Top 10 Reasons to Buy Microsoft Dynamics AX

Top 10 Reasons to Buy Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
Powerfully Simple Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012 is a single, powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for enterprises. It is simple to learn and use, and delivers value faster by supporting industry-specificand operational business processes across your global enterprise. With this highly adaptable and easy-to-scale solution, you can quickly take advantage of new business opportunities, reduce risk, nd differentiate your business to meet new requirements. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 drives user nvolvement and innovation, unlocking greater productivity and providing immediate insight through a RoleTailored user experience and easy access to relevant information and processes.

1.Achieve Fast Time to Value With prebuilt industry capabilities for manufacturing, distribution, services, retail, and Public Sector, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 helps you meet your business requirements by deploying your solution quickly and delivering results right away. Streamline your organization end-to-end with rich ERP capabilities, including human capital management, financials, and compliance management. Support specific business requirements easily with packaged solutions from the worldwide Microsoft® Partner Network.

2. Grow Your Global Solution Removing barriers to international growth is essential for business development. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 enables you to expand your operations to new geographies with builtin, country-specific localizations in a single solution to meet regulatory requirements for 36 countries.1 Enable entities across your multisite, global organization to share the same data, business rules, and processes in order to harmonize and streamline business practices. Also support your business growth by easily adding users and transactions, as well as configuring more complex business scenarios.

3.Work Smart and Fast Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 can help you improve productivity by providing RoleTailored access to information, tasks and business processes along with powerful business intelligence. Gain deeper insight into critical business data across your organization with relevant performance indicators, selfservice business intelligence, and reporting in key business areas.

4. Drive New Business Take advantage of new business opportunities by improving the insight into your business, and having the ability to implement change more easily. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 offers unlimited views on your business, giving you the visibility you need. Enhanced modeling capabilities, such as the Organizational Model or workflow, then helps you manage changes in the structure and business processes of your organization, and fosters innovation with a central business process repository, including capabilities for five major industries.

5. Support Business Today and Tomorrow Choose a flexible deployment model that best supports your organization and can easily be adjusted to meet your changing business demands: on-premises or in the cloud. Easily complement your installation with cloud-based services and take advantage of the flexible Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 solution architecture that enables incremental implementations, changes, or upgrades. Choose the governance model that best fits your organization: centrally managed, decentrally managed, or a combination of both.

6. Gain a Competitive Edge Differentiate your business from competition. The ability to rapidly adapt your system to support your unique needs can give you significant edge over your competitors. The model-driven, layered architecture allows you to develop and maintain unique business processes easily and enables a relatively easy upgrade to new releases.

7. Get Everyone on Board Employees want to use a solution with a familiar and intuitive user experience that makes their jobs easier, and is simple to use and learn. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 enables people to find, sort, visualize, and use information through an easy-to-use user interface that looks and works like Microsoft Office. Work easily with everyday tools by sharing data between Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft Office 2010.

8. Connect and Collaborate Easily connect employees, customers, suppliers, and partners through integrated self-service collaboration capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 enables you to streamline basic supply chain collaboration with self-service, Microsoft SharePoint®– based vendor, customer, and employee portals, and end-to-end business process integration through Sites Services.2 Simplify advanced supply chain collaboration with adaptable web services and share information easily by using collaboration tools such as Microsoft LyncTM and by creating SharePoint collaboration sites directly from within Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.

9. Lower Your TCO In addition to improved productivity gains, lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) through simplified life cycle management and quick installations. Use Microsoft Dynamics ERP RapidStart Services to help ensure a quick and reliable setup and configuration of your ERP solution. In alignment with the RoleTailored design of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, the simplified Business Value Licensing model ensures that you buy the exact number of licenses you need—no more, no less—with options to easily add more licenses as you business grows.

10. Leverage the Power of the Microsoft Platform It’s our fundamental value proposition: The interaction of ERP, business and productivity applications, communications solutions, and the underlying technology platform—that works on-premises or in the cloud. We call it pervasive interoperability. With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2102, you get a business solution from Microsoft that is backed by an ongoin commitment to research, development, and innovation. Combined with a global ecosystem of specialized partners, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 uses the power of the Microsoft platform to deliver a powerfully simple solution.

Microsoft Dynamics for the sales professional

Microsoft Dynamics for the sales professional

Meet customer needs, drive more sales, and build strong customer relationships

The success of a company relies on the business and revenue it generates. Maintaining happy customers while pursuing new relationships is essential to this task. The Sales department not only drives future growth but also shapes the direction of the company and enables it to meet its goals through the customer relationships created by sales engagements.

Sales representatives must have available to them the most accurate company data, including up-to-the-minute product and service pricing as well as information about clients. Success for the sales department depends largely on immediate access to business-critical information, which helps them respond to customer needs. Customer relationship management (CRM) software can give the sales team a strategic advantage and make information that can be hard to find or that resides in disparate systems more centralized and readily available.

People

Kevin, a Sales Manager

As a Sales Manager for a midsize company, I am responsible not only for the performance of our Sales Representatives and our company's relationships with its customers but also for setting goals, providing resources for the sales staff, and maintaining the image our company wants to project. For me, building a solid sales team and strong relationships with our customers is key.

With my busy schedule, I often work long hours. Microsoft Dynamics business management solutions help me to account for both the sales team's progress on converting new leads to sales as well as our actual sales results. With up-to-the-minute data, Microsoft Dynamics CRM lets me respond to any sales concern, determine pricing policies, and track individual as well as team performance. Thanks to Microsoft Dynamics, I always know how well we are doing.

I am also the point of escalation for the customer service and sales teams. When I need to take a call from an unhappy customer and leave the person content, Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides me with a full account history and all the information that might help me in that conversation.

Michael, an Account Manager

As an Account Manager, I am responsible for maintaining the relationship with existing customers and for providing customer service, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM is crucial for me to do my job well. If a customer has a question, I only have to go to one place to get the history of both the customer and the deal. I'm also responsible for the overall customer experience. With a complete customer record, nothing falls through the cracks. This lets me provide the kind of experience our customers want—and expect.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM lets me stay focused on growing the accounts because it's easy to keep records of all my contacts and activities. I don't have to work to remember what I said to the customer the last time we spoke; it's all in the customer record.

Processes

The Sales team is at the front line of your company. You must be able to accurately gauge their performance as well as effectively plan, execute, and take advantage of sales opportunities. Microsoft Dynamics CRM lets you view, manage, and track the work of your Sales team, see how fast the Sales team converts new leads to prospects and sales, and evaluate performance changes over time.

Qualifying leads and closing the deal. Extensive research, effort, and time are necessary to maintain customers, manage a team, and qualify sales leads. Sales Managers rely on key sales information, such as staff performance data, budget and expense information, and product pricing, as well as information on potential customers, including intelligence that helps determine a customer's market and financial position. The contact and opportunity management features in Microsoft Dynamics let you maintain detailed profiles of your sales contacts, move the sales process along, and pursue all actionable opportunities. And Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers integrated, flexible customer relationship management (CRM) tools that enable the tracking and reporting of sales results and events on customer accounts.

Easy access to data to improve sales processes. The Sales Manager must have up-to-the-minute business and industry data, and you must also be able to quickly and effectively access, share, and analyze that data. With Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you can document and manage your customers and prospects; create, view, revise, and distribute financial reports; and assign tasks to your team and ensure their completion. Microsoft Dynamics solutions maintain information from throughout the organization in a single repository, so you always have a complete view of factors that affect your business. And Microsoft Dynamics solutions work with and like other Microsoft products. For example, you can export and analyze data in Microsoft Office Excel, create reports in your preferred format, and make them available through business portals built on Microsoft SharePoint technology.

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Microsoft Dynamics for the IT professional

Microsoft Dynamics for the IT professional
Reduce costs, connect systems, empower people, and deliver business results

IT teams are responsible for the computers, networks, and software applications that manage a company’s operations, track financial transactions, and enable people to communicate and collaborate throughout the company. Without a smooth flow of information through a company’s IT systems, operations would not be efficient or even possible in some cases. IT managers need to monitor the day-to-day health of complex systems while simultaneously tracking innovations in technology that might create competitive advantages.

People
Tim, an IT manager
As the IT manager, my job is to keep our company’s network and computers up and running and see to it that everyone has the information and tools they need to do their job. My goal is to select, deploy, and manage our company’s IT investments so they become strategic assets to help the company reach its business goals.

The obstacles I face include the fact that we have many departments using systems that aren’t connected, leading to data duplication and sometimes multiple versions of the “truth.” It’s not enough to keep machines and applications running; I have to make sure that critical information can move through these siloed systems and reach the right people at the right time.

Processes
Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM solutions make the job of connecting systems and exchanging information easier for IT professionals, and in many cases, it happens automatically. Microsoft Dynamics enables your end-users to access information by themselves, so IT professionals can concentrate on higher-value tasks.

Reduced costs. Microsoft Dynamics solutions are built on a standard Microsoft platform, which helps your company reduce costs. You may already use many of the supporting technologies, such as Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, or Windows SharePoint Services. If so, you won’t need special licensing or costly, time-consuming retraining to benefit from Microsoft Dynamics solutions.

Familiar user experience. Microsoft Dynamics solutions operate like other familiar Microsoft applications, such as Microsoft Office. The RoleTailored user interface provides access to the data and insights needed for individual roles or departments, making Microsoft Dynamics easier to learn and use and helping to reduce IT support requirements.

Responsive to change. With a flexible and standard architecture that takes advantage of Microsoft .NET components such as Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft Dynamics enables you to quickly and easily add features and update workflows to respond to changing business conditions. This helps ensure that your business software is adaptable to your changing business needs.

Simpler end-user reporting. Microsoft Dynamics helps make important business information more widely accessible in your organization, giving the right people access to the right information at the right time. By using Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, you can provide straightforward access to information via a Web browser. And because Microsoft Dynamics is built to work with familiar Microsoft Office programs such as Outlook and Excel, your people can use familiar tools to perform additional analysis.

Flexible deployment. Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM solutions are available either on-premise or via a hosted model (partner-hosted or Microsoft-hosted in the case of Microsoft Dynamics CRM), providing you with flexible and cost-effective deployment options.

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV - ERP Çözümünü Nasıl Seçmeli

ERP Çözümünü Nasıl Seçmeli?

ERP çözümlerinin orta ölçekli kurumlara sağlayacağı getirileri en üst seviyede gerçekleştirmenin ilk adımı, doğru çözümü seçmektir. Bugüne dek gerçekleştirilen ERP projelerinde başarıyı yakalayan şirketlerin en önemli özelliği kendi yapılarına, teknolojik sistemlerine ve kurumsal hedeflerine en uygun çözümü seçmeleri ve hayata geçirmeleridir. Çözüm seçiminde yapılacak bir hata, sadece önemli ölçüde zaman ve maliyet kaybına neden olmakla kalmayacak, sistem kurulduktan sonra etkin kullanımında da sıkıntılar yaşanmasına neden olacaktır. Bu tür projelerde her aşamada yaşanan sıkıntılar, operasyonel verimliliğin düşmesine ve maliyetlerin artmasına, hatta operasyonun tamamen durma noktasına gelmesine zemin hazırlamaktadır. Bu nedenle ERP çözümünün seçimi sırasında sistematik bir yol izlenmeli, ihtiyaçlar çerçevesinde en uygun çözüm belirlenmelidir.

İster ERP olsun ister başka bir kurumsal çözüm, belirli bir metodoloji ve sistematik içerisinde karar verilmesi büyük önem taşımaktadır. Kapsamlı bir metodoloji, kurumsal hedeflerin belirlenmesi ile başlayan ve çözümün farklı parametrelerine dek uzanan bir süreci içermektedir.

1. Aşama: Süreçlerin belirlenmesi

Günümüzde birçok kurum kendi yaptığı işin bütünün görmekte zorlanır. Özellikle orta ölçekli kurumlarda günlük işlerin yoğunluğu ve sürekli değişime ayak uydurma çabası, operasyonel işlerin artmasına ve stratejik bakış açısının daralmasına neden olmaktadır. Bu noktada kurumsal çözümü değerlendirmeden önce orta ölçekli kurumlar aynayı kendilerine tutmalı ve süreçlerini net olarak ortaya koymalıdır. Bu noktadan sonra kurumun neden bir çözüme ihtiyaç duyduğunun cevabı net olarak verilebilir. Kimi kurum iş fonksiyonlarının yetersizliği, kimi kurum büyüme ve gelişme sonrası artan iş gücü ve işlem sayısı kimi kurum da mevcut sistemlerinin performansının yetersizliği nedeniyle yeni çözümlere gereksinim duyar.

Bu aşamada dikkate alınması gereken temel sorular şunlardır:

- Yeni üründen beklentilerimiz nelerdir?

- Bugün yapamadıklarımızı yapabiliyor olmak

- Yaptığımız işi daha ucuz, daha hızlı veya daha az kişiyle yapabilmek

- Mevcut sistemlerden bilgi transferi yapmak gerekecek mi?

- Yeni çözüm mevcut ortamı nasıl etkileyecek?

2. Aşama: Hedeflerin değerlendirilmesi

Her kurum, belirli amaç ve hedeflere yönelik çalışır ve bunlara ulaşmak için stratejiler ortaya koyar. Aslında işin bütününün resmi bu amaçlarda gizlidir. Bu nedenle kurumlar, bugün ve gelecekte nerede olmak istediklerini ve ne yapmayı hedeflediklerini net biçimde ortaya koydukları taktirde geleceğe yönelik ihtiyaçlarını özetlemiş olacaktır. Daha sonra bu kurumsal hedefleri çerçevesinde ihtiyaç duyulan çözümün hangi zaman içerisinde hayata geçirileceği, bütçe durumu ve çözüm kurum içerisinde mi kurum dışında mı geliştirileceği kararı daha kolay verilebilir.

3.Aşama: Üreticilerin değerlendirilmesi

Çözümün garantisi ve başarısı üreticinin kendisidir. Bugüne dek ortaya koyulan ERP projelerinde başarısızlığın altında yatan temel etkenlerin başında üreticilerin sürekliliğinin ve desteğinin yetersizliği gelmektedir. Unutulmamalıdır ki ERP, kurumun yapısal bir parçası haline gelecektir ve dolayısı ile uzun vadeli bir strateji ile kurgulanmalıdır. Bu nedenle çözümü oluşturan üretici de uzun vadeli ve çözüme olan desteğini sürekli artıran bir yapıda olmalıdır.

Bu bilgiler ışığında çözümün seçiminde üretici firmanın stratejileri, uzun vadeli hedefleri, odaklandığı sektörler ve bu sektörlere yönelik bilgi birikimi ve coğrafi yaygınlık gibi birçok parametre ışığında değerlendirme yapmak daha doğru bir sonuç verecektir.

4. Aşama: Belirlenen Çözümlerin Değerlendirilmesi

İhtiyaçlar ortaya koyulduktan ve hedefler belirlendikten sonra alternatif çözümlerin değerlendirilmesi aşaması gelir. Bu aşamada kurumlar, pazarda bulunan çözümler içerisinde kendilerine en uygun alternatifleri belirlemeyi amaçlar. Dolayısı ile daha somut kriterler ve sorular ışığında ilerlemek gerekecektir.

Çözüm alternatiflerini belirlerken öncelikle çözümün kurumun kapasitesi ve büyümesi için yeterli olup olmadığına bakmak gerekir. İşin yapısının gerektirdiği işlem hacmini, çalışan sayısını kaldırabilen çözümler seçilmelidir. Ayrıca gerek duyulan fonksiyonların tamamı çözüm tarafından sunabilmelidir. Diğer yandan çözüm farklı uygulamalar ile entegre çalışabilmelidir.

5. Aşama: Entegratörün Değerlendirilmesi

Çözümün üreticisi güçlü ve kendisi başarılı olsa dahi o çözümü kurum içerisinde hayata geçirecek olan satıcı şirketin /entegratörün yapısı da son derece önemlidir. Zira bu entegratör, kurumun içerisinde kurumun bir departmanı gibi çalışacak ve çözümü işbirliği içerisinde ayağa kaldıracak olan yegane taraftır.

Yerel entegratörle daha önce çalışılıp çalışılmadığı, entegratörün referansları, üretici ile olan işbirliği geçmişi, bilgi seviyesi, sektörel deneyimi ve proje yönetimi ve uygulaması tecrübesi gibi parametreler kullanılarak entegratör firma değerlendirilebilir.

6. Aşama: Destek ve hizmetlerin değerlendirilmesi

ERP çözümünün uzun vadeli bir yatırım olduğu gerçeği asla unutulmamalıdır. Dolayısıyla zaman içerisinde ihtiyaç duyulacak destek ve hizmetlerin de önemi son derece fazladır. Üretici firmanın ne tür destek programlarına sahip olduğu, bu desteğin ve hizmetlerin hangi kanallardan verildiği ve hangi metodoloji ile sunulduğu önemli konulardır.

7. Aşama: Geleceği Planlamak

Uzun vadeli çözümlerde sadece bugünün ihtiyaçlarını değil, kurumsal stratejiler çerçevesinde yarının ihtiyaçlarını göz önüne alarak seçim yapmak son derece önemlidir. Bu nedenle çözümün, kurumun ihtiyaçlarını ne ölçüde ve ne adar zaman boyunca karşılayabileceği, kullanıcı sayısı ve işlem miktarının artması durumunda ne ölçüde genişleyebileceği, yeni fonksiyonların sisteme ilave sürecinin ne şekilde gerçekleştiği ve güncellemelerin nasıl hayata geçirileceği ve en önemlisi üretici şirketin çözümüyle ilgili geleceğe yönelik projeksiyonu ve vizyonu konularına dikkat etmek gerekmektedir.

A Complete ERP solution - Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a complete ERP solution with a difference

Simple. Smart. Innovative.

Since 1984, Microsoft Dynamics NAV has established itself as a choice for mid-sized organizations looking for a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that is fast to implement, easy to configure, and simple to use. Today, simplicity continues to beat at the heart of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. And its state-of-the-art functionality covers everything you need to run and grow a successful business. More than one million users have used Microsoft Dynamics NAV to simplify and streamline their highly specialized business processes—and today it is available in more than 42 country versions.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides companies and their people with industry specific functionality that’s relevant to the local needs of their regions of operation, even for the most highly specialized industries and organizations. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is easy to use and offers rapid adaptability and simplified customization enabling companies to easily add functionality, custom applications and online business capabilities. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, employees can become more effective and the company more competitive.

One complete ERP solution

Microsoft Dynamics NAV collects your business’s functions into one integrated system. With close visual and functional ties to Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office, it’s easy to learn, simple to use, and quick to implement. With integrated financial, manufacturing, supply chain management, sales and marketing, project management, human resources, and services management information from across your organization stored in a centralized database, your people can work quickly and effectively—helping to drive your business forward.

Greater simplicity for greater productivity

In everyday life, it can be difficult to simplify and organize tasks, remove clutter, and put information where you can get to it easily and quickly. That’s exactly what the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 RoleTailored User Experience does to your office workstation. It hides 90 percent of the features you don’t need to see. And it promotes the actions and information that you do need, leaving you with an uncluttered window and an overview of upcoming tasks—helping you prioritize your tasks, and keeping your work productive, stimulating, and fun.

RoleTailored home pages—called Role Centers—make it easy for people to view their work priorities and access the information and tasks they need for their specific job, not just anyone’s job. The result? An innovative solution that frees employees and business leaders to direct their talents and skills towards business success. Role Centers in Microsoft Dynamics NAV help people in job roles ranging from the president, to accounting manager, to sales manager, and to warehouse worker gain access to the full scope of the tasks, information, and reports they need in a single view.

Deep integration across Microsoft Dynamics NAV with familiar programs such as Microsoft Office Excel and Windows SharePoint Services makes it easy to communicate and collaborate effectively and share information—without having to juggle applications.

Making smart decisions

Microsoft Dynamics NAV enables every individual in your company to turn hunches into genuine insight, and insight into decisions. With access to real-time data and a wide range of analytical and reporting tools—including graphical displays, online analytical processing (OLAP) cubes, and Web-based delivery options—people can make informed, confident decisions that help drive business success.

Fast to implement, easy to configure, and simple to use

Meet changing business needs without disrupting your operations or your IT budget—and make the most of your current IT investments. Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides the flexibility to set up your system for today's business requirements, as well as a reliable platform for change and growth. Security features enable you to configure the system to control who can access what; built-in tools and the open architecture enable Microsoft partners to adapt the foundation to meet your specific needs—now and in the future. And the object-oriented development environment and compact source code simplifies system maintenance and connecting to other systems.