Products: Overview

All the Microsoft products offer a solid accounting and finance core for e-business. They are backed by ongoing service and around-the-clock support. But each integrated product family offers a range of features for specific business needs. Great Plains is an affordable, scaleable solution that addresses business-process needs at the lower mid-market segment and scales to meet the requirements of complex business processes in the upper mid-market and corporate segments.

Microsoft Business Solutions integrate systems and processes from end to end. Data entered in one place is shared across your company-speeding operations, reducing errors and putting accurate information at the fingertips of those who need it. Processes can be securely extended to your entire business community. That gives you maximum efficiency and highly satisfied customers. As a Microsoft CertifiedBusinessSolution Partner V2 Infotech will help you to get a solution tailored to your specific needs.

Modules:

	Bills of Materials
	Customization tools
	eRequisition
	Extended Pricing
	Inventory Control
	Invoicing
	Purchase Order Processing
	Sales Order Processing with Advanced Invoicing

Solutions:

	Financials
	Analytics and Reporting
	Field Service
	E- commerce
	Inventory and Order Processing
	Manufacturing
	Project Management
	Human Resource Management

New Feature with Release 7.5
This major release includes new Microsoft Business Solutions branding and also marks the consolidation of the Microsoft Business Solutions-Dynamics and Microsoft Business Solutions-eEnterprise product lines into one main product-Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains. In addition, key enhancements have been added in the areas of Microsoft Business Solutions Financial Management, Advanced Distribution, Analytics, and Integration. Release 7.5 enhancements include:

Product Functionality

	Effective inventory and distribution management. Help improve profitability and deliver superior customer service with powerful inventory, distribution, and order management capabilities that meet the most demanding requirements.
	Enhanced reporting capabilities. Design compelling views of data with Crystal Reports® 9.0 Professional, as well as publish reports on a recurring basis. Improved Project Management reporting capabilities keep you informed about budget revisions and revenue projections for projects.
	Flexible expense management. Equip employees to create offline expense reports anytime, from any location. Eliminate paper trails and shrink expense processing costs with electronic receipt imaging.
	Extended integration. Integrate key processes and information with Microsoft applications and services, and connect employees, partners, and customers to applications and information via the Web using Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portal.

Branding
With this release, Microsoft announces branding changes for Microsoft Business Solutions. The complete Microsoft brand architecture comprises of the Microsoft corporate brand, six sub-brands and two ingredient brands. Each brand interacts in some way with the other eight. Some integrate and complement, others differentiate. All support and leverage the corporate Microsoft brand.
The Microsoft Business Solutions brand promise is: Microsoft Business Solutions is the trusted partner that unites flexible technology with business insight to help you achieve lasting success by making smarter, faster business decisions.

Consolidation of Dynamics and eEnterprise
Microsoft Business Solutions is committed to building the best solutions for customers across the small business market, lower midmarket, core midmarket, and corporate account segments. After conducting research with the current and prospective customer base and our partner channel, a change in product line to better meet the needs of customers and ease the selling process for partners. Dynamics and eEnterprise have been combined into a single, scalable solution named Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains, which will allow to focus on strengthening one code base and making all functionality available for a wider range of customers. Now any Great Plains customer has the option to purchase exactly what they need out of our entire solution set.

Great Plains Standard
Great Plains Standard is a lower price point offering for the Great Plains product line, designed for companies with less complex business needs that also have limited functionality available and fewer concurrent users. Great Plains Standard will use the Microsoft SQL Server™ Desktop Engine (MSDE) database. MSDE introduces customers to a Microsoft SQL database. Please see the fact sheet for Great Plains Standard for more information on Microsoft site.

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