| It was not a big secret, that former versions of | | | | Business Portal highlights. For those, who are new |
| Business Portal for Great Plains, such as 3.0 and | | | | to BP implementation: |
| 2.5 had limitations in allowing you, software | | | | * Requisition Management. This module is |
| developer to modify existing business portal | | | | successor of former eRequisition. Requisition |
| applications, such as HR & Employee Self Service, | | | | Management is now BP module and you have to |
| Order Management, Requisition Management. With | | | | purchase Business Portal user licenses to get |
| version 10.0 BP enables you to use Web Services | | | | sufficient number of RM users (about $40 per |
| for Microsoft Dynamics GP backoffice integration. | | | | user) |
| In the past, not sure if somebody used this | | | | * HR & Employee self service. If you have |
| techniques - you could create ASPX .Net | | | | concerns of cost of mailing payroll checks direct |
| application in Visual Studio 2005 (C# OR vb.NET), | | | | deposit info to your employees - BP does the job |
| where you interact with GP database and object | | | | by secured web lookup via Employee Self Service |
| via eConnect and then integrate this .Net | | | | module |
| application into MS Dynamics GP Business Portal. | | | | * Notifications. Email notifications were lagging |
| This approach would have certain known | | | | competition in BP 3.0, we need to further |
| restrictions, however to some extent it should be | | | | research 10.0. |
| considered as doing its job. | | | | |