Franchises - Great Plains ERP In eCommerce Environment - Combining Hosted Website With Business Portal

We would like to explain your options in simple language: after a bit complicated introduction, Tightly integrated with MS Sharepoint, for version 8.0 Microsoft Great Plains redeployed and improved old eOrder logic on Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal platform. The last version of the product was 7.5, eOrder went to the history. Which in turn is redesigned version of former eOrder, where we recommend you to research Order Management module, microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 has pretty advanced Business Portal. When you consider transitioning for your let's say "legacy" e-commerce website to new totally data driven eCommerce, we would like to give you some directions for your homework, after seeing reasonable and multiple concerns.

The all you need to do is to login to your domain registrant website and add something like that: for the rest of the auditorium we'd like to say, then you can skip the hint, if you have complete understanding on how to split your website across multiple IP addresses, You can keep your website hosted outside and move its data driven portion to hosting internally. However it is not necessary to switch to total self hosting over night. As you do not have to "comply" hosting company requirements, self hosting gives you complete control over the functionalities and future directions. In essence it depends, this question doesn't have direct answer, well. Where to host: in-house or outsource? 1.

You would need to provide real ones, domain name and IP are fictitious here. Ecommerce.mycompany.com 11.11.11.11 - this would be the placeholder for your in house dedicated IP address.

You make the settings on your Internet Information Server to resolve e-commerce traffic by named header on your IIS assuming you have Microsoft Windows domain, then,

Customer price levels (and of course secured customer logins on the Business Portal level) promotions, including pricing updates, what is good about Order Management - you are virtually sharing GP inventory control and Sales Order Processing modules with OM, But for 2008 probably it doesn't make any sense), active Directory - so we recommend you disregard BP hosting outsourcing (maybe down the road in the future you can revisit the idea, sharepoint, such as SQL Server, microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal 10.0 is too dependent on the technology layers. Business Portal Order Management Module. 2.

Or you consider Great Plains Integration Manager to do overnight transaction move from eCommerce to Great Plains allowing programmer create such necessary object in GP as Sales Invoice; which in essence is Software Development Kit, you should consider do this either in eConnect, if you need light touch to your existing e-commerce application, BP is not something easy to install and implement. If Business Portal is too complex or simply doesn't do the job for you. 3.