Our primary emphasis is on
the delivery of Microsoft Business Solutions -
Great Plains and Microsoft Customer Relationship
Manager to the mid-market. The mid-market is
defined by The Gartner Group as companies from
$1M to $800M in revenues. We perform all
the services required to implement these
solutions for your company. Below is a
brief list of our primary services:
Installation -
The Progressive
Group personnel have successfully installed over 300 client accounting systems
over the last 15 years, including 268 Great Plains installs. Our years of financial and system experience will help
you bring up your new accounting system timely and efficiently.
Conversion
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Moving to a new
accounting system requires the conversion of data. We use a variety of
techniques to assist you with this onerous task.
Integration -
Our
personnel can assist you with the integration of hardware and software.
Integration involves making your equipment, operating system and applications
software work together smoothly. Our personnel combine different vendor software
products to provide you a total software solution.
The use of techniques such
as DDE and ODBC allow you to use industry standard reporting tools such as
Excel, Access, Word, F9, Crystal Reports and FRx to implement a completely
integrated solution.
Training -
The best
software product in the world is useless without proper training. We offer
monthly “hands on” CPE accredited training courses which are held at our in-house
facility. Our
consultants also do extensive on-site training. See our
training
and seminar schedule.
Support
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We provide
telephone and on-site support to help answer your questions and get the job
done. We use communication tools such as
Citrix
MetaFrame to answer questions & solve problems by remotely logging on
your system. Take a few minutes to check out our
newsletter.
Implementation -
We
provide implementation and consulting on all Great Plains products and modules.
Our consultants work with your staff members to smoothly convert to your new
business solution software.
Customization
-
Utilize
our customization staff members to personalize your solution to work the way
your company does business. We use industry standard tools such as Visual Basic
for Applications, Microsoft Access, ODBC, Great Plains Modifier and Report
Writer to accomplish such modifications.
Partial
Recent Projects / Development List:
Great Plains:
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Require
entry on certain fields |
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Auto-fill
fields based on specific criteria |
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Check
validity of data entered with an Access database record |
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Limit
customer, vendor, employee, etc. lists based on user logged into the system |
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Change
default distributions based on additional information entered during
transaction |
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Password
protect fields and screens |
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Add
user-defined forms to store additional information |
