Great Plains
Microsoft Acquired Great Plains in the year 2000. After numerous modifications and changes, Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 was released on 21st of June 2004.Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 will deliver improved usability; richer functionality for distribution, manufacturing and project accounting; greater capabilities through integrations with Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portal 2.5 and Microsoft Office 2003; and improved analytics.
The Look
Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 include the new look and feel that provide customers with a familiar, easy-to-use environment similar to Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003, which can help boost employee productivity and minimize training costs.
Better For Distribution and Manufacturing
A more comprehensive view of inventory will help give customers tighter control over distribution and manufacturing processes. Time and effort spent on key accounting tasks will be reduced with the ability to use existing transactions as the basis for new ones, as well as to quickly void, delete, correct or change journal entries while maintaining full audit control.
Reporting
New reporting options provide businesses with greater control of the financial reporting process and better financial visibility through Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics-FRx® 6.7. The improved analytics functionality gives customers four major enhancements: a new FRx Report Manager module, improvements to the FRx Currency Translation module, tighter integration with Microsoft Office Excel 2003, and upgraded support for the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) 2.0 taxonomy.
Key Features
Enhanced integration with other Microsoft applications such as Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portal and Microsoft Office is an additional key feature of Microsoft Great Plains 8.0. Microsoft Business Portal 2.5, used with Microsoft Great Plains 8.0, will further empower employees with new modules for online requisition management, expense entry and approval, and electronic delivery of sales documents to customers. Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 also builds on the Microsoft Office productivity foundation, enabling users to build template-based communications in Microsoft Word or easily attach maps and directions for sales, delivery and service call routes with Microsoft MapPoint®.
The Modules
- Financial Management
- Supply chain management
- Business Portal
- Human Resource management
- Manufacturing Series
- E-commerce
- Analytics and Reporting
- Customization & Integration Series
Technology
Written in C++, HTML, XML, Visusal basic, Dextirity.
MS-SQL server is the back-end RDBMS
Availability
Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 is available immediately in the United States and Canada through Microsoft Business Solutions reselling partners with Microsoft Business Portal 2.5. Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 would be available in the United Kingdom, Latin America and Africa, as well as in Australia and New Zealand.
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