Microsoft Great Plains Version 9 - Microsoft Dynamics GP
With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0, Microsoft are delivering the first
wave of their next-generation, industry-leading solution - formerly known as Project
Green and now renamed Microsoft Dynamics GP. This exciting new release reflects
Microsoft's long-term vision of providing customers with breakthrough innovations,
founded on extensive customer research, without disrupting ongoing systems or business
processes.
Customer-Based Innovation
Two years of extensive customer research and 1,500 customer interviews revealed
four areas of innovation that would significantly improve customers systems to help
them grow their businesses.
Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 accelerates these solution benefits by delivering the
first wave of breakthrough innovations and 170 new application enhancements. Release
9.0 reflects Microsoft's goal of providing the business management system that customers
said they wanted, one that is centred in the four design pillars of Empowered Users,
Insightful, Connected, and Adaptive Processes.
Just as important, Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 also offers the fundamentals of quality,
security, and reliability you expect from Microsoft, all providing a high return
on your investment. Hundreds of Microsoft team members have been working on this
release for two years, and Microsoft are confident you will find the results deeply
beneficial.
New features include
Empowered Users
- Personalized Role Pages: Provide employees a personalized user experience with new
role-based home pages that provide relevant information and access tailored to their
daily responsibilities. Twenty pre-defined role templates, ranging from Accounting
Manager to Order Processor, IT Operations Manager to Dispatcher, provide each role
in the organization with information and access specific to their job.
- Personalized Information and Access: Customized, user-specific access to information
such as reminders, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), links to common reports, process
feature guides, and SmartLists empower users to find the information they need that
is relevant to their role in the organization.
- Works Like and with Microsoft Office: Building upon the Microsoft Office 2003-like
user experience delivered in Great Plains Release 8.0, Release 9.0 continues to
deliver business applications that work deeply with Microsoft Office. Release 9.0
delivers your Microsoft Outlook® calendar within Role Pages, and offers letter writing
templates and wizards that enable easy creation of Microsoft Office Word communications
from Collections Management and Human Resources modules, as well as from SmartLists.
The integrated Microsoft Office Excel® PivotTable® Creator continues to win praise
from customers as an easy way to get to the most important information in your business
system.
Insightful - Turn data into knowledge
- Business Intelligence: The Analysis Cubes business intelligence tool
takes all the transactional data in the system and presents it so managers have
easy access to decision-making information the way they want it, whenever they need
it. Using the Microsoft Excel your people are already comfortable with, your business
decision makers can view and analyze trends without any knowledge of data models
or help from IT staff.
- Executive Centre: The new Business Portal Executive Centre offers inquiry
access to transaction details, as well as personally identified Key Performance
Indicators that are important to their business success in their role. The Executive
Centre includes interactive graphs, tables, announcements, and news feeds that allow
managers and executives to stay on top of the information they need, in a browser-based
environment outside of the transaction system.
- Personalized Report Access: New, easier-to-use report navigation provides
personalized access to the reporting options each individual uses most often. Users
can select transaction and financial reports from the Microsoft Dynamics GP Report
List — including new SQL Reporting Services Reports — customize them as needed,
and then store them for one-click access.
Connected -Your people, your customers and your company working together
- Expanded Connections: New business processes have been added
to Business Portal to help reduce paperwork, provide centralized access to information,
and speed time to task, all in a common browser interface. The new Manufacturing
Centre adds visibility into the manufacturing process and production order management.
The addition of Fixed Assets, along with updates in Project Accounting, Purchasing,
Sales and Human Resources, drive the connection between every part of the company
to improve efficiency and information flow.
- Customer Extranets: Business Portal now extends the access of information
to your customers and sales staff through security-enhanced extranet capabilities.
New functionality provides sales order entry; inquiries for shipment status, account
balances, inventory stock levels; and a customer home page where you can deliver
key selling and customer service messages. This key enhancement combines with automated
Electronic Document Delivery of order confirmations, ship notices, and back order
status to improve your customer connections and provide increased service levels
— without driving up IT costs.
- Integration with Microsoft CRM 3.0: The integration between Microsoft
Dynamics CRM 3.0 and Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 has been updated with a new XML-based
processing engine. This new solution provides deeper visibility into Microsoft Dynamics
GP data from within Microsoft CRM, including quantity availability by site, credit
limit validation, order type selection, and access to tax schedules. This enhanced
integration technology means the total solution can be deployed at a lower cost
of implementation and maintenance.
Adaptive Processes - Adapt your solution to meet your unique business needs
- Web Services: The new Web Service engine includes 160 Web Service
access points supporting 20 key business processes. The adoption of industry-standard
Web Services XML Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allows your organization
to readily customize and adapt Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 to provide deeper integration
with disparate internal and external systems.
- Visual Studio: Utilize the power of Microsoft Visual Studio®, along with
the new Developer Toolkit, to modify existing or create new functionality while
leveraging the Microsoft Dynamics GP metadata and business logic. This breakthrough
in technology exposes application events to developers through the very popular
Microsoft Visual Studio environment or any other .NET compatible tool. In addition,
Visual Studio developers now have the ability to present Microsoft Dynamics GP users
with forms that have the same look and attributes of a native form. This tight coupling
of Microsoft Dynamics GP with Visual Studio enables you to adapt your system at
the lowest possible cost to your organization.
- eConnect: Additional eConnect objects are now available for Analytical
Accounting that improve data transfer to General Ledger, Payables Management, Receivables
Management, and Purchase Order Processing. Automated User Setup: Business Portal
now offers more efficient setup of users and security via a redesigned wizard that
speeds system administrators’ ability to add users and automatically match them
to their corresponding functional role and IDs, such as employee ID and salesperson
ID.
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