Why Microsoft Dynamics GP?

Simplify your business with a single solution that connects financials, manufacturing, supply chain, sales and marketing, project management, human resources, and services information. Microsoft Dynamics GP is a richly featured financial accounting and business management solution that allows you to use familiar, powerful software to operate and grow your organization.

Microsoft Dynamics GP – More and Less

Microsoft Dynamics GP offers a design that works like and with the Microsoft Office System, including integrations with Office Outlook, Word, and Excel. Equipped with a familiar user interface and role-tailored home pages, your employees can get started quickly while minimizing training costs. Help eliminate the need to juggle applications and save valuable time with Smart Tags that enable quick access to Microsoft Dynamics GP data from Office applications, including access to customer, vendor, inventory, general ledger account, and employee information.

Microsoft Dynamics GP – Integration with Office

Microsoft Dynamics GP offers financial management functions that help you reduce time spent on routine tasks. With tight integration between modules in Microsoft Dynamics GP, you can enter data one time and provide accurate, real-time information throughout your financial solution. With ready access to mission-critical data, your financial solution becomes a powerful competitive tool that enhances decision-making.

Manage your personnel-related processes, implement and track benefit programs, manage payroll, offer employee self-service capabilities, and deliver the information your managers and executives need. Microsoft Dynamics GP for human resources (HR) management also integrates with leading payroll service providers, such as ADP, so employee information and payroll data can be easily shared.

Minimize IT resources with a solution that is easy to use, deploy, and maintain. Out of the box functionality helps you configure your solution to meet specific needs without adding cost and time to the implementation process. Streamlined deployment methodology and server-side updates help ensure rapid implementation and smooth maintenance.

Microsoft Dynamics GP enhances business intelligence (BI) capabilities to help people at all levels of your organization transform data into actionable insight. Microsoft Dynamics GP offers a wide range of reporting and analysis tools to help equip your people to effectively monitor, analyze, and plan. Features include business alerts, real-time financial reporting, role-tailored access to information, key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards and more.

Microsoft Dynamics GP – BI Confident Decisions

Designed to scale from one user to hundreds or thousands of users, Microsoft Dynamics GP is ready to grow with your business. Whether it’s managing sheer transaction volume in a particular business function, database size, or number of users and machines, Microsoft Dynamics GP and SQL Server can handle the peaks and valleys of regular business cycles, as well as the long-term, upward path that reflects growth. With Microsoft Dynamics GP, you can focus on keeping pace with success, rather than worrying about the systems that make your business run.

Reduce paperwork, data re-entry, and help managers work more effectively, by allowing staff to take a wide range of tasks online – from routine timesheets to complex purchase requisitions. People across the organization can work from remote locations with portal-based access to information and applications.

Microsoft Dynamics GP – Collaborate

“QuickBooks is the world’s most popular small business accounting system with a reported more than 3.5 million users. There is no denying the success of this product. For the money, QuickBooks provides a good value and a reasonable assortment of features to meet the needs of small and entry-level businesses. While QuickBooks offers a good entry-level solution, it has limitations that prevent the product from meeting the needs of many companies and organizations – especially growing companies and larger organizations. Specifically, QuickBooks is missing more than a thousand features compared to most mid-range solutions and the QuickBooks database slows down dramatically as the volume of transactions and master record lists increase.

As a general rule, you are beginning to outgrow QuickBooks when you notice an unacceptable delay in the menus and screens when navigating QuickBooks, or when reports take an unacceptable amount of time to print. As a general rule, most companies using QuickBooks start to notice a decline in QuickBooks performance once the file size reaches 30MB or the total number of transactions exceeds 32,000(1). However, while these measures can be good predictors of performance issues, file size and transaction volume are not the best indicators of impending performance problems. In QuickBooks, the number of customers, vendors, employees, and other lists most dramatically affect performance. QuickBooks support acknowledges that significant performance problems generally occur when any list exceeds 10,000 – however, as a practical matter, most companies see performance issues far earlier. For example, with each added employee, QuickBooks launches slower, and only a few hundred employees on a list can lead to unacceptable performance issues.

In conclusion, while QuickBooks is a good entry-level product, its database shortcomings and lack of features make it possible for companies to quickly outgrow QuickBooks. When your business needs change and you are looking outside the Intuit family of products, you may wish to consider Microsoft Dynamics GP. Microsoft Dynamics GP offers competitive pricing, support, conversion tools and product designed to help QuickBooks users step up to a more powerful business management system that will meet your needs for many years to come.”
By J. Carlton Collins, CPA

Just as QuickBooks is a leading software provider for small business accounting, Microsoft Dynamics GP is a market leader for midsize businesses. For more than 23 years, Microsoft Dynamics solutions have delivered the functionality, performance, and ease of use that power more than 290,000 businesses around the world. When you choose Microsoft Dynamics GP, you can focus on growing your business, rather than on the technology supporting it. Everything you need—your operating system, database, personal productivity tools, e-mail, and business management system—comes from one trusted partner, Microsoft. By delivering a cohesive solution that helps lower implementation and long-term ownership costs, Microsoft Dynamics GP frees you to harness the power and flexibility of an award-winning business management solution.

Just as important, purchasing Microsoft Dynamics GP has never been easier. Microsoft offers flexible, user-based licensing and financing options that allow you to acquire and implement the business software, hardware, and consulting services you need now.