Technology plays a vital role in simplifying processes and streamlining workflows across enterprises. With Microsoft solutions, your technology investments can be maximized with connected applications built on a broader platform that includes solutions that were developed to work together and connect business processes.
Let’s take a look at how integrated Microsoft solutions—including Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the Microsoft Office system, collaboration tools such as Microsoft SharePoint, and more—help fuel productivity by empowering manufacturers to accelerate innovation, demonstrate a commitment to sustainability, and increase market responsiveness.
Microsoft solutions can help accelerate the effectiveness of business process and business intelligence.
Microsoft Dynamics provides powerful applications to help your business deliver business intelligence for confident decisions, streamlined processes, and improved productivity.
- Make the right information available throughout the business process.
- Provide the right people with easy access to the BI each needs in his or her role.
- Use Microsoft SharePoint to help ensure consistent, effective workflow.
Next, consider the benefits of enterprise content management:
Microsoft servers and other collaboration tools empower your organization to:
- Author, manage, and organize complex documents and content.
- Integrate customer and document management.
- Collaborate and share over customer/partner extranets.
- Perform enterprise-wide searches.
Now let’s look at the communication and collaboration benefits:
Some of the world’s leading collaboration tools—including Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft BizTalk Server—together with Microsoft Dynamics solutions - provide an environment in which you can:
- Keep coworkers, partners, customers—even online communities—in sync.
- Provide contextual document workspaces for employees across departments and locations, and extend workspaces to partners and customers as needed—securely.
- Unify communications across all relationships vital to your organization.
Together, BI, content management, and communication and collaboration can increase productivity. Finally, we need to support the Microsoft Dynamics business solution with a solid foundation:
Adding the Microsoft Office business platform not only lets you provide employees with the Microsoft Office system applications that many people already know and use, it also provides a platform for connecting specific business information and even creating new applications and dashboards that give each person the exact information needed in each role.
With an IT strategy built on Microsoft development and security-management tools - and running on a foundation that’s grounded in XML, Web services, industry standards, and Microsoft .NET innovations - manufacturers can build connected systems to bring together their people, processes, and information. Microsoft development tools are among the most widely known in the technology discipline, so your staff can manage systems based on knowledge many developers and IT managers are already familiar with.
As you can see, when built on a Microsoft foundation and connected with other widely familiar Microsoft solutions, Microsoft Dynamics is a powerful force to help drive business-process excellence across the enterprise. Connect Microsoft Dynamics with the Microsoft Office system and you’ve got applications that work with and like each other to streamline and simplify processes and drive deep and broad business intelligence to people across your organization.
