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Microsoft Great Plains Fact Sheets
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Microsoft Great Plains Fact Sheets

• Microsoft Great Plains Overview - See how Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains provides a cost-effective yet solid foundation for growing businesses. With outstanding financial tools and a wide range of applications, it can address business process needs for smaller companies, yet expand with your organization to meet the requirements of complex businesses and corporations.
• Analysis Cubes for Excel - Improve your ability to analyze and report financial data, and share information across your organization.
• Analytical Accounting - Analyze financial data by whatever criteria you require, introduce greater reporting flexibility and extensibility, and analyze transactions efficiently.
• Crystal Reports - 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.
• Enterprise Reporting - 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.
• Microsoft Forecaster - 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 - 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.
• Report Pack - Create the sophisticated analytical reports you need to drive your business forward, taking advantage of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.
• Business Portal - 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.
• HR Management Self-Service Suite: United States - Streamline human resources 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.
• Project Time and Expense - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
• Extender - Capture information that meets your needs, and make fast, easy modifications without writing code.
• Integration - 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.
• Advanced Distribution - Maintain tight control over your distribution channels, improve processes, and drive superior customer service with new Advanced Distribution capabilities.
• Advanced Picking - 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.
• Available to Promise - 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.
• Demand Planner module - 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 - 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.
• eOrder - 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.
• Inventory Management - 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 - 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.
• Receivables Management - 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.
• Requisition Management - 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.
• Sales Order Processing - 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.
• eConnect - 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.
• eOrder - 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 - 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.
• Analytical Accounting - Analyze financial data by whatever criteria you require, introduce greater reporting flexibility and extensibility, and analyze transactions efficiently.
• Bank Reconciliation - 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.
• Cash Flow Management - Make timely, informed financial decisions and improve your cash flow with clear, customizable information views provided by Cash Flow Management.
• Collections Management - Improve your cash flow and reduce bad debt expense with the clear, customizable information views and automated bad debt management tools.
• eBanking - 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.
• eExpense - 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.
• Encumbrance Management - Manage your budgets more proactively by streamlining reporting processes.
• Fixed Asset Management - 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.
• General Ledger - 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.
• Grant Management - Automate many of your grant management processes to track funds more easily, demonstrate accountability, and help attract future funding.
• Multicurrency Management - Take control of multinational operations and manage currency transactions smoothly and efficiently with flexible, powerful multicurrency capabilities.
• Payables Management - 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.
• Receivables Management - 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.
• Process Server - 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.
• Report Writer - 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.
• Security Management - 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.
• SmartList Builder - Query more of your data in more ways.
• System Manager - 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 Self-Service Suite: United States - Streamline human resources 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.
• Human Resources - 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.
• Payroll: United States - Streamline your payroll requirements, enable your staff to handle complex and changing payroll situations quickly and accurately, and offer better service to your employees while reducing necessary overhead costs.
• Engineering Change Management - 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.
• Job Costing - 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.
• Bill of Materials - 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 - 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 - 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.
• Quality Assurance - 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.
• Sales Forecasting - 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 Accounting - 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.
• Project Time and Expense - 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.
• Microsoft Great Plains Standard - Microsoft Great Plains Standard is priced and streamlined for smaller businesses with growing needs. See how its modular design lets you get the functionality you need to customize your solution now, to add components as you need them, and to transition easily to Microsoft Great Plains Professional as your business changes and grows.

Great Plains Resources on the Web

• Microsoft Business Solutions User Group - Formerly Navision.net, this decade-old community of Microsoft Business Solutions users and professionals offers discussion forums, job listings, download tools, and samples.
• Mibuso.com - This platform gives users and developers of products from the Microsoft Business Solutions family a place to exchange ideas, tools, and how-to's, and to find business partners and products.
• Tech Roundup - This community site specializes in news and reviews of Microsoft and Microsoft Business Solutions technologies—plus tips, tricks, and cool gadgets.
• Microsoft Great Plains Fact Sheets - You can access numerous Microsoft Great Plains brochures on the Microsoft site.