8 Kas 2009

Fuel business productivity with Microsoft Dynamics


Fuel business productivity with Microsoft Dynamics

Take your people and processes to the next level of performance
Microsoft Dynamics for business management promotes a people-focused approach to productivity. By empowering your people to accomplish their best, you can heighten the productivity of collaborating teams, workflows and processes, key relationships with suppliers and customers, and technology—across your organization.

Capitalize on productivity opportunities
Microsoft Dynamics business management solutions can provide an infrastructure to help you reach your specific productivity goals. The technology can follow your vision. Important Microsoft Dynamics capabilities include helpful automation, actionable information, and effective collaboration. For example, you can:

Automate business processes. Reduce the cost of doing business by helping your people concentrate more on productive tasks and less on repetitive busywork. From the first sales conversation through manufacturing, shipping, and servicing, automation helps streamline your entire business and move processes along productively and economically.

Use technology to get accurate information. Set the best course of action. And act on it. Reporting and business analysis tools help your people gain a deep understanding of business performance, customer preferences, and market trends. Executives can receive business performance, financial, and competitive intelligence. Line-of-business directors can assess and drive departmental productivity and operational efficiency. And employees can manage business areas within their responsibility equipped with all the information and capabilities they need.

Enrich teams within the company. Employee portals and team sites help people to work together productively across the organization, no matter where they are. Customers and business partners can engage with your company in mutually beneficial, collaborative relationships. Employees, vendors, and customers gain direct access to the information, documents, and capabilities they need. And executives and business managers can access performance metrics and analytical reports and work together to set strategy.

Implement technology that works the way your people do
Microsoft and its partners work with you to help ensure that you generate the productivity benefits you are striving for from a business management solution.

Put people at the center of business processes. Microsoft Dynamics works with and like the software your people use every day. Each team member can adjust preferences, views, and report types. And RoleTailored access to intranet employee portals helps everyone in your organization get to mission-critical tasks first and keep sensitive information protected.

Increase productivity. Microsoft Dynamics solutions work like and with other Microsoft technologies you might already use in your business. With the low support requirements and easy user adoption of Microsoft Dynamics solutions, your IT team can play a more strategic role in advancing your business interests.

Get industry-specific functionality. Microsoft partners provide industry-specific customizations that help boost the value of Microsoft Dynamics with their own software products. Microsoft is committed to giving partners everything they need to help you gain the full benefits potential from Microsoft Dynamics software and other Microsoft products and technologies.

http://www.pargesoft.com/ Microsoft Dynamics Global Partner

6 Kas 2009

Compare Oracle with Microsoft Dynamics



Three reasons to switch from Oracle to Microsoft Dynamics
Making the decision to change your company's business management system is a process that requires research and foresight. Here are three top reasons why businesses using Oracle applications, including PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and E-Business Suite solutions, have decided to make the switch to Microsoft Dynamics.

Microsoft Dynamics can scale with your business. Microsoft Dynamics provides affordable scalability for your growing businesses. With benchmarked performance up to 1,000 users and beyond and rich functionality across financials, supply chain management, and customer relationship management, you can be confident in the ability of Microsoft Dynamics to meet the needs of your growing business. Integrate your Microsoft Dynamics business management solution with Microsoft SQL Server and enjoy enterprise-level reporting, flexible decision-making support, and timely, relevant business insight at a low cost with significantly high usability and flexibility.

Microsoft Dynamics provides a low cost of ownership. Microsoft Dynamics is engineered to cost-effectively support the changing requirements that are frequently necessary for customers to adapt, grow, and maintain a competitive edge in their business. Independent research has demonstrated that, on the whole, Microsoft Dynamics offers a higher return on investment (ROI) and lower overall costs than other major competitive offerings. Microsoft Dynamics licensing is designed to be cost-effective. It is based on concurrent users versus named users and has no imposed user minimum or maximum, so it evolves with you for the life of your business.

Microsoft offers an industry-leading vertical partner ecosystem. Microsoft is in a position to deliver vertical solutions to hundreds of different industries on a local basis; it can bring these solutions to market on a local level. Microsoft's Certified for Microsoft Dynamics program offers solutions designed to meet the needs of specific industries. It can provide customers with the benefits of a rich portfolio of tested, reference supported solutions developed by ISVs that have met Microsoft’s highest solution and organizational certification standards.

Customer evidence: Learn how switching to Microsoft Dynamics benefited other companies

See how companies using Oracle products solved real business problems and benefited from switching to Microsoft Dynamics.
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Network solutions leader projects $1.5 million savings with switch to Microsoft Dynamics

Based in Fremont, California, Network Equipment Technologies (NET) develops, distributes, and supports voice and data communications equipment for multiservice networks. Because the company’s Oracle system did not enable flexible product configuration, NET maintained as many as 37,000 derivative part numbers in its system. In 2006, NET decided to implement Microsoft Dynamics instead of upgrading its Oracle ERP system. Using the built-in product configuration capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics, NET reduced the number of parts in its system by more than 85 percent. The company anticipates a total estimated savings of U.S.$1.5 million in the first year.

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Floral goods manufacturer gains time-saving insight with business software

Established in 1946, family-owned Syndicate Sales leads the floral hard goods industry. Syndicate Sales had used JD Edwards from Oracle, but found that employees relied heavily on IT staff to generate routine reports and extract information in response to queries. After evaluating a number of alternatives, Syndicate Sales chose to switch to Microsoft Dynamics. Now employees quickly and easily access the business information that they need, and have confidence that their information is accurate and up to date.

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Tactical gear maker meets growth demands with business management solution

BlackHawk Products Group, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, produces high-end military, law enforcement, and outdoor gear products. Struggling to keep track of inventory and manufacturing costs with their existing system, BlackHawk decided it needed a more robust business management solution. After evaluating SAP and Oracle, the company chose to implement Microsoft Dynamics due to the flexibility and low cost of ownership.

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Teva Neuroscience Inc. needed to upgrade to a new system that could handle a greater volume of transactions through a short accounting cycle. After opening a branch in Montreal, Canada, the Kansas City, Missouri-based company also needed a more complete business management solution to meet its increasingly complex reporting needs, as well as a system that made it simple to drill down into financial data for better budgeting and forecasting. After testing Microsoft Dynamics in its business environment, Teva found it made little economic sense to deploy Oracle when a less complex, more affordable solution met its needs.

Questions to ask when evaluating an Oracle solution

- What does a typical Oracle support team look like? How many administrators are there? How many developers? How many support personnel?

- Does your proposal include the use of an Oracle Accelerator for streamlined implementation? What specifics actually govern this offer? How will the cost and time of implementation be affected if I want the solution modified to meet my unique business practices?

- Will I have to conform my business to match Oracle's ideas of how to run a business in order to get the benefits of the rapid implementation? How am I able to realize a competitive edge in my business processes if I am just taking what is given?

- Do I have to license named users instead of concurrent users or user sessions? What is the difference, and what do you see as the pros and cons of each?

http://www.pargesoft.com/ Microsoft Dynamics Global Partner