New Price Changes for Dynamics GP

With Dynamics GP 2010 currently in beta and due to release in May, Microsoft has also announced some upcoming pricing and packaging changes for Dynamics GP. The changes are scheduled to go into effect on May 1, 2010.

Detailed information on the changes can be found on PartnerSource and CustomerSource, but I will try to give a quick outline of the changes. Overall the goal of the changes is to simplify the pricing and increase the overall value of the solution.

• Additional modules will be included in Business Essentials
  
  • Field Level Security, Account Level Security and Electronic Banking Suite will be included in the BE Foundation Pack.
    
  • Modifier and Dynamics Client for Office will be available to BE as A La Carte modules.
    
• Management Reporter will be the replacement for FRx.
  
  • Two SKU's for Management Report Designer and Viewer
    
• Consolidate Modules – some modules will be consolidated into suite offerings. The individual modules will no longer be available. Existing customer current on their maintenance plan will receive the suite if one or more of the modules are licensed at the time of the change (May 1, 2010). The new suites are as follows:
  
  • Manufacturing Suite available via AM A La Carte (AME)
    
    • Capacity Requirements Planning
      
    • Engineering Change Management
      
    • Job Costing
      
    • Quality Assurance
      
    • Sales Configurator
      
    • Sales Forecasting
      
  • Distribution Suite available via AM A La Carte
    
    • Advanced Distribution
      
    • Advanced Picking
      
  • Risk Management Suite available via AM A La Carte and BE A La Carte
    
    • Audit Trails
      
    • Electronic Signatures
      
  • Integration Suite available via AM A La Carte and BE A La Carte
    
    • Integration Manager
      
      • Integration Manager - Financials & Distribution
        
      • Integration Manager - Financials (GL,RM,PM,FA,BR,Payroll,Project)
        
      • Integration Manager - Distribution (POP,SOP,INV)
        
    • Developer Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics® GP
      
      • eConnect
        
      • Web Services
        
  • Customization Suite available via AM A La Carte and BE A La Carte
    
    • Developer Toolkit
      
    • Dexterity
      
• Consolidate Enterprise Reporting – There will be 3 options:
  
  • Enterprise Reporting Base Pack
    
  • Enterprise Reporting Designer User
    
  • Enterprise Reporting Viewer User
    
• Add External Connector to price list – This license allows external non-employee non-validated people access to the Dynamics database.
  
• Remove modules from price list – the following modules are being removed from the price list. Existing customers will continue to receive support and licenses to use these modules for Dynamics GP 10.0.
  
  • Crystal Reports
    
  • Electronic Document Delivery
    
  • Field Service Anywhere
    
  • Microsoft Demand Planner
    
• Improve Dynamics Client for Office (DCO) – several Business Portal and Business Intelligence modules will be rolled into the DCO license. There is a lot that will be included in this area and I will cover it in more detail in a separate article.
  

 

So in addition to the new features you receive with Dynamics GP 2010, you may actually receive access to new modules when this pricing goes into effect. It will depend on the modules you are currently licensed for at the time of the changes. Also, none of these changes will affect your protected list price for your maintenance plan. If you have any questions about the changes be sure to check with your Microsoft Partner. As additional information becomes available I will attempt to post the information here.