Today, more than 300,000 customersare using Microsoft Dynamics solutions to drive business success—and stay ahead of the competition.

Microsoft Dynamics SL is designed to empower your people to be more productive and your systems to last longer, with the ability to scale to accommodate growth while delivering the insight you need to respond quickly in an ever-changing world of business.

• Simple to Learn and Use - Simplicity is at the core of Microsoft Dynamics SL. It is easy to learn and use because it works like and with other familiar Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft Office. And Microsoft Dynamics SL works the way you work, soit’s easier for you and your employees to make better decisions and get more done. Simplicity is built into every aspect of your experience—from initial purchase and deployment to ongoing maintenance and upgrades.
• Delivers Agility in the Face of Rapid Change - Today’s business landscape is changing at an ever-increasing pace. To stay ahead, you need a business management solution that is designed to help you meet evolving demands. Microsoft Dynamics SL delivers the agility you need to adapt new business processes and extend functionality quickly, making it easier toenter new markets, add capabilities, or reallocate existing investments. In addition, many Microsoft partnersoffer cloud-based hosting for Microsoft Dynamics SL to give you flexibility to expand or contract as businessconditions change.
• Drives Value for Your Business - Microsoft Dynamics SL delivers value for your business in three important ways. First, you can increase your return on investment as you boost productivity and create new ways to control expenses, helping to drive profitability.  Second, Microsoft Dynamics SL offers interoperability with the other technologies you already use in your organization to help lower your total cost of ownership. Finally, you can achieve maximum benefit from your technology investment through improved time to value, especially when you don’t want or need an extensive IT infrastructure.  

Whether you choose an on-premises or hosted deployment model, our global network of Microsoft partners can get you up and running quickly with tools to accelerate installation, set up and extend core functionality,and migrate data from your legacy systems.  

And there’s more. Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions are backed by a commitment from Microsoft that includesa 10-year support life cycle for each major release—combined with an ongoing investment in research and development—so that you can grow your business with confidence, knowing that your business managementsolution can keep up with your ambition.

Benefits:

• Increase business insight - Retrieve and summarize data across multiple projects to assess performance, compare budgets against expenditures, and obtain the information needed to make informed business decisions. 
• Prevent budget surprises - Monitor costs and profitability with the flexibility to maintain original, actual, and proposed working budgets for each project. 
• Quickly spot trends in pivotal data - Use automated graphing tools and custom report writing options to quickly reveal trends, highlight areas of concern, focus attention, and present key points.
• Work with sophisticated analysis tools - Capture data and transfer it to Microsoft Excel for sophisticated manipulation— including the custom, multidimensional analysis made possible by pivot tables—and graphical display using all the power of Excel’s graphical capabilities. 
• Enhance field manager productivity - Link Microsoft Dynamics SL analyzer with Microsoft portal solutions to provide real-time access to pertinent project data over the Internet.

Define, analyze, and manage your company’s products with Microsoft Dynamics SL Bill of Materials. Comprehensive features in three important manufacturing categories — bill of materials, production routings, and product costing — provide support for costing and production of manufactured and assembled goods.

With Commerce Services for Microsoft Dynamics ERP, you can expand your sales pipeline across multiple channels, enabling online merchandising. You can leverage connection points where you can offer goods for sale through storefronts, online auction sites, and marketplaces. With easy-to-use tools you can add, remove or modify catalogs, you can target specific online channels and create new sales catalogs on demand.

Out-of-the-box integration with your ERP solution dramatically improves time-to-market and reduces costs—and you can work confidently, knowing your online merchandising is highly available, and directly integrated into your sales, order, and payment processes.

Benefits:

• Work the way you want - Modify the form and content of any of the existing standard reports included with Microsoft Dynamics SL by using Crystal Reports — or create an unlimited number of new reports.
• Customize reports - Create reports from existing or custom database tables, or modify standard reports to meet your specific needs. Add or delete fields, add or refine data filtering and sorting, calculate totals and averages, combine multiple databases, and much more.
• Increase reporting impact - Use a variety of fonts, graphics files, boxes, lines, and even embedded objects from other applications, along with integrated graphing and customizable styles. The Reports Expert Wizard guides you to the report style you need and assists you in customizing reports to look the way you want them to.
• Study data easily - Analyze data with multi-pass reporting for example, a first pass to compute the total and a second pass to compute a percentage of total — and unlimited sorting. You can easily access any Microsoft SQL Server™ database, as well as integrate queries from multiple databases into a single report. Maintain data integrityDefine database access rights for users who can create reports as well as for which fields can be included on reports. For example, you can limit which users

Benefits:

• Inspired by the people who use it - Microsoft Dynamics 7.0 Feature Pack features were built by people like you who work with the product everyday and know where you want to take your business software into the future. You asked for these enhancements and we delivered.
• Tasks become increasingly easier - With the Microsoft Dynamics SL 7.0 Feature Pack, people can improve productivity for commonly-used tasks across the suite, including: Service tasks, Financial tasks, and overall usability.
• Financials - Prevent users from posting to previous periods or fiscal years.
• Payroll - Void previous period checks in current or past periods.
• Service Series - New Graphical Dispatch Board enhancements make tracking and dispatching services ever easier.
• Inventory - Group similar sites together to speed up the sales price updating process.
• Overall usability - Sort and select the information displayed in any search/query screen to find the record or information you need.

With Microsoft Dynamics SL, you can take advantage of the benefits of conducting business electronically to solidify your position in the value chain.

Microsoft Dynamics SL eCommerce Gateway–EDI Edition works with Microsoft Dynamics SL Order Management to help integrate and automate business transactions with customers, vendors, and remote warehouses.

Microsoft Dynamics SL 7.0 Feature Pack brings the functions a Project Manager expects and needs to the web. Now no matter where they are, they can do their job, set up a project, assign resources, and approve time and expense with the new Project Flex Time and Microsoft Office Project 2007 server connection.

There are several new features in the Microsoft Dynamics SL 7.0 Feature Pack that will help project managers improve productivity as the worlds of Microsoft Dynamics SL and Office Project 2007 are brought together.

• Flexible time entry provides a web-based user-friendly interface with Project Flex Time for Business Portal.
• Project managers can now remotely access all Microsoft Dynamics SL Project-related features using the Internet. Project/task creation, editing, resource assignment, budgeting, time and expense entry and approval along with analysis of their projects can be performed remotely via the web with Business Portal.

Improve your project profitability by providing project managers with the accurate, meaningful information needed to gain control over project revenue and expenses—enough control to make even low-margin projects profitable.

• Set up project information quickly and easily, including integration with Microsoft Office Project 2003.

• Review a multi-level task list for an instant assessment of project performance.

Features and Benefits:

• Instant Updating - Update inventory immediately, rather than when the vendor’s invoice arrives. Simply enter the packing slip PO number when an order arrives to create a receipt on the spot.
• One-Step Invoice Accounting - Create accounts payable vouchers automatically when purchase orders are received, helping eliminate redundant data entry.
• Targeted Reports - Create reports with Crystal Reports and save in various formats, including Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Word, IBM’s Lotus, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), and HTML. Reports include purchase order register, purchase order status/history, and anticipated deliveries.
• Multiple Order Type/Addresses - Bill any type of order to one address and ship it to another. Purchasing supports multiple ship-to addresses as well as a variety of order types, including regular, standard, blanket, and drop ship orders.
• Flexible Receipt Processing - Track open orders, override unit costs, and receive quantities larger than original orders. Units of measure, which can differ an item’s stock unit, are automatically converted on receipt to stock unit measures, to update inventory accurately.

Streamline the planning and handling of your work orders, so you that can control costs and maximize profits. Easy-to-implement and easy-to-use, Microsoft Dynamics SL Work Order helps plan and track product item costs and keep general ledger accounts and inventory quantities seamlessly integrated and in balance.

US Government Contractor Report Pack - Microsoft Dynamics SL continues to focus on providing functionality that helps government contractors meet their DCAA auditory needs as well as provide them with the flexibility to grow their business as new opportunities arrive.  With input via Microsoft’s government contractor user community, these reports help contractors identify profit of current contracts, plan new initiatives based on past performance and provide information that project managers need.