Microsoft Great Plains delivers analytics and reporting capabilities designed for real people, so that decision makers and employees have the power to see exactly what’s happening with your business — not just the big picture, but the critical details that determine profitability and performance.

• Monitor all operations, revenues and spending, and sales trends with built-in drill-down, inquiry, and reporting capabilities.
• View reports and information from any location, at any time — via the Web, intranets, and network and offline formats.
• Proactively manage business conditions with real-time alerts, SmartList inquiry capabilities, and a cradle-to-grave view of manufacturing and distribution processes.
• Define and deliver personalized views of key performance metrics that enable decision makers to quickly assess current conditions and drill down to underlying causes.
• Leverage the Microsoft Office tools your employees already know and use
• Share budgeting and query data with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word and manipulate data in graphical formats using OLAP tools.
• Keep working in Microsoft Office applications, with the ability to drill back instantly to customer, employee, vendor, and product information contained in Microsoft Great Plains.
• Create, display, and save data views from across your business using Smart List inquiries, and then easily export inquiries to Word or Excel for use in mass mailings or for further analysis.
• Tailor reporting processes to fit your business
• Easily create, update, and modify all the reports and forms your business uses with Microsoft Great Plains
• Report Writer, as well as use flexible scheduling and delivery options to publish reports.
• Build customizable financial reports with Microsoft FRx, including personalized packages that consolidate
• Microsoft Office documents, Microsoft FRx Reports, Crystal Reports, and other formats into a single file for delivery to decision-makers.
• Meet demanding group reporting needs by tailoring data collection and reporting processes with Microsoft
• Enterprise Reporting, and deploy flexible budgeting processes business-wide with Microsoft Forecaster.

Built on Microsoft technologies designed to work now and into the future, Microsoft Great Plains protects business value and provides an integrated environment that can be extended across systems and platforms.

Microsoft Windows Server
The Microsoft Windows Server Operating System is the foundation of Microsoft Great Plains — delivering reliability, security, and scalability, along with efficient management, ease of use, and support for the latest advances in networking and server hardware. Windows Server operating systems incorporate the benefits of Microsoft .NET to connect information, people, systems, and devices. In addition, with Windows Server 2003, you can take advantage of the Internet to bring products and services to market and extend your networks to partners and customers.

Windows SharePoint Services
As part of Windows Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services helps users easily share information, collaborate on documents, and collect team knowledge over the Internet or your corporate network. Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portal is built on Windows SharePoint Services, enabling you to deploy a role-based framework for delivering business information and processes throughout your organization via Web browser.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 enables you to make full use of existing software and hardware investments to achieve great business value. Through rich data analysis and tight integration with Microsoft Great Plains, SQL Server 2000 delivers critical, timely business information tailored to specific needs. A comprehensive data management platform includes extensive management and development tools, a powerful extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool, business intelligence and analysis services, and new capabilities such as Notification Services.