SAP Business One New Era in Custom Business Processes Programming

Well, if you have concerns to be healthy, then you probably run every morning one or two miles in the nearest forest preserve. Equally your Corporate ERP application requires exercises, these include version update, integration and customization (plus probably reports design in Crystal Reports). If you do not care about your health, you should probably accept the risks to get high blood pressure or low pressure, getting over weighted, then this publication is not for you. SAP B1 introduces reasonable competition in the US Corporate ERP market to such packages as Great Plains (Microsoft Dynamics GP), Quick Books, Peach Tree Accounting (or doing our General Ledger directly in Excel, which is probably true for the majority of entrepreneurs). Let’s review modification programming options:

1. Software Development Kit (SDK). This tool should be considered as friendly to generic Microsoft Visual Studio C, C++, C or VB programmers. Code samples are available for C#, VB , or C++. We do not recommend use exotic or simply say obsolete programming languages as Cobol or Fortran, even when genetic support in CLR.Net is offered. The problem with these coding languages is the lack of sample codes (being honest as programmer, all the modern custom coding for end customers is done with code samples modification)

2. Areas of the Implementation. In our opinion SB1 is pretty generic Small Business ERP platform, where in such countries as Brazil, China, Russia it might be recommended for mid-size companies. One of our concerns about SB1 to be recommended for multinational corporation as primary Corporate ERP is the fact that it doesn’t support batch processing and posting (whenever you create the document, you need to save it and this procedure posts the GL distribution directly to General Ledger)

3. Current Version is 8.81 (as we are writing this paper in May of 2011). We are happy to help you recover earlier versions 2007A, 2005A

4. If you decide to walk away from SAP BO to another ERP platform, such as Dynamics GP, AX< SL, NAV, Oracle Financials. We provide data export services, normally to MS Access, Text Coma or Tab delimited files, Excel (where we recommend your IT department to do it internally)

5. Walking away from Great Plains DOS or Windows version 9.5 or 9.2. In this scenario you are note alone, we provide services to extract data from your DPDATA folder (if you have multiple companies, there might be multiple folders on your Windows NT or Novell Server)

6. Please call us 1-866-304-3265, 1-269-605-4904. help@efaru.com We have local presence in Chicagoland, Southern California, South West Michigan, Houston and Dallas areas of Texas. We serve customers USA, Canada, Mexico nationwide and internationally via web sessions and phone conferences (Skype is welcomed). Our consultants speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese

Andrew Karasev is Great Plains Certified Master, MVP, help@efaru.com 1-866-304-3265, 1-269-605-4904. He is also the initiator of eFaru project http://www.efaru.com and founder of Alba Spectrum information space