Recovering Microsoft Great Plains Customization - Tips for IT Director

Remember nice and prosperous Clinton era? Whenthey had to move and get a job with nation-wide
you implemented innovative those old days accountingMicrosoft Great Plains Customization Partner. The
application - Great Plains Dynamics. And did a lot ofsame should be said about Great Plains Modifier/VBA,
customizations to fit your business requirementsContinuum for VB and Delphi, ReportWriter and Great
precisely. You still remember the names of consultantsPlains Integration Manager VBA programmers. These
and programmers who did the job and probably thetechnologies, especially Dexterity source code
name of the company - Great Plains reseller in yourprogramming and require substantial dedication. In
business metro. This company more likely doesn't existsome cases these people become project managers
in the same form - either closed the doors or mergedand lead offshore development forceo Offshore
and transformed to something else. When you tried toDevelopers. Even in the time of legendary Great Plains
contact former programmers - they more likely nicelySoftware - a lot of third party modules were
let you know that they do not do this any more - theyprogrammed and designed in Philippines - if you
got completely different job and profession. Greatremember Match Data Project Accounting - this
Plains Software was acquired by Microsoft and notcompany was purchased by Great Plains Software
part of Microsoft Business Solutions. In old good days(interesting enough that the rival was Intellisol
Great Plains Software was taking care of popularizingInternational - Australian based company, later on
its customization and growing Great Plains Dexteritymoved to Fargo in hope of the luck). Then Great Plains
programming expertise. Nowadays Microsoft Businesssubdivision was transformed into Microsoft Business
Solutions has more concerns on merging all its ERPSolutions Philippines and then closed around 2002.
applications: Great Plains, Solomon, Navision, AxaptaNowadays the best Dexterity source code
and making them run together as a set of modulesprogramming pool is concentrated there and in
(project Green).o Dex Programmers Pool. Well, youAustralia. You may ask - how about tradition offshore
may say - anyway let's place ad and look at five Dexplaces, such as India - yes - you can find a lot of MBS
programmers to choose from and make an upgradedevelopment companies in India, but in the case of
to our really advanced customization for Great PlainsGreat Plains they might be short of Dex source code
Dynamics on Pervasive SQL. We'll move it toprogramming expertise.o How do I recover my Dex
Microsoft Great Plains on MS SQL Server 2005. Incustom piece? You should in our opinion look for
about month you may realize that nobody actuallyinexpensive nation-wide Great Plains customization
replied to your ad and you got only couple of Indianpartner, who has Dex project managers and offshore
offshore development companies general offers todevelopers.
contract them software development you might need.You can always appeal to our help with your
Where are all the local Dex programmers. Thecustomization upgrade or modification, we use regional
answer is - they more likely do not exist anymoreoproject manager and developers in Philippines and
Great Plains Customization Partners. ProgrammersBrazil! If you want us to do the job - give us a call
were laid off and transformed their career to866-528-0577 or 630-961-5918!
something else. Dexterity programmers still exist but