Microsoft Dynamics™ GP (formerly known as Great Plains)

Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP is a business management solution that provides growing and midsize organizations with complete and scalable financial and operational functionality, such as advanced consolidation, robust business intelligence, rich reporting, forecasting, and budgeting. Because this functionality is available right out-of-the-box, you are able to integrate and automate your financial and operational processes more rapidly. Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP offers the stability you require, so you know your solution will support your business-critical needs, today and in the future.

With Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP, you can get up and running quickly, maximizing the productivity of your people and increasing confidence that your solution will adapt to the changing needs of your business.

Improve your financial management capabilities
Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP offers financial management functionality that ranges from general ledger, accounts payable, and accounts receivable modules to bank reporting, cash flow management, and reconciliation.

Employees can maximize accuracy through flexible, automated approval routings tailored to their roles, and by analyzing information according to specific criteria. Your business benefits by gaining an accounting solution that reflects updates instantaneously

Enable faster, more informed business decisions
Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP delivers business intelligence capabilities through a broad range of flexible, customizable analytics, reporting, and budgeting options to meet your company's needs—from advanced consolidation analysis to the simplest reporting requests. Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP applications tap into powerful reporting, analysis, and budgeting tools—providing real-time insight into the critical information needed for smarter, faster business decisions.

When you integrate Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP with Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server 2007, employees can access and analyze data, whether they are working within Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP or in another application. They can easily create and deploy Office Excel reports to Office SharePoint Server, expand report writing flexibility with more than 75 Microsoft® SQL Server Reporting Services reports, and generate easy-to-use deployment wizards for SQL Server Reporting Services reports and Office Excel reports. Your organization can efficiently deliver the right information to more employees so that they can make the right decisions—strategic or tactical—every day.

Move key processes online and foster collaboration throughout your business
Built on .NET technologies, Business Portal in Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP allows your people to access data and processes from a Web-based portal on your company's intranet or extranet. The portal enables employees to extend applications, information, and businesse processes to coworkers, customers, and partners across the organization, based on their unique roles, in a highly secure manner.

Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP also integrates with Office SharePoint Server 2007 to enable fast-moving, online workflows and empower people to access, search, organize, and share data from within Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP and other applications. That integration provides an enhanced experience of productivity to employees and teams.

Work with familiar software for a seamless user experience
Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP works like and provides a high level of integration with other widely-familiar tools, such as the Microsoft® Office system and Microsoft® SQL Server. This allows people across your organization to extend existing skills to new business processes and more effective ways of working. User interface enhancements in Microsoft® Dynamics™ GP, such as Action Panes that enable people to access RoleTailored information and perform actions on daily tasks, simplify the way people use the solution. Your employees can spend less time on redundant administrative tasks, and more time helping to move your business forward.