 What's
new in Microsoft
Dynamics GP 10.0
Enhance
business management
functionality to empower
everyone in your
organization
Microsoft Dynamics GP
10.0 enables everyone in
your organization to
drive business success
by streamlining business
processes. Your people
and teams can succeed in
a highly collaborative
work environment by
sharing files and
information, bridging
communication between
your employees,
customers, and partners.
Your people can also
work faster and smarter
when working with a user
interface that is
designed for how people
really do work.
Microsoft Dynamics GP
10.0 helps to ensure
consistency, accuracy,
and tighter controls
across your business
with automated approval
workflows. Workflows can
be set up to fit the
unique needs of your
business process.
People also have
quick and easy access to
shared information with
enhanced search
capabilities across your
organization. And you
can be confident in the
integrity and
confidentiality of
critical information
with improved security
features.
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Increase business
productivity on all
levels
Provide everyone in
your organization—from
your chief executive
officer (CEO) to your
finance managers, your
salespeople to your
warehouse staff—with the
information, tools, and
collaboration
capabilities they need
to be more productive.
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Streamline
work details:
Microsoft
Dynamics GP 10.0
introduces
Action Panes, a
graphical,
RoleTailored
command
bar—inspired by
the Ribbon in
the 2007
Microsoft Office
system. Action
Pane allows
Microsoft
Dynamics GP
users to perform
actions on
multiple records
on list pages,
enabling users
to preview and
filter
data—without the
need to open
multiple
windows.
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Illustration:
The Microsoft
Dynamics GP 10.0
interface
embraces the
look and feel of
the 2007
Microsoft Office
system and
Windows Vista,
introducing a
new but
consistent user
experience. |
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Facilitate
collaboration
among employees
and with your
business
partners and
customers.
By
using Microsoft
Dynamics GP 10.0
and Microsoft
Office
SharePoint
Server 2007
together, your
teams can
collaborate
using business
information,
reports, and
other documents
available on
your company's
intranet and
extranet sites.
And with remote
access through
the Business
Portal, you can
provide secure
access to your
employees,
partners, and
customers at any
time from any
Internet
connection. |
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Automate
notifications
and approvals
with streamlined
workflows.
Create
automated,
consistent
business
processes that
maximize
efficiency by
involving the
right people at
the right time.
For example, you
can streamline
purchase order
processing with
automated
approval
routings
tailored to
actual business
roles in your
organization.
Workflow
functions
include an audit
trail of task
ownership and
actions to
ensure
compliance and
accountability.
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Illustration:
Microsoft
Dynamics GP
already includes
six workflows,
and your
Microsoft
Dynamics partner
can build others
for you.
Workflow
processes can be
set up to fit
the needs of
people's
specific roles,
quickly define
the conditions
for approval
without juggling
windows, and
include a
workflow history
to provide an
audit trail of
tasks and
ownership. |
Maximize your
ability to access
information
Your people can take
advantage of greater
business insight no
matter whether they're
working in Microsoft
Dynamics GP or another
application. In
addition, users can
simply search for
information rather than
always needing to know
how to navigate to a
specific report.
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Find the
right
information
quickly with
advanced search
capabilities.
Reduce the time
and effort
needed to find
information, so
you can spend
time on tasks
that add more
value. With
Office
SharePoint
Server, you can
define what is
searchable and
can initiate
searches from
Microsoft
Dynamics GP,
Office
SharePoint
Server, or
Desktop Search
that return not
only structured
Microsoft
Dynamics GP 10.0
data, but also
unstructured
information,
including
Microsoft Office
Word 2007
documents,
Microsoft Office
Excel 2007
spreadsheets,
and Microsoft
Office Outlook
2007 e-mail
messages.
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image.
Illustration:
Advanced search
results enable
you to find
information more
quickly—whether
you're searching
from inside or
outside of
Microsoft
Dynamics GP. |
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Facilitate
strategic
decision-making
and flexible
reporting.
Microsoft
Dynamics GP 10.0
contains more
than 75
pre-established
Microsoft SQL
Server Reporting
Services reports
and more than
200 Office Excel
2007 reports
with refreshable
data. The
reports give
people the data
they need to
make confident
decisions. And,
whether they're
working in
Microsoft
Dynamics GP or
another
application,
employees can
store, launch,
and view reports
through Office
SharePoint
Server Report
Libraries.
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Illustration:
Expand your
report writing
options with
more than 75 SQL
Server Reporting
Services
reports. |
Use familiar
technology that's IT
friendly
Microsoft Dynamics GP
offers a deep level of
integration with
Microsoft technology
that works with
applications familiar to
your employees.
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Reduce
information
technology (IT)
workloads.
With proactive
prompts during
the install and
automatic
checking of
system
prerequisites,
you can speed
the installation
and
configuration
process.
Microsoft
Dynamics GP also
allows you to
easily implement
a strong and
auditable
security model. |
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Adopt
technology that
enables rich
functionality.
By leveraging
Microsoft Office
SharePoint
Server, Web
Services,
Microsoft SQL
Server, and .NET
technologies,
Microsoft
Dynamics GP
offers a rich
set of
functionality
that is on a
standard
platform,
enabling IT
staff to further
extend the
solution to meet
the specific
needs of your
organization. |
Streamline critical
business tasks
Microsoft Dynamics GP
10.0 has added more than
120 features to its
already robust feature
set—all created to help
improve your ability to
streamline critical
business tasks.
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Manage
planning and
production with
greater agility.
Improved
material
requirements
planning (MRP)
capabilities
with a new
pegging window
provide
suggestions for
orders and
what-if
scenarios to
provide greater
insight when
planning. |
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Experience
more flexible
budgeting.
Budgets can now
span multiple
fiscal years and
be tied to
specific
business budgets
such as grants
and funds
instead of
finance years. |
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Track
customer changes
more
efficiently.
Track customer
changes by
"effective
date," so when a
service call is
needed, the
technician can
be dispatched to
the correct
location. |
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Engage in a
more streamlined
collections
process.
Improved
collections
aging reports,
improved
identification
of customers to
focus
collections
efforts, and
added
information on
template
collection
letters help
create a more
effective—and
cost-effective—collections
process. |
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