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Drive business performance, measure financial effectiveness, and make better business decisions that deliver immediate top line and bottom line results.

Successful organizations today need the right enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to help them drive their key business processes, make smarter and faster decisions, and ensure they make the most of their assets and resources. Microsoft Dynamics ERP provides these capabilities in organizations as small as a few employees starting a new venture to organizations spread across the world—for companies with just one server full of information, to operations tied in with the home office enterprise ERP standard.

Our mission is simple: to provide the best ERP solution that fits the needs of your organization and helps you deliver superior results. We do this in the following ways:

  • Through a solution that’s familiar to your people. A study by AMR Research1 shows that 46 percent of the employees in an organization that could be accessing ERP software are not. The reason? It’s too hard to use. By delivering ERP solutions in the familiar Microsoft environment you spend less time training on the system, reduce administration and maintenance by the IT staff, and get people accessing information faster to make better business decisions.

  • By fitting in with your existing IT systems. You’ve already made big bets and investments on products like Microsoft Windows and Windows Server, SQL Server, Microsoft Office, and even Microsoft SharePoint. Then why not use an ERP solution that inherently integrates with these technologies? You get a smaller, more standardized IT footprint; you cut down on maintenance and administration, and your users get a product they already know how to use.

  • By meeting the needs of your organization today and tomorrow. Whether your growth plans are in the near term or down the road as the economy improves, we have an ERP solution that fits your industry, company size, and budget; and that helps minimize the complexities that go with adopting new technology. No other ERP vendor has the breadth or depth of functionality for companies of all shapes and sizes that Microsoft Dynamics ERP does today.

  • With solutions backed by the Microsoft name. With the power of the Microsoft research and development organization, and thousands of developers, partners, and support staff dedicated to your application, you can feel confident in investing in Microsoft technology.

Why choose Microsoft Dynamics ERP?

Tens of thousands of customers of all sizes from countries around the world employ Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions to help run their key business operations. With Microsoft Dynamics ERP you’re able to accomplish these mission critical tasks across the organization:

  • Connect your entire supply chain in a productive, fast-moving flow to improve customer satisfaction, help streamline manufacturing and reduce the cost of doing business.

  • Make complete, current financial information and reports available to anybody who needs that information to perform business planning and realize regulatory compliance.

  • Simplify and automate routine and repetitious functions so that your employees can focus on more critical tasks. Fulfill the potential and increase the loyalty of your workforce while minimizing the cost and complexity of administering salaries, benefits, recruiting, and performance management.

  • Accomplish project goals and achieve outstanding results within budget, on time, and with excellent resource efficiency.

  • Look deeper into key performance factors—and pinpoint your most profitable customers, most efficient vendors, and potential issues within your organization that require swift action.

  • Meet the unique needs of your industry with specialized functionality tailored to your vertical industry business processes.

Microsoft Dynamics ERP delivers the following capabilities across our entire portfolio of applications. Click on the section below to learn more about what we provide to help you make the most of your ERP solution:

Microsoft Dynamics capabilities

Financial management

The financial management capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics software solutions give you a way to raise the visibility of financial metrics and the effectiveness of financial management and accounting throughout your organization—all using familiar tools and existing skills. Strong financial management, made possible by Microsoft Dynamics ERP, helps you establish a firm foundation for realizing the potential of your business through strong, manageable growth.

Learn more about financial management in Microsoft Dynamics ERP.

Human resource management

Human resource management capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics ERP software can help you fulfill the potential and increase the loyalty of your workforce while minimizing the cost and complexity of administering salaries, benefits, recruiting, and performance management. Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions will help you empower your employees, boost administrative productivity, and design the best workforce for your business.

Learn more about human resource management in Microsoft Dynamics ERP.

Project management

With a wide spectrum of tools and technologies, Microsoft solutions for project management give your people the tools they need to accomplish project goals and achieve outstanding results. Project management capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions help you control costs and improve profitability, streamline project management, and achieve optimal productivity from your resources.

Learn more about project management in Microsoft Dynamics ERP.

Supply chain management

Microsoft Dynamics ERP offers extensible, familiar software for supply chain management (SCM) that can help reduce barriers to productivity and efficiency and help your organization deliver what customers need, when they need it. Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions provide your people with tools to enhance individual and team productivity, streamline operations, and collaborate effectively.

Learn more about supply chain management in Microsoft Dynamics ERP.

Executive management

The executive management capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions help you access all the information you need, including tasks, reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs), through a single intuitive dashboard. These executive dashboards provide a quick and effective way to gain business insight, helping you to monitor growth, compliance, and even environmental impact.

Learn more about executive management in Microsoft Dynamics ERP.

IT management

Microsoft Dynamics ERP is designed with easy IT management, configuration, and development in mind, so the technology supports your business and empowers your people to perform even better. And as your business grows, you can adapt Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions to meet your business and technology needs.

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Collaboration

Collaboration capabilities available in Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions can make your company's offerings and key business functionality readily available to customers, employees, and business partners. Because both the portal and collaborative technology are activated in a smooth setup, you can offer site users a wealth of information and efficient, collaborative processes very quickly after implementing Microsoft Dynamics ERP.

Learn more about collaboration in Microsoft Dynamics ERP.

Business intelligence

Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions offer effective business intelligence and reporting solutions that you can put to work immediately. They can let you look deeper into key performance factors to help pinpoint your most profitable customers, most efficient vendors, and potential issues within your organization that require swift action.

Learn more about business intelligence in Microsoft Dynamics ERP.

Financial planning and budgeting

Microsoft Dynamics ERP offers financial planning, budgeting, and reporting applications to help you measure business results, align performance to goals, and improve profitability.

Learn more about financial planning, budgeting and reporting solutions for Microsoft Dynamics ERP.

Software-plus-services

Software-plus-services, the Microsoft approach for the next generation of computing, is an industry shift that combines Internet services with client and server software to deliver more compelling opportunities and solutions.

Learn more about the Microsoft Dynamics software-plus-services approach.

1 AMR Research Market Analytix Report: Application Spending Series, The Enterprise Resource Planning Spending Report, 2005–2006, by Bob Locke, Jim Shepherd, and Wendy Davis

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