Business Management Software - Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0
The newest version of Microsoft Great Plains delivers the time-tested quality you expect, and works like and with products your people already know.
Updated: December 5, 2005
Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 brings a new name and even more people-centric design to a proven line of business-management software. The first thing you might notice is that Microsoft Dynamics GP is clearly designed to empower your people to be their most productive and fulfill their professional potential.
This release introduces a range of features to make it easier for your workers and teams to accomplish more with their existing skills. A key factor: It works with and like Microsoft Office System business productivity software, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 application and business analytics technology, and other Microsoft technologies that are very likely already familiar to your staff and partners. See examples of how this streamlined software environment can provide a solid return on your investment in technology, infrastructure, and skills.
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Empower people with a customer-designed solution
Microsoft conducted thorough research, including 1,500 customer interviews, to prepare Microsoft Dynamics GP and address the business issues that customers face every day. Several hundred technologists, developers, and business specialists dedicated two years to creating a solution that would have a strong, positive impact on the way people and organizations work.
The result of this customer-driven development: a comprehensive business management solution that empowers people and organizations to optimize productivity and work in the way they work best. Across all business roles and activities, the solution’s usability and flexibility to accommodate user preferences are even higher than in any previous versions:
| • | Personalized role pages take workers directly to their most important tasks. |
| • | People can customize their individual access to reports, key performance indicators (KPIs), and more. |
| • | Microsoft Dynamics GP presents a user interface very similar to Microsoft Office System applications, so people can adopt the solution quickly and accomplish more with their existing skills. |
| • | The solution features many points of integration with the Microsoft Office System, simplifying business tasks and delivering dependable information where it’s most helpful. |
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Screenshot: A RoleTailored home (or start-up) page
lets individuals get to their tasks faster and easier.
Capitalize on your business potential
Empowering your people to function at their best may be one of the strongest benefits that Microsoft Dynamics GP contributes to your organization, but there are many others—ranging from small operational enhancements to strategically critical capabilities. Here is a brief overview of what the solution could help you accomplish in your own business:
Transform business information into actionable insight
Microsoft Dynamics GP helps you reap tangible value from the information that your business creates day after day. The solution gives you the means to drill down into any aspect of your business, understand what factors truly determine performance and results, and conduct strategic planning based on substantiation through the business information you own. Microsoft Dynamics GP offers the ability to access directly the advanced reporting functions of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, analyze and report on data in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, and use all of your preferred reporting tools in the way you like. Business managers can stay abreast of all KPI values with customized screens and review important reports efficiently without having to search for them.
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Screenshot: Microsoft Office Excel PivotTable Creator integrated
with Microsoft Dynamics GP provides valuable, efficient reporting.
Connect people, processes, and technologies to do business more effectively
With Microsoft Dynamics GP, you can run your business at high efficiency. Workers can always be in touch with their critical tasks and remain focus-driven also in productive collaboration. By means of customizable intranet portals and a single, underlying business database housing all business information, business processes tie into a single, organic whole as data from all lines of business becomes available throughout the organization. At the same time, you can make it easier than ever for your customers and suppliers to engage with you and augment their value to your business.
Realize the full value of business management technology
Microsoft Dynamics GP is a powerful investment in the long-term viability and success of your business. You acquire a full-featured business management solution with enterprise-level capabilities, supported by the Microsoft unwavering commitment to improving its best products to make them even better and a global partner network with technical and business expertise available to you. Microsoft Dynamics GP can extend the value of existing user skills and integrates smoothly with other Microsoft products already at work in your business—so you can derive far more value from technology you already own. With advanced, centralized administration, the solution also requires little management overhead from your information technology (IT) group. You can measure a strong return on your investment in both financial and operational terms.
Achieve your business goals in the face of change
When you implement Microsoft Dynamics GP, you gain the power and flexibility to respond rapidly to changing business conditions, no matter what they are—customer preferences, supply chain adjustments, improvements in your product line-up, or growth into new market segments and geographies. Microsoft provides you with the tools to customize and extend the solution, using the most efficient programming capabilities available today, for almost any business need. Microsoft Dynamics GP also helps you in developing your business relationships with customers, partners, and vendors to deliver consistently compelling rewards and reflect any shifts in your business strategy.
Fast-foward your business with breakthrough innovations
Want to learn how Microsoft Dynamics GP will deliver the breakthrough results just discussed? Here are highlights of the enhanced functionalities in several key capability areas of the solution.
Foundation and reporting
Right from the start, the implementation of the solution is streamlined and fast. You can set up personalized home pages for your people based on their business roles. For extended reporting, you can make use of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services in integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP. Provide quick links to make the most important reports available immediately and at all times to the people who need to have them.
Financial management
Add depth and insight to financial management with Analytical Accounting. Simplify and accelerate payables management, bank reconciliation, and collections. Reduce the time and effort required for frequent, important financial management tasks.
Supply chain management
Manage your supply chain with greater efficiency. Make inventory management more cost-effective and accurate, and streamline purchasing, sales, and manufacturing processes. And give your service and sales employees the tools to succeed with customers.
Human resources and payroll
Integrate human resources and payroll administration. Simplify human resources tasks with automation of tasks and vastly improved visibility of business information.
Project accounting
Improve the economy and efficiency of your projects with accelerated transaction processing, minimized data entry tasks, and easier access to data and reports. In addition, you can reduce the complexity of project accounting to a comfortable level.
Business portal
Business portal In microsoft Dynamics GP becomes a key element of effective business processes and heightened productivity. Business portal now integrates closer with administrative functions, offers information with greater immediacy—and can even be implemented to make business easier for your customers.
Business analytics
Data analysis functions in Microsoft Dynamics GP are more intuitive and easier to use, and they ease compliance with stringent security and confidentiality requirements. You can forecast more effectively and accurately and design analytical reports just as you want to see and publish them.
Next step
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