Microsoft Certified Consulting Experts Great Plains Business Software: Features of Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0
A Powerful and Easy-to-Use Business Solution
Features such as list-based navigation, look-up windows, drill-back and inquiry tools, and custom links to applications and Web sites makes Microsoft Dynamics GP a powerful and easy-to-use business solution. Web-based delivery of applications and information through Microsoft Business Portal allows you to equip everyone in your organization with anytime, anywhere access to critical business data and processes.
Key features of Microsoft Dynamics GP include:
Modular Design. Microsoft Dynamics GP offers a modular design that lets you license only the functionality you need, then add modules that integrate easily with your current solution as your needs change.
Standardized Architecture. Microsoft Dynamics GP is built on Microsoft technologies to protect your investment and provide a tightly integrated environment. Microsoft Windows Server Operating System provides a reliable, secure and scaleable foundation and offers efficient management and ease of use. Microsoft .NET support helps connect information, people, systems, and devices. Windows SharePoint Services support allows users to share information easily, collaborate on documents, and collect team knowledge over the Internet or your corporate network.
Microsoft SQL Server support allows Microsoft Dynamics GP to deliver critical business information through extensive management and development tools, a powerful extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool, and new capabilities such as SQL Server Notification Services.
Enhanced reporting capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics GP offers analytics and reporting capabilities that allow you to monitor all operations, revenues and spending, and sales trends with built-in drill-down, inquiry, and reporting capabilities. For more details,
visit Microsoft Dynamics GP Reporting Support.
Integration with Microsoft Office.Microsoft Office support speeds access to business information, strengthens reporting capabilities, and fosters teamwork and collaboration. Microsoft Excel support allows you to share query and budgeting data with Excel and gives you the ability to make full use of Excel-based reporting and budgeting capabilities. With a single click you can highlight your financials in vivid detail with the ability to transform Microsoft Dynamics GP information into Microsoft Excel pivot tables and charts. Microsoft Word support allows you to populate form letters and other documents with up-to-date customer and vendor information. You can also increase efficiency for sales and service calls with one-click access to street maps and directions with Microsoft MapPoint.
Extended Integration. You can integrate data from virtually any database or desktop application into Great Plains. You can also implement a solution that incorporates your existing Web sites, Web services, and applications, even if they’re built on non-Microsoft platforms. Using Microsoft eConnect, developers can build an integration package that leverages industry-standard technologies — including Microsoft BizTalk Server, SQL Server, Visual Basic, SOAP, COM, and XML — to permit all those applications and data sources to interact with Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Customizable. The open architecture of Microsoft Dynamics GP makes it possible to
develop custom applications that offer all of the core functionality of proven Microsoft Dynamics GP solutions but also meet the specialized needs of your business. With access to the Modifier with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, developers can work with the most widely used customization environment in the software industry to quickly adapt Microsoft Dynamics GP information views, add or modify business logic, customize forms and reports, or extend integrations with Microsoft Office applications.
Features of Microsoft Dynamics GP Release 10.0
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 enables everyone in your organization to drive business success by streamlining business processes. Your people and teams can succeed in a highly collaborative work environment by sharing files and information, bridging communication between your employees, customers, and partners. Your people can also work faster and smarter when working with a user interface that is designed for how people really do work.
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 helps to ensure consistency, accuracy, and tighter controls across your business with automated approval workflows. Workflows can be set up to fit the unique needs of your business process.
People also have quick and easy access to shared information with enhanced search capabilities across your organization. And you can be confident in the integrity and confidentiality of critical information with improved security features. New features of Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 include:
Increase Business Productivity on All Levels Provide everyone in your organization—from your chief executive officer (CEO) to your finance managers, your salespeople to your warehouse staff—with the information, tools, and collaboration capabilities they need to be more productive:
Streamline work details: Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 introduces Action Panes, a graphical, RoleTailored command bar—inspired by the Ribbon in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Action Pane allows Microsoft Dynamics GP users to perform actions on multiple records on list pages, enabling users to preview and filter data—without the need to open multiple windows.
Facilitate collaboration among employees and with your business partners and customers: By using Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 together, your teams can collaborate using business information, reports, and other documents available on your company's intranet and extranet sites. And with remote access through the Business Portal, you can provide secure access to your employees, partners, and customers at any time from any Internet connection.
Automate notifications and approvals with streamlined workflows: Create automated, consistent business processes that maximize efficiency by involving the right people at the right time. For example, you can streamline purchase order processing with automated approval routings tailored to actual business roles in your organization. Workflow functions include an audit trail of task ownership and actions to ensure compliance and accountability.
Maximize Your Ability to Access Information Your people can take advantage of greater business insight no matter whether they're working in Microsoft Dynamics GP or another application. In addition, users can simply search for information rather than always needing to know how to navigate to a specific report:
Find the right information quickly with advanced search capabilities: Reduce the time and effort needed to find information, so you can spend time on tasks that add more value. With Office SharePoint Server, you can define what is searchable and can initiate searches from Microsoft Dynamics GP, Office SharePoint Server, or Desktop Search that return not only structured Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 data, but also unstructured information, including Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheets, and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 e-mail messages.
Facilitate strategic decision-making and flexible reporting: Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 contains more than 75 pre-established Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports and more than 200 Office Excel 2007 reports with refreshable data. The reports give people the data they need to make confident decisions. And, whether they're working in Microsoft Dynamics GP or another application, employees can store, launch, and view reports through Office SharePoint Server Report Libraries.
Use Familiar Technology That Is IT Friendly Microsoft Dynamics GP offers a deep level of integration with Microsoft technology that works with applications familiar to your employees:
Reduce information technology (IT) workloads: With proactive prompts during the install and automatic checking of system prerequisites, you can speed the installation and configuration process. Microsoft Dynamics GP also allows you to easily implement a strong and auditable security model.
Adopt technology that enables rich functionality: By leveraging Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Web Services, Microsoft SQL Server, and .NET technologies, Microsoft Dynamics GP offers a rich set of functionality that is on a standard platform, enabling IT staff to further extend the solution to meet the specific needs of your organization.
Streamline Critical Business Tasks Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 has added more than 120 features to its already robust feature set—all created to help improve your ability to streamline critical business tasks:
Manage planning and production with greater agility: Improved material requirements planning (MRP) capabilities with a new pegging window provide suggestions for orders and what-if scenarios to provide greater insight when planning.
Experience more flexible budgeting: Budgets can now span multiple fiscal years and be tied to specific business budgets such as grants and funds instead of finance years.
Track customer changes more efficiently: Track customer changes by "effective date," so when a service call is needed, the technician can be dispatched to the correct location.
Engage in a more streamlined collections process: Improved collections aging reports, improved identification of customers to focus collections efforts, and added information on template collection letters help create a more effective—and cost-effective—collections process.
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