By providing the familiarity of Microsoft Office system applications and the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services interface, Business Portal for Microsoft Dynamics SL can help your team increase productivity so that you realize a greater return on your business management solution investment. The portal gives employees, partners, and customers secure access to up-to-date information on a browser any time and anywhere it’s needed.  With Microsoft Business Portal, you can deliver project financial status, task assignments, billing, invoices, timesheets, expense reports, and other documents through a Web browser, reducing the time required to manage these processes and eliminating paperwork and data re-entry.

For project driven organizations that rely on the scheduling capabilities of Microsoft Project, Microsoft Dynamics SL integrates directly with Microsoft Project.  The integration works in both directions, where the integrity of the Microsoft Dynamics data that flows through a company’s financial system is not compromised. In cases where the relationship between the data in Microsoft Dynamics and that in Microsoft Project might affect financial and audit trail information, one-way integration, from Microsoft Dynamics to Microsoft Project, is available.

With a Microsoft Dynamics SL and CRM integration, you can create and easily maintain a clear picture of customers—including complex supply chain relationships with partners and suppliers—from first contact through purchase and post-sales, using a comprehensive customer relationship management solution that’s easy to learn and use.  With the ability to view information from the ERP system such as Sales Orders, Inventory Items, and Project related information, Dynamics CRM unleashes your Sales and Marketing Teams to do what they do best, take care of customers.

So next time you hear “we can’t do that,” think again. The tools do exist to bring down information barriers between departments and give your organization the edge it needs to be more productive, efficient, and competitive.

By Associate Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics GP, SL, and CRM partner serving KS MO IA NE

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Despite its “social” name, businesses would be remiss not to reach out to customers and partners via social media, and business management software that does not make room for social media deprives businesses of a golden opportunity for growth. ERP software is no exception, and some analysts are predicting that social media will gradually become a more significant component of the ERP landscape.

In order for businesses to effectively use social media in their daily business processes, it only makes sense that their ERP systems should interact with it, even if only on the surface. Microsoft, for example, accomplishes this through system-wide integration of communication and productivity tools. Microsoft Dynamics ERP products do not exist on islands by themselves. They connect with Office, Outlook, and SharePoint, each of which also intercommunicate with one another.

SharePoint, often called the “Facebook of the enterprise,” comes with its own social media features for your company’s internal and external use. Outlook includes a feature called Social Connector, providing support for Windows Live, Facebook, and more. All of these tools mesh together seamlessly within your business IT system, including your ERP solution. As the next generation of ERP systems emerge, you can expect to see even more social media integration, resulting in better connected businesses and customers.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM already has robust integration with social media. Check out our other article: Improving Enterprise Collaboration with Social Networking Solutions for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

By Green Beacon, Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM Partner serving New England

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This promotion is available for a limited time only. For more information contact FMT Consultants, LLC to learn how you can take advantage of this discount.

Posted by Nicole Kirkpatrick of FMT Consultants, LLC, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Dynamics GP and CRM servicing Hawaii and nationwide with a regional focus on Southern California including San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange Counties.

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Why should you care?

If you feel like you just don’t know to take your business to the next level (or pull it out of a rut), then you should have confidence that Microsoft’s goals are in alignment with your needs. Microsoft Office 2010 is more “role” focused than ever before, which ties directly into Dynamics. Microsoft Dynamics covers 5 key industries that include Professional Services, Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail, and Public Sector. Whether your focus is financial, Human Resources, sales, inventory, all roles are different.  That’s what Microsoft seems to be focusing on, is adapting to the way that people work, rather than forcing different applications to be used under one hat.  Remember, nobody can integrate Microsoft Products together better than Microsoft!

Office 2010 is geared towards:

1. Empowering people:  Historically, Microsoft Dynamics has been used to process transactions.  However, increasingly Microsoft Dynamics customers need to do more.  They need to use Microsoft Dynamics to share their business information more widely throughout the organization. This is priority for small business customers all the way up to larger enterprise corporations. 
2. Simplify business processes:  A good example of this is that Microsoft CRM is available inside Outlook, giving sales people instant access to their customer information.  It is also why it’s easy to use Excel to access Microsoft Dynamics data, and refresh that data every time Excel is opened. 
3. Connect your people, customers, vendors ect:  Microsoft Dynamics helps streamline and centralize all of our financial, HR, PR, Manufacturing data. Office 2010 is going to help us use that information better to improve our operations, especially regarding SharePoint.

SharePoint 2010 and Dynamics:

Whatever your organizational role….centralizing data, data sharing and intuitive reporting is becoming more of a requirement than ever before.   This also makes learning more about the power of Microsoft Dynamics 2010 and Office 14 almost hysterically exciting.

People who run Microsoft Dynamics 2010 with Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 will empower their employees by providing them with the best productivity experience across the PC, phone and browser.   Employees will be able to bring ideas to live through improved visualization of data, and the ability to access information from anywhere (PC, phone and browser.

According to the Yankee Group, 50% of employees categorize themselves as mobile workers and they spend on average 20% of their time away from their primary workspace.  So why not help our employees do their job better, and give them access to their knowledge base, everywhere they go.

One of our clients said it best, “Microsoft Dynamics doesn’t eliminate jobs, it just allows us to do our jobs better.”  Then you add on the benefits of Office 14 to that and you have yourself a well oiled machine.

Exchange 2010: It’s the little things that Microsoft is doing, to help us be more efficient:

We’re all aware of the adage, “do more with less”.  Personally, I feel it should be re-phrased “Do more …with way more stuff in the way to distract you, with less time”.   All of us expect to be more efficient and productive, improve processes and workflows.  Yet, let’s be honest. It’s easy to be distracted just dealing with all the emails, newsletters we sign up for and random email threads which we have no desire in reading.  I can’t lie, I’m guiltily of a heavy handed “CC:” list now and then.  Ok, maybe more than I want to admit…which is why the below tool will save everyone in our office a little time. Thanks Microsoft.

Besides some considerable improvements for IT administrators, I’m looking forward to these two features the best with Exchange 2010.

• Ignore Conversation: This e-mail “mute button” will allow people to remove themselves from an irrelevant e-mail string, reducing unwanted e-mail and runaway reply-all threads.  (Halleluiah!)
• Conversation View:  Combine related e-mail messages in a single conversation to reduce inbox clutter.

It’s possible that businesses lose $650 billion annually in productivity due to unnecessary interruptions including those from e-mail (Basex, 2008). Exchange 2010, together with Microsoft Outlook 2010, will definitely give people more control over their communications with these features, which means more time to focus on their job.

Want to hear more about measurable results that Microsoft Dynamics GP ,  Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server can provide, Call DFC Consultants, at 800-277-5561.  DFC Consultants specialize in Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft CRM and Native American Housing solutions.

By Sarah Mueller, DFC Consultants, North Dakota Dynamics GP Partner

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Here are some of the valuable year-end promotions Microsoft is running for Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM: 

#1  Sage MAS90/200 Users - Up to 75% Off

New clients migrating from Sage MAS 90/200 to Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions can receive up to 50% discount on licenses for both Business Essential or Advanced Management foundation and users.  They may also receive an additional service rebate of up to 25% discount of the software licenses (list price) towards implementation services to help lower the total cost of ownership (up to a maximum of $25,000 USD).

#2 Oracle JD Edwards – Up to 75% Off

New customers moving from Oracle JD Edwards to Microsoft Dynamics ERP solution may be eligible to receive up to 50% discount on licenses for Advanced Management or Business Essential users.   Additionally, with the initial purchase of the Microsoft Dynamics ERP products, clients can receive a rebate of up to 25% of Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLP).  New customers can also receive an electronic coupon (rebate) payable to the partner from whom you purchased the Microsoft Dynamics ERP products. The rebate must be applied towards implementation costs and/or services. The amount of the rebate will be up to 25% of the standard list price and the maximum rebate amount is $25,000 USD.

 #3 QuickBooks and Peachtree Trade Up Offer

QuickBooks and Peachtree customers can take advantage of a special trade in promotion when purchasing the Business Essential (BE) edition or Advanced Management (AM) edition of Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics SL.  Earn an escalating trade-in value based on the Microsoft Dynamics product edition and number of users purchased, discounts range from $350/user up to $850/user.

#4 Salesforce.com or Oracle CRM On Demand – Switch and Get 6 Free Months of Microsoft CRM Online. 

Eligible customers who switch from Salesforce.com or Oracle CRM on Demand will get six free months of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online in addition to their 30-day trial: a complete sales, service, and marketing suite within a native Microsoft Office Outlook experience, supported with robust functionality like mobile access, offline data usage, powerful workflow, 5GB of storage, and a 99.9% financially-backed service level agreement (SLA).

New!  Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online pricing is now simplified to one cost and reduced to $44/per user, per month — includes offline support, 200 custom entities, 200 workflows 5 GB of storage, free mobile access, enhanced data import, and customizable views. 

# 5  The Big Easy Offer 3.0 from Microsoft:  Earn money back on your Microsoft Dynamics CRM purchase or Microsoft desktop and platform products in the form of a partner subsidy to help with your Microsoft Dynamics implementation costs.  When you purchase from multiple product groups, including Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Exchange, SQL Server, Office, Windows Server and other Microsoft desktop and platform products, you can increase the amount of the partner subsidy you earn.  Partner subsidies can be used for the implementation of your Microsoft Dynamics solution including software, hardware and services.

Note: The expiration date on these Microsoft incentives and special offers can range from December 23^rd  to January 2^nd.  Microsoft Dynamics ERP discounts may apply to Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Dynamics AX.  For complete details, including eligibility requirements you can contact us at The TM Group, Ken Jacobsen at kenj@tmgroupinc.com or call 888-482-2864.

By The TM Group, a Michigan Gold Certified Partner Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM and XRM

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