At this time we are observing rapid evolution in Small Business Accounting and Corporate ERP systems architectures. If in the recent years competition was around flexibility and ability to be customized with minimal exposure to programming then now it is probably around Cloud concept and web or thin client user interface. Achievements of the past were able to port customization metadata directly to the SQL database. Web user interface is breaking through the differences of remote and local computing as well as eroding the differences between such popular operating systems as Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac. We are we staying in the competition between Microsoft Dynamics especially GP and SAP Business One?
1. Software Licenses and Implementation cost often also referred as investment. GP has at this time more native modules supported directly by Microsoft Business Solutions as well as third party add-ons. Business One is catching up however it is more geared to be considered a Small to mid-market ERP. GP software licenses often result in higher final cost as well as implementation consulting hours
2. Customizability. In GP you have various instruments, such as Dexterity, Modifier with VBA, Visual Studio Tools and of course eConnect SDK. Business One offers Software Development Kit which is friendly to Microsoft Visual Studio VB or C# developer. We would like also to mention that in former Great Plains new tables were normally created in GP Dexterity and later one exposed to Visual Studio Tools as well as to VBA scripts in modifier. Business One offers direct native tables modification by adding user defined fields in settings as well as creating new user defined tables the same way. When these custom objects are created they could be referenced in SDK coding project
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