Microsoft Dynamics SL — project management and accounting software

Microsoft Dynamics SL is a business-management solution specialized to help project-driven midsize organizations obtain reports and business analysis, while helping increase efficiency, accuracy, and customer satisfaction. By enabling you to automate and streamline projects across company divisions and locations, Microsoft Dynamics SL helps you manage people, projects, and profitability. With powerful Microsoft Dynamics SL solutions for professional services, operations, field services, and construction management, you can be confident that projects are estimated correctly, completed on time, and meet your customer's requirements.

The newest version—Microsoft Dynamics SL 7.0—extends the reach of business information with Microsoft SQL Server business intelligence technology to improve collaboration, reporting, and analysis. Easier integration and extensibility of information have also been enabled by the technology upgrade to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Many other new features have been added to increase the efficiency, flexibility, and security of everyday business operations.

When combined with Microsoft SQL Server technologies, Microsoft Dynamics SL consolidates data across applications and platforms. This data can then be extended into tools such as Microsoft Business Portal. With this feature, employees can access up-to-the-minute Web-based reports tailored to the specific information they need, no matter where they are.

Help people be more productive across your organization

Microsoft Dynamics SL enables your people to work more productively, regardless of their role. You can enter and approve requests from any location, look up inventory item availability, and provide customers and vendors with the access they need to view specific information within your system—all from a Web browser. Employees can enter requests directly into the system and managers can approve or reject requests as they are submitted. Purchasing managers can use the data to obtain price breaks on approved purchases, saving your company both time and money. Item Request Entry and Item Request Approval are available through a Web browser using Business Portal.

Automate and streamline operations by connecting project management and accounting

In addition to providing applications for financial management, customer relationship, field service, supply-chain processes, Microsoft Dynamics SL helps your employees manage complex accounting jobs and work projects from a single interface. Microsoft Dynamics SL creates an efficient bridge between documents, spreadsheets, and project accounting transactions; automates time and material billing processes; and creates invoices automatically using predetermined business rules to calculate costs.

For example, you can create flexible tiered hierarchies to reflect different labor rates and billing structures on the project-management side. You can then automatically allocate the appropriate charges and revenues to the general ledger.

Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft Office Project 2007 can help improve productivity and deliver financial insight to project managers in Microsoft Office Project Professional and Business Portal. Watch a video to learn more about how these connected Microsoft solutions help project managers more easily manage status, resources, revenue, and expenses for all types of projects.

Manage projects across company divisions and locations

By integrating information from different companies or offices and enabling portal solutions that help you increase collaboration through a rich, browser-based interface, Microsoft Dynamics SL helps ensure that projects run smoothly and increase customer satisfaction.

With Microsoft Business Portal, you can deliver user-specific access to information from a single Web-based portal. Business Portal in Microsoft Dynamics SL delivers applications, information, and processes to employees, customers, and partners across your organization. Deliver project financial status, task assignments, billing, invoices, timesheets, expense reports, and other documents through a Web browser, reducing the time required to manage these processes and eliminating paperwork and data re-entry.

Improve business analysis and boost customer satisfaction

If your business needs accurate forecasting or real-time status reports about resource usage, project costs, or profitability of individual projects or customers, Microsoft Dynamics SL can provide the information you need—when you need it. Using the integrated features of Microsoft Dynamics SL you can more efficiently obtain reports and business analysis, leading to clearer insights and ultimately greater customer satisfaction. Microsoft Dynamics SL industry-specific features also help you estimate more accurately, so you can meet your customer's requirements on time and within budget.

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