What is Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains)?
Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) is a mid market business software solution that records and processes accounting, supply chain, manufacturing, human resources, payroll, and project management transactions.
Dynamics GP was originally developed by Great Plains Software, an independant company located in Fargo, North Dakota. It was one of the first accounting packages in the United States that was designed to be a multi user system running on the Microsoft Windows platform. It was also one of the first accounting software packages to run on a Microsoft SQL Server database. In 2001, Microsoft purchased Great Plains software for $1.1 billion dollars. After the purchase, the product was named Microsoft Great Plains then Microsoft Dynamics, and today it is known as Microsoft Dynamics GP.





