you have to find local or regional FRx consultant to do the job. In our opinion all FRx versions are supportable, we carry consultants to do the job in case when you need it

6.Under the hood of your FRx. Sometimes, this is especially possible for Corporate Dynamics GP customers, we hear the request, something like that listen, we are moving away from FRx to something more powerful in Linux/Unix or MS SQL Server Reporting Services. What we need from you is export FRx Row Formats, Column Layouts, Reporting Trees, and other FRx reporting blocks to Excel, from where we could import it into our Financial reporting tool of the future. As we already mentioned above FRx is very primitive it its database structure FRx specification set is based in MS Access file (password protected, but hey do your homework on how to go inside)

7.Multinational Reporting in FRx. First to mention is the fact that FRx supports multicurrency and it is in synch with GP multicurrency for your companies. There are some cases, where Great Plains customer has subsidiary in the country, where Dynamics GP is not localized and they do accounting over there in something like SAP Business One, Axapta or even locally known ERP or accounting application. FRx is definitely available for Axapta, however when you are dealing with something like SB1 or proprietary international accounting application, we recommend you to consider exporting GL trial balance to Excel and hook up Excel worksheet in FRx Row Format. If you think that it is too simplified and you would like to see more GL details, second recommendation would be consider creating foreign subsidiary as phantom company in Dynamics GP with overnight GL transactions integration via Integration Manager

8.To request further support, please call us 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com. By the nature of our service we are available for WMS implementation USA, Canada nationwide. Local service is available in Western Michigan: St. Joseph, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Holland, New Buffalo; in Chicagoland, North Western Indiana, Southern California (Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine, Orange County), Houston and Dallas areas of Texas

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 When it comes to how you want to convert your phone into a GPS tracking device, there are many ways for you to choose from, but there are few that gives you the most for your money. They can also be used as a cheap GPS vehicle tracking. Have combined for only a fraction of the cost with a professional tracking device, you can access to many similar features that you would in the pursuit of a particular vehicle. Although you will not be able to get some of the high-end features with a cheap mobile phone solution, you can still get tracking information that will meet your needs.
 
This is how it would like, is as follows:
 
You buy a phone that comes with one of the many free GPS tracking software programs that are available – these phones can sometimes be very expensive, so you must ensure that you get the cheaper one.
They will then visit the website of the application that you want to use. This will provide you with specific instructions to operate the special set of software.
Once you have installed the software, you will then be ready to set up the cell phone inside the vehicle, you want to trace. If possible, try a phone charger that was designed specifically for your phone. In this way there is never a need to set the phone so that your phone when removing trackthe car is in operation.
If you want the vehicle to be tracked, all you have to do, just run to the phone switch and the software you need and all the GPS tracking data you need.
This facility is to approve a fantastic and inexpensive way to give GPS tracking for cars. You can use it to create all types of real-time tracking, including the following steps:
Monitor a teen driver who is just driving the car for the first time.
In pursuit of a spouse who you suspect of fraud on you.
Assist a business to plan an effective route for their vehicles.
To know a spouse, if someone coming home from a long trip
I’m sure there are many other reasons why a person might use a cheap GPS tracking device, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. While this system is certainly convenient, it’s definitely not free. There are a lot of expenses you have to consider before you is to take the plunge. The first is the cost of the phone itself. Although some of the phones that can come with free GPS tracking compatibility can be very expensive, you can also opt for cheap mobile phones on a pay-as-you-go plan. If this is your choice, it will only cost around 30 dollars.
 
Apart from the cost of the phone itself, you also need a data plan that supports your data usage. Real-time GPS tracking can be done only when a device hooked to a network that can support data transfer. This could either beWeb-enabled mobile phone or one that comes with GPRS. Either way, you’ll want to plan a fairly robust data. Depending on the cell phone provider that you can sign up with these costs at $ 30-50 per month.
 
In the final analysis, however, buying a low-cost GPS tracking device will probably around 60% of the functionality of a device that is purchased and operated by a tracking company. It will be sufficient for certain purposes, but will probably not have the functionality, look for some people. Still, if you on a tight budget, you can definitely consider buying such a GPS tracking device.

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