Microsoft Great Plains: Offshore Customization & Development – overview for consultant

Written by Andrew Karasev


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•Customization Upgrade Experience. Great Plains Dexterity allows you to create either custom forms or place modifications torepparttar existing forms (SOP Entry, for example). Placing code torepparttar 142917 existing forms requires customization upgrade experience – these forms should be re-customized when you do upgrade torepparttar 142918 newer GP version – currently version 8.0 •Project Management. Consideringrepparttar 142919 fact that majority of Great Plains users have rather accounting background – to spec out customization or integration – project manager should have combination of functional/application and technical consulting experience. This means that project manager should be US-based consultant. Inrepparttar 142920 case when you plan to have project managers offshore – they should be inrepparttar 142921 close time zone (Sao Paulo, Brazil – is good candidate forrepparttar 142922 place, considering large pool of educated programmers onrepparttar 142923 market) Good luck with implementation, customization and integration and if you have issues or concerns – we are here to help! If you want us to dorepparttar 142924 job - give us a call 866-528-0577 or 630-961-5918! help@albaspectrum.com

Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com ) – Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Microsoft CRM Partner, serving clients in California, Minnesota, Illinois, Washington, Florida, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Canada, UK, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Russia


Tips for starting a hosting company

Written by Ron Swerdfiger


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4. Find your niche. The hosting business as a whole is a huge industry which is very competitive. Your best chance at success is to simply find a market and develop your business to cater to that specific niche. An excellent example of this is http://elite-hosts.org/ who offer hosting and development to those who operate online forums.

Maybe inrepparttar early 90’srepparttar 142916 idea of “if you build it they will come” might have been true. But inrepparttar 142917 year 2005repparttar 142918 internet is a far more competitive and complex. place To be successful today, you have to develop a business plan which works from all angels. If you can develop a hosting company which has a professional design, some extra content, search engine friendly and which targets a specific niche, you will have a far greater chance at success Of course there are many other factors to consider as well, but if you can master these four, everything else should fall into place

Ron is the CTO for Dice Ventures Inc an internet holdings and development company. Some current projects include a hosting forum and a Linux forum


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