| Microsoft Great Plains does wonderful ERP job for | | | | popular customization for Microsoft Great Plains. You |
| horizontal markets and clientele. However in our opinion | | | | usually have to create new Great Plains company for |
| placement software market is underserved and needs | | | | your client - who is typically placement agencyo |
| custom modules to be developed. In the case of | | | | Executive Search. The best fit in Microsoft Great |
| Microsoft Great Plains we see numerous examples of | | | | Plains is Project Accounting. You usually have |
| in-house or outsourced customization done for Great | | | | something like Microsoft CRM implemented to log your |
| Plains Dynamics/Microsoft Great Plains in order to | | | | calls to prospective candidates and you log your |
| automate placement agency workflow and processes. | | | | expenses against project in Microsoft Great Plains |
| In our opinion Great Plains is good choice, considering | | | | Project Accounting.o Reporting. In the old days you |
| the side of placement and recruiting companies: | | | | had to deploy Great Plains Software Dexterity reports |
| mid-size or even small. Let us give you highlights from | | | | to do the job over your custom Dexterity tables. |
| our consulting practice.o Full-Featured custom | | | | Today you should consider simplification and deploying |
| placement business system. Technically Great Plains | | | | Crystal Reports, working on Microsoft SQL Server |
| gives you functionality to develop integrated custom | | | | custom views and stored procedures. Consider |
| application, where you could build custom logic, | | | | phasing out Dexterity customization and replacing it |
| extending Great Plains Receivables Management, | | | | with MS SQL Server integration, Crystal Reports, |
| Payables Management and other modules. You could | | | | direct web publishing from Microsoft Great Plains |
| implement complex recruiter commissioning schema, | | | | company tableso Commission Calculation. In our opinion |
| based on number of months of the placed employee | | | | the old Dexterity-based commission calculation |
| work, etc. This is the most typical case - placement | | | | mechanisms should be replaced with Crystal Reports |
| agency contracts Great Plains VAR to implement their | | | | or Microsoft SQL Server triggers (when customer |
| custom Business Management System.o Payroll | | | | pays invoice, which is subject to commission) |
| Outsourcer. If you do payroll outsourcing - this is | | | | We encourage you to analyze your alternatives. |