| Analytics |
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Analyze financial
data by whatever criteria you require, introduce greater
reporting flexibility and extensibility, and analyze
transactions efficiently. |
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Transform your
Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains data into
presentation-quality information so you can make better business
decisions, with compelling views of business data created easier
and faster than ever before. |
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Enterprise Reporting offers
you the most efficient reporting solution available for
complex, distributed environments. It allows you to easily
automate procedures unique to your business environment for
complete control over consolidations, financial reporting,
budgeting, and analysis. |
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Take control of the future of
your organization with Microsoft Business Solutions for
Analytics–Forecaster. Meet business objectives and gain
competitive advantage with budgeting and planning capabilities
that allow you to plan more effectively and respond quickly to
changing business needs. |
Microsoft FRx
Professional
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Master your financial
reporting process with Microsoft Business Solutions for
Analytics–FRx Professional. High-performance capabilities give
you comprehensive, highly customizable financial and
management reports that are easy to create, distribute, and
use. |
| Business Portal |
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Unlock business potential and
enhance productivity by providing role-based access to
information and processes from a single Web-based portal.
Microsoft Business Portal integrates seamlessly with Microsoft
Great Plains to deliver applications, information, and
processes to employees, customers, and partners across your
organization. |
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Project Time and Expense
provides project team members and managers with a way to
effectively capture, review and approve project time and
expense data on the Web, enabling prompt, accurate customer
invoicing and efficient reimbursement for out-of-pocket
employee expenses. |
Electronic
Document Delivery
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Organize and schedule the
e-mail message delivery of invoices, credit memos, and other
sales documents to your customers in XML, HTML, Microsoft
Office Excel, or PDF format, reducing administrative overhead
and increasing customer responsiveness. |
HR
Management Self-Service Suite
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Streamline HR management and
empower employees to view and update personal information from
any Web browser. The HR Management Self-Service Suite for
Microsoft Business Portal integrates human resources and
payroll data and helps provide accurate, current information
across your organization. |
| Customization |
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Meet specific business needs
with powerful customization tools that allow your developers
to integrate data from external sources, incorporate legacy
applications, and modify your Microsoft Business
Solutions–Great Plains solution to fit the most exacting
business requirements. |
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Utilize business data from
almost any platform data source. Microsoft Great Plains offers
powerful integration capabilities that use the latest
industry-standard technologies, enabling you to integrate and
incorporate data with a high degree of safety, flexibility,
and speed. |
| Distribution |
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Maintain tight control over
your distribution channels, improve processes, and drive
superior customer service with new Advanced Distribution
capabilities. |
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Keep pace with competitive
markets and low margins. Advanced Picking capabilities provide
you with the flexibility needed to reduce handling and
increase accuracy for both single and multi-site warehouse
operations. |
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Empower your employees to
make strategic decisions and provide superior service. New
inventory and order management capabilities help ensure the
right inventory is available at the right time to meet
customer needs and boost profitability. |
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Balance supply and demand
effectively and gain competitive advantage by establishing a
well-defined process for demand planning—or simplifying your
current process—and improving the quality of forecasts. |
Electronic
Document Delivery
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Organize and schedule the
e-mail delivery of invoices, credit memos, and other sales
documents to your customers in XML, HTML, Microsoft Office
Excel, or PDF format, reducing administrative overhead and
increasing customer responsiveness. |
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Empower your salespeople and
existing customers by allowing them to place and update orders
via an out-of-the-box, business-to-business Internet
storefront, saving them time and increasing the accuracy of
orders. |
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Give your business a
competitive edge. By controlling inventory effectively and
setting prices on a customer-by-customer basis, you can reduce
operating costs and achieve the fast, efficient fulfillment
that keeps them coming back. |
Purchase Order
Processing
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Take control of your business
processes and empower your employees to make sound business
decisions and minimize costs. Purchase Order Processing
capabilities streamline purchasing tasks and equip employees
to track and manage vital commitments on the fly. |
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Maintain tight control over
your accounts receivable with capabilities that help you track
invoices, process receipts, and analyze customer activity, so
you can manage sales made on account more effectively and yet
maintain lower overhead costs. |
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Help increase control and
visibility over your entire purchasing process, reduce
paperwork, and automate approval processes. With Requisition
Management, employees can enter purchase requisitions online
for manager approval and automatic transfer to Microsoft Great
Plains Purchase Order Processing. |
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Enhance employee productivity
and streamline your distribution process with sales order and
invoicing capabilities that help you enter and process orders
quickly and accurately and give you more control over your
business process. |
| E-commerce |
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Connect your organization’s
applications and data to create a powerful flow of information
that enables smarter decisions and a more productive
workforce. With eConnect, you can use the latest
industry-standard technologies to create real-time,
transactional connections across Microsoft Great Plains,
external applications, and outside organizations. |
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Empower your salespeople and
existing customers by allowing them to place and update orders
via an out-of-the-box, business-to-business Internet
storefront, saving them time and increasing the accuracy of
orders. |
| Field Service |
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Manage complex field service
operations with higher levels of profitability and customer
satisfaction. Nine powerful modules integrate essential
accounting, distribution, and service processes to increase
technician productivity, reduce overhead, and open up new
revenue opportunities while focusing on what's important —
your customer. |
| Financial Management |
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Analyze financial data by
whatever criteria you require, introduce greater reporting
flexibility and extensibility, and analyze transactions
efficiently. |
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Gain unparalleled access to
mission-critical financial information within your business
and turn that data into a powerful competitive tool, while at
the same time controlling it with greater efficiency and ease
than ever before. |
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Make timely, informed
financial decisions and improve your cash flow with clear,
customizable information views provided by Cash Flow
Management. |
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Improve your cash flow and
reduce bad debt expense with the clear, customizable
information views and automated bad debt management
tools. |
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Automate your critical
banking activities and interact electronically with your bank
with comprehensive tools that help reduce administrative
costs, increase productivity, and improve cash management—in a
security-enhanced environment. |
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Enhance employee productivity
and reduce processing costs with expense reporting
capabilities that streamline expense management processes,
eliminate paper receipts, and enable employees to create and
submit reports any time, from any location. |
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Take control of your
company's assets and put them to the best possible use in your
organization with the asset management capabilities you need
to effectively track, analyze, and utilize those assets to
make them work for you. |
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Manage the financial heart of
your business with intelligent accounting and analysis
capabilities that make your finances work for you, giving you
the vital information you need and changing the way you do
business for the better. |
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Take control of multinational
operations and manage currency transactions smoothly and
efficiently with flexible, powerful multicurrency
capabilities. |
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Improve your control over
expenses with up-to-the-minute information about your
payables, easy management of your vendors, and effort-saving
automation of many routine or complex tasks that provides a
great return on investment. |
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Maintain tight control over
your accounts receivable with capabilities that help you track
invoices, process receipts, and analyze customer activity, so
you can manage sales made on account more effectively and yet
maintain lower overhead costs. |
| Foundation |
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Maximize your business
computing potential by moving processor-intensive tasks off
the computers your employees use every day and onto dedicated
process servers, avoiding costly slow-downs and vastly
improving computer performance. |
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Work with powerful,
customized reports that allow you to analyze every aspect of
your business, pinpointing the exact information you need to
increase your productivity and make effective business
decisions. |
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With powerful security
management capabilities presented in a clear, interactive
format, you can control access to data, applications, and
tools; reduce IT administration; and help maintain high levels
of protection for your business system. |
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Make your business processes
work for you with the backbone of Microsoft Business
Solutions–Great Plains System Manager. By configuring your
system to meet your business needs, you'll work more
productively and share information more effectively across
your organization. |
| HR Management |
HR
Management Self-Service Suite
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Streamline HR management and
empower employees to view and update personal information from
any Web browser. The HR Management Self-Service Suite for
Microsoft Business Portal integrates human resources and
payroll data and helps provide accurate, current information
across your organization. |
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Manage and track a wide range
of employee information to support informed, consistent
decision-making. Understand the business impact of salary
changes by running "what if" scenarios with various salary
adjustment projections. |
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Streamline your Canadian
payroll requirements and enable your staff to handle complex
and changing payroll situations quickly and accurately,
offering better service to your employees while reducing
necessary overhead costs. |
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Streamline your U.S. payroll
requirements and enable your staff to handle complex and
changing payroll situations quickly and accurately, offering
better service to your employees while reducing necessary
overhead costs. |
| Manufacturing |
Engineering Change
Management
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As markets accelerate, so
does the pace of change. New technologies and new customer
demands increase the pressure on engineering to make process
and component adjustments that accommodate such changes while
maintaining or improving efficiencies and profitability.
Engineering Change Management helps manufacturers organize and
control this dynamic process. |
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To help ensure business is
profitable, you need accurate, current, and easy-to-access
data about every costing detail relating to a job. Job Costing
delivers this functionality to manufacturers by capturing all
costs when they occur, and consolidating them into one
location that's easy to access and manage—delivering a
comprehensive view of production profitability. |
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Bill of Materials delivers
complete, consistent, and correct product information,
enabling you to maximize production efficiency and cut
inventory costs across the extended enterprise. By tightly
integrating different types of bills and customized
definitions into manufacturing operations, Bill of Materials
helps improve performance, support time-to-market and
time-to-volume objectives, and ensure materials are where they
should be, when they are needed. |
Manufacturing
Order Processing
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Track production costs in
detail and manage work orders, routings, outsourcing, and work
center definitions. By directing the entire cycle of order
processing, you can build a business that is both
customer-driven and profitable. |
Materials
Requirements Planning
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Material Requirements
Planning helps you realize the control you need to compete.
Deep visibility into material requirements translates into
more effective resource planning—helping reduce stock outages,
drive down inventory costs, and streamline the production
process. |
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By allowing you to design
testing procedures of incoming materials to meet your
manufacturing process, Quality Assurance equips you to start
with the quality of raw materials you require, and
dramatically helps to reduce manufacturing delays, rework, and
scrap. |
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Whenever you bring together
people to accomplish a task, communication challenges may
arise—especially when those people have different objectives
and backgrounds. Your sales teams and manufacturing managers
probably face these challenges—yet effective communication
between these divergent groups is the first step to ensuring
product delivery that's both efficient and effective. |
| Project Management |
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Maintain tight control over
strategic direction, support resources effectively, and ensure
that projects are completed on time and within budget. Project
Accounting connects project activities with company
financials, provides extensive reporting capabilities, and
helps ensure accurate accounting and billing processes
throughout project life-cycles. |
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Project Time and Expense for
provides project team members and managers with a way to
effectively capture, review and approve project time and
expense data on the Web, enabling prompt, accurate customer
invoicing and efficient reimbursement for out-of-pocket
employee expenses. |
