Microsoft Business Solutions — Great Plains
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Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains® provides a solid foundation for unifying processes. Its outstanding financial tools enhance the visibility and control of your business health, resulting in more confident and smarter decisions. It's cost-effective and reliable, delivered by a vast network of trusted service providers, and backed by extensive service and support.
Microsoft Great Plains is a comprehensive accounting and business management system. It supports business processes in the lower mid-market and scales to meet the requirements of complex business processes in the upper mid-market and corporate market. Microsoft Great Plains divides business processes into modules. Modules are collections of applications that work together to meet a number of closely related accounting and business management goals. Modules that have similar purposes are organized into solution series. The solution series that are available with Microsoft Great Plains include the following:
- Financial Management
- Analytics
- Human Resource Management
- Customer Relationship Management
- Field Service Management
- Supply Chain Management
- E-commerce
- Manufacturing
- Retail Management
- Foundation
- Customization Tools
- Project Management
Using the tools described, developers can customize Microsoft Great Plains modules for their customers or write applications that integrate with Microsoft Great Plains. For more information about the functionality of Microsoft Great Plains, visit the Microsoft Business Solutions Web site.
Microsoft Great Plains was designed with an open architecture, which means that there are a number of ways that the application can be customized and integrated. At a high level, the architecture can be broken down into four basic components: the database layer, the data dictionary layer, the business logic layer, and the user interface layer. Third-party (external) applications can interact with Microsoft Great Plains at any of these four layers. Most integration should occur at the business logic layer, which ensures valid data and the best performance. Integrating to the database layer is complex and introduces the possibility that data will not be validated; modifying the user interface layer can reduce performance.
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