Custom Development for Microsoft Dynamics Business Management Applications
Microsoft Dynamics is a family of integrated, customizable business management products that allow companies to make timely and informed business decisions. These products have the look and feel of familiar Microsoft software so that it is easy to integrate and use new applications. Solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics automate and streamline key processes so that your company can optimize the business value of your information system.

Microsoft Dynamics products include applications and services for retailers, manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and service companies, doing business in the U.S. or in multiple countries. These solutions enable employees in every vital position in your company to contribute to the success of your business. Microsoft Dynamics can improve the efficiency of all lines of business in your company and delivers exceptional benefits in the critical areas of financial management, customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management.

Progent's software developers and network consultants can provide custom programming and integration to help you benefit from the e-commerce capabilities of the most popular software from the Microsoft Dynamics family of business management solutions.

Microsoft Dynamics AX
Microsoft Dynamics AX ConsultingMicrosoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Axapta) is an adaptable business-management solution that enables you and your people to make business decisions with confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like familiar Microsoft software, such as Microsoft Office programs and Microsoft SQL Server. The result: You can build on the investments in systems and software that your company might already use. Plus, the familiar working environment, helps lower learning curves so users can focus less on technology and more on their business goals.

Microsoft Dynamics AX looks and works similar to Microsoft Outlook. This familiarity helps make it easier for your people to learn and the business system. You can define links to "favorite" forms and applications for each user, and provide easy access to them from individual screens. Comprehensive features help automate and streamline financial, customer relationship, business services, human resources management, and supply chain processes. So Microsoft Dynamics AX brings together people, processes, and technologies wherever they are located worldwide. In this way, Microsoft Dynamics AX helps to increase the productivity and effectiveness of your business, helping you to drive business success.

Progent’s developers can show you how to use the MorphX development environment for Microsoft Dynamics AX to design, edit, and compile custom capabilities within a single screen. Progent can also help develop applications that operate both with Web and Microsoft Windows clients, which can dramatically cut development and IT support costs. Progent’s consultants can also ensure tight integration and seamless connectivity between custom Microsoft Dynamics AX applications and products such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office programs including Word and Excel, and Microsoft SQL Server. Additionally, Progent can help you connect your Microsoft Dynamics AX applications with external data sources by using Web services such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, Component Object Model (COM) integration, Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Microsoft .NET Framework, stored procedures, XBRL, and XML.

Progent’s experts our familiar with the three-tier, object-oriented architecture of Microsoft Dynamics AX that integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft SQL Server. This allows the creation of high-speed server-side applications and the capability to scale your IT infrastructure easily as your company grows. Because Microsoft Dynamics AX uses standard adapters based on SQL Server Reporting Services and the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET development system, Progent’s developers can take advantage of these adapters to enable you to access a wide variety of industry-standard integration protocols to connect to the business management solutions of your business partners.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Custom DevelopmentMicrosoft Dynamics NAV offers growing small and midsize businesses a powerful yet cost-effective solution that can be tailored for your company. It can support customization and add-on software to meet industry or other specific needs. In addition, it can adapt as a growing business needs more power and functionality. Functions supported by Microsoft Dynamics NAV include financial management, manufacturing, business intelligence, sales and marketing, distribution, plus purchase and payables.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is designed to work smoothly with other Microsoft products such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. For example, documents written with Microsoft Word can take data from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV database and incorporate that information into a customer letter. Workers can use Microsoft Excel to create reports with up-to-date figures imported from Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Commerce portal capabilities also allow a company to create a Web site to work easier with customers and partners.

In addition, Microsoft Dynamics NAV also can be integrated with a wide range of other software products, so even if a small business already has substantial IT infrastructure, it can be used with Microsoft Dynamics NAV so that a business makes the most of its IT investment.

Progent’s developers offer SQL Server 2008 expertise to help you utilize Microsoft Dynamics NAV to create applications and reports that make it easier for your employees to access, extract, and analyze business data and information in a secure environment to improve business decisions. Progent can help you structure Microsoft Dynamics NAV tables and fields into multidimensional cubes using SQL Server Analysis Services so the information can be reviewed in the format and context most relevant to your business. Progent’s consultants can also help you integrate Microsoft Dynamics NAV to other systems and applications. In addition, Progent can help you build and analyze data warehouses of any size so you can improve your understanding of your business, attract more customers, expand your marketing strategies, and form successful partnerships.

Microsoft Dynamics SL
Microsoft Dynamics SL ConsultantsMicrosoft Dynamics SL, formerly Solomon Software, 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.

Microsoft Dynamics SL 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 has also been enabled by the technology upgrade to Microsoft Visual Studio. Many other new features have been added to increase the efficiency, flexibility, and security of everyday business operations. Microsoft Dynamics SL consists of modules that integrate smoothly with one another. Each module delivers a different feature or application that is an essential component of the comprehensive business solution. Popular business functions supported by Microsoft Dynamics SL modules include customer relationship management, field service management, financial management, human resources management, manufacturing, project accounting, and supply chain management

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.

Progent’s ERP and eCommerce software development experts can utilize the versatile development platform of Microsoft Dynamics SL Tools for Visual Basic to build complete line-of-business applications that communicate with Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft SQL Server. Progent’s developers can create applications that access Microsoft SQL Server-based applications. Microsoft SQL Server database APIs to provide functions such as forward and backward record navigation, field validation, field value lookup, common event logging, multi-user contention, and automated transaction rollback. Progent can also show you how to customize and extend your applications using Microsoft Dynamics SL Customization Manager. In addition, Progent’s SQL Server experts can show you how to maintain SQL table data, generate new SQL tables, place Visual Basic controls on Visual Basic forms with application properties already set, and add new reports from Crystal Reports 10.0, and design dictionary utilities to support the development process.

Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS)
Microsoft Dynamics SL ConsultantsMicrosoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) offers small and mid-market retailers a complete point-of-sale (POS) solution that can be adapted to meet unique retail requirements. This powerful software package automates POS processes and store operations, provides centralized control for multi-store retailers, and integrates with Microsoft Office system programs, Microsoft Dynamics GP, and other popular applications. Microsoft Dynamics RMS is built on a proven Microsoft platform that adapts to meet unique and changing retail needs.

Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System enables you to automate inventory and purchasing management, streamline transaction processing, improve marketing efforts, and analyze data with flexible reporting options. The ability of Microsoft Dynamics RMS to integrate with other solutions helps to eliminate duplicate data entry, connect your business information and processes, and protect your existing software investments. You can use Microsoft Dynamics RMS ton connect retail and financial management across a multi-store network with integration to Microsoft Dynamics GP, work with familiar Microsoft Office system applications such as Office Excel and Office Word for data analysis and communications, or use Electronic Data Capture (EDC) and integrate with leading credit card services to reduce fraud and human error. Microsoft Dynamics RMS also allows you to manage accounts receivable in Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System Store Operations, then trade summary POS data with popular accounting software such as Intuit QuickBooks.

Progent's development team can help you add new features, functionality, and applications to Microsoft Dynamics RMS, including vertical solutions, accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) integration, eCommerce solutions, smartphone connectivity, and additional integration to EDC and credit card services. Progent can utilize Microsoft SQL Server database technologies to store and manage virtually unlimited amounts of information as you add customers and products to the system. Progent can help you integrate data generated at stores across the retail chain with merchandising systems, warehouse systems, and other back-office enterprise systems or portals, including SharePoint Server.

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