Microsoft Dynamics GP (Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains)

Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains) combines powerful features, compatibility and reliability with incredible ease of use at an affordable price. Microsoft Dynamics GP has proven it's market and technical leadership. It incorporates the latest Microsoft technologies including .NET and MS SQL. Microsoft Dynamics GP operates as both a Windows software application and as a Web Portal.

Users operate their system from either a Windows PC or a zero-overhead Internet browser such as Internet Explorer. This means your business can embrace the e-Enterprise methodology with applications for self-service, business intelligence, and e-Commerce. This allows you to reduce your overheads and provide simpler systems to your users at a lower cost, as well as all of the other advantages of using Microsoft Accounting Software.

Please note that Microsoft Dynamics GP has a wide range of modules and versions have been available under a variety of names including Microsoft Dynamics GP Professional and Microsoft Dynamics GP Standard. We refer to all of these versions as simply Microsoft Dynamics GP.

How can Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) help you?

Microsoft Dynamics GP will help you efficiently manage the following activities:

• Accounting and finances
• Distribution and supply chain processes
• Manufacturing forecasts
• Order tracking, fulfilment and expediting
• Project accounting and budgeting
• HR and payroll processes including providing employees with self-service access to personal data through the web portal
• Automate and streamline the management of field service operations
• Analyse and report on the business performance of your company
• Integrate browser-based e-commerce solutions to connect with clients and suppliers
• Provide employees browser-based access to vital business information and processes

How can Communicat help you?

Communicat has the skills and knowledge to provide a customised Business Solution based on a Microsoft Dynamics GP platform.

In consultation with your business, we will analyse your needs and make recommendations that will increase your productivity and efficiency. We provide implementation, integration, training, software support, helpdesk, consulting and systems tailoring if required. We have qualified accountants, systems integrators and technicians who fully understand Microsoft Dynamics GP and have many successful implementations under their belt.

Ultimately, Communicat has the experience to make your Microsoft Dynamics GP rollout a smooth success.

So why would you choose Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains)?

• Microsoft Dynamics GP offers you with a wider range of functions, modules and features than other systems.
• Microsoft Dynamics GP is the industry leader, with R&D development that far exceeds its competitors.
• Microsoft Dynamics GP is completely scalable ranging from a single user system through to several hundred users.
• Microsoft Dynamics GP is "multi-everything"…. Multi-user, Multi-Language, Multi-Currency, Multi-Country, Multi-tax, Multi-server, Multi-processor.

International Features of Microsoft Accounting Software

Microsoft Dynamics GP is a truly international package. It is suited to businesses which are growing to cater for international markets, or are already operating on an international basis. For example, you could have users in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, New York, London, France and Madrid. Each user accesses the system and operates using their defined language, currency and tax regime. Users may access the system from local PCs and/or servers, or access remote servers in another city or even another country across the world.

You can standardise on one software package and set of processes in one country, and then replicate those processes on a consistent basis throughout the world. This enables you to adopt "best practices" to ensure your overall business is as efficient and risk-free as possible.

Facing Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance with Microsoft Dynamics GP

Organisations with current or future US financial reporting obligations need to be aware of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (often shortened to SOX) has changed companies' reporting needs to comply with strict accountability for accuracy in financial statements. Microsoft Dynamics GP and Merit Solutions can help your company meet these needs. Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes Oxley, Merit Solutions Audit Trails and Enhanced Security enable frequent flash reporting and make financial data more accessible.

Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Features

Microsoft Dynamics GP provides an outstanding range, depth and breadth of functionality. The list below details just some of the available software modules:

• Accounts Receivable
• Accounts Payable
• Activity Based Costing also known as Activity Based Management
• Analytical Accounting
• Audit trail at an outstanding level of detail and simplicity that is ideal to streamline your audit processes.
• Bank Reconciliation
• Bank Statement Download
• Barcoding
• Bill of materials
• Budgeting
• Business Activity Statement information automatically generated
• Business Intelligence and Reporting
• Cashbook
• Cash Flow Management
• Collections Management (debt collection tracking and procedure tracking)
• Consolidation
• Contact Management and Tracking
• Creditors
• Debtors
• Distribution
• e-Business / e-Commerce / e-Expense / eOrder / eSell
• Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) - Payments and Receipts
• Export Costing
• Financial Reporting and Analysis including XBRL reporting for compliance with International Accounting Standards (IAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Fixed Asset Management and Asset Register
• Forecaster
• General Ledger
• Goods receiving and quality tracking
• Human Resources
• Import Costing
• Integration with all your systems using a range of online and batch processes to suit your needs
• Intercompany and multi-company journals processing automatically processed (sometimes called "Quad Accounting".
• Interfund - this is important for non-profit organisations, mining and exploration companies which need to manage grants. Refer to the fact sheet database for further information on Interfund
• Inventory
• Invoicing
• Job Costing
• Key Performance Indicators / Executive Summary
• Landed Costing
• Lead tracking
• Multi-Company, Multi-Entity
• Multi-Currency
• Multi-Dimension Analysis
• Multi-Language
• Payments
• Periodic and Recurrent billing
• Point of Sale
• Procurement
• Professional Services Time Costing
• Project Accounting
• Purchase Ordering
• Receipts
• Return for Maintenance Authority (RMA) tracking
• Security for user groups configurable to menu level and through to a field level
• Serial Number Tracking, Batch Tracking and Roll Tracking
• Sharepoint
• Shipment Tracking
• Special Pricing, Advanced Pricing and Matrix Pricing
• Stock Control
• Receivable Management
• Replenishment
• Sales Analysis and Reporting
• Sales Kitting
• Sales Order Processing
• Sales Quotations
• Time and Expense Billing
• Web / Intranet Portal
• Webparts

Design features of Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains)

• An extremely wide range of user configurable features
• Totally object oriented design - screens, reports, etc. can be tailored to your requirements
• Totally flexible menu structure including configurable security
• Integration with MS Office tools
• MS SQL database for optimum performance and reliability
• Wide set of integration tools to suit every purpose
• Simple, quick and easy to use interface for users - consistent and compatible with MS Outlook
• Microsoft Dynamics GP has a consistent design and user interface. Once your staff have learned how to operate one module it is easy for them to also operate the rest of the system, since all modules operate in a similar manner.

Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Integration

Integration or duplication? If your systems are not integrated then your staff will repeat work twice by re-keying information into different systems. Not only does this dramatically increase your costs, it also means you will have different and outdated information across your systems.

The only way to streamline your systems, reduce duplication and ensure consistency of information throughout your systems is to have automatic online integration between your different systems.

One of Microsoft Dynamics GP many outstanding features is its world leading integration facility. Microsoft Dynamics GP provides outstanding tools and ease of use in safely integrating and linking your systems together. It provides a range of integration tools for online and batch integration.

The integration methods available are:

• BizTalk
• Integration Manager
• eConnect
• Integration Assistant for Excel
• Database level integration
• Data Warehousing
• Crystal Enterprise and Business Objects
• Database Level Integration e.g. MS SQL and MS Access

One of the key concerns of integration and software tailoring is to adapt systems to your business needs without introducing problems with compatibility and future upgrades and support. Microsoft's integration tools prevent this problem from occurring. Different systems exchange information with each other using a clearly defined set of rules. It is then easy to upgrade each system (Microsoft Dynamics GP, CRM system, Operating System, etc.) without the upgrade causing any adverse affect or compatibility problems with linked systems.

For more detailed information about Microsoft's integration methods, please contact Communicat.

XBRL Financial Reporting with Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains)

Reporting in XBRL (the Extensible Business Reporting Language) format is rapidly becoming the required standard for financial reporting to financial institutions. It has already been adopted by many international stock exchanges, investment bankers, banks and investment organisations. XBRL is a standard feature of the FRx financial reporting system which is part of the Microsoft Dynamics GP package.

Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Profile

Microsoft Dynamics GP is the worlds leading multi-user business software solution for business from two to 250 users. In fact Microsoft Dynamics GP has been tested and proven to be effective up to 1,000 users under a heavy workload. Microsoft Dynamics GP has been a market leader for over 25 years. Microsoft Dynamics GP has always had strong links with Microsoft throughout its history and this link moved to a new level with Microsoft purchased the Microsoft Dynamics GP software package for $US 1.1 Billion in 2002. Since that time, Microsoft has devoted enormous investment in R&D to take Microsoft Dynamics GP even further into market leadership. Microsoft Dynamics GP is a true object oriented software application and embodies the latest Microsoft technologies including .NET, MS SQL database, XBRL and XML.

More Information on Microsoft Accounting Software

For more information on Microsoft Dynamics GP refer to the fact sheets available on this website, contact us or visit the Microsoft Dynamics site.