5 Reasons to Upgrade to GP 2010

Friday, April 9, 2010 by Julie Stankey

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 (formerly known as GP 11) is being released soon and has a lot to offer both new and long-time users of Great Plains software.  Microsoft Dynamics® GP 2010 improves your current solution with new ways to enhance insight, simplify business processes, and build relationships that connect people, information, and systems.  Many of the enhancements geared toward improving business efficiency and performance in specific areas are a direct result of customer requests and feedback. 

So, you want one good reason to upgrade?  We’ll give you 5:

1. Deliver faster access to personalized insight.Role Centers include personalized dashboards and KPIs, with drill-back capabilities that let people move from a high-level view down to a specific source record. Without the need for a full user license, you can give people quick, portal-based access to reports and organization-wide insight, saving time and money. Employees have the freedom to use their preferred applications and devices, to work with the Microsoft Dynamics GP information most relevant to their roles.
2. Get more out of Excel with richer integration. Microsoft Dynamics GP goes well beyond basic reporting with the tools people use every day. You can now transform sales strategies with advanced analytics such as predictive modeling and shopping basket analysis, all in familiar Excel formats. More than 220 refreshable Excel reports can include multiple data sources; you can also use the Report Builder to quickly create an analysis from scratch. This latest release also automatically connects Microsoft Dynamics GP data with Excel through built-in data connectors—no application juggling!
3. Give people new options for analyzing information in formats built on Microsoft SQL Server. Do you need targeted information for specific audiences? Along with Excel, you can work with more than 90 built-in Microsoft SQL Server® Reporting Services reports. And as with Excel, you can build reports from scratch and use models that ensure reports are intuitive and user-friendly. Options for simplified, yet sophisticated reporting include built-in tools for creating SQL Server views that link Microsoft Dynamics GP, ISV, or custom applications.
4. Take customer- and vendor-related activities to new levels of efficiency and professionalism. Microsoft Dynamics GP is already well known for rich integration with Outlook and Microsoft Office Word. We’re enhancing that connection so that people can quickly create customer and vendor-facing documents using Word forms. From within Outlook, they can also send batch and individual e-mail messages for invoices, orders, and check remittances. The result? People get more work done in less time—and the work looks more polished and professional.
5. Help ensure that “driving personal productivity” is truly a personalized experience. People can tailor their dashboards and action panes with lists that give them the precise information they need for their roles and lines of business, whether they’re getting it from customized locations within Microsoft Dynamics GP or from other data sources. And since our goal is to make it easier to do business, lists can be set up to filter out information that’s not relevant to the task at hand.

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