Archive for December, 2009
After looking at the new CRM4 adapter for GP10 i had a few questions and most likely if you are reading this article then you had some questions as well and i hope that this article helps. I was glad to find out that this version is a completely new release and not a port from the older biztalk integration for CRM 3.0 and GP9.
The first thing i wondered was what are the 8 entities that integrated by default in the adapter? These are: Customers, Customer Addresses, Items, Price Levels, Sales Orders, Sales Invoices, and Contacts.
There is an SDK that is going to be out for the adapter Q4 2009, so additional integrations from other data sources will be possible. At the current time the adapter does not support hosted CRM, but since the adapter is developed as a webservice to webservice integration i would imagine that should follow shortly.
I found this great diagram depicting the integration paths for the adapter from the Microsoft Development Blog.
My next question was “The adapter is available but to who?” It is available to partners for no charge and Customers that have Microsoft CRM Software Assurance Plan and an active Microsoft Dynamics GP Enhancement Plan.
What versions of GP10 and CRM 4 does the adapter support? The customer will have to be on at least Dynamics GP10 Service Pack 4 and CRM update Rollup 5.
Where can i get it? This is the download link for Partners:
https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/deployment/resources/productreleases/MDGP10_CRMAdapter.htm
Overall i think that this adapter will provide a resource for GP and CRM users that want to integrate data. I will be interested in seeing the additional products that come after the SDK is released and as the product matures.
