Great Plains ERP in eCommerce environment - The combination of hosted website with Business Portal

After seeing reasonable and multiple concerns, we would like to give you some pointers for your work, if we consider the transition to say your "legacy" e-commerce site to completely new data-driven eCommerce. Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Business Portal has quite advanced, so have a search Order Management module, which in turn has been redesigned version of the previous eOrder. eOrder went down in history, the latest version of the product was 7.5. For version 8.0 of Microsoft Great Plains and better reassign logical eOrder old platform Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal, tightly integrated with MS Sharepoint. After an introduction to some 'complicated, we would like to explain your options in plain language:

1. Where to host: the in-house or outsourced? Well, this question has no answer, essentially, it depends. Cars hosting gives you full control over the features and future directions, as there is no need to "respect" home business needs. However it is not necessary to go to sleep at night total car. You can keep your web site hosted outside and move the data led to the internal host. If you have a complete understanding of how to divide the site into multiple IP addresses, then you can ignore the suggestion, for the rest of the room we would like to say, all you have to do is login to your website domain registrant and add something like this:

Ecommerce.mycompany.com 11.11.11.11 - this would be the placeholder for your dedicated IP address at home. Domain Name and IP are fictitious here, you would need to provide the real ones.

Then, assuming you have Microsoft Windows domain, making the settings of Internet Information Server to solve the traffic e-commerce from a header on your behalf IIS

2. Business Portal Order Management Module. Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal 10.0 is too dependent on the levels of technology, such as SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory - so you may want to ignore BP hosting outsourcing (perhaps the way in the future you can revisit the idea, but probably for 2008 makes no sense). What is good about handling orders - they practically share the inventory control and sales order processing with GP modules OM, including price updates, promotions, customer price levels (and, of course, the access of protected customers in Business Portal)

3. If the corporate portal is too complex or simply not do the job for you. BP is not something easy to install and implement. If you need a light touch to your existing e-commerce application, you should consider to do this in eConnect, which in essence is a Software Development Kit that allows the programmer need to create that object in GP, ​​as a sales invoice, or Great Plains Integration Manager is considering moving all night at the Great Plains eCommerce transaction ......