Make Data Accessible and Valuable with Business Intelligence
Financial Data Capture and Analysis
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Challenge
As business and reporting requirements become more complex, users are placing higher demands on their business solutions. Analysis tools are only as good as the data they dissect. Having a clear understanding of a company's financial position first requires tracking their accounting and financial data in a meaningful and complete way. To be successful, businesses need analysis, financial reporting, budgeting, and planning tools that provide:
| • | Accuracy: Confidence that your financial reports are accurate, the first time.
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| • | Speed: Assurance that reports can be created and distributed quickly.
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| • | User specificity: Peace of mind that the right information is available to the appropriate consumer, when they need it.
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| • | Smarter, more informed decisions: Real-time views of what's happening in your business today.
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Solution
Microsoft can help your organization efficiently and completely track all business processes and their related financial details, using applications that work in concert with deep analysis tools. The following services can provide employees with the financial and analytical information they need to make smart business decisions:
| • | Microsoft Business Solutions for Financial Management
These tightly integrated tools serve as the backbone for the rest of your business-critical systems, ranging from general ledger, payables, receivables, inventory, sales, and purchasing to bank reconciliation, fixed assets, and more.
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| • | Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics—FRx
FRx is a financial reporting standard for business professionals worldwide. It integrates with Microsoft Business Solutions for Financial Management to provide companies with immediate control of the entire financial reporting process, and a real-time, comprehensive view of the financial health of their organization.
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| • | Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics—Forecaster
This budgeting and planning application gives managers the ability to collaborate and plan online. Companies can compare budgets to actuals in real-time, and gain control over expenses by integrating their budget information with Microsoft Business Solutions for Financial Management.
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| • | Microsoft Business Solutions—Enterprise Reporting
Enterprise Reporting provides consolidation and reporting capabilities for large, multi-site, and multi-company organizations. It integrates with Microsoft Business Solutions for Financial Management to feed important information across financials and operations to knowledge workers.
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Benefits
Microsoft's financial analytics tools provide:
| • | Business insight: Gain the breadth and flexibility your organization needs to dissect financial data, stay on top of internal trends, and get real-time, up-to-date information on each area of your business so that you can effectively communicate the financial health of your organization.
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| • | Empower decision makers at all levels of the organization: Easy to use graphical interfaces are designed for use by all knowledge workers. Easy navigation and view manipulation accelerates budgeting and reporting cycles for faster access to information.
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| • | A cost effective, integrated solution: Gain control of the financial reporting process with little or no IT involvement. Standard and customizable reports are linked intelligently to the accounting or general ledger application. This solution is easy to set up and deploy within your organization, saving significant time and money typically spent on user training.
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