Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP is a potent ERP system that offers
small and mid-sized organizations financial and operational functionality, such
as advanced consolidation, robust business intelligence, rich reporting, insightful
forecasting, and easy-to-use budgeting. Because Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP is scalable it can provide a platform to
sustain your business as it grows and changes.
Microsoft® SQL Server® Database
Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP utilizes a Microsoft® SQL Server®
backend for its database, which allows for enterprise-level security, advanced
maintenance and backup plans, and transaction roll-back functionality, ensuring
you complete data integrity.
Microsoft® Dynamics™
GP leverages Microsoft® SQL Server’s® built-in report writer, SQL Reporting
Services® (SRS) by providing over 90 SRS reports out-of-the-box, as well as 13
pre-defined SRS templates.
Robust Reporting
In addition to SRS reporting, Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP
includes over 1500 Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP reports and comes integrated with Microsoft’s®
FRx® Report Writer. Crystal Reports® is
also available for use with Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP.
Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server® Integration
Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP fully integrates with Microsoft®
Office SharePoint Server® 2007 to offer powerful workflow, search,
collaboration, document management, portal, and business intelligence capabilities.
Workflow
Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP takes full advantage of SharePoint’s
powerful workflow engine to provide user-defined, multi-layered approval
processes with customizable rules. Approvals can be performed inside Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP or outside of
the system by non-GP users via Outlook or SharePoint.
Search
Using Windows Vista®-like search functionality, users can
quickly locate structured and unstructured data. Structured data is that contained within Microsoft®
Dynamics™ GP, such as sales orders, payables invoices, purchase orders,
etc.
Unstructured data is information stored in Microsoft® Office applications, such as Outlook, Excel, Word, any
SharePoint site, and any other location a user chooses to index. What this provides to users is the ability to
make critical business decisions on more than just the data contained within
their financial management application.
Business Portal
Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP incorporates SharePoint to create
the Business Portal. Using the Business
Portal, organizations can create intranets that contain useful information,
such as internal company announcements, as well as client or vendor-facing
extranets that allow authorized partners access to controlled areas within
one’s business data.
In addition, users can create unlimited sub-sites for collaboration purposes, as well as utilize
document libraries that not only allow storage of documents, but also provide substantial
document management capabilities like check-in/check-out and versioning features.
Business Intelligence
Because the Business Portal is directly connected to the Microsoft®
Dynamics™ GP database, crucial business information can be retrieved from
virtually any area within Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP and served up via the Business
Portal to provide potent business intelligence capabilities. User-defined Key Performance Indicators
(KPI’s) can be created to display information in a myriad of interactive tables,
graphs, charts, or pivot tables that allow users to drill further into the
details directly from the Business Portal.
Microsoft® Dynamics™ CRM Integration
The ability to view company financial data is critical to
more than just the accounting department these days. Information regarding quotes, orders,
invoices, and field service tickets is of utmost importance to today’s users of
customer relationship management (CRM) applications, such as Microsoft® Dynamics™
CRM. Real-time integration between Microsoft®
Dynamics™ GP and Microsoft® Dynamics™ CRM is available that allows for the
following integration options:
• Customer Information. Both Microsoft® Dynamics™
CRM Accounts and Microsoft® Dynamics™ CRM Contacts can be integrated to Microsoft®
Dynamics™ GP as customers reducing the amount of duplicate data entry.
• Order Information. Create orders in Microsoft®
Dynamics™ CRM and allow them to flow seamlessly to Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP.
Status updates, shipping notes, and other important information entered in Microsoft®
Dynamics™ GP can then be pushed to Microsoft® Dynamics™ CRM for complete
visibility by the sales team.
• Invoice Information. As invoices are
generated in Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP, values and payment status pass easily to Microsoft®
Dynamics™ CRM to allow the sales and marketing teams to have complete
visibility into a customer’s status.
• Product & Price List Information. Allow
Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP to master your product, prices, and discount
information by integrating it in real-time to Microsoft® Dynamics™ CRM.
• Field Service Integration. Microsoft® Dynamics™
CRM Service Case integration to the Field Service module of Microsoft® Dynamics™
GP.
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