Tools

Modifier & VBA

The Modifier with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is the primary tool used to customise the Great Plains system to fit your organisation's needs. The rich VBA development environment is built into Great Plains, allowing you to customise, extend and integrate the Great Plains business management system using the most widely used development and customisation environment in the software industry. You'll find the Modifier with VBA invaluable for customising data entry windows to match how your users work, applying custom business rules and workflow, or extending Great Plains using commercially available ActiveX controls. The same version of VBA found throughout Microsoft Office is also built into Great Plains, making it easier and more cost-effective to leverage development resources for creating custom solutions. In addition, Microsoft based the customisation environment of VBA on the popular development environment Visual Basic. Visual Basic currently has over three million developers, providing you with virtually unlimited resources for customising Great Plains.

Integration Manager

Integration Manager provides you with the safest and easiest way to import business data into Great Plains. You'll find value in using Integration Manager for safely converting data into a new Great Plains installation, or as an ongoing way to integrate data from your external business databases, e-commerce solutions and desktop applications with Great Plains. Integration Manager's intuitive user interface, combined with a tight integration to the Great Plains architecture, allows you to deliver integrations to all of your organisation's business applications in hours instead of days or months. By tying data from across your business into Great Plains using Integration Manager, you can use the powerful reporting and querying tools in Great Plains to provide you with a comprehensive look into the economic health of your organisation.