Microsoft Dynamics Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What Is Microsoft Business Solutions?
Microsoft Business Solutions, a division of Microsoft, offers a wide range of integrated, end-to-end business applications and services designed to help small, midmarket, and corporate businesses become more connected with customers, employees, partners, and suppliers. Microsoft Business Solutions' applications optimize strategic business processes across financial management, analytics, human resources management, project management, customer relationship management, field service management, supply chain management, e-commerce, manufacturing, and retail management. The applications are designed to provide insight to help customers achieve business success.
Microsoft Business Solutions has been rebranded as Microsoft Dynamics. See Microsoft Dynamics below.

What Is Microsoft Dynamics?
Microsoft has four ERP offerings: Navision, Great Plains, Axapta, and Solomon. All four fall under the umbrella of Microsoft Dynamics, formerly known as Microsoft Business Solutions. Each of these ERP systems has their own unique advantages. During our meetings with you, our client, we will explore together which system will form the foundation for your company's best solution.

What are the advantages of a Microsoft Dynamics solution?
Every installation of a Microsoft Dynamics solution:

• Can be matched to specific business needs
• Offers complete solutions, including all functionality necessary to run customers businesses
• Is completely compatible with the familiar, easy to learn and use Microsoft productivity suite and tools
• Is fully customizable and able to integrate and interface with multiple systems
• Enables fast, 'cookie cutter' implementations across multiple sites or far a single instance serving multiple sites
• Supports integrated business visibility across the entire business and throughout the extended supply chain
• Has lower licensing costs than its competitors.In fact, a single year maintenance fees on Oracle or SAP can equal the entire Microsoft Dynamics implementation.
• Is backed by Microsoft
• Has a lower overall total-cost-of-ownership (for all the reasons mentioned above)