Supporting Old Great Plains Dynamics GP Versions Notes Computers Articles | October 7 Cheap Earl Thomas III Jersey , 2009 If your organization is deploying one of the legacy Microsoft Dynamics GP or Great Plains Software DynamicseEnterprise versions: 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0 Cheap 12th Fan Jersey , 4.0 3.2 or Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows and Mac: 9.5, 9.2, 9.1, 8.0 or earlier, please enjoy this small article reading. ?
Great Plains Dynamics for Windows was introduced as pioneering Corporate ERP and Accounting application back in earlier 1990th as reasonable way out from old DOS accounting and Corporate ERP applications. ?Competition those old good days was pretty tough: Maconomy (Great Plains was also balancing Macintosh graphical platform to see who will be the winner in the long run) Cheap Shaquem Griffin Jersey , Scala (where most of the coding was in time performed in Hungary, it was one of the leading DOS Accounting packages in Europe), SUN Accounting, etc. ?Most of the competitors names are now forgotten, as we could conclude, but what the future will be nobody could predict with assurance. ?We remember ourselves to be visitors in Mac World conference in San Francisco in 1995 Cheap Russell Wilson Jersey , where we decided to stake on Great Plains Dynamics (however I personally recommended to try Maconomy - Denmark developed Accounting package for Macintosh OS). ?Plus consider additional complexities, as nobody knew about Java those days (however we took into consideration SUN Solaris Operating System, which was close to UNIX platform) ?But this was historical excurse. ?Let's move on to modern day events and Dynamics GP support: 1. Microsoft Dynamics GP support for versions 10.0 and 9.0. ?Assuming that you got so far, support depends on the fact if you are current in Microsoft Business Solutions Dynamics GP annual enhancement program. ?If the answer is Yes, we are currently enrolled in Microsoft Dynamics GP enhancement program for 2009 (or whatever is the year when you read this article), then your organization has access to newest Dynamics GP version (at this time Cheap Chris Carson Jersey , October 2009 it is Microsoft Dynamics GP version 10.0) 2. If you do not have support plan from Microsoft Business Solutions, please check with your official Dynamics GP Reseller on reenrollment options (or call our office for having help in reenrollment). ?Chances are high that your decision to abandon support plan was reasonable and the budget to reenroll is too high or even unrealistic. ?In that case you should probably stick to the option to run your Dynamics GP Great Plains on the old version. ?Just to give you our reasoning. ?MBS encourages Dynamics GP VARs to encourage their customers to be on current GP version and in Annual Enhancement Program, but we understand your situation and we are willing to help you with old Great Plains version support 3. Support FAQ for Great Plains on Pervasive SQL 2000 or Ctree, ?In our experience the issues are typically related to GP System moving to new server and Location Translation dilemma. ?Ctree or BtrievePervasive SQL 2000 date repair - we recommend these to be done via ODBC drivers from Microsoft Access (via Linked tables) or in MS SQL Server Linked Server object 4. Great Plains Accounting Migration to Dynamics GP. ?If your organization is in decent shape budget wise, please consider GPA to Dynamics GP migration scenario. ?GPA for Windows NT, DOS or Macintosh might be considered as Solid Rock Corporate ERP platform Cheap Ugo Amadi Jersey , however it is no longer supported directly by Software Publisher (Great Plains Software was acquired by Microsoft and Microsoft Business Solutions terminated GPA support in around 200