Thursday, July 8, 2010

Features and capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 delivers a rich industry platform on which partners can build vertical applications for mid-sized organizations and divisions of large enterprises. The solution supports the primary and secondary processes of organizations in multiple industries.

Business intelligence and reporting

Empower your people with self-service business intelligence, and see how access to information can help meet personal goals, accomplish team objectives, and achieve overall business success.

Collaboration

See how applications like Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal, Unified Communication integration, and Application Integration Framework can improve collaboration and efficiency across the workplace and the globe.

Environmental sustainability

Discover how this cost-effective solution is designed to help Microsoft Dynamics AX customers track their energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, also known as their carbon footprint, over time, allowing them to be more proactive in their approach to environmental issues.

Financial management and compliance

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides you and your people with fast, reliable, and comprehensive accounting, financial reporting, and analysis capabilities. And it helps you manage a broad range of other business areas, so you minimize the need for multiple systems.

Human resource management

Gain deeper insight into the status of individual employees, an overview of your entire organization and the strategic tools you need to develop the human resources upon which your business goals depend.

Production

Real-time insight into business and supply chain information—including inventory, warehouse, and production—helps you optimize production flow by planning effectively, maximizing resource utilization, driving accurate delivery performance, and streamlining business processes.

Project management and accounting

Help managers gain increased financial control of both short-term and long-term projects, including long-term time and material projects, internal projects, and fixed-price projects.

Sales and marketing

Sales and marketing managers can work more effectively with their teams and sell more efficiently by using the Internet and telemarketing to increase sales and reduce costs.

Collaboration

See how applications like Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal, Unified Communication integration, and Application Integration Framework can improve collaboration and efficiency across the workplace and the globe.

Environmental sustainability

Discover how this cost-effective solution is designed to help Microsoft Dynamics AX customers track their energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, also known as their carbon footprint, over time, allowing them to be more proactive in their approach to environmental issues.

Financial management and compliance

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides you and your people with fast, reliable, and comprehensive accounting, financial reporting, and analysis capabilities. And it helps you manage a broad range of other business areas, so you minimize the need for multiple systems.

Human resource management

Gain deeper insight into the status of individual employees, an overview of your entire organization and the strategic tools you need to develop the human resources upon which your business goals depend.

Production

Real-time insight into business and supply chain information—including inventory, warehouse, and production—helps you optimize production flow by planning effectively, maximizing resource utilization, driving accurate delivery performance, and streamlining business processes.

Project management and accounting

Help managers gain increased financial control of both short-term and long-term projects, including long-term time and material projects, internal projects, and fixed-price projects.

Sales and marketing

Sales and marketing managers can work more effectively with their teams and sell more efficiently by using the Internet and telemarketing to increase sales and reduce costs.

Service management

Plan, track, and analyze service operations to maximize efficiency, gain a complete overview of costs and revenue, and improve profitability for service operations.

Supply chain management

Automate sales and purchasing to help streamline intercompany operations. And because it was built for the Internet, your sales team can access, view, and update customer and company information anytime, anywhere.

Business Needs

Microsoft Dynamics AX meets your business needs

Microsoft Dynamics AX is designed to meet the industry-specific needs of midsize and larger organizations that do business across locations and countries. This comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution works like and with familiar Microsoft software, automating and streamlining business processes and connecting you with global customers, business partners, and subsidiaries in a way that helps you drive business success.

Find out how Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you gain better business insight, enable more productive people and processes, compete globally, and manage organizational growth and financial compliance.

Gain better business insight for rapid, effective decision making

· Gain real-time access to a common set of accurate business information and help your business operate more efficiently.
· Deliver the critical information needed by executives and staff for effective decision making.
· Give employees quick insight into predefined views of data tailored to their role.

Enable more productive people and processes

· Improve communication and collaboration, and discover better ways to work together, regardless of location.
· Automate common tasks and provide role-based access to information.
· Enable employees to work in tools they already know and understand like Microsoft Office Outlook and Excel.

Manage organizational growth and gain a competitive advantage

· Plan current and future capacity relative to projected growth.
· Rapidly respond to new trends and opportunities and identify shifts in purchasing patterns.
· Extend access to business systems across your entire organization with role-based functionality.

Manage financial accountability and compliance to promote fiscal responsibility

· Strengthen your ability to comply with regulatory legislation.
· Enforce compliance with company procedures or quality initiatives by automating workflows.
· Provide executives and managers with easy access to key risk indicators.

Become a world-class contender

· Consolidate and standardize processes and provide visibility across your organization.
· Expand easily across international borders with country- and region-specific functionality.