With years of proven quality and service, plus dozens of new features requested by our customers, there are hundreds of reasons to invest in Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains 8.0 as your business solution. Here are eight at the top of the list:
1. Lower the learning curve with a widely-familiar interface. Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 captures the look of Microsoft Outlook—part of the widely-familiar Microsoft Office System—providing employees with a familiar, easy-to-use environment that can help boost productivity and minimize training costs.
2. Clone and modify transactions while maintaining audit integrity.
Reduce time spent on key accounting tasks with the ability to copy an existing general ledger transaction and use it as the basis for new transactions.
3. Give employees one-stop access to information and processes.
Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portal lets you deliver personalized information directly to desktops via a Web browser, providing employees and managers with easier, faster ways to complete processes like online requisition management, project time and expense entry and approval, and electronic delivery of sales documents to customers, to name a few.
4. Take full advantage of Microsoft Office applications and tools.
Microsoft Business Solutions applications and Microsoft Office products work together to let you streamline daily business processes. And integration with Microsoft Office Solution Accelerators helps companies manage processes such as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
5. Put detailed reports into Excel tables with a few clicks.
Quickly export comprehensive Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics—FRx reports to Microsoft Office Excel pivot tables to create Excel-based tables and charts.
6. Gain tighter control over distribution and manufacturing processes.
Get an ongoing view of serial and lot numbers. Simply enter an item's serial or lot number to trace, and you'll know instantly where and when the number appeared in bills of materials, customer orders, or any other transaction.
7. Monitor business conditions quickly, accurately, easily.
Quickly view the information you need to gauge business conditions with more useful queries—including Stock Card Query, Order Status Change History, Cumulative Availability to Promise, "Point in Time" Historical Checkbook Balance Inquiry, and new Smart List Favorites.
8. Rely on a proven solution that will be around for years.
With Microsoft Great Plains, your investment will be well placed in a solution and professional services that businesses worldwide have depended on for more than 20 years. And as part of the Microsoft family of products, it's a solution you can count on for continued commitment to support, service and innovation as your business changes and grows.
