Solutions by Business Need: Overview

Updated: September 19, 2005

Whatever your business needs, we provide integrated e-business solutions to help you, and the people who work for you, maximize efficiency. Microsoft Business Solutions products and services make it easier for your team to do business with your customers, vendors, and partners.

Microsoft Business Solutions applications address the following business needs:

Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portals
Give your employees, customers, and business partners access to the data, applications, and services they need via a Web browser and see them work more efficiently with you.

Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics
A broad range of flexible, customizable reporting options—from advanced consolidation analysis to simple reporting requests—helps the decision-makers across your company transform data into valuable information.

Microsoft Business Solutions for Customer Relationship Management
From the first contact to after-sales service, Web-enabled customer relationship management solutions help your sales, marketing, and customer service teams track customer activity, improve sales effectiveness, provide superior customer service, and build profitable customer relationships.

Microsoft Business Solutions for Distribution
Find integrated distribution and business management systems that allow your staff to meet your company’s diverse business needs, including financial management, customer relationship management (CRM), human resources and payroll, supply chain management, and manufacturing.

Microsoft Business Solutions for E-commerce
Your employees, customers, and partners can remove geographical boundaries, strengthen business relationships, and reduce expenses by using these Internet-based solutions to collaborate and access online services.

Microsoft Business Solutions for Field Service Management
Automate the essential functions of service organizations to maximize your staff's time, let your field service team connect quickly with customer data, help increase customer satisfaction, and assist in turning your field service operations into a profitable center.

Microsoft Business Solutions for Financial Management
Whatever your business size or industry, these superior financial, reporting, and business management applications provide the backbone for the rest of your business-critical applications.

Microsoft Business Solutions for HR Management
From recruitment to retirement, manage your most valuable assets—your people—more effectively.

Microsoft Business Solutions for Manufacturing
Enabling your people to better manage resource planning, production, and every aspect of your manufacturing process helps ensure smooth production cycles and rapid response to changing customer needs—helping your business gain a competitive advantage.

Microsoft Business Solutions for Project Management and Accounting
Projects can be more profitable with integrated applications that help your managers and front-line employees forecast costs and budgets with increased accuracy, track time and billing, and manage contracts effectively.

Microsoft Business Solutions for Retail Point of Sale
Microsoft provides Point of Sale solutions that enable small and midsize retailers to be competitive in today’s retail environment. Easy to use, affordable, and reliable, thousands of retail employees in dozens of verticals depend on Microsoft’s Point of Sale applications to help them manage inventory, control cash, reduce costs and improve customer service.

Microsoft Business Solutions for Supply Chain Management
When your employees, suppliers, distributors, and customers are connected, it empowers them to reduce operational costs, improve their decision-making, and respond faster to customer needs.