Help your decision makers discover the truth
Optimize business information with BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL to deliver one version of information to your people
Updated: August 11, 2006
The most important resource in a company is the intellect of the people who work there. The key to business success is realizing the potential of this resource. Too often, key information and knowledge is hidden away in databases and systems across an organization. Find out how Business Information Optimization (BIO®) for Microsoft Dynamics SL (formerly Microsoft Solomon) can provide you and your people with relevant business insights.
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Why one version of the truth is so important
Too often, companies store data within multiple, disconnected systems, and people using different systems may be seeing conflicting or incomplete information. Disconnected information makes integrated planning and correct decision making difficult. Some common challenges:
| • | Too much data and too many islands of information on personal computers |
| • | Lack of a single, simple solution for reporting and operational analysis |
| • | The need for better controls regarding budgeting and financials |
| • | New technologies are hard for people to adopt and often conflict with existing systems |
| • | Lack of tools to identify the reasons behind good—and poor—performance |
| • | Each department works from its own systems and set of numbers |
| • | There is not one, accurate view of up-to-date key business data |
Help your people be more effective by providing them with a single version of the truth. With BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL, you can provide a unified version of information across your company.
What is Business Information Optimization (BIO) for Microsoft Dynamics SL?
BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL is an easy-to-use analytics solution that helps amplify the impact that all people can have in an organization through relevant insight into business drivers. Work from one set of company data by bringing operations and finance data (such as projects, sales, inventory, customers, accruals, revenues, budgets, and more) all together into one information tool, interactive and self-service. BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL provides personalized, RoleTailored scorecards for everyone in your organization based on a common set of data. And BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL enables your people to have a more positive impact on business by helping them:
| • | Increase the lifetime value of customers |
| • | Decrease the cost of product and service delivery |
| • | Drive strategic planning to expand your business |
BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL is built on the power of the Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft SQL Server platforms and is able to use Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Business Portal, and more. BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL empowers all business users to build, manage, and utilize scorecards and reports through familiar tools. This powerful solution keeps your team focused on the health and success of your business every day.
Connect data with a tool that fits with your system
Using new technology that fits with your existing system can help your people adopt it faster and increases your return from every dollar spent on IT. BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL helps alleviate information overload because it consolidates information from all business functions to present one set of the same, accurate numbers for all people. This tool connects you to one simple solution: One consistent, accurate version of the truth. It does this by providing you with information to manage projects and resource availability and commitments, and to monitor inventory movement, sales order fulfillment, project status, and risks. BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL is built to provide a relevant view of performance for people to keep your team connected.
Drive better business decisions with accurate business insight
By enabling confident decision making, your team can create action from a single version of the truth about your business. BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL supports your need to monitor business activities from start to finish, dealing with budgets, timelines, department and employee productivity, and a project's effect on your company. This valuable solution creates meaningful analytics that make the best use of time and business knowledge and that analyze rising and falling star performance of customers, inventory, project managers, and more. BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL provides insight to help you measure and improve operational efficiency.
Empower your people with RoleTailored information
Familiar and useful, these tools empower your people. BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL fits into an all-Microsoft IT system—a strategy to help your team members get access to the unified data they need without slowing their performance. Create actionable knowledge through perspectives on data that are uniquely configured for individual people, focusing their daily efforts to highest-value tasks and mapping to user tasks and work needs for an individualized experience. Built on Microsoft Dynamics SL and SQL Server, the solution is easy for your IT department to adopt. Provide interactive reports to people in tools already familiar to them, such as Microsoft Office products and Internet Explorer. By putting relevant information in front of people in a useful format and in a timely manner, BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL empowers people to improve their efforts to recruit, retain, and satisfy both employees and customers.
Help ensure high return on your IT investment
Fuel your business productivity for high return on investment. BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL offers insight about metrics such as profitability and project margin percentages by department, item margins, and financial analysis and controls. This information-driven tool provides an accounting view by amount, date, fiscal period, and department in addition to an operational view by project, item, customer, and more. BIO for Microsoft Dynamics SL is driven to help you spend less time and money gathering data, and lessen the pressure of optimizing financial performance—providing you with the capacity to achieve higher returns on your investments.
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