Microsoft Dynamics works well with your systems
Increase the value, reach, and relevance of business technology
Published: March 17, 2006
Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions) can help you maintain a unified, streamlined business technology environment that delivers measurable, compelling results at a justifiable expense. To help you accomplish your business objectives, Microsoft and its partner network provide software solutions that deliver a high return on your investments in tools, technologies, processes, and skills.
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Integration with Microsoft Office system helps your people be more productive
Microsoft Dynamics solutions work and look like the Microsoft Office System products you and your people likely use every day. Increase the benefits even more by integrating Microsoft Dynamics with Microsoft Office. Such integration can help you accelerate and simplify processes and make information more reliable and consistent. And, it can let your people use technology that helps them to work the way they want. Some examples follow:
| • | You can download Microsoft Dynamics Snap for Microsoft Office system. Implement these tools together with Microsoft Office system products and Microsoft Dynamics solutions. Then watch as business-data access and employee time and vacation management become a snap. |
| • | You can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 messaging and collaboration client for more than e-mail messages, calendars, and contacts. Use Microsoft Outlook as a business management tool that is as effective as it is familiar. For example, integration of Outlook 2003 with your customer relationship management solution helps to ensure that customer information is correct and that communications are efficient. Have your business management solution send automatic notifications from Outlook to tell people about critical events such as an inventory shortage, enabling them to act in time. |
| • | If your business uses Microsoft Office Word 2003 for word processing, you can reduce much retyping of information. For example you can create documents that use customer information and other data from your Microsoft Dynamics business management solutions. You save time, increase employee satisfaction, and make customer communications more effective. |
Integration with Microsoft server solutions helps provide a scalable business infrastructure
Integrate your Microsoft Dynamics business software with Microsoft server products and other Microsoft products and technologies to help ensure a solid return on investment and a low total cost of ownership. Doing so, you’ll also benefit from a reliable and extensible business management infrastructure that is completely responsive to your goals.
| • | Integrate your Microsoft Dynamics business management solution with the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database and analytics program. Enjoy enterprise-level reporting, flexible decision-making support, and timely, relevant business insight at a low cost with high usability and flexibility. |
| • | Integrate Microsoft Dynamics with Microsoft BizTalk Server to help manage a distributed, growing organization more effectively. For example, using these products together, you can connect multiple instances of Microsoft Dynamics solutions, as well as link to legacy systems and databases. |
| • | Implementing Microsoft Dynamics with the Microsoft Visual Studio development system will let your developers exercise their creativity within a versatile programming environment. It also helps customize your solutions and extend them as the business grows. |
Next steps
| • | Evaluate Microsoft Dynamics solutions: See how they compare to others' products, view analyst articles, and get more evaluation tools. |
| • | Find a local Microsoft Certified Partner: From planning to implementation, to customization and support; Microsoft partners deliver products and service to help you realize the full value of Microsoft Dynamics solutions and other Microsoft technologies. |
| • | Contact us: Request more information, get help finding a local partner, and find the best Microsoft Dynamics solution for your business. |
