Enterprise Resource Planning

Wahab Ali 823 15.02.2014

Submitted to: Dr. Stephen Gulliver

Microsoft Dynamics has been designed to be familiar to people, work well with existing systems, empower people and teams to be productive, and promote informed decision-making. With effective support from Microsoft and the worldwide partner community, you can implement Microsoft Dynamics today and let it grow with you into the future. Its More Than Just ERP Helps You Work Better, Faster, and Smarter Looks Forward, Not Backward Gets You Up and Running Quickly Provides a Flexible Deployment Model Works the Way You Do Transforms the Way You Work and Connect Drives and Supports Your Business Growth Reduces Your Risk and Propels Your Business

Microsoft Dynamics ERP makes your people more proactive and productive by giving them personalized, agile tools that work seamlessly with the Microsoft technologies they work with every day. With Microsoft Dynamics, you get a system that is proactive and predictive, with built-in workflows that guide users forward through their work. It gives your people powerful embedded business intelligence tools that help transform data into insight. In turn, your teams not only can solve problems, but they also can prevent them from occurring in the first place. Microsoft Dynamics ERP combines comprehensive, out-of the-box financial and operations management capabilities with rapid, flexible cloud or on-premises deployment options designed to get you up and running quickly and affordably. You can be working in days instead of weeks. In addition, many Microsoft partners can provide fixed-scope implementations that can help your business focus on what matters most to you now and easily modify or expand when your needs change in the future. Microsoft Dynamics ERP helps transform the way your people do business with a solution that works the way they want to use itover the web, through a SharePoint portal, or using a traditional desktop computer. With a business solution

from Microsoft, employees can perform business processes and connect through the tools and channels theyre used tosuch as instant messaging, email, voice, and presence. And remote staff members have the flexibility they expect, so they can work and be productive wherever they are. With these tools at their fingertips, people can have more timely communications with customers, suppliers, and other business partners, with the assurance that every single interaction will have greater context and insight. At the same time, Microsoft Dynamics offers a standardized environment that reduces training and support requirements while building on the value of existing IT investments, so your business can achieve a fast time-to-value and a lower total cost of ownership. With Microsoft Dynamics, you can choose the model that makes the most sense for your business, whether on-premises or in the cloud, or a combination of both. Plus, youll have the elasticity to adjust as your needs change. With the ability to choose your deployment model, you can realize rapid time-to-value. Furthermore when you purchase a Microsoft Dynamics ERP solution, you can be assured of support for the version you buy for up to 10 years after its release. You also have visibility into product life cycles and roadmaps describing how Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions will evolve, 12 to 18 months in advance of the next version releases. A strong and upfront product roadmap enables you to undertake your own IT planning with greater confidence. When you implement a Microsoft Dynamics solution, a local, experienced Microsoft partner will get to know your business and help ensure you have the implementation and support you need to help you make the most of your solution. The global network of Microsoft Dynamics partners has deep industry and technical expertise. Partners can fine-tune the solution for your very specific business needs, help you design a technology roadmap to suit the growth of your business, and often even be able to contribute solutions of their own to help you address important concerns.

Three reasons to select Microsoft Dynamics over Oracle, Sage and SAP
Microsoft Dynamics can scale with your business. Microsoft Dynamics provides affordable scalability for your growing businesses. With benchmarked performance up to 2,250 users 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. Using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft Dynamics provides 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 Microsoft Dynamics offers a high return on investment (ROI) and low overall cost of ownership. 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 Microsofts highest solution and organizational certification standards.

Conclusion
With a Microsoft Dynamics ERP solution, your people will have the innovative, flexible tools they need to work faster and more proactively. No matter where they are working or how they choose to communicate, they can take advantage of forward-looking tools that make it easy for them to turn insight into action, making every interaction and transaction productive. In addition, you can set a new pace for your business while uncovering and creating new opportunities that set you apart from your competition and drive your long-term growth