MICROSOFT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS GREAT PLAINS

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MICROSOFT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS GREAT PLAINS

• Tools For
• Business Success

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Real Businesses
Real Issues
After answering the phones, we would have to go
to the files to look up the information that the
customer wanted. Norma Damiano Customer
Service Specialist ATECO
We had to type timesheet data into Access, print
paper reports, and retype the data into Excel.
Next, the data was retyped into accounting
software and sent to payroll processing. Then
someone had to type the payroll data back into
the accounting software as a journal entry.
Chris Robuck Finance Director Sherwood,
Oregon
We needed a system that would integrate
financial applications with just about anything
else -- Nick Chunias CEO MuscleMasters.com
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Solutions That Can Help

• Improve productivity and empower employees
• Streamline and automate business processes
• Enable insight into business with powerful
  analysis tools
• Connect you with your customers and partners
• Understand your customer base and provide world
  class customer service
• Streamline purchasing, order processing,
  inventory, etc
• Provide a stable, reliable, secure environment
• Built on a solid foundation with wide-spread
  support
• Adaptable to your business needs
• Integrate all areas of business
• Inventory, Finance, Budgeting, Project
  Management, Sales Marketing, Payroll, Customer
  Service etc

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Total ERP Solution
Functional Series

• Financial Management
• Analytics
• HR Management
• Project Management
• Field Service Management
• Supply Chain Management
• E-commerce
• Foundation
• Customization Tools

Industry
Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains

• Distribution
• Manufacturing
• Retail
• Vertical / ISV Solutions

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How can Great Plains benefit you?
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Microsoft Great Plains
Designed With Your Business In MindWith Room To
Grow The Control You Need A Rock Solid
Foundation Grow with Confidence
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Analytics and Business Intelligence Drive
Information Across the Enterprise

• Report Writer and Report Scheduler
• FRx Financial Reporting
• FRx Forecaster
• Crystal Reports Professional 9.0
• Proclarity
• Drill-down zooms
• Smart Lists
• Business Portal
• Enterprise Reporting
• Business Alerts
• XBRL

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Why be optimistic?

• We offer the best single source solution for the
  mid-market
• Best database SQL Server, from Microsoft
• Best OS Windows, from Microsoft
• Best productivity suite Office, from Microsoft
• Best biz apps Great Plains, from Microsoft
• 1600 RD staff is 4th in the market, behind SAP,
  Oracle, PeopleSoft, ahead of J.D. Edwards
  Siebel

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• ..lets see a real example of how these benefits
  can be achieved using
• Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains
• Business Portal

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Four Ways Business Portal Helps You Conduct
Business More Effectively
Microsoft Business Portal 2.0

• Extend your business solutions to more employees
• Increase availability of information throughout
  your business
• Enable employees to complete common tasks more
  efficiently
• Tailor Business Portal to your business 

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Business Portal is
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Key Benefits

• Extending the Power of the Portal to the
  Organization
• Role-based
• Business Data Web Parts, Queries, News
  Announcements
• Browser access to Great Plains
• HRM Self Service Suite
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• FRx reports integration
• Windows SharePoint Services
• Share documents
• Save Office documents to  the portal
• Quickly set up collaboration sites
• Streamlined creation of portal pages and
  web parts