January 5th, 2009

Great Plains Support on MSDE and SQL Express: crossing 2GB or 4GB limits

Historically Great Plains Software introduced Great Plains Select, which was available on Pervasive SQL 2000 and Ctree database platforms, not on Microsoft SQL Server.  Later on, when Microsoft acquired Great Plains Software, it decided to switch from Pervasive and Ctree to newly introduced Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Edition or MSDE.  

MSDE, which is scaled down Microsoft SQL Server 2000 placed
the limit on its database size to be 2GB. 
Then in 2004, Microsoft Business Solutions came out with incentive to
allow Great Plains Standard 7.5 users to obtain registration key for running GP
on SQL Server 2000 platform free of charge. 
If you are crossing 2GB DB limit on MSDN, you should consider the
following actions:

December 8th, 2008

Great Plains Implementation for Non-Profit Organization overview for consultant

Grant Management is often required for non-for-profit organization, where you are distributing grants on behalf of donors to qualified grant recipients.  Microsoft Business Solutions specially recommends Dynamics GP ERP for Grant Management and Commitments

In this small publication we will come across Grant
Management Module functionality, implementation and possible
customization.  Great Plains should fit
to all spectra of charities and funds: from small fund, ran by individual enthusiast
to large scale nation-wide fund:

 

1.      
Analytical Accounting.  AA is the platform for Grant Management
Module.  However, you could expect that
GM deploys only fraction of Analytical Accounting features: dimensions,
Accounting Class, which enables tracking in GL, Receivable Management, Payable
Management, POP, Sales Order Processing and Inventory Control modules


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