Software Information

Microsoft Small Business Manager eCommerce - Overview


Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Manager is scaled down Great Plains Dexterity based version of Microsoft Great Plains or former Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise. Small Business Manager first release 7.0 and all the following version was available on MSDE (MS SQL Server 2000 with limited usage and database size - 2GB maximum). It is nice situation on the market in eCommerce niche - we see huge number of customers, who have purchased and implemented SBM for their small and mid-size businesses and then realized that customization options for Small Business Manager are very limited: in comparison to Great Plains SBM doesn't have VBA/Modifier, it has very restricted version of Integration Manager. These restrictions lead you, eCommerce developer to direct SQL programming. Again - being scaled down version of Microsoft Great Plains - Small Business Manager has a legacy of relatively complex tables structure. tom stored procedures way here:

1. Tables Structure. Small Business Manager has similar to Great Plains structure and similar System DYNAMICS database and the company. As you could see tables structure in Resource description in Great Plains - so you do in SBM

2. Stored Procs. Yes - we can go ahead and create stored proc in DYNAMICS and companies databases or Small Business Manager. Now - there is one issue. Technically Small Business Manager comes with MSDE and MSDE doesn't have lovely tool SQL Server Enterprise Manager with Query Analyzer, etc. So somehow you should deal with this. If you have consulting programmer - she or he can connect to your MSDE installation, using MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager, installed on consultant's laptop

3. Visual Studio.Net. This is the development tools to use - because you will need a lot of web-debugging, considering complicated tables structure and records workflow. Some developers might suggest to use VS.Net data designer to link to Great Plains tables - this idea is rather very difficult to realize, because of the simultaneous population of multiple tables, while creating internet orders: Order Header, Order Lines, Order Comments, Customer Master, Customer Address Master to name a few. So we would recommend sticking to stored proc.

4. SOP. Sales Order Processing. Usually eCommerce solution works around Sales Order Processing tables. The reason is - it works with Inventoried items and typical eCommerce is ordering specific items off the internet. Look at SOP10100, SOP10200 and other tables with SOP prefix. Also you should know that SOP1XXX - are so called working tables and you populate mostly these, when orders are transformed to invoices, order record goes to SOP3XXX tables - these are called historical

5. RM. Receivables Management Module - When Sales Order Processing Invoices are posted - they create record in Accounts Receivables or Receivables Management Module. RM has RMXXXX tables and the ones you are interested to know are RM00101 - customer master and RM00102 - customer address master

6. Batch Processing. We recommend you consider just order creation via web interface. Then these orders should be processed by operator in Small Business Manager

Good luck with implementation, customization and integration and if you have issues or concerns - we are here to help! If you want us to do the job - give us a call 1-630-961-5918 or 1-866-528-0577! help@albaspectrum.com

Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies (http://www.albaspectrum.com ) - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, serving clients in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Miami, New Orleans, Toronto, Montreal and having locations in multiple states and internationally


MORE RESOURCES:

The Age

New Apple software for iPhone 'bug fixes'
Newsday, NY - 15 hours ago
BY EMI ENDO | emi.endo@newsday.com Apple Inc. has released a software update for its iPhone aimed at improving its connection with faster wireless Internet ...
Apple's iPhone 2.0.2 software update didn't fix much Computerworld
Apple updates iPhone software to fix glitches Reuters
Jobs promises September iPhone software patch InfoWorld
ZDNet - NEWS.com.au
all 567 news articles


BuilderFusion(R) Inc. Named the 11th Fastest-Growing Software ...
MarketWatch - 1 hour ago
"Since its inception eight years ago, the BuilderFusion software has had a dramatic impact on professional associations across the United States, ...


Carnegie Learning(TM) Developmental Math Software Aligns with ...
MarketWatch - 3 hours ago
PITTSBURGH, Aug 21, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Carnegie Learning, Inc. announced today that the company's developmental math software for higher education ...


BakBone Software Appoints New Chief Financial Officer
MarketWatch - 1 hour ago
The common shares of BakBone Software are currently subject to cease trade orders in the Canadian jurisdictions of Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario due ...


RTT News

Wall Street Beat: Salesforce, HP, M&A in the Spotlight
PC World - 1 hour ago
Salesforce is often seen as a bellwether for the SaaS (software-as-a-service) market, since it was one of the first companies to jump into hosted software, ...
Salesforce.com shares drop on outlook CNET News
Acquisition Costs Sink Salesforce (Update) TheStreet.com
Salesforce 2Q profit nearly triples, stock plunges Forbes
Register - Wall Street Journal Blogs
all 100 news articles


The Software, Called iClink, Allows Two-Way Wireless ...
MarketWatch - 7 hours ago
The software, called iClink, wirelessly synchronizes contacts, calendar events, and to-do items between the iPhone and Lotus Notes. The iClink software runs ...


American Software, Inc. Invites You to Join Its First Quarter ...
MarketWatch - 5 hours ago
What: American Software, Inc.'s First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Earnings Release When: September 4, 2008 5:00 pm ET Where: http://www.amsoftware.com How: ...


Tamale Software Launches Latest Version of Investment-Research ...
MarketWatch - 7 hours ago
The expanded scalability boosts the effectiveness of search and other functions -- making the software an ideal choice for an increasingly wide client base ...


Inc. Magazine Recognizes Nimsoft as the 36th Fastest Growing ...
MarketWatch - 8 hours ago
Last year, Nimsoft was ranked as the 49th Fastest Growing Software Company. This list is part of the Inc. 5000, the magazine's annual list of the fastest ...


Environmental Risk Services (ERS) Selects Locus' Environmental ...
MarketWatch - 11 hours ago
EIM's Software as a Service delivery model is also ideal for single site applications as the customer eliminates hardware/software purchases and maintenance ...

Software - Google News

home | site map
© 2006