Positive Plains ERP in eCommerce environment: combining hosted website with Business Portal

After seeing reasonable and multiple concerns, we would like to award you some directions for your homework, when you consider transitioning for your let"s say "legacy" e-commerce website to virgin completetly data driven eCommerce.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 has pretty advanced Craft Portal, where we reccomend you to research Order Authority module, which in turn is redesigned anecdote of former eOrder. eOrder went to the history, the endure version of the product was 7.5. For version 8.0 Microsoft Great Plains redeployed and improved old eOrder logic on Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal platform, tightly integrated with MS Sharepoint. After a bit complicated introduction, we would like to explain your options in facile language:

1. Where to host: in-house or outsource? Well, this question doesn"t corner direct answer, in essence it depends. Self hosting gives you integrated control over the functionalities and future directions, as you bring about not have to "comply" hosting company requirements. However it is not necessary to switch to total self hosting over night. You can conserve your website hosted outside and shift its data driven portion to hosting internally. Whether you have filled understanding on how to split your website across multiple IP addresses, then you can skip the hint, for the rest of the auditorium we"d like to say, the all you need to determine is to login to your empire registrant website and add something conforming that:

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

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

2. Business Portal Order Management Module. Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal 10.0 is besides dependent on the technology layers, such as SQL Server, Sharepoint, Active Directory - so we recommend you disregard BP hosting outsourcing (maybe down the road in the fated you can revisit the idea, but for 2008 probably it doesn"t make any sense). What is capital about Order Management - you are virtually sharing GP stock bridle and Sales Order Processing modules with OM, including pricing updates, promotions, customer expenditure levels (and of course secured customer logins on the Metier Portal level)

3. If Dodge Portal is too complex or simply doesn"t do the job for you. BP is not something easy to install and implement. If you need flash touch to your existing e-commerce application, you should consider do this either in eConnect, which in essence is Software Evolution Kit , allowing programmer coin such necessary protest in GP as Sales Invoice; or you consider Great Plains Integration Manager to do overnight action move from eCommerce to Great Plains

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