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Microsoft seeks to leverage midmarket ERP (NEWS)

IDG News Service - Microsoft can't boast the ERP (enterprise resource planning) application revenue earned by giants SAP and Oracle, nor equal their breadth of technological capabilities, but its tight focus on small and medium-sized businesses gives it an edge, according to observers and company officials..

While Microsoft does not release specific figures for its Dynamics ERP product line, annual revenues have been estimated at between US$1.1 billion and $1.2 billion, according to Ray Wang, a partner with the analyst firm Altimeter Group.

There is plenty of room for that number to grow, as midsized companies look to replace legacy systems or small ones seek out ERP applications as they grow larger in size.

"[The midmarket is] our sweet spot, and where our partners are geared up to sell," according to Phil Battersby, a director in ERP field marketing and management for Microsoft Dynamics EMEA. "We're not interested in the enterprise space. SAP and Oracle have been dominant in that part of the market for a long time."

Dynamics is sold exclusively through partners, who fine-tune and customize the products for specific industries, such as retail, manufacturing and services.

The partner-centric approach is crucial given the vast size of the SMB market and the fact that those customers typically like to deal with a local face,

Wang said.
And those partners can help Microsoft reach out to ever more vertical markets -- an approach Battersby said will be important to its competitive success.

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Microsoft Dynamics works well with your systems

Microsoft Dynamics solutions work closely with the Microsoft software and systems you may already use, allowing you to generate more value from your investment in technology. Microsoft and its partner network provide software solutions that deliver a high return on your current investments in tools, technologies, processes, and skills.

Integration with the Microsoft Office system helps your people be more productive

Microsoft Dynamics solutions work like and with the Microsoft Office system products you and your people likely use every day. Increase the benefits even more by integrating Microsoft Dynamics with Microsoft Office to help accelerate and simplify processes, reduce busywork, and make information more reliable and consistent. For example:

·         Information flows between Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft Office to accelerate business analysis and reporting. Workers can automatically pre-populate Microsoft Office documents with up-to-date data and provide people with information they need for top performance.

·         In addition to e-mail, calendars, and contacts, use Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to help ensure that customer information is correct and that communications are efficient. And you can have your business management solution send automatic notifications from Office Outlook to tell people about critical events such as an inventory shortage, enabling them to act in time.

Integration with Microsoft server solutions helps provide a scalable business infrastructure

Integrate your Microsoft Dynamics business software with Microsoft server products and other Microsoft products and technologies to help ensure a solid return on investment and a low total cost of ownership. You’ll also benefit from a reliable and extensible business management infrastructure that responds effectively to your goals.

·         Microsoft Dynamics with Windows7 and Microsoft Exchange Server technologies empower your people to be more productive, strengthen external collaboration, and implement adaptable processes to meet changing business needs.

·         Integrate your Microsoft Dynamics business management solution with the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database and analytics program, and get enterprise-level reporting, flexible decision-making support, and timely, relevant business insight at a low cost with significantly higher usability and flexibility.

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 Integrate Microsoft Dynamics with Microsoft BizTalk Server to help manage your distributed, growing organization more effectively. For example, connect multiple instances of Microsoft Dynamics solutions, and link to legacy systems and databases.

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  Implement Microsoft Dynamics together with the Microsoft Visual Studio development system, and your developers can exercise their creativity within a versatile programming environment.

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Microsoft Dynamics takes advantage of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Windows SharePoint Services, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to increase agility and extend the reach of business solutions through real-world SOA and business process management.

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Reduce IT costs with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Take charge of IT spending from implementation onward

From implementation onward, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can require a significant IT investment. However, Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers a lower total cost of ownership than many ERP systems, helping you to control and reduce IT cost. Here’s how:

Streamline implementation. Help ensure an efficient, consistent deployment of Microsoft Dynamics NAV by using the Rapid Implementation Methodology, part of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, a standardized, global methodology and suite of tools that simplifies and speeds implementation and upgrade processes.

Simplify training. Microsoft Dynamics NAV works with and like the other Microsoft products and technologies your people are already familiar with, helping to reduce training time and increase adoption. And with the RoleTailored user interface of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, your people are provided with only the tools and functionality they need based on their role, helping them get up to speed even faster.

Ease customization. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is compatible with the .NET Framework, making it easier to integrate with or build other .NET applications. And with Web services, developers and Microsoft partners can simplify the effort to connect Microsoft Dynamics NAV with existing IT systems—even across multiple sites.

Simplify and streamline common IT tasks. Microsoft Dynamics NAV enables you to bring self-service reporting and other functionality to the end user, freeing your IT staff for higher-value tasks. At the same time, the solution makes a range of IT tasks even easier.

Integrate with Microsoft products and technologies. By integrating tightly with other Microsoft products and technologies, Microsoft Dynamics NAV can help you get the most out of your IT assets. Microsoft Dynamics NAV integrates with the Microsoft Office system, Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006.

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Microsoft Dynamics enables confident decision-making

Business needs change. To initiate and respond to these changes, you need an integrated business management solution that provides a comprehensive, real-time view of critical information. Microsoft Dynamics provides the information you need, allowing you to effectively address the evolving demands of your business. Here are some of the ways Microsoft Dynamics can help you make informed decisions that you feel confident about and help your business thrive.

Empower your people to do their jobs

Give your people the information they need to do their jobs. RoleTailored information empowers your staff to quickly access the specific information they need perform their daily duties and to make changes that affect the broader organization.

Reduce the learning curve. Microsoft Dynamics integrates with familiar software, such as Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel. This enables your staff to build on the skills they already have.

Gain business insight with access to relevant, mission-critical information

Align with business goals. Key performance indicators (KPIs) help you analyze specific projects and tasks against the high-level business goal. When you're off course, business alerts help you stay on track.

Increase reporting capabilities. By integrating with Microsoft SQL Server you gain optimal access to business intelligence information. You can generate reports with SQL Server Reporting Services, build and analyze data warehouses, and organize and use data efficiently.

Control access to sensitive information. Managers grant permissions to help ensure that specific information is available only to those who need it.

Enhance decision-making. By gaining business critical insight across the organization, you can access and analyze the business critical information to help you make informed decisions and affect change quickly.

Comply with regulations

Implement consistent, structured processes. Microsoft Dynamics can help you put these processes in place. This helps to guarantee accountability and reliability throughout your organization.

Help ensure the integrity of your processes. Microsoft Dynamics can help ensure the integrity of your information and communications, and keep the right stakeholders informed—all in a timely manner.

 

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Compare SAP with Microsoft Dynamics

Compare SAP with Microsoft Dynamics

Four reasons to switch from SAP to Microsoft Dynamics

Making the decision to change your company's business management system is a process that requires research and foresight. Here are four reasons why businesses using SAP business management products have decided to make the switch to Microsoft Dynamics.

Microsoft Dynamics can improve employee productivity. In a 2007 analysis that compared the impact of enterprise software applications on people's productivity, Microsoft Dynamics users on average scored Microsoft Dynamics 18 percent higher than SAP users scored SAP applications. This Microsoft-sponsored study was conducted by Keystone Strategy, an independent research firm, and was supervised by Dr. Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Download the full study (XPS 3.96).

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 to 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 have solved real business problems and benefited from choosing Microsoft Dynamics over SAP products.

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Leading industrial-equipment manufacturer manages growth with flexible ERP system

Wheelabrator Group is one of the world’s largest and most established manufacturers of surface preparation equipment and technologies. As the company grew, so did the complexity of its operations. Wheelabrator needed a solution that offered built-in project-management capabilities for manufacturing, integration with existing line-of-business and industry-specific systems, and cost-effective customizations to meet complex process–flow requirements and future growth needs. The company chose Microsoft Dynamics over SAP and Infor, and has benefited from improved visibility into project costs and increased operational efficiency.

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Global market research firm uses flexible ERP system to standardize data, plan growth

GfK Aktiengesellschaft is one of the world’s largest market research firms. As it grew, GfK found it increasingly difficult to standardize financial reporting across its global network. Subsidiaries could not easily roll up local reporting into the individual GfK Reporting Systems and the corporate SAP-based system. Instead of implementing a more costly, less flexible solution in its subsidiaries, the company chose to use Microsoft Dynamics, which integrated with the SAP system used at corporate headquarters, yet saved the company approximately U.S.$600,000 as compared to SAP.

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Energy broker increases reporting and decision-making abilities

Texas-based Choice Energy LP is a leading independent energy brokerage firm in the United States, offering customers, such as corporations and utilities, market liquidity and price discovery. The company quickly outgrew its mostly manual accounting system, so it teamed up with the NexTec Group, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, to implement Microsoft Dynamics. In just weeks, they had a customized solution that helped Choice Energy LP move from quarterly financial reporting to monthly financial reporting. Their customized solution includes monthly detail-rich reports that offer increased insight into broker activity and that allow agile decision-making by the company.

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway runs multiple lines of business on integrated business solution

World-famous for the Indianapolis 500, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a renowned racetrack in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Speedway depends heavily on technology to run its various business systems, from ticketing to concessions. The Speedway implemented Microsoft Dynamics along with Microsoft DynamicsCRM. Now, the Speedway has streamlined its accounting and reporting processes and can provide better customer service and accountability. The Speedway's parent organization has also standardized on Microsoft Dynamics, choosing the Microsoft solution over SAP.

Questions to ask when evaluating an SAP solution

If you are considering the SAP Business Suite or SAP Business All-in-One:

- SAP may offer a fixed-price, fixed-scope implementation of SAP Business All-in-One. What specifics actually govern this offer?

- 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?

- Is NetWeaver middleware required for integration with SAP and non-SAP systems?

- How many support personnel?

If you are considering SAP Business One:

- What is SAP's future solution roadmap for Business One? Can you provide documentation supporting that?

- How does Business One fit into SAP's Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture? To what degree is Business One included in the development plans for SAP NetWeaver and Duet?

- How many users can Business One reasonably scale to? How many references can you provide of existing SAP Business One users of my size?

- What are my choices if I outgrow Business One? Can you provide details on the cost and steps to migrate to SAP Business All-in-One or Business ByDesign?

- How much of the functionality being demonstrated is native, "out-of-the-box" functionality versus functionality developed by a partner or through a third-party developer? How will this add-on functionality affect upgrades?

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