[ B E N E F I T S ] Reduce your development costs Minimize implementation time and cut development costs by allowing developers to select the tools they work with best to deliver integrations from your outside data sources, Web services, or e-commerce storefronts directly to your business solution. Work with reliable, industry standard technologies Automate your business processes using industry standard technologies such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Component Object Model (COM), Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), the Microsoft .NET Framework, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Extensible Markup Language (XML). Increase your return on investment Take advantage of technologies you already utilize, and achieve a higher return on your investment by leveraging the power of Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio and other industry-standard technologies to customize your solution. Get better information to make better decisions Share information and access data across applications so you can make critical business decisions quickly. Customize quickly and cost effectively Remove the functions you don't need, build different windows for different employees, and rearrange and remove prompts to mirror your business practices. Streamline Microsoft Dynamics GP to work more efficiently Add new features and integrate features from other applications using the same version of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) used in Microsoft Office products.

Create stand-alone or tightly integrated applications that have the same look and feel as Microsoft Dynamics GP.

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Extend and integrate with Microsoft Dynamics GP tables and fields using development environments such as Visual Basic.

Take advantage of emerging industry-wide standards and an extensive set of tools to customize, extend, and further integrate your Microsoft Dynamics GP solution. Along with the .NET capabilities included with Business Portal, Microsoft Dynamics GP enables developers to create real-time, transactional connections between Microsoft Dynamics GP and other applications and expand potential for new features and functionality.

Flexible Customization Capabilities

• Help reduce system complexity and integrate data and applications easily with Web Services.
• Utilize custom applications built with technologies such as ASP .NET for creating Web applications, and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual C++, and Visual Basic development systems.
• Work with easy-to-use integration tools that include advanced SQL query support and Visual Basic Scripting Edition.
• Customize, extend, and integrate data entry windows with built-in Visual Basic for Applications.
• Take advantage of built-in support for data access tools, such as Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).
• Gain easy access to thousands of industry-standard ActiveX controls.
• Share customizations across your organization with fast, straightforward processes.

The Rich VBA Customization Environment includes tools for writing and debugging Visual Basic code, managing Visual Basic projects, and adding new forms for Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Industry-Standard Technologies
Connect with external data sources using the power of SQL Server as well as industry-standard technologies such as Web services, BizTalk Server, COM, MSMQ, SOAP, and XML.

Built-in Connectivity Tools
Use built-in tools to focus on XML and business logic development without the need to rebuild transport protocols, so that developers can efficiently customize the existing infrastructure.

Extensive Set of Sample Integration Component
Extend business logic to fit your needs with powerful components such as a BizTalk Server snap-in, Microsoft Windows MSMQ Service to transport XML documents, and a SOAP service example.

Data Validation Support
Integrate with business objects that act as a doorway for data, helping ensure data validation and returning well-formed XML.

Business Object Extensibility
Expand your business logic with multiple methods of adding appropriate business logic, including adding additional XML nodes, pre- and post-SQL stored procedures, and custom middleware.

Integration of Existing Resources
Integrate your existing online storefront, Web solution, or other data source with Microsoft Dynamics GP by using a series of transactional business objects.

Extensible Web Services
Use Web services to streamline your data entry and tie your systems together with multiple integration points into Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Ensure the accuracy and integrity of external data by processing data through business logic contained in Microsoft Dynamics GP, ensuring that data meets the processing criteria before being committed to the database.

Reduce system complexity and shorten developer time for lower integration, development, and maintenance costs.

Modifier with VBA
Customize data entry windows for ease of use and better workflow with Visual Basic tools and cost-effective development resources.

Create direct links from windows, reports, and fields to Microsoft Office Excel , Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Access 2003, and Microsoft Office Outlook, as well as to other applications written to COM standard.

Quickly package and send customized forms, reports, or screens to colleagues and help ensure a rapid, simplified import process.

Dexterity
Leverage an easy distribution and implementation method for standalone or integrated applications that have the same look and feel as Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Take advantage of an integrated macro language for regression analysis testing of applications.

Access all resources in the Microsoft Dynamics GP development environment.

Microsoft Dynamics GP Software Development Kit (SDK)
The SDK helps developers working directly with data tables to create extended customizations and integrations.

Comprehensive documentation provides an outline of the Microsoft Dynamics GP data model, while essential tools further aid customizations and integrations.

Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Toolkit
Further tailor and extend your Microsoft Dynamics GP solution with a toolkit that includes documentation, samples, and command-line tools and compilers to help developers create and deploy .NET Framework applications.

Customization Tools are sold separately. Integration Manager XML capabilities and eConnect are not available with Microsoft Dynamics GP Standard.
 

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